Benjamin Ciesielski, a Jewish young man of about twenty years of age, has been acquitted by the law court in Wilna on a charge that he had been one of a mob of Jews which attacked a Christian student on November 10th., the day of the disturbances in Wilna.
There was no evidence against Ciesielski, except a police report.
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