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Despite the fact that he
wu Impriioned for two
years In France and then
exiled, Zlblncw Dunlkow.
akl, aclentlat and chemist,
elalma he la again making
gold from earth and Atones
to prove to France In par
ticular and the world in
general that , he waa no
fraud and waa wrongful!
convicted. Hla frienda eay
he haa discovered a new
ray which ia used in the
formula of converting or
dinary earth Into the pre
cious metal
By Katharine
Moos
APOLI8H oliemlJt'i curious mania for
transforming pebble and the dirt
that he finds on hla path Into little
shining particles of pure gold cost him
a 3,000.000-frono suit, two yeari in Jail
and expulsion from France,
. Re has served bis Jail sentence, he Is
In hiding and producing more gold and
some day hopes to prove to the world
that he Is right and that Prance waa
wrong In declaring him guilty of fraud
and Imposing the heavy sentence upon
him.
Re answers amiably any questions
posed to him. He speaks slowly with a
warm oonvictlon.. But If you listen to
the exposition of his method with the
mere suggestion of skeptically raised
eyebrow, he takes you gently by the arm,
leads you Into his kitchen and Invites
you yourself to put Into his strange little
machine the handful of dirt that you
have picked up on the way.
Half an hour later, after a series of
manipulations, he hands you, with per
fect slmpllolty, a little round globule of
sparkling gold. You have understood,'
naturally, less than nothing. But you
are sure that no trick has been possible,
and you leave with a souvenir which to
conclusive proof thnt you have not been
dreaming
This man Is called Zlblnew Dunlkow
ski. With patience and confidence ha Is
waiting today, after a two-year prison
sentence, for his acquittal and exonera
tion In the eyes of the world. In the
meantime, living somewhere Incognito In
the Maritime Alps, he la quietly occu
pying himself with his favorite pastime,
with the development of a curious new
Industry, with the fabrication of real
gold. '
The only person who knows where
Dunlkowskl Is hiding Is the famous
French lawyer, Jean-Charles Legrand,
who has been devoting himself for the
last four years to the defense and re
establishment of the unfortunate In
ventor. "He has left Italy and Is working se
cretly now In a completely new little
factory which treats from one to two
tons of earth each day." I all Legrand
will divulge. "He Is making gold, but he
Is making It discreetly In order to avoid
the obvious danger of a lowering of the
rate."
IUN1K0W8K1 is no longer In Italy
He cannot return to Frerw. And
where, then, la this strange man who
finds means to manufacture gold with
out exciting the curiosity of his neigh
bors? At the extremity of the frontier, on
the shore of the Mediterranean, between
France and Italy, there Is a country In
miniature, a country smaller than a city,
where the sun shine (rum the first of
January to the thlrty-flm of December
where no one pay taxes and over which
reigns a man debonair, the Prince of
Monaco Monaco It must be that Dunl
kowskl has chosen, but he has managed
to keep himself euccessfully hidden from
Inquisitive Journalists and unscrupulous
fortune hunters since he deserted, lew
PAGE TWO
Paris, weeks ago, hii kitchen-laboratory In San J5..
Remo,
With the mysterious maohlne of Dunl
kowskl, consisting of a small wooden
box with dial-like devices In ebonite,
supported by four legs which rest on a
large sheet of red copper, the manufac
ture of gold becomes as simple as the
preserving of crabapple Jelly or the
mixing of a cocktail.
Take any desired quantity of earth,
grind It Into a One powder, tie It up In a
cellophane bag and place carefully under
the maohlne on the copper plate.
Turn the dial to submit substance to
the wonder-working seta-ray. A quarter
of an hour later turn the second dial
and the Intensified humming sound will
Indicate the Increased power of the Irra
diation. After five minutes mors In the
miraculous machine, put substance Into
a crucible and submit to Intense heat,
Remove from Ore with pincers and pour
Incandescent contents onto a plate of
steel. Cool, wash with hydroohlorlo add
to eliminate limestone and base metal,
wash again at the tap and mix Anally
with a small quantity of mercury.
At this stage, if the directions have
been followed carefully, the substance
should have the color and consistency
of ordinary mud. Mix well, and when
the quicksilver has had time to amalga
mate with the gold, wash again at the
tap to carry away all the mudlike resi
due. Next drain the mercury Into a
chamois cloth, which will retain only tha
amalgam In the form of a small globule.
Heat this with a blow-pipe The flam
will chase the mercury and the pure gold
will remain. A few drops of plcrlo acid
will suffice to give It the traditional
shining aspect and the dish Is ready.
THE dish Is ready and the whole mone
tary system of the world la In danger
of being shaken on It foundation. It
Is time, Indeed, for a serious Investiga
tion of Dunlkowskl's secret, his "new
body" and his seta-ray. Charlatan or
scientist, crook, maniac or genius, it I
no longer safe tc Ignore his claims or to
dismiss them with skeptical and super
cllllous smile.
Dunlkowskl ha never pretended that
n Is capable of manufacturing gold out
of the thin air: he simply contend that
h has discoverer process whereby he
can obtain substantial quantities of the
precious metal from feebly auriferous
earth which, submitted to any other
existing method, I absolutely valueless
Alongside of the atoms of gold, or of
any other metal, exist what he call the
mlneralltlM which must on day arrive
at the state of perfect metal and which,
up to now, have escaped all ordinary
means of extraction His machine, by
Irradiating the earth with a new body,
the seta-ray, simply force the mlnerall
tlM to evolve In a few tntrrute uutssd
of awaiting the slow work of centuries
or son.
