A GERMAN CROOK.
' ■—■ . m> GOES BACK TO HTJNLAND. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received Feb. 19, 9.45 „.m ) xi. X Feb/16. Among the- Germans repatriation from England- ou Saturday Iras Franz von - Veltbeim, who slew Woolf Joel at Johannesburg m 1898. was acquitted of murder on the plea of Selfdefences. He was sentenced at the Old Bailey m 1908 to twenty years'imprisonment, for demanding with menaces, sixteen, thousand pounds sterling from bolomon Barnato and Joel. Von Veltheim is looking well after his long; term m prison and nine months m art internment camp. *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14841, 19 February 1919, Page 3
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93A GERMAN CROOK. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14841, 19 February 1919, Page 3
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