Mrs. Sima Arlosoroff, widow of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, for whose murder the three Revisionist Zionists, Aba Achimeler. Zvi Rosenblatt and Abraham Stavsky are on trial here, occupied the witness stand during the entire morning and afternoon sessions.
Pale and dressed in black, Mrs. Arlosoroff, who was accompanied by a nurse, took the stand, the most important witness for the prosecution and the center of interest in the trial.
Cross-examined by Horace Samuel, counsel for the defense, she added little to her previous testimony, which was the focal point in the hearing before Magistrate Ralph Bodilly. Despite the attempts of Samuel to shake her testimony, she insisted that Rosenblatt had shot Dr. Arlosoroff while Stavsky flashed a light in his face.
She told the court in most emphatic terms that she recognized the coat worn by Rosenblatt at the time of the murder. The coat is now one of the government exhibits in the case.
Samuel questioned her at length on Dr. Arlosoroff’s position at the moment the shot was fired. He was attempting to establish that the murderer was left-handed, while Rosenblatt is not left handed. Mrs. Arlosoroff declared that she could not describe the exact position of her husband at the time he was shot.
Presiding Judge Currie announced that press representation at the trial would be limited to ten, including the local Hebrew and Arab press and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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