Fifteen Arabs of the colonies near Motza identified by the sole survivor of the Makleff family which was burned alive, were arraigned before Examining Magistrate Kemp, one of the few Americans in the Palestine Civil Service.
All fifteen were charged with murder. The prisoners include an official of the Health Department, who arrived after the murder, but participated in the looting and arson.
Police officer Sheetreit, a Jew, is acting as public prosecutor while a Jewish lawyer is holding the brief on behalf of the Vaad Hair, Jewish organization of Jerusalem.
A capital charge is being preferred against an Arab chauffeur of Hebron accused of murdering nineteen Jews there. The accused does not deny the charges. On the contrary, he was heard boasting before the police that he had killed fifteen.
After attempting without success to give evidence that an Arab accused of holding firearms aimed his rifle at him a Jewish policeman. Schneirson, excit (Continued on Page 4)
edly took off his badge in court, declaring it is impossible for him to remain on the police force under present conditions.
The officer originally preferred a charge of attempted murder against the Arab, but the investigating officer refused to record it. During the trial before Judge Kermack, the policeman tried to press this charge but the judge would not hear it. The accused was sentenced to one year in prison, while the officer was detained following a dramatic court scene.
Ben Aryah, cashier of the Haifa flour mill, charged with possessing firearms, was sentenced to four months imprisonment or £50 fine, which he paid, whereupon he was released. In pronouncing sentence, the judge declared the accused held the weapon for defence and that he would have been granted a license to carry firearms had he applied.
Three Jews in Jerusalem are charged with the killing of an Arab in the Jewish quarter Meah Shearim on Friday, August 23, the first day of the Arab outbreak.
Two young Jews in Jerusalem were fined £3 each or one month in prison for possessing firearms while guiding a military patrol durin gthe disturbances. The counsel cited the judgment of the court of appeals that a man is not only entitled to defend himself, but it is his duty to do so.
A curious scene took place in the Haifa court, where a large wardrobe and two beds were brought as evidence against two Arabs accused of looting. One was acquitted, the other given a term of seven years.
HIAS PROPOSES JEWISH INSTITUTIONS CLOSE ON DAY OF MARSHALL’S FUNERAL
Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin,
Sir:
The passing of Louis Marshall has so affected Jewry that I feel that there should be a very decided expression of the sense of the irreparable loss that has been sustained. Mr. Marshall was a unique personality in American Jewry for he touched every phase of Jewish life.
In view of this, and the fact that Mr. Marshall was connected with practically every institution in one form or another, I desire to suggest that on Tuesday, the day set for the funeral, every Jewish institution throughout the country should be closed. There should be this demonstration so that not only the present generation but that the generation that is growing up may to some extent realize what Mr. Louis Marshall and his achievements have meant in the community.
I sincerely hope that Jewish organizations and institutions will act in the manner herein suggested.
ISAAC L. ASOFSKY, General Manager.
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America.
New York, Sept. 20, 1929.
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