[3] After his time in prison, Swart had been involved in a love affair with his 14-year-old niece Sarie Alberts and he brought her to come and live with him on his farm.

[3] On 4 May Swart summoned his lawyer Maasdorp from Volksrust to draw up a 28 page final Will and testament that was also a suicide statement.

[3] On Friday 6 May 1927 a team of ten policemen led by Captain Gerald Ashman arrived at daylight to arrest Swart at his farm Potters Hill.

In the misty low visibility conditions Swart shot and killed five policemen including Ashman and wounded one.

On the road he happened to come across his stepdaughter Fannie Knight and farm manager Cornelis Roets in a horse cart.

[2] Swart was buried in the grounds of the Charlestown police station in a coffin that was reportedly too short for his body.

[3] Another memorial on the location of the murder of Fanny Knight reads "Hierdie Gedenkteken is opgerigt ter gedagtenis aan Fannie Knight -nee Eksteen- en C. Roets, wat deur S. Swart geskiet was op die 6de Mei 1927, terwyl hy van die polisie ontsnap het to Potters Hill" (This memorial is erected in memory of Fanny Knight -nee Eksteen- and C. Roets.