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2 Arabs to Hang Jan. 11 for Murder of Jew

January 5, 1938
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High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope today confirmed death sentences passed by the Criminal Assizes Court against two Arabs for the murder last February of Mendel Mintz, a Jewish truck driver. Date of execution was set for Jan. 11 at Acre.

A collective fine imposed on residents of the Jarina quarter in Haifa for murder of an Arab notable last month is being collected from Jews as well as Arabs, it was revealed today. Arab terrorists were the assassins.

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