An unemployed carpenter, Alexander Balogh, was sentenced to six month’s imprisonment by the Szolnok Tribunal today for defrauding Jews by collecting charity from them by posing as a Jew. He commented: “I didn’t see anything wrong in swindling Jews.”
Balogh grew a beard and ear curls, donned a kaftan and went around among Jewish merchants, begging handouts, as “Martin Schwartz, ” a poor Jew just released from a labor gang and unable to find work. He amassed 1,000 pengoes before he was found out.
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