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Show II S YNTHETIC GOLD I FOUND MYTHICAL fj German Claims of "Moonshine" "Moon-shine" Treasure Fail to B Stand Tests. H BERLIN. Jan 25 (Bv The Asso- IH elated PrtM.) Search of Professor L lrrlnr Fiher of Yal university for H 'moonahln" (oil ended abruptly H Tuesday when he i Informed by a claimed the discovery of it synthetic B. gold proc-piii wan a fraiul jnd had n m prlnon record. Dr. FlshS! r. ill Ww today ror B home. lie rame h-re to tudy tho H German currency problem. Mia tnvos- n ligation Into synthetic cold was incl- B Bl i ll i D wisi m. H In n typewritten statement he said HH that ths iiurporti il Inventor offered HHj t.. li nnitW m for rnak- bbbbbW niK ayattacilfl g'M. hut that for some unexplained reason I'rofos-or Fisher mmaa did not occept It. After rerountlng his HHJ Investigation. Prof. Fisher said: HBlI A distinguished German solentht HH hss just told in- that tho man ilho H i u fraud and has a prison r r. I ( rrlsnd who tmvt m ths o irinni Ml information said he had known the innn for jnsars nnd nssiiretl me that tho one thinn he was sure of was that Wm ih- mun was not a fraud, however, -S mistaken ha might he nhout his sup- po:ed invention. I am now disponed 9W to believe that he was misled " i N si Ml Ml S TRIED. K . Professor i lahar said that the Ger- jHj nan government had not tnken'much jBT sto. k in the man'l synthetic gold fe atory. and that those mostly interest- ed were scientists. M It wis stated by Professor Fisher M that he hnd ascertained here that dur- kS In? the war the Gcrm.-in overnmnnt A i ma It arlou i to product SB gold by now methods and had auc- ceeded In extracting gold from eea VHJ water, but not on a paying basis. mmM The German who is alleged to have discovered gold told the professor that hi- fold was made from mercury by on electric vacuum furnace process. |