An attempt to start a ritual murder agitation in Bukovina is reported here from the township of Czudyn, near Czernowitz.
A school teacher named Isidore Mankovsky belonging to the village of Nehite, in the Czutyn district, lodged a complaint with the police chief of Czudyn that he had been seized by four Jews in Nehite who had tried to crucify him to the door of the Nehite synagogue. He had also told the same story to the peasants in Nehite, who started an outcry that the Jews had wanted to obtain blood from the school teacher for ritual use for the coming Passover.
The Czudyn police chief made an enquiry and now reports that Mankovsky invented the whole story.
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