Man Who Could Make Gold From Sand

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7413, 22 December 1930, Page 7

Man Who Could Make Gold From Sand

GOT IT FROM I-lIS DUPES DUSSELDORF, Dee. 19. The trial has begun here of Heinrich Kurschildgcn, otherwise known as the “Gold maker of Hildeu,” who, using a. shed for a laboratory, asserted his ability to make enough gold from sand to defray the entire German reparal ions. Kurscliildgen convinced a. Cologne professor and chemist that he had devised a machine which could destroy the atom and thereby produce gold. A lawyer subscribed £IOOO, end an industrialist £2500, while other smaller sums were also advanced to finance the invention. An Anglo-American syndicate negotiated with Kurscliildgen, who proceeded to London and lived in a good hotel at their expense. A Swiss merchant maintained him in Switzerland at: a. salary of £IOOO a year. An English member of the syndicate wired him from Paris, saying that an advantageous contract had been concluded for a large-scale manufacture of gold. He then took an aeroplane for Hildcn, where he found that Kurschildgen had been arrested. Eighteen Months’ Gaol Received Sunday, 9.5 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 20. Kurscliildgen was found guilty of fraud on 15 counts and sentenced to IS months ’ imprisonment.