SHIPOWNER’S FORTUNE
FOUR HUNDRED CLAIMANTS IDENTITY PROOFS MISSING 'FIND UNDER A FLOOR l"/- ' , v '- V x .... (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 10.30 a.m. to-day. CAPE TOWN, May IS. A Cape merchant ship-owner, Jan Bantjcs, placed a fortune on trust in Holland 140 years ago and stipulated that it should not be touched for TOO years. ; - -- - ■ - There are over 400 descendants, but essential papers for establishing, proof are missing. Meanwhile the fortune is estimated at. £29,000,000. . 'One descendant, Mrs Wright, buried the papers during the Boer War under the floor of her house at Johannesburg; similarly during the .Great War. She died and a search, supervised by the police, unearthed an amazing hoard of books and a wallet believed to contain the missing papers. . . A -
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 19 May 1930, Page 7
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127SHIPOWNER’S FORTUNE Hawera Star, Volume L, 19 May 1930, Page 7
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