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THE GREAT LEPINE TELIS OF ONE OF THE "'- GREAT MYSTERIES OF PARIS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper, N. D. Cochran, jsL. Tel. Monroe 353 "- Editor and Publisher. vgflP Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St. 398 By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL.3, NO. 7 Chicago, Monday, Oct. 6, 1913 ONE CENT MARY BOYLE O'REILLY, IN RUSSIA, INVESTIGATES "RITUAL" MURDER Traces Wicked Conspiracy Clear Up to Throne of the Czar Here's the First Chapter of Her Probe Into Reported Persecutions of Rus siafs Jewish People. BY MARY BOYLE O'REILLY (Mary Boyle O'Reilly, staff correspondent for The Day Book, has just arrived in Russia to investigate there the reported persecutions of millionst of Jews in the czar's empire. Her stories, which will be published exclusive ly in this paper, are of extraordinary import, inasmuch as the question of a treaty of Friendship and Commerce between the United States and Russia, is to come up for settlement in Washington this winter. Editor.) (Copyright, 1913, in United States and England by the Newspaper Enter-V prise Association.) Kiev, Southern Russia, Oct. 6. Within the Pale. On April 2, 1911, a 12-year-old Christian boy, Andrusha Yustchlnsky, was found murdered in Kiev, the'jerusalem of tfoly.ftussia. His body, punctured by 45 wounds, lay in a crevasse of an immense clay-pit Just behind the Kiev Home for Aged and Infirm Jews. Two wounds on the child's head were mortal the rest apparently the result of a madman's insane fury, , The discovery of a Christian child dead in the Ghetto threatened the awful signal "Berei Shroff" "Kill the Jews I" M. Mischufc, a Christian, iaHMaaa ,