An extreme Revisionist named Abraham Stavsky, who came to Palestine three months ago from Brest-Litovsk, Poland, was revealed today as the man held by the police in connection with the assassination last Friday of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, Zionist labor leader.
The mystery regarding the murder of Dr. Arlosoroff deepened considerably today when police, without naming their prisoner, let it be known that the arrested man had shared the room in Tel Aviv of Ab Achiemier, who is known as a Revisionist extremist. Achiemier was also arrested last night when he used insulting expressions against the police and sought to hinder them in their search of his room. He accused the police of deliberately diverting the investigation from Arabs to Jews. The Revisionist party tried unsuccessfully to secure his release on bail.
Stavsky was said by the police to have arrived three months ago from Poland where he had been active in the Brith Trumpeldor (Revisionist youth group).
He had intended to return to Poland to solicit subscriptions for the Revisionist organ, Chazit Ha’am and had obtained authorization to do so from the manager of the publication. He obtained a visa from the Polish consul at Tel Aviv on Wednesday and had asked the Palestine Government for a return visa which he had apparently failed to secure.
Excitement spread through Palestine last night when it was reliably reported that Mrs. Arlosoroff, who witnessed her husband’s murder, had identified the arrested man from among fourteen Jewish youths. Rumors regarding the crime and the investigation fly around unceasingly.
So intense is the excitement over the case that the Jewish Labor Federation has had to issue an appeal to its members to refrain from demonstrations or any other form of action in connection with the case. The federation has received a letter of condolences at the loss of its leader from Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, the High Commissioner.
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