Despite a volley of questions put to him by Horace Samuel, attorney defending the Revisionists held for the murder of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff last June, Abdul Mejid al Bendi Bukhari, young Arab who last week confessed to and then denied the murder of the Zionist leader, refused to withdraw the recantation of his confession.
Abdul Mejid admitted, however, that he wore a brown suit on the night of the murder and not a blue one, as he had told Police Inspector Rice. Abdul Mejid had also previously confessed that he saw Dr. Arlosoroff at 8:15 p. m. and not at 7 o’clock, as the official records of the case show.
Mr. Samuel established a number of other contradictions between statements made in the confession and those in the retraction, but failed to shake the young Arab.
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