WHIPPED FOR ROBBING GIRL.
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When the Cossacks raided Ropezica, according to the Cracow Nova Reforma, they robbed the house in which a Polish girl was housekeeper. The girl hurried to the commander of the Cossacks, who lived at a hotel.
"I told him my trouble," she said, "whereupon he asked me: 'Are you a Pole or a Jew?' I replied that I was a Pole. 'Well, then, I shall go and see these fellows myself.'
"He took a nagaika (whip) and accompanied me to the house of my employer.
"Then he called to the Cossacks, who had in the meantime broken open a trunk and were just in the act of taking various things away, to come upstairs and showed every one what position he was to take, after which he whipped their faces and chests until they began to bleed. I screamed with horror. He repeated the procedure. Then he asked me:
"'Do you want these fellows shot?' to which I naturally answered 'No.'
"Thereupon he took the Cossacks to a room, where he whipped them once more.
"In the evening he sent for me, and asked me what articles had been ruined and what stolen, whereupon he commanded the Cossacks to return all articles they had stolen. In order to prevent another theft, he gave me a Cossack, who watched the house until the next morning. What would have been the fate of the house had I been a Jewess I dare not imagine."