The Jewish Deputy Dr. Meyer Ebner and Professor Bacyzynski, also a Deputy, today made representations to Public Prosecutor Alexandru, concerning the torture by the police of a young Jewish man and woman identified by the names of Feldman and Natasha.
M. Alexandru assured the Jewish representatives that he is not interested in screening the police in their wrong deeds and that the guilty will be punished “just as were those in the Yedinez case.”
The prosecutor stated that he is ordering a medical examination of the tortured to establish the nature and extent of their injuries.
The Czernowitz papers describe the torture of the two Jews in the following terms :
“The unfortunate man and woman were first punched in the face and then bound in a peculiar, devilishly thought out manner, hands over knees. Between their hands long sticks were inserted; their bodies dangled with their heads downward for many hours while their soles were beaten with sticks and pricked with needles until the blood trickled. Then iron stubs were inserted between their fingers and closely bound together.
“This is not all of the disgusting torture to which the victims were mercilessly exposed,” the papers declare. “The woman describes even more harrowing tortures which cannot be reproduced in print. After ten or twelve days of police torture, the victims were transferred to prison. They were unable to stand, sit or lie down which is sufficient evidence of their torture,” the papers assert.
The case of the two young Jews bears resemblance to that of Samson Bronstein, Zionist leader of Yedinez, Bessarabia, who was cruelly tortured last May, and whose torturers are scheduled to appear for trial next month.
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