The “Gazeta Warszawska”, the chief organ of the National Democratic Party, continues to triumph to-day over the results of the Vilna trials, as showing that the courts agree with it that the story about Jews being attacked by National Democratic students was an invention.
The administrative authorities ordered the Public Prosecutor to take proceedings against 140 persons who were charged with participation in the outbreak, it says, and among the lot there are less than ten students, including students of Jewish and other nationalities. The Public Prosecutor immediately struck out 90 names from his list because there was no ground for proceedings against them.
Two months have passed, the “Gazeta” proceeds, in which the courts have tried a number of cases, with the result that five Jews have been found guilty and sentenced and two Christians have been acquitted.
The most serious matter before the courts, it goes on, is the charge of murder against the two Jews Wulfin and Zalkind, because of the killing of the National Democratic student, Stanislaw Waclawski. We want an assurance from the court that this case will be dealt with properly, because people are disquieted over some rumours emanating from the Jewish side to the effect that the proceedings against Wulfin and Zalkind are to be dropped, because the authorities have found that the real murderer has gone abroad.
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