The last of the cases resulting from the riots of August, 1929 was disposed of today in the district court when Raphael Turgeman, employed as an interpreter by counsel for Joseph Mizrachi Urphali, the Jew charged with the murder of two Arabs, was acquitted of a charge of suborning witnesses in the Urphali case.
Urphali, now under a ten year sentence, was accused of killing two Arabs on the day of the riots. Arab witnesses at the first of his three trials testified that British soldiers had killed the Arabs and not Urphali. They later retracted and charged that Turgeman had paid them for their previous testimony.
Friends of Urphali hoped that Turgeman’s trial might shed new light on the murder of the two Arabs but the court acquitted Turgeman without even hearing witnesses for the defense, simply noting that the evidence of the prosecution was contradictory.
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