Despite threats of reprisal, Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker had confirmed the death sentence of Jewish Terrorist Dov Gruner. As promised, the terrorists struck. H. A. I. Collins, a director of a Palestine bank, was entertaining a young Jewish woman at tea when a knock summoned him to the door. Outside stood a beautiful Jewess with four armed Yemenite Jews. They threw Collins to the floor, slapped a chloroform-soaked rag against his face. The beautiful Jewess screamed, "Take him to the cemetery." The four men crammed him into a gunny sack, fled.
When Collins' companion gave the alarm, troops swarmed...