 In 1884 a Jewish Freemason named Joseph Schorst (alias of Théodore Joseph Schapiro) sold Justine a manuscript copy of the "Protocols" (written in French) for 2,500 francs.Fry believed that Schorst had smuggled this copy of the "Protocols" out of the archives of one of the Mizraïm Masonic Lodges in Paris.According to records in the archives of the Sûreté (French Secret Police), Schorst eventually fled to Egypt, where he was murdered.