The District Court today sentenced Reuben Jaczunski to a ten-year term in prison for the murder of a Polish peasant during the anti-Semitic riots here last June. Two other Jews, Moishe Sosnowicme and Leib Krobrowski, were given three-year terms each.
Attorneys for the defendants presented testimony at the trial that the three Jews had acted in self-defense. The defendants on the stand told of the peasant Witold Markewicz, having
threatened their lives while drunk.
Kurt Jusz, counsel for the Markewicz family and a leader of the anti-Semitic Naras (National Radical Party), delivered a bitter anti-Jewish speech impeaching the veracity of the accused.
The court began hearing the case after adjourning the trial of seventeen Poles accused of fomenting the riots.
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