acquittal, had confessed the murder of Heese to Witton. Personal life In 1893, Rev. Heese married Johanna Grützner, the German-born daughter of a fellow missionary from the Orange Free State. The couple was stationed at Makaanspoort near Pietersburg in the Northern Transvaal. Their first child, Martha, born 1894, died of diphtheria. Two more girls, Dorothea was born in 1896, Marie in 1897, and a fourth, Hilda, was less than one year old when their father was murdered. Their only son, also named Daniel, was born on 11 December 1901 – a few months after his death. Relation to books Kit Denton, in his book The Breaker, spelt the surname of Heese incorrectly as 'Hesse'. In his 1983 book, Closed File Denton corrected many inaccuracies in his earlier book, including the incorrect spelling. In the film Breaker Morant he is played by Bruno Knez. References Further reading Denton, Kit. The Breaker. Australia, Sydney: Angus and Robertson Publishers, 1973. Denton, Kit. Closed File. Sydney, Australia: Rigby Internat, 1983. Heese, Johannes August. Grossvater und Grossmutter Heese. 1859-1959. Paarl, Cape Province, South Africa: 1959. Leach, Charles, The Legend of Breaker Morant is Dead and Buried: A South African Version of the Bushveldt Carbineers in the Zoutpansberg, May 1901-April 1902, Leach Printers & Signs, Louis Trichardt, 2012. 1867 births 1901 deaths 19th-century Lutheran clergy 20th-century Lutheran clergy British war crimes People murdered in South Africa Deaths by firearm in South Africa South African Lutheran clergy South African people of German descent Second Boer War crimes 1901 murders in South Africa South African Lutheran missionaries