(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
For his unwillingness to reduce the price of tobacco by one kopek, a Jewish peddler, Salman Dworkin, paid with his life.
Dworkin was found murdered in the village Dilevitch, near Dubrowna. The police found that he had been killed by a peasant of the village because the peddler declined to sell him some tobacco for one kopek less than he had asked. The peasant was arrested.
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