A GIGANTIC HOAX THAT FAILED.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 6 February 1909, Page 1

A GIGANTIC HO AX THAT FAILED.

BOOMING . A; BOOK. ;" ■ Details of., the ■ hoax - perpetrated by . t hre ? Germsh'^anthoj^ Ganter, of .whicri wb had word "by ; cable /EOriio. weeks ingo; show'jtvw haVe been .planned on' n" slalei'ioi'. liripaicapelcd^aiiiiacity. Tha tirct! ppst.:.on.'^'Da!ein]jitiJi^''l9tb bronght t.i r/isliba ; o(Kjio 'jttpj}l%fin".-.-Berlin '.and 305.000 pe.o^p ; }n, ; ,ot^<-Atowlis ) . s the;.fol-; ilowmn ''Jfijt«jr ;w"ntten' "witk jtiiperi'--^-Kr.iviA!^s^-^iate;-just-' read"; thelateabjiiovet- Wiih:" arjpflipbie, "Double Morality/' j^ •;Iflgolreeiv4ible ! ■ A rcandal of jhe ! * worst • i kifid;^We--'.ae6 : :here once mor j-that : ihe^snUi(£. .Prosecutor: fails . vihd re he" js niolit-fißcessaryi for otherwise! such . a b66lc<£won,la7 riever obtain pub kati»tn7-3iOr> ; is{ijti*^pii!c"B of-poli-tica . pftloulation fy Agd^t— , who , is -hid.!ngAbj?hyjid[ ttv^fln^dymoits author!" ■ I AjK,;anytx i Sf«^rtffi}' and;. R>. >are attacktd Wuhwi jicwsf^ terrible.; maprier, .and jwill; be ' bound to. L - action. ' * Will, yon} .tpo^:.afesopijtft % ryourieTf' with this jrosecutionS:7 I naye .been, drawn into be-jaffair asV\lirell..; : T«rrible! In haste, rpurs very trulylr?-^-! ' " T<he 6ighatnte.-jj|asjinillegible scrawl. Most of .. the. -rifQipients ■ thonght "' tliey Ivere implicSle^iirthe' scandals" of the book, and jspine. ;wo.nieß iiad faihting its ■ and altackV.oft nysteria in conseOf'V'Qoui^A 4| blj6ksell€rs- alt • >yef the country; ;weijfe- bysieged with irdirs for '"EkidbiS.-i 'Morality," -tSe jri^e of . which- 'was. 7si' fd. But hero ivaS where ,'Gan£er ' had blundered.' ' H© ]ac :^ent , out- his... 'letters before the >p&sei- t er3 •'.' .had; "bjen-* supplied, and' vhtn the rusli of/ Would-be purchasers sanie, there •wiM»' i iv6'.-b<oks : to sell to. hem. ; lSva..hundWd land' fifty -thoui;an^.'c6piM.^S?!^he^wot'wsre seized' by 'he. ; policed and-Hhe^jßnion., of Bookselers and Lib*faril&"t*ft»lved riot to stock :he book orj to ,mo!|>j^ orders for ; dt. ft was ascfrtain'edL.^ ttoifc'Ganter spent a ytear and" a-hSlfjt'%rrting, or. having written, .the : 4oQ[o!H£ letters, and it was :ompntea'' v thiti -liKi hoax cost him' eia,6oo -^A^jMiiyV^pOO copi«s "had been sold, at'latest^adyices, the chances iK! that -IV will'^^cot^iflerably out of pocket. i;.;^^'