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young child by the name of Andrei Youshchinsky was discovered to have been killed for occult rites. Menachem Mendel Beiliss was accused of being the perpetrator of the crime. Jews from around the world sought to conceal the true nature of the crime, and they spent over the equivalent of at least $115 million in today's money so that Beiliss's team of lawyers would win the case.
Several witnesses died under mysterious conditions prior to trial. Mischuk, a high-ranking police investigator, was proven to have planted false evidence to benefit Beiliss. Three innocent children who had been with Andrei and witnessed his abduction by Beiliss were given pieces of cake by a scurrilous investigator name Krasovsky, and the next day all three became ill. Two died as a result, and a third was sick for months. The one who survived, Ludmilla Cheberiak, said,
"We started to ride the clay-mixer. Suddenly, Beiliss and two other Jews ran towards us. We jumped off the clay-mixer and tried to run away. Andrei and my brother [Zhenya] were caught by Beiliss and the other Jews. But my brother freed himself. The Jews then dragged Andrei away. My younger sister [Valentina] also saw this."
John Grant, who was the American consulate stationed in Odessa, Russia, at the time, reported the jury's final verdict. Grant noted that it was determined by a jury "that a certain boy found cruelly
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