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.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
