The National Democrats have sustained a severe reverse, the Yiddish daily “Najer Hajnt” here writes in an editorial article on the Vilna trial. The whole of the affair that they bolstered up so carefully has completely collapsed. Zalkind and Ogus have been acquitted, and we hope that Wulfin will also be acquitted at the appeal trial. The prosecutions announcement of his withdrawal of the charge is a terrible n#ut of the National Democratic instigators of the disturbances, and highly satisfactory to us Jews. We did not suspect these Vilna patriots of being such fumblers as to select so clumsy a witness as Lepkowska, whose evidence broke down as soon as she appeared in court; everything she said, on which the case of the prosecution was built, was found to be a tissue of lies, and she was immediately arrested for perjury. We thought these people were much more clever than that. Even the woman Pasternak in the Steiger trial was more consistent than this Lepkowska. The Vilna instigators surely did not expect such a defeat, but they richly deserve it. It is a consolation to know that another libel against the Jews has been quashed.
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