(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The consequences of the spreading of a ritual murder tale were avoided by the Jewish community of Sudarg, a town in Lithuania, by a stroke of fare.
A servant girl in the house of a Jewish baker. Joseph Jozefowitz, suddently disappeared. At the instigation of the local priest and several monks a huge crowd surrounded the house of the Jewish baker shouting that the girl had been killed by the Jew for ritual purposes. They were about to storm the house and lynch its inhabitants, when several peasants who arrived in town pa###ed the mob by stating that they had seen the girl in a neighboring villages, safe and sound.
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