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Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12166, 14 February 1908, Page 4

London, February 12. Veltheim, charged with blackmailing Wolff Joel, has been sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude. After the verdict Inspector Pentin gave Velthiem's history. His real name was Krutze, and* he had been a bad character from childhood. After serving in the German navy and the British mercantile marine, he went to Australia, and in Perth married Maria Yearsley. He went to Capetown, and his wite to England, where she became acquainted with a gentleman whom Velthiem afterwards attempted to blackmail. He nest bigamously ried, defrauded and deserted several women. In South Africa ho raised half a million sterling- on pretence of being able to nnoarth Krnger's buried treasure.