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Murder in a Chocolate Box
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By E. DAVIDSON
David H. Weisberg
Editor's Note: This most interesting account of a murder
case in Jerusalem was written by one of Israel's leading
jurists whose name is of necessity changed.
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JERUSALEM—The guardian geance note.
of the Ratisbone Monastery in I Meanwhile it was discovered
Jerusalem received a large box that the box of chocolates and
of chocolates as a New Year sweets had been bought at a
present. He opened the box well-known shop in Jaffa Rd. in
and was blown to pieces. the heart of New Jerusalem.
When the police discovered The people who had served the
his body, or what was left of it, girl remembered her well, for
they found chocolates and she and a young man who had
sweets stuck to it; while the accompanied her had asked for
walls and ceiling of his room I an especially deep box in which
were also covered with sweets. t o pack the sweets and had
The police had little difficulty caused a lot of bother until
in reconstructing the drama: they found the box that suited
the box of chocolates had con- them.
tained a Mills bomb which
Esther was arrested. She put
went off when the lid was on an innocent face and won-
removed.
dered what the police could
Why anyone should have be wanting her for. The evi-
thought up this original and I dence piled up against her.
hideous method of murder was The young man, Saleh, who
something of a puzzle. The had accompanied her to the
dead man was a harmless old chocolate shop was unearthed
gentleman, without an enemy and before very long both
in the world.
were telling the full story to
A few days later, a type- the investigators.
written letter arrived at the
Esther had a friend in the
monastery, addressed to the army, and he had supplied her
son of the murdered man: with her first bomb. That was
"You are responsible for your thrown at the lover who had
father's death. I hope it will given her up — but it had
haunt you to the end of your been thrown at the wrong per-
life." But the son had left son! Now her lover was be-
Israel a year before and was yond her reach, but his father
now in Turkey, happily mar- was near at hand. So she
ried.
secured a second hand grenade
Someone in police head- from the same friend.
quarters remembered that a
She did not know how to place
year before a bomb had been it in a box so that it should ex-
thrown at some passers-by not plode on being opened—but her
50 yards from the entrance to
the monastery. Three people friend
did. It
was
he
had Saleh
gone with
her
to the
had
been slightly
injured,
but chocolate shop, had chosen a
the person
who had
thrown
suitable. box, had accompanied
the bomb had never been dis- her to a hotel in a neighboring
covered.
street and on the stairway had I
The motive for the crime tied up the little parcel with .
was a mystery and the police a handful of death inside. He
had closed the file, puzzled and had then left Esther. She had
bewildered. Jerusalem forgot gone back to the shop and
about it.
asked the boy to take the gift
The typewritten letter sug- to the monastery.
gested that the father had been
Fond of sweets and suspecting
killed for the "sins" of his nothing, the Guardian had
son, and this led the police to opened the box and that was
asking questions about the son: the end of him.
For it was presumed, and
Esther and Saleh were
rightly, that the. earlier bomb- brought before the District
throwing was intended for the
and
son. This son had been en- charged
Court in
Jerusalem
with
premeditated
gaged to a young Persian girl murder.
with the musical name of Bara-
She is short, with jet black
zani: Esther Barazani. He had hair and sickly, pale face. How
left her and gone off to Tur- she persuaded two respectable
key, where he had fallen in young men to help her corn-
love with another 'girl.
mit a murder, is not very
Where was Esther Barazani? clear.
She was serving in the army.
The ease against the two
At the moment , she was in of them was crystal clear, but
Haifa. The police found her it took eight months before
there in an army camp and,
more to the point, they came the
judge the
found
them
guilty.
In Israel
death
sentence
upon a typewriter in the office for murder has been abolished.
where she worked. One test They were sentenced to im-
showed that this was the one prisonment for life and told
which had typed the ven- that they had a right to ap-
peal.
The appeal was heard in
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tence of life imprisonment was
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The lawyer for the girl took
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which said she was infantile
He said that if she were not
mad she was psychotic and if
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was subject to irresistible im-
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The three judges listened for
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defense. Esther Barazani sat
in the dock, next to a police-
woman : listening too, and look-
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judges did not retire for long.
They came back with the same
verdict: murder.
Unless, after some years,
the President pardons them,
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But they will go down in the
history of Israeli crime as two
very vicious but very original
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