Horace Samuel, London attorney defending Abraham Stavsky and Zvi Rosenblatt, on trial for the murder of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, Zionist labor leader, today concentrated all his efforts to prove that the police trackers, who were called to track the murderers at the scene of the crime, followed the wrong footsteps and strayed away from the path taken by the actual murderers.
He referred to the testimony of Police Corporal Harwich, who reported to this effect in a memorandum submitted to his superiors. Samuel demanded that the report be produced in court. He also demanded that Harwich, who is an expert tracker, be called as a witness.
The court ruled that Corporal Harwich must be called as a witness, but declined to permit Samuel to question him on the work of the police trackers. Called to the stand Harwich testified that he examined Stavsky’s footprints and found no likeness to those of the escaped murderers.
Zvi Holtzer, a secret service man, testified that he was at the police station and heard Mrs. Sima Arlosoroff, widow of the murdered man, ask, “Show me the photographs of Arab suspects.” He declared that he had participated in searching the home of Osher Chazan, Stavsky’s landlord, and heard Chazan state that he had not seen Stavsky at home on the night of the murder. Chazan, who testified for the prosecution, told of seeing Stavsky at home.
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