A young peasant who offered as his defense for holding up a Jewish trader that he does not “tolerate Jews” was sentenced to five years in prison in the Grodno District Court.
The peasant, Timoteus Dudki, was haled into court for an attempted holdup on October 15 of a Jewish trader, Abraham Lewitan. He pleaded that he had not intended robbery but that he could not “tolerate Jews.”
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