CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL. THE CASE OF VON VELTHEIM.
By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, llth February. The trial or Funk yon Veltheim, on a charge of attempting to blackmail Mr. Solly Joel, was resumed • yesterday at the Old Jsailey. The prisoner denied blackmailing, and testified that he had simply demanded what he had been promised when he arranged with the late 'Mr. Barney Barnato, the details of a plot to cause a split among toe Boers by means of a pseudo-Boer revolution in 1897, and to depose the late President Kruger in tavour of some other prominent Boer. This would have obviated the late war, and would have enabled Mr. Barnato to make huge sums by stcck jobbing on the eve of the revolution.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1908, Page 7
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124CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL. THE CASE OF VON VELTHEIM. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1908, Page 7
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