Talking 100 mystery believed solved

Press, 27 April 1983, Page 9

Talking 100 mystery believed solved

NZPA-Reuter Regensburg The mystery of the talking toilet in a dental surgery had been solved, a public prosecutor said in Regensburg, West Germany, yesterday. He was announcing his findings after a years investigation into the ghost voice at the surgery and said that charges would be laid against a dentist, Kurt Bachseitz, aged 62, his wife, Margot, ’ aged : 61, and a dental assistant, Claudia Judenmann, who is 16.

It emanated not only from the toilet bowl but also light fittings and sinks, at the surgery. It professed love for the attractive Claudia but was not above voicing insults to others. At the time, Mr Bachseitz issued a summons against “a person unknown” for insulting behaviour, the basis of the prosectuor’s present charge. Special squads of police, telephone technicians, ghost "experts”, and para-pdscho-logists descended orj the

in" Chopper,” as the .ghostly Voice called itself, caused a

local sensation when it first practice to investigate the sounded off early last year, phenomenon.

The prosecutor, Elmar Fischer, said that weeks had passed before the investigators began to suspect that the voice belonged to one of the dental staff. He did not explain how he though the trick had been worked and withheld the exact charges against the .three until an examining magistrate decides whether there was a case to answer. Mr Fischer said that he was sure the case would go to trial, probably in June.