Mrs. Helen Friedman, sister of Dov Gruner, arrived at La Guardia Field this morning from Palestine, where she had gone in an unecessful attempt to persuade her brother to appeal his death sentence.
Mrs. Friedman spoke bitterly concerning the secrecy with which the British authorities had carried out the execution of Gruner and his three companions and the authorities’ refusal to allow the doomed men to see a rabbi. “I think the execution ?s cruel and useless,” she said. “It was done in a very cowardly way.”
Asked about her lack of success in persuading her brother to appeal, Mrs. ?edman said that she had been allowed to see him for only fifteen minutes each ?ek. “He was willing to give all he had–his life,” she added. “He wanted to ?ve. He will go on living even though he is dead.” She said that most of the ?me she had spent with Gruner they had discussed family matters, since they had ?t seen each other in ten years.
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