An unidentified young Jew was found shot to death in a cave near Absalom’s Tomb in the Kidron Valley. Divisional police inspector Siegrist said that the man was probably Wishnefsky, a clerk in the office of the Palestine Emergency Fund, who had been missing for about a fortnight. When found he had been dead for about a week. A medical examination conclusively showed that it was a case of suicide.
The Hebrew paper, Davar, however, quoting the person who found the body, says that the position of the body within the cave points to a murder suspicion. Wishnefsky’s friends hint that a family tragedy may have been responsible both for his disappearance and his eventual death either at his own hands or by foul play.
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