The death of a Polish student in the Vilna University riots some months ago has been followed by a sentence of death passed by the Vilna district count on a Jewish student, Wulsin, (Wulfin), who was convicted of killing the other man by throwing a stone at him, says a report from its Warsaw correspondent appearing in to-day’s “Morning Post”.
The strained situation at the University was then, and still is, the report goes on, due to the refusal of the orthodox Jewish population to provide any corpses for the University dissecting room, where only Christian corpses are therefore available; and secondly, to the claim of the nationalist Polish students that the number of Jewish students at the University should be limited by a quota. Both these questions, it says, remain without satisfactory solution. In the evidence given to the court, it was stated that the Jews had been the aggressors in the riot and that they had attacked the police with sticks and stones.
Wulfin was not convicted of killing Waclawski, and that was not the charge against him. He was accused and convicted of having taken part in the disturbances at the time Waclawski was killed. The two young Jews, Zalkind and Ogus, who were accused of the murder of Waclawski, have been acquitted, the prosecution withdrawing the charge against them, and the chief witness for the prosecution, Kazimiera Lepkowska, has been arrested and will be tried for perjury.
An appeal has been lodged on behalf of Wulfin, and the Polish Telegraphic Agency states that meanwhile the sentence against him is not being executed.
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