WOOLF JOEL’S PARTNER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 12, 30 August 1911, Page 3

WOOLF JOEL’S PARTNER.

The trial of Von Veltiieim in Johamicsburg on the charge of murdering .sir. Woolf Joel is recalled by toe de.itli at Leeds of 3,ir. Harold I’’. Strange, once a partner in the linn oi Bunin to.

.Sir. Strange was present at the interview between \on \ citiieim and Woolf Joel, w Irieii ended in the latc.i being shot, ami he was one of the principal witnesses at the trial. Counsel for tho prisoner set up the defouco that Air. Strange drew a pistol from a. drawer and Jired at Von Veltheim, wounding him sliwntly in the mouth, and that Von \ oitlieim then snot Air. \V. Joel and missed Air. Strange. Although tho hitter's evidence was to the contrary, the jury accepted die theory of tho defence, and acquitted Von \ dtheim, who was afterwards arrested on a charge of I Jack mad and expelled from the Transvaal. ilis subsequent arrest- ami sentence for threats to Solly Joel are matters ol common knowledge, and at the. present moment Vout Veltiieim is in prise i i. Air. Strange was a passive member of the Reform Committee in IMtW-Uti, and, along witn others, was sentenced to pay a lino of £2UUU, and undergo two years' iniprisonniont, but alter two months’ detention the majority of the Reformers wara released.