GOLD-MAKER ON TRIAL IN GERMANY FOR FRAUD.
Declared He Could Destroy Atom And Manufacture Ore.
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegiaph.—Copyright.) (Received December 20, 11.30 a.m.) DUSSELDORF, December 19. The trial has begun of Heinrich Kurschildgen, who is otherwise known as the “ Gold-Maker of Hilden,” on a charge of fraud. Using a shed for his laboratory, he asserted his ability to make enough gold from sand to defray the entire German Reparations. He 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 and an industrialist £2500, 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 and 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 the manufacture of gold on a large scale. He then took an aeroplane and flew to Hilden, where he found that Kurschildgen had been arrested. sssasi 311510000000000000000® 0000000000000000
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19258, 20 December 1930, Page 1
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