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,J JLUuHIg j'lil jMJMP . 04 fff5. 5tten killed him in sudh way'asJto attest legendary "ritual murder." "hey hid the. "body in heiVhouse, fpr. uwo days,' then took; ft to tKexiave, here it,was. found later 'Nicholas, krasovsky, who had been theCchief of the secret police, of Kiev and i the inosC famous1 detective "in Russia,-was puton'the case rfje-'oajue to -Kiev- one" day, "spectacled and' bearded, pretending toJbe' 'Warsaw journalist." In'this disguise he ,wqn ttfe-c&nfldence-of a' seaftfsbess riainetT 'Dyakanovaand learned that this wo man had been in the Chebenak b.ouse the fevening after the murder, when the lad's body was lying covered in the living room Krasovsky was not permitted to telf even this much at the trial of Mendel Beihs. . The anti-Jewish government' had dismissed an imprisoned !him for not making a'case against Be$lsr After the trial he set about to vindt- "cate his reputation. ' The shole nation remembered the Madame Vera Cheberiak. who is charged with the killing of the so-called "ritualrmurder" victim, and Nichqlas Krasovsky, Rus sia's greatest detective, who is on his way back to Russia with the evidence against her, j gL v.3jh?JJ&