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Bishop’s Assailants Sentenced to Death

August 5, 1927
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Two of the three assailants who attacked the car of Bishop Mclnnes last May, killing the driver and injuring one of the women passengers, were sentenced to death by the Jerusalem court to-day. The third received a sentence of fifteen years penal servitude.

The widow of the driver who was killed was awarded $1,250.

The attack on the Bishop’s automobile was made on May 5, on the read nineteen miles from Jerusalem. All the valuables carried by the members of the party were taken.

CALL WORLD CONFERENCE OF MIZRACHI HECHALUTZ

A conference of the World Mizrachi Hechalutz Brotherhood will be held at Basle. August 27, 28, 29.

The Mizrachi Hatzoir Organization of America will be represented at the conference by Harry Karp and Isidore Epstein, vice president and member of the Executive Committee of America.

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