Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-11-09

he took ship again n Voyaged
around the world. A year or SO
later he arrived in Germany and
a v out that he was an American
official travelling on pleasure. Miss
Paula Schiller fell in love with him,
but her parents opposed a marriage
SO the couple eloped to London and
here were married at a registry Of
fee. This, his second living wife,
was also a woman of wealth. A
mystery there is about the result Of
this marriage. The wife was not a
beauty. yet she was willing to get
rid of her handsome husband, for sne
paid him $500 in hard cash in re-
turn for this document.
II, Carl Ludwig Won Veltheim,
hereby formally renounce all my mat
rimonial rights to the position and
fortune Of my wife, Paula Schiller"
THIRD MARRIAGE.
Probably the girls parents had a
hand in the separation. Soon after
wards Won Voltheim married Miss
Marie Navrogordato, a Greek girl
who was also wealthy. The marriage
was at a London registry office and
the husband gave his name as Franz
Platen. He told her that he was the
owner of a large banana plantation
in Santa Marta and secured a large
sum Of money from her to put into
it. Then he disappeared. This third
living wife made many inquiries, dis
covered the previous marriage, went
to law and had hers annuled.
MEETS NO. /.
Won Veltheim's Australian wife
/ had arrived in England on the track
5 of her missing husband and met him
one day face to face in the street.
4 They then lived for some months al
: the Hotel Metropole here. But again
Won Veltheim again disappeared
There was trace of him at a sailors
e home in the East End. A few days
e later the nude body Of a big man wal
d found in the Thames. It was enrap
ped in ropes and it looked as if
l. foul murder had been committed. Tn
II police were non-plussed and the bod
is was buried as that of IN unknown.
is But Mrs. Won Veltheim hearing Q
l. the affair secured special permissio
r from the home secretary and had til
le body disinterred. In the morgue sh
identified it as the body of her hu'
n band. Her recognition was instan
to She was positive.
It But the curtain had by no meat
Ia rung down on the adventurer. I'll
ld police made further inquiries and di
1e covered that Won Veltheim was ally
&c and in a hospital in South Africa
a wounded member of the Bechaun
nv land police. On discovery he resig
OF ed and went to Cape Town. The
of the ex-trooper once more posed
he Baron Won Veltheim and was recei
So ed in good society.
tod MEETS BARNATO.
ty. 1t was at this time that he m
nut Barney Barnato. Won Veltheim is
nd. marvellous linguist. ~Johannesbu
ex- was in the zenith of its glory. 1t W
it the most cosmopolitan and the gave
of city on earth. The /. d. b. or I'LL
for diamond buying was also at
ge- height. The Barnato firm had
the own band of private police and v
ass Veltheim became a valuable meml
of OF this.
to He was, however. too good a m
Eel to be long a mere detective and v
oes employed by the firm in a confident
hat position on many secret affairs.
his litican plots OF all kind were brt
thy ing.
lple 1t is generally agreed that n
ppy these political schemes led to the J
tragedy. Those who ought to kr
in johannesburg say that Won
Won theim had tired of his job, that
re- wanted a big stake and that he
ar. mduQ0u 3fU,UuU Vi POVYVup llOhA
ibar Barnato firm on the threat that
late. would s'squeal9 to the British
wife eminent about a projected c
for d'etat. Others again declare
'neo, the Rand multi-millionaire
h of found that one of his schemes
of miscarried and intended to deno1
was Won Veltheim as the chief plotter
for thus clear its own skirts.
Won KILLS WOOLF JOEL.
S a At any ate Won Veltheim hat
'hina appointment with Woolf Joel. Ha
Strange, the manager of the Bar.
office in johannesburg, condu
and Won Veltheim into the inner sar
,arch airy Of the Rand magnate. When
lings trouble came Strange pulled his
a and fred, wounding Won Welt
tered slightly on the lip. His next
aman fridge stuck and he took cover
lding hind a big desk. Woolf Joel op
a drawer and grabbed his rev'
n-pot but Won veltheim's spoke three
Vel and each bullet entered Joels