The Keeper of the ? here and his assistants were arrested following an investigation which revealed the keeper’s anti-Semitic discrimination.
Welkoff, the keeper, dismissed all Jewish workers from his staff, in order not to be dis?bed in his secret purpose of assisting spies and contrabandists to ? punishment and from prison. It was brought out following an investigation into this practices, that Wolkoff had replaced the Jewish workers with his relatives.
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