Mrs. Sima Arlosoroff, widow of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, occupied the witness stand today at both sessions of the trial of the three Revisionist Zionists accused of the murder of her husband.
As Mrs. Arlosoroff left the building at the end of the morning session she was booed by a large crowd of Revisionist sympathizers gathered outside. Presiding Judge Corrie, at the opening of the afternoon session, sharply condemned the, demonstration against her and warned against a repetition. Defense counsel Horace Samuel joined with the presiding judge in his condemnation of the demonstration.
The widow of the murdered man unexpectedly concluded her testimony this afternoon, despite the fact that the had been expected to testify for several days.
When the court session opened this morning, a bitter but quiet fight developed between Mrs. Arlosoroff and attorney Samuel. Despite the attempts of Samuel to have her admit that at the time her husband was shot she cried “Arabs shot him,” she denied over and over again having said anything of the sort. She insisted that she had yelled, “Jews shot him.” She also denied having said that she couldn’t shoot at the murderers because her hands were shaking. She declared that neither she nor her husband were armed the night of the murder.
ADDS LITTLE TO TESTIMONY
Samuel questioned her again on the position of the murderers at the time her husband was shot. She declared that she was unable to remember the exact position, thus enabling Samuel to repeat his argument of yesterday that the murderer was a left-handed man, and not Rosenblatt, who is right handed.
Mrs. Arlosoroff added very little to her testimony given, at the long-drawn – out hearing before Magistrate Bodilly. Samuel was insistent in his questioning of Mrs. Arlosoroff on her close contact with the police and her alleged effort to influence Rosenblatt to admit that he was the guilty man. She was alleged to have urged Rosenblatt to admit his guilt, promising him that she would do her best to secure a mild penalty and would appeal to the High Commissioner on his behalf. She denied having made any such promises.
During her cross-examination it was revealed that the Histadruth, the Central Labor Federation of Palestine, had maintained its own detective system in an effort to find the murderer of Dr. Arlosoroff and had cooperated closely with the police.
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