THE BANTJES FORTUNE
SOUTH AFRICAN CLAIMS
MISSING PAPERS; SAID TO BE
FOUND
(Received 19th .May, noon.)'
CAPE TOWN, 18th May.
A Capo merchant shipowner, Jan! Bant jos, placed a fortune on trust in Holland 140 years ago, and stipulated that it be untouched for a hundred years. There arc over four hundred descendants, but essential papers for establishing proof are missing. Meanwhile, the fortuno is \estimated at twenty millions. One descendant,." Mrs. Wright, buried papers during the Boer War under a floor in a house at Johannesburg. She did the same in the> Great War. When she died, a search, supervised by the police-, .unearthed an. amazing hoard of books and a wallet believed to contain tho missing papers*-\
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 11
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119THE BANTJES FORTUNE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 11
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