Convicted of murdering Mosche Lipski, a Jewish shoemaker, during the anti-Semitic riots here last August 24, Waclaw Demper was today sentenced by the Grodno District Court to a prison term of six years.
The trial was the last of a series of both Jews and Poles for participating in the riots.
The court rejected as “ridiculous” the defense made by counsel for the murderer in which it was asserted that a Jewish mob attacked him.
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