THE VELTHEIM BLACKMAILING CASE.
A STORY OF FILIBUSTERING. (Pbess Association.— CoWrioht.) j LONDON. Tuesday. Velthcim, charged at the Old Bai- j ley with backmaihng Wolf Joel in ( South Africa, testified that he simply* domanded what he was promised whon ho arranged with the late Bar- ' ney Bafnato the details of the plot to cause a split among the Boers by ] means of a p eudo Boer revolution in ', 1897, to depose Kruger" ih favour of somo . other prominent Boer. This would have obviated the war, and enabled Barnato to make huge sums by stock jobbing on the eve of the revolution.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 February 1908, Page 4
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101THE VELTHEIM BLACKMAILING CASE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 February 1908, Page 4
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