Two more Arabs were today acquitted of the charge of murdering Joseph and Yehudi Rothenberg, the first two Jews killed in Jerusalem on the day of the riots. The same Arabs, however, were sentenced to sixty years in prison at hard labor for attempting to murder the English official, Mr. Speed, and his Christian-Arab chauffeur, who were mistaken for Jews.
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