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Trial Opened of Two Bedouins Charged with Murder of Jewish Boy and Girl Hikers Stahl and Zohar: Arab

June 8, 1932
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The trial was opened to-day before the Jaffa Court of the two Arabs Rushid Abu Sulman, 20 years of age, and Salib Abu sulman, 17 years of age, who are accused of the murder of the Jewish boy and girl hikers, Zohar and Stahl.

Both the prisoners belong to the Arab-el-Koran tribe.

It was brought out at the trial that the police authorities had put an Arab policeman dressed as a Bedouin into prison, as if he were a prisoner, in order to enter in contact with the prisoners and obtain evidence from them. This policeman gave evidence to-day, declaring that he had held conversations with the prisoners, in which they had confirmed to him that they had been concerned in the murder of the two young Jews.

The Government doctor who examined the bodies after the exhumation, and other witnesses who were present at the time, described to the court the horrible condition of the bodies when they were discovered.

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