SENSATIONAL ARREST
AT JOHANNESBURG
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association!
CAPETOWN, April 19 The sensational arrest was made at Johannesburg, of Franz Von Veltheim. hero of one of the most sensational trials in South Africa. He shot the financier Woolf Joel in the latter's office in March 1908 and was acquitted of the murder charge on a plea of selfdefence, but was afterwards sentenced to twenty years in London for attempting to blackmail S. B. Joel. He was released during the war, then interned and repatriated to Germany. It is understood he has now been arrested under the immigration laws.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 April 1923, Page 5
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