Deputy Ley, a noto### anti-Semitic agitator, and member of the National Socialist Party, is ### trial today before a Cologne court ### spreading the libelous anti-Jewish ### murder accusation.
###ey, who is the responsible editor ### several anti-Semitic publications, ### the immunity of a Parlia### member, published in the “West###cher Beobachter” an article ac### Jews of ritual murder in the ### case. The article was “illus###” with pictures purporting to ### how Jews perpetrate a ritual under. It is the first time that Ley has been brought to court. When he ### on the witness stand he asserted ### he believes that certain orthodox Jewish sects practice ritual murder and ### his article had reference only to ### sects, and not to the Jewish people as a whole.
The State attorney demanded a sen###ce of two months imprisonment for the anti-Semitic agitator.
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