The young Effendi who told some of his Jewish friends that a young Arab shepherd in his employment had discovered where the bodies of Salia Zohar and Johanan Stahl were buried, appeared to-day as a witness in the trial of the two Bedouins, Rashid Abu Sulman, and Salib Abu Sulman, who are accused of the murder of the young Jewish couple, who disappeared about a year ago after leaving Jaffa on a walking tour. He told the court that his shepherd had communicated to him the various particulars he had obtained after a conversation with one of the murderers.
The Arab shepherd followed his employer in the witness box, relating how he had discovered the facts about the murder and the burial of the victims.
The police statement issued in November when the bodies were found and the accused Arabs arrested, said that a shepherd boy had told his master, a wealthy Effendi, of the whereabouts of the bodies and this was communicated in turn to Mr. Shapiro (Mr. Abraham Shapiro, the veteran leader of the colony of Petach Tikvah), who gave his information, through an interested gentleman of Tel Aviv, to the police.
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