AGE-LONG DREAM

Evening Star, Issue 20672, 20 December 1930, Page 17

AGE-LONG DREAM

* THE MAKING OF GOLD GERMAN ON TRIAL Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. DUSSELDORF, December 19. (Received December 20, at 10.40 a.m.) The trial bus begun of Heinrich Kurschildgen, otherwise known as the “ Gold Maker of Hilden,” who, using a shed for a laboratory, asserted his ability to make enough gold from sand to defray the entire Gorman repara tions. Ho convinced a Cologne professor and a chemist that be bad devised a machine which could destroy the atom and thereby produce gold. A lawye” subscribed £I,OOO and an industrialist £2,500, while other smaller sums were also advanced to finance the invention.

An Anglo-American syndicate negotiated with Kurschildgen, who proceeded to London and lived in a good hotel at their expense. A Swiss merchant maintained him in Switzerland at a salary of £I,OOO a year. An English member of the syndicate wired him from Paris saying that an advantageous contract had been concluded for tho large-scale manufacture of gold. He then took passage by aeroplane for Hilden, where he found that Kurhchildgcn had been arrested.