THE SHOOTING OF WOOLF JOEL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8556, 15 October 1907, Page 5

THE SHOOTING OF WOOLF JOEL.

AN OLD CRIME. Received October 14, a.m. LONDON, October 13. Vetheim asserts that the late Mr Barney Barnato, the millionaire, offered him £16,000 to murder the late President Kruger. After Barnato's suicide Mr Woolf Joel refused to pay, on the ground that nothing had been done to execute the plot. ■-„,,* The quarrel and shooting of Wool! Joel then ensued. (Frank Wertheim (or Vetheim) who shot Woolf Joel at Johannesburg, on March 18th, 1898, was last monlh arrested in Paris on an English extradition warrant, charged with attempting to blackmail Solly Joel to the extent of £16,000. Woolf Joel was a relative of the late Mr Barney Barnato, a South African millionaire. Vetheim had written threatening letters to Joel, demanding money for the "removal" of President Kruger. He then waited on the murdered man, and asked for £2,500, which was refused. Seizing a ravolver, which was on a desk, he fired at Joel, with fatal effect, and subsequently attempted suicide. That was the first story, but it subsequently transpired that Wertheim had waited on Joel and his manager (Mr Strange) witha scheme for redressing the grievances of the Uitlanders in the Transvaal, and when the money to carry out the scheme was refused he seized Joel's revolver from the desk, exclaiming "You -know too much and must both die." Strange immediately fired at Wertheim, hitting him in the mouth, and Wertheim then shot Joel. He also fired at Strange).