GERMAN TRIAL

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1930, Page 5

GERMAN TRIAL

OF A GOLD MAKER, [United Presß Association.—P j Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.! (Received this day at 10 a.m.l DUSSELDORF, Doc. 19. The trial has begun of Heinrich Kurschildgen, otherwise known as the “gold maker of Helden,” who using a shed for a laboratory asserted liis 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. The lawyer subscribed a thousand pound sterling and the industrialist £2SCO, while other smaller sums were also advanced to finance the invention. An Anglo-American syndicate negotiated with Kurschildgen who proc°deed to London and lived in a good hotel at their expense. A Swiss merchant maintained him in Switzerland at a salary of a thousand a year. An English member of a syndicate wired him from Parts saying an advantageous contract had dieen concluded 'for the large scale manufacture of gold. He then took aeroplane for Hilden where he found that Kurschildgen had been arrested.