DEADLY GERMS IN SECRET ROOM

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 7

DEADLY GERMS IN SECRET ROOM

AMAZING ARREST DISCLOSURES. Is there somewhere in London a house of mystery stocked With some of the deadliest germs known to science, ready to be employed iii response to the will of some ghoulish enemy of society? This alarming question (says the Paris correspondent of the “Sunday Chronicle’’) is raised by AL Jean Chiappc, Prefect of Police here, following ohe of the most sensational discoveries ever made by the authorities in a raid on a quiet villa at Nugent-sur-Marne. In a secret room of a house tenented by a man named Schirmer the police found a number of test tubes' containing supplies of such deadly germs as those of cholera, leprosy, and consumption. The police are satisfied that these had been prepared for some sinister purpose, and although the charge , on which Schirmer has been arrested is one of fraud, the police claim they have ill their hands a criminal of monstrous type hitherto unknown outside the pages of fiction. It is alleged that he has in his possession sufficient germs to inoculate thousands with these, terrible scoul’ges ahd spread through the world an epidemic Worse than anything knoWn to history. Sehirmei’ is thought to be the head of an international gang of dope peddlers and the police are positive, from the papers in their hands, that he has been sending supplies of gei’ins to London for some time past. “I will tell you nothing about my plftns, but I do say this: For God’s sake be careful how you handle those tubes,” Schirmer is alleged to have stated when in custody. lie added that the police had in their possession “enough germs tb' destVoy the whole world.”