STORY OF A SDOLEN WILL.
A SOUTH AFRICAN CASK '\ . - j Albert Heyer, formerly a seicjret service ( agent of thelate Transvaal Government, baa a just been sentenced at Cape Tjjfvn to pay j a fine of £200 or go to prison for twelve j months with bard, labour, for stealing a will.. " • The : case is rather a remarkable, one. In 1 September last an old farmer _a:«ie_ Hert- t zog died,' leaving an estate wont-hi over one t hundred thousand pounds, bub ait, first bo i will- could be found. Heyer «4lated that ] the old man took him into his confidence « and dictated to bim a will leavii pg all his i property to a MrHiddingh. t Hertzog kept the will, andf 'after his t death Heyer found it between tihe leaves. 1 of a novel and abstracted it. _Ie asked 1 Hiddingb what he would give Mm if be c found the .will, and the latter jokingly re- c plied, "I will give you a thousand impounds." I Heyer handed over the will to ! a friend, ] but the latter delivered it to t'he proper 1 officials, who caused the prisoner fto be ar- i rested. . ' ]
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7678, 11 April 1903, Page 4
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