(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Two Russian peasants, Jurko and Janko, were sentenced to death by the district court of Borisoff for the murder of a Jewish peddlar, Bimstein.
The murder was committed when the peasants attacked the peddlar to rob him of 16 roubles.
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