Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-11-09
VARIED CAREER
OF ALLEGED BARON
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE COMES
ONCE MORE INTO THE
LIMELIGHT.

der of fortune. whose doings ring
from continent to continent; an adj
yenturous free lance whose deeds,
generally bad ones, SAVIOR more of the
romantic novel than of these com
monplace days of the twentieth CEN
tury. such is Frank Kurtze, alias
Baron Carl Ludwig o Veltheim.
who, as readers will have heard, has
been arrested for attempting to
blackmail S. B. Joel, the South Afri-
can multi-millionaire, out of $4,000.
AS has been ~telegraphed already, the
arrest was effected the other day at
a cafe on the Grand Boulevard in
Paris at the special instance of the
British government. At the Guild
hall police court in this city he de-
tails OF the alleged Matchmaking Will
probably come out. Won Veltheim,
to give him the name he is known by
in all the four quarters Of the earth,
is unquestionably one of the most
bizarre personalities living, He is
the re-incarnation combined of a war
rior king Of ancient times, a rollick-
ing soldier of fortune of the middle
ages. a bold buccaneer from the
Spanish main, a courtly Adonis of the
Victorian era and a good fellow" of
the present day.
Hard names are given his deeds
these times. disappearing rogue,
blackmailer, bigamist, murderer, are
some of the CHASTITY words used. Two
hundred years ago he would have
been a hero among heroes. Today he
is but a notable ~adventurer.
AN AMERICAN.
The Stars and Stripes Won Welt
helm claims as his flag, for he is q
naturalized citizen, having taken ouI
his papers in New Orleans some six
teen years ago. Indeed he has hell
office under the United States gov
eminent. having been American con
sui at a port in South America.
But then what has the man no
been? From sailor and soldier il
the ranks to command of a regimen
of irregular cavalry, from a commo
dock walloper to Barney Barnato'
confidential police agent, from a
outlaw to the favorite of societ
queens, he has run the whole CANT
AIfhntnh AnnhlW
bigamist, although once charged wit
murder, this is but his second e.
perience of the inside of a jail. Nea
" ten years ago he shot and kille
Woolf Joel, head of the great Ba
nate firm, in the latter's office
johannesburg. After an eight-di
trial Won Veltheim was acquittt
amid wild applause. He has be-
married, as far as known, three tim
and his wives are all living.
A WOMAN'S MAN.
In appearance Won Veltheim is
Adonis, though his strenuous Iii
o that he is 40 years of age, h
left its mark on him. He is six ft
four inches in height. but perfect
proportional, and so has not the Z
pearance of the giant that he is.
is essentially a woman's man. Won
have raved over him and he has be
the pet Of society in every section
which he has lived. Yet he is ST
a good fellow and has sucf
charming and interesting personal
that the glad hand has been
tended to him by nearly every n
with whom he has come in cont;
During the sensational trial for
shooting of Joel he was prosecu
by District Attorney Krauser. ]
is the same man who a year or
later was arrested by the Brit
government and imprisoned in Z
land for high treason.
II was at this trial that the W.
came to know the inside history
the adventures of Won Veltheim.
Krauser had worked hard on
case. He had sent confidential
to Germany, to England, to the Y
ed States, to Australia, to Sc
America, to gather up the lines
the trail. No doubt unlimited me
was placed at the disposal of
prosecution and although the dist
attorney did not succeed in SEM
Won Veltheim to the hangm
moose, he did uncover all the shat
facts of the mans stirring life.
SON OF PRINCESS,
Won Veltheim is said to be the
OF a high-born German princes
the result of a romantic attachi
of hers for a handsome cavalry
der. who was attached to the pa
guard. The princess, so far as
steal charms went, was one Of
most striking of regal figures Il
Europe.
The story has oft been denied
yet believed from the very like
of the man to pictrues of this