A blacksmith named Lisowski, and his two sons have been tried here on the charge that during the November disturbances they attacked City Councillor Shpakowski, a Polish Catholic, who is of Jewish appearance, shouting “Beat the Jew”, and hit him with cudgels so that he was confined to his bed for weeks.
Lisowski has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, and his two sons to two months each.
Three National Democratic students, Zablocki, Nowick, and Dutkewitch were also tried to-day for having put themselves at the head of a demonstration after the funeral of the National Democratic student Waclawski, that tried to break into the Government offices. When the police drove them back, they shouted that the police were the slaves of the Jews.
Dutkewitch has been sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, and Zablocki and Nowick to a fortnight. In the case of Dutkewitch and Zablocki execution of the sentences has, however, been postponed for two years.
A Jewish workman named Korton has been acquitted of the charge of having threatened during the November disturbances that he would take revenge on the Christians. Korton was employed at the time in the Government tobacco monopoly factory, being the only Jewish workman there, his Counsel said, and he was dismissed on account of his alleged statement. Actually, he was victimised, he contended, as the result of a plot on the part of the Christian workmen to get the only Jew dismissed from the factory.
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