The New York Times · 26 January 1930
CP-1930-006
NEW TRIAL IS ORDERED IN SLAYING OF ARABS Death Sentence of Urphali Is Set 'Aside on Appeal in Palestine Riot Case.
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NEW TRIAL IS ORDERED IN SLAYING OF ARABS Death Sentence of Urphali Is Set 'Aside on Appeal in Palestine Riot Case. By JOSEPH M. LEVY. Wireless to THE NEw YORE TIMES. JERUSALEM, Jar. 25.-Today the death sentence was set aside and g new trial ordered in the appeal of the case of Joseph Mizrachi Urphali, a Jew charged with murdering two Arabs in the riots at Jaffa on Aug. 25.
The appeal court granted a new trial so members of the air force on duty at the scene or the alleged kill- ings and Urphali's four Arab neigh- bors might testify that the shooting was done by policemen. Urphali is accused of killing two Arabs by firing from the balcony of his house near the boundary of Jaffa and.
Telaviv when Jaffa Arabs were concentrating in that neighborhood to attack Telaviv, a Jewish city. The defense pointed out that the police were already firing at the Arabs. All witnesses testified the slain Ar
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"NEW TRIAL IS ORDERED IN SLAYING OF ARABS Death Sentence of Urphali Is Set 'Aside on Appeal in Palestine Riot Case.," The New York Times, 26 January 1930. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1930-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1930-006
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