The head of the gendarmerie at Kishineff has been retired from service.
It has also been reported from apparently reliable sources that several persons who were at first accused of participation in the massacres, and liberated after a short detention in prison, have been re-arrested, and will be tried in September. It is further stated that there are to be 53 indictments for manslaughter in addition to 34 prisoners already held for trial, while 400 other cases are under investigation.
It has likewise been published in the press that former Governor Von Raaben had asked for, and had been denied, an interview with the Emperor.
According to reports circulated from Vienna on the 10th of July, the special visit paid to Kishineff by the Minister of Justice was responsible for the action of the authorities in re-arresting suspected culprits, and for the intention to prosecute several of the prominent instigators of the riots at Easter who had been arrested or accused for their connection with the massacres up to the date of the author’s departure from Kishineff.
From a similar Vienna source, it has been reported that one of these prominent anti-Semites of Kishineff had committed suicide, as a result of an inquiry instituted into his conduct during the disturbances.
The actual murderers of the Christian boy, Ribalenko of Doubossar, who was declared by the Bessarabetz newspaper to have been killed by the Jews for sacrificial purposes, have been discovered and arrested. He was killed by one Tischtchevko, the caretaker of the orchard in which the body was found. The murderer confesses that the uncle of the boy took part in committing the crime. Both the murderers are Russians and Christians.
The latest published report of the Kishineff Relief Committee gives the following account of the moneys received and how expended by that body:
“To the end of June 735,476 roubles have been received as follows:
RECEIPTS
| Roubles | |
| America, | 192,443 |
| England, | 16,001 |
| Germany, | 35,675 |
| Italy, | 5,000 |
| Holland, | 1,000 |
| Austria, | 10,415 |
| Roumania, | 3,023 |
| France, | 9,248 |
| Russia, | 462,671 |
| Total, | 735,476 |