A sketch of the position of the late Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, his wife, and the murderer who fired the fatal bullet into his body on June 16, 1933, on the seashore of Tel Aviv, was the chief subject of discussion at the trial of three Zionist Revisionists here today.
The defendants are Abraham Stavsky, Zvi Rosenblatt and Aba Achimeier. Their counsel is Horace Samuel, shrewd London barrister who is attempting to prove that Arabs were responsible for the killing.
This morning’s session of the trial was devoted chiefly to a rigorous cross examination by Mr. Samuel of Abdul Mejid, Arab convict, who yesterday swore that the accused Revisionists offered him a bribe of £1,000 to take upon himself the blame for the murder of the late Zionist Labor leader.
Mr. Samuel said that Mejid’s layout of the murder scene, placed before the examining magistrate at preliminary hearings, had somehow disappeared. The plan, Mejid has asserted, was allegedly part of the instructions which the defendants gave him to support his confession of the crime. The plan is supposed to have indicated the positions of Sufchi, another Arab convict.
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