Show PONTIUS PILATE his story of the ion of christ supposed to have been discovered in tha archives of the vatican the popo Is carilous cau ilous about allowing to be circulated diw yolk nor 5 A dispatch dil patch to the from home baye the world correspondent visited the vatican to obtain authora tive information regarding the reported finding in the vatican archives ol 01 pontius report to emperor tiberius of the crucifixion 0 chris one etory current was that tho original ori einal report had been found and that the pope iad ordered a careful study ot it ac other was that the document discovered was not own report brt a caona detering ret ering to it while other fragmentary writings of the third and fifth centuries touching the bame matter have come to light before the correspondent found the aftic authorities very reticent some officials were even chary of admitting that aay thice had been discovered at all and were extremely apprehensive imbt they might be represented as giving color to an expectation that a contemporary account of the most solemn event in the worlds history is in existence the sub keeper of the vatican archives said his holiness naturally is extremely cautious about permitting the publication of any document with the imprint of the holy see alie authenticity of which may afterwards be reasonably contested his holdnes ho lines las been profoundly interested in the possibility of the discovery of the original document referred kolii one dated A D but far search has been frait lees the correspondent gathered that the manuscript of A D only to the earlier report and contains no details of anny value and that careful exhaustive hau stive search for the original ori einal is now being maam the vatican by experts specially commissioned by the holy father who are also to search for references to it in documents written earlier than A D the first indication of the possible existence ct this exceedingly interesting report was obtained accidentally by an erudite monk engaged in looking through the archives of the fifth century and gathering facts concerning the early history of the papacy he followed the clue back to manuscripts of the third century and then again laboriously pursued bis task until further allusion was found in the documents of AD there the investigation is brought to standstill for the present and the pope has given strict injunctions that no translation of references in the documents shall be published until submitted for his sanction the attitude of the valcan authorities anthe matter is one of skepticism as to the likelihood ot any original authentic in formatin beina unearthed |