The magistrate’s investigation into the murder last June of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, head of the political department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, continued today with presentation of additional testimony consisting of extracts from the notebooks of Aba Achimeir, one of the three defendants in the case.
Achimeir, with Zvi Rosenblatt and Abraham Stavsky, all of whom are identified with the extremist faction of the Revisionists, the right-wing Zionists, are accused of conspiracy to murder Dr. Arlosoroff and with the actual murder.
Police officer Tennenbaum, renewing his testimony today, declared that on the basis of his own experiments, it was possible to recognize persons on the Tel Aviv seashore at night. Dr. Arlosoroff was murdered there at night and identification of his assassins had been questioned.
In Achimeir’s notebooks the witness said he found ten commandments composed by the defendant. He quoted one of them: “A killer for motives of robbery has murdered, but murder is not a crime. The Bible is full of examples.”
The witness also said he had found minutes of a meeting on the night of the murder of the Kfar-Saba branch of the Brith Trumpeldor.
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