Police in the village of Stawy in the Kielce district today arrested a Pole suspected of complicity in the murder of five Jews on Friday after barely saving him from lynching by a crowd of enraged peasants.
The suspect was held for questioning in the death of Moses Smuelewicz, his wife, mother and niece and the village Jewish teacher.
A Jewish merchant named Klass was murdered by Ukrainian peasants in the village of Opilsk in the Sodol District of Eastern Galicia. A Jewish peddler, Joseph Wischnitzer, was seriously wounded.
The Havas News Agency reported that during anti-Semitic disturbances here today a peasant from Przytyk was arrested and sentenced to 15 days in prison for molesting an American woman, Mrs. Anna Carlen, whom he took for a Jewess.
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