Abraham Stavsky, 28-year-old Zionist Revisionist, who has been under arrest since last Monday in connection with the assassination of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, noted Zionist labor leader, has been transferred to the Jerusalem central jail where he has been put in a separate cell.
Stavsky, who has repeatedly asserted his innocence and claimed that he spent the night of June 16 when Dr. Arlosoroff was shot in Tel Aviv at a hotel in Jerusalem, found some support when one of the three men who he said were with him at the Turgeman Hotel, corroborated his alibi. One of the trio failed to do ### The ###rd has not yet been located.
Stavsky has refused to accept the customary jail fare, it was learned, and insisted on kosher food which he is now obtaining daily through his attorney from a local restaurant.
The mystery of the dead Jew who was found near Kiryat-Anavim has not yet been solved and his body remains unidentified although a photograph was published by the entire press of Palestine.
Although Dr. Arlosoroff’s widow was unable to identify the body as that of one of her husband’s assassins, the suspicion is growing rapidly, that there is some connection between the dead man and the Arlosoroff murder.
A special office to deal with the Arlosoroff case has been established by the Palestinian police.
Strained relations between Zion-
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