DINIZULU.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9055, 14 February 1908, Page 5

DINIZULU.

GOVERNMENT THANKED FOR REMOVING HIM.

Received February 13, 8.45 a.m. DURBAN, February 12.

Two hundred chiefs who attended an indaba at Nkandhla, thanked the Natal Government for Dinizulu's removal, remarking that now they have no]fear of assassination,and were able to sleep with their doors open. They added that they hoped that he would never be re-admitted, as he was sure to cause trouble.

MR JELLICOE'S CHARGES,

NATAL GOVERNMENT'S DENIAL. Received Fdbruary 13, 8.30 a.m. DURBAN, February 12.The Natal Government denies that Mr Jellicoe was not afforded reasonable facilities for conducting the defence of the chief Dinizulu.

MARTIAL LAW IN ZULULAND

Received February 13, 11.47 p.m. LONDON. February 13. Mr Winston Churchill states that martial law continues in Zululaud despite Sir M. Nathan'* and Lord Elgin's assertion that it is not required.

CHAR&E OF BLACKMAIL. VON VELTHEIM SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. Received February 13, 8.43 a.m. LONDON, February 12. The trial of Frank von Veltheim on a charge of attempting to levy blackmail on Mr Solly Joel, has been concluded. Accused was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment.

VON VELTHEIM'S HISTORY

A BAD RECORD.

Received February 13, 10.38 p.m LONDON, February 13.

The jury returned with their verdict after an absence of twenty minutes.

Inspector Pentin, after the verdict had been announced, gave von Veltheim's history. According to the police accounts from various countries, said the inspector, Veltheim's real name was Kurtze. The prisoner had a bad character from childhood. He was a sailor in the German Navy in 1380, and deserted in the same year. He was suspected of stealing his captain's gold watch and seal bearing the family crest. The captain's name was Von Veltheim. Later the prisoner served aboard a British" merchantman and went in 1886 to Fremantle atrl Perth. At the latter place, in 1887 he married a Miss Maria Yearsley. He then went to Capetown. His wife went to England, where she became acquainted with a gentleman whom the prisoner on rejoining his wife, attempted to blackmail. He was told that the matter would be placed in the hands of the police, but he continued to write threateningly. Von Veltheim next bigamously married, defrauded and deserted several women. He obtained the sum of £1,500 from one. He underwent a supposed secret marriage with a young American lady at St. Cloud (a town in France), one of his friends on that occasion person ating the priest Later the prisoner obtained from a German widow whom he had previously known, and promised to marry, £2,800 to invest on her behalf. She, finding that Von Veltheim had squandered the money, committed suicide. The prisoner served in the Cape Mounted Police, but was subsequently requested to resign. He then began to blackmail the Joels. He was acquitted of the murder.of Woolf Joel and expelled for blackmailing. Later he raised half a million kroner on a pretence that ht was able to unearth Kruger's buried treasure amounting to five million sterling. The prisoner frequently interrupted the narrative and shouted "all lies " He told Mr Justice Phillimore in his final speech that the story of the plot was true, but that he must cover certain people, and did so now, although found guilty. (Veltheim shot Woolf Joei (brother of Solly Joel) dead in Johannesburg in 1898, but was acquitted on the ground that he had acted in self-de-fence. On the day of the shooting he called on Woolf Joel and demanded money, either as blackmail or, as was alleged, to further a plot for the removal of President Kruger. Afterwards he was expelled from the Transvaal, but returned, only to be again expelled.)