Casts Doubt on Widow’s Testimony

Mrs. Arlosoroff declared Arabs had murdered her husband when she was questioned immediately after the crime had been committed, defense witnesses testified today at the trial of Abraham Stavsky and Zvi Rosenblatt, Revisionist Zionists accused of the slaying. Another witness offered testimony which indicated that the police trackers who identified the footprints at the scene of the murder were convinced they were not those of the accused.

The defense witnesses also assailed a declaration by Mrs. Arlosoroff that she had recognized the man who flashed a light on her husband just before he was shot. Expert evidence was introduced to prove that it would have been impossible for her to recognize the man who held the flashlight.

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Shama Kupperstein, an official of the Tel Aviv municipality, testified that on the evening of the murder he was at the Katedan Hotel and heard Mrs. Arlosoroff tell Police Officer Scharmeister that she suspected Arabs of the murder of her husband.

Scharmeister, who testified after Kupperstein, declared he was the first man to question Mrs. Arlosoroff after the murder. To his question, “who were the murderers?”, Mrs. Arlosoroff replied, “I think they were Arabs.”

Professor Levensohn, formerly of Berlin, an expert oculist, declared emphatically that it was impossible to have seen the person who flashed a light in Dr. Arlosoroff’s face. He declared he had experimented on a starred moonless night similar to the night on which the crime was committed and had ascertained that within a few feet red was seen as black. It would therefore have been impossible for Mrs. Arlosoroff to have seen the red zigzags in Rosenblatt’s coat or the pattern, Professor Levensohn said.

“Could the murderer have been seen in detail?” presiding Judge Corrie asked.