CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL.
THE CASE OF VELTHEIM
Received February 11, 11.56 p.m. LONDON, February 11. Frank Veltheim appeared at Old Bailey, on remand, charged with having demanded with menaces money from Solly Joel. Accused denied blackmailing Joel and testified that he simply demanded what he was promised when he arranged with the late Barney Barnato the details of a plot to cause a split among the Boers by means of a pseudo Boer revolution in 1897 to depose Kruger in favour of some other prominent Boer. This, he said, would have obviated war and enabled Barney Barnato to make huge sums by stock jobbing on the eve of the revolution.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9053, 12 February 1908, Page 5
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110CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9053, 12 February 1908, Page 5
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