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4 Sentenced for Murder of Policemen

October 20, 1936
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A court today sentenced four Arab brigands to fourteen years’ imprisonment for the confessed murder last November of a Jewish police sergeant, Moshe Rosenfeld, and Constable Mott, a Briton. Two others were sentenced to terms of two years each.

The six were members of Sneik Kassem’s gang, which for months before the current Arab disorders broke out last April, had terrorized the country. Sergeant Rosenfeld was killed at Affuleh, near the Jewish colony of Ein Chared, while searching for thieves who had been looting grapefruit groves. Constable Mott was killed while investigating Sergeant Rosenfeld’s death.

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