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Died. William August Bartholomae, 70, California oilman, rancher and yachtsman, a onetime drillfield roughneck who hit oil on a smidgeon of unwanted California land after World War I, branched into gold mining, cattle ranching, real estate, becoming so rich (estimates run all the way up to $40 million) that his third wife last year won a $5,500,000 divorce settlement; of knife wounds in the abdomen (police booked Bartholomae's brother's Spanish-born sister-in-law on suspicion of murder); in the kitchen of his $500,000 mansion at Newport Beach, Calif...
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