The police in the larger towns of the county is subject to the police commissioner of the town, who is referred to earlier in the text.] [Footnote 2: In Russian, _Protoyerey_, a term borrowed from the Greek.

It corresponds roughly to the title of bishop.] What these "savage scenes" were we do not learn from the newspapers, which were forbidden by the censor to report them, but we know them partly from unpublished sources and partly from the later court proceedings.

Aside from the demolition of twelve hundred and fifty houses and business places and the destruction and pillage of property and merchandise--according to a statement of the local rabbi, "all well-to-do Jews were turned into beggars, and more than fifteen thousand people were sent out into the wide world "-- a large number of people were killed and maimed, and many women were violated.

Forty Jews were slain or dangerously wounded; one hundred and seventy received slight wounds; many Jews, and particularly Jewesses, became insane from fright.
There were more than twenty cases of rape.

The seventeen year old daughter of a poor polisher, Eda Maliss by name, was attacked by a horde of bestial lads before the eyes of her brother.