AWAITING CLAIMANTS.
FORTUNE OF £20,000,000. ESSENTIAL PAPERS MISSING. POLICE SUPERVISE & SEARCH, United Press Assn.—Elec. TeL Copyright, (Received May 19, 9.30 a_im) CAPETOWN, May,. 18. A Cape merchant and shipowner, Jan Bontjes, placed his fortune on trust in Holland 140 years... ago, and stipulated that it should not be touched for 100 years. There sire over 400 descendants, but essential papers fori establishing proof are missing. Meanwhile the fortune is estimated at £2O, 000,000. One descendant, Mrs Wright, buried the papers during the Boer war under the floor of her house at Johannesburg and similarly daring the Great war and died without disclosing whera she had buried them. A search supervised by the police unearthed an amazing hoard of books and a w’allet whicii is believed to -contain the missing papers. /
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18023, 19 May 1930, Page 7
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