MAKING GOLD
GERMAN PUBLIC SWINDLED
(United Press Association—By Eleetrio Telegraphy-Copyright) (Received 20th January, .11.5 a.m.) BERLIN, 19th January.
The trial has begun at Munich of tlie emulator of Ivurschildgen of Dusseldorff, namely, a goldmaker named Tausend, who is charged with swindling people of nearly £IOO,OOO. Tausend was originally a plumber whose machinations were lucrative enough to enable him to buy a castle at Tyrol and another at Dresden, where lie lived in great state with his wife, an ex-bar-maid.
Financing a Hitler-ite newspaper to the extent of £SOOO he proclaimed his discovery of the art of goldmaking, after studying the history of mediaeval alchemists. A company formed to exploit the “invention” included Ludendorff, Alfred Mannesman, Princes Hermann and Ulrich of Schonburg-Walden-burg, scientists, and business people. Experiments which convinced the investors failed when Tausend, after arrest, attempted to repeat them under the supervision of analytical chemists.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 January 1931, Page 7
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145MAKING GOLD Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 January 1931, Page 7
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