(J. T. A. Mail Service)
Shevki,the ringleader in the murder of two Jewish pedlars, Abram Ben Yekar and Isaac Eskojido was today sentenced to death, but as he is under 21, the sentence was commuted to a term of 24 years imprisonment. His accomplice Tewfik was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, and Shevki’s sister, Emine, a girl of 13, has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.
The girl Emine acted as decoy. She stood at the door of the house and asked the pedlars to come in so that she could select some purchases. When they came in Shevki and his friend Tewfik fell upon them from behind and killed them. Tewfik pleaded that he had not taken part in the murder and had only looked on. Emine argued that she called the pedlars into the house in order to make purchases from them, and had no suspicion of her brother’s intention. He compelled her to keep silence by threatening to kill her if she told anyone what had happened. The Public Prosecutor pointed out, however, that this might have been so in the first murder, but could not have been so in the case of the second murder.
Shevki boasting during the police investigations that he had murdered the two Jews and that if he had not been arrested he “would have killed a few more Jews.”
The Public Prosecutor demanded that all three prisoners should be sentenced to death. The trial was concluded on July 6 but the Court reserved judgment until today.
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