AFTER TREATING HIS VICTIM WITH CAKE AND WINE, A BESSARABIAN PEASANT IN THE TOWN OF COJUSNA, WITH TEARS IN HIS EYES, ATTACKED WITH A KNIFE AND SERIOUSLY WOUNDED AN OLD JEWISH FRIEND BECAUSE HE HAD PLEDGED TO KILL AT LEAST ONE JEW, IT WAS REPORTED HERE TODAY.
THE PEASANT, BASIL POGPEBNO, INVITED MOSES SCOLOVICH, A JEWISH MERCHANT, TO HIS HOME, AND AFTER THEY HAD PARTAKEN OF CAKE AND WINE CONFESSED TEARFULLY HE WAS SWORN TO KILL HIM. HE ATTACKED THE MERCHANT WITH A LARGE KNIFE, BUT THE JEW, AFTER A DESPERATE FIGHT, MANAGED TO ESCAPE BADLY WOUNDED.
THE PEASANT IS A MEMBER OF AN ANTI-JEWISH ORGANIZATION.
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