Abraham Stavsky, who is charged with Zvi Rosenblatt and Aba Achimeir with the murder of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, noted Zionist labor leader, today won a point when he secured the reading of a statement tending to support his alibi.
The prosecutor had declined to read out to the court statements taken from a Jerusalem hotel proprietor, Mr. Turgeman, in whose hotel Stavsky allegedly slept on Friday night, the eve of the murder, because Turgeman had died since he made the statement.
The Magistrate ordered Prosecutor Shitrit to read before the court statements by Turgeman which de-
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