"GOLD-MAKER'S" DEATH

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1935, Page 16

"GOLD-MAKER'S" DEATH

Charles Julius Gladitz, 68, a German chemist, who claimed to have-invented a secret process for extracting gold from lava, and who should have appeared at the Old Bailey next day to answer a charge of forgery, died in Ealing Hospital from injuries received in a fall. Gladitz, who had been experimenting for several years, recently stated that he would be able to produce £50,000,000, worth of gold a year at a cost of one-quarter of its value. He intended to stipulate that all the gold should go to the Treasury to reduce the National Debt and income tax.

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