100 years ago

PORT ELIZABETH (Returer) – A young European girl named Cora van Staader, aged 16 years, was today charged with the murder of a man named Jabez Wilson, aged 71, on a lonely farm in the Humansdorp district. Wilson was found a couple of months ago in bed dead from a bullet wound. Highly sensational revelations are expected. The girl is remanded in Humansdorp. She is Wilson’s adopted daughter.