Rejecting a plea of self-defence the court today sentenced A. Rody and M. Spilner, watchmen on the Roumanian-Jewish estate known as “Ahuzat Herbert Samuel”, to eight months each in prison or fines of $200 for firing on Arab trespassers shortly after last summer’s riots.
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