A DUTCH FORTUNE
SEARCH FOR MIS&SG" PAPERS f ' :■ -JUU: it: . (Doited Prase Association—By Electric 1 Telegraph—C^pjrnght). iti *i‘‘ 7 ’ : (Received this rlity at'lo a.m.) Capetown; May is. A Cape 'merchant/’ship' , owner, Jan Bantj.es, placed a fortune; on trust in Holland 140 years agio iintl he’stipulated that : it should not be touched for ono hundred years. Therefore" over four himdred descendants;; bdt' the;eßsentia\ papers for establishing proof are missing. Meanwhile is estimated at ’twenty riiillioUS. ' One descendant, "Mrs Wright;'"buried papers during the Boer War undcf’tlie floor of a.housd at Johannesburg; . During the Great War she died, and’ a; search supervised by the police,''tinCarihed an amazing hoard of bobki, and a wallet believed to contain the missing papers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1930, Page 5
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116A DUTCH FORTUNE Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1930, Page 5
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