A private investigation carried on subsequently brought out more than twenty cases of rape committed on Jewish girls and married women.

Only two of the sufferers confessed their misfortune to the public prosecutor.

The others admitted their disgrace in private or concealed it altogether, for fear of ruining their reputation.
It was only on April 27--when the pogrom broke out afresh--that the authorities resolved to put a stop to it.

Wherever a disorderly band made its appearance, it was immediately surrounded by soldiers and Cossaks and driven off with the butt ends of their rifles.

Here and there it became necessary to shoot at these human beasts, and some of them were wounded or killed.