What b Is doing today with gold he
coulr do equally well with platinum, tor
example; and with hi secret, which he
Is how only utilising on a small scale,
he claims he could enable the mines
Polish Chemist, ylLil '
jauea ana men - sr
Exiled From
France, Is Now
In Secret Hiding
Place, Where He Is Again Using
Secret Formula and Zeta-Ray;
Hopes to Recoup Standing
throughout the world to Increase their
actual output a hundredfold.
And why, with a secret worth millions,
has Dunlkowskl had such a struggle?
Why was he condemned and dishonored
by the French courts? Why was he
driven out of the country? The an
swers are to be found In an understand
ing of the man, his life and the true
motives of the suit carried on against
him.
PHYSICALLY Oils modern alchemist
inherits the worst features of his
calling. His pale, thin face, his stooped
and meager figure and the slightly
Mephlstophellan expression of hi
Mrangely blu eye all tend to evoke a
vogue apprehension and misgiving.
For a man launched out on new paths,
far from his native country and alone
sgalnst the powerful coalition of Inter
est which h threaten and envies,
which he excite, these simple fact of
appearance may have a very real im
portance. Add to this a total absence of any
practical sens and a characteristic dis
dain far contingencies, and It will be
obvious why Dunlkowskl. (Tom the be
ginning of his contact with the outside
world, has laid himself open to calumny
and exploitation.
All hi life, haunted by his dream, he
tuts devoted every effort to advance hi
researches. Son, pupil and collaborator
of a celebrated professor of the Univer
sity of Lwow, who was a specialist In
the treatment of precious metal, he
commenced by devouring a considerable
persona) fortune in the hope ot develop
ing the practical application ot the
mysterious "new body" Isolated for the
' first time by his lather.
In 1928, poverty stricken, sick, over
worked and oharged with a wile and
family to care for, he found himself
stranded In Monte Carlo. The Bocrd of
Director of the Muse Oceonographlque
consented to allow him to. continue his
experiment In their laboratory, and
soon Dunlkowskl and his Invention be
csms the msln topic ot conversation In
the fashionable parlors ot the rich
Journalist arrived to Interview him and
spread exaggerated rumor through the
Casino. The curiosity and envy of the
fortune hunter wis aroused: Dunlkow
skl looked Ilk a good bet I
The Polish Count Sobanskl was ths first
of the long line of promoters or sleeping
pt.rtner. A half a million franca of
hi fortune were devoured by the ovens,
and th rest squandered over the rou
lette wheel. Ruined, be was followed by
a Dutchman, Mi. ran Heust Th com
pany, salvaged, took th name ot th
"Soelete du Laboratotra Kectro-Chem-ique"
and a Mi. Attall was named di
rector. Fire hundred thousand francs
were allowed for Dunlkowskl to realise
his dream In setting up at Cap-Martin a
little factory well equipped and capable
of treating three tons ot larth a day
In June, 1830, It was ready to function
but the company was bankrupt. This
time high International finance entered
Into play, "La Soelete Flnlndus," ema
nation of ths Austrian bank "8pltter,"
opened to begin with (after a careful
examination of Dunlkowskl's claims by
Spltxer' expert) a new credit of 400,000
francs.
FOLLOWINO th Polish Count, the
Dutch banker and the Austrian
bank, the next to Intervene was the
"City" of London. A certain Mr. Oor
den Lelght became Interested In the
affair. Th expert he sent. Mr Leonard
Levy, a man of high reputation, com
menced by being extremely skeptical,
but. In hi turn, after operating the
machine himself and testing the sam
ples In London, he proclaimed himself
convinced. It looked as though Dunl
kowskl was out of trouble. He was given
all the necessary means to develop his
Invention and establish It on a large
ana practical scale but there was a
hitch.
He signed a contract which he be
lieved was robbing him of his secret for
a perfectly ridiculous price. When he
decided that ha was being exploited It
was too lata. His signature waa on the
dotted line and the deal was closed.
This contract was responsible for all
th succeeding drama and all tha trou
ble in the law courts.
He vainly tried to hava it modified
and, balked at every turn, he simply
absented himself so often that Anally,
on the 31st of October, 1931. a suit wo
Med against him In Paris. Dunlkowskl
was not formally accused of swindling
or of fraudulently obtaining money, but
merely of refusing to work after signing
a contract, thereby Implying that hi
secret was probably nonexistent In other
words, th power behind the thron bad
spoken. Dunlkowskl fait that then were
but two alternative open to him: to
hand over hi secret of go to prison.
A summons was sent out and with an
unheard-of alacrity Dunlkowskl I In
carcerated. His apparatus and labora
tory are confiscated. But too late. Tin
Inventor, mistrustful of the whole pro
ceeding, had already hidden th essential
parts of the equipment.
Dunlkowskl was condemned to two
years In prison, 100 francs Ane and the
restitution of a total sum of. 2,702,000
franca.
His sentence served, sick, with only one
lung and at the end of bis resources, he
was expelled from France and took:
refuge In San Remo, on the Italian Ri
viera. The plaintiff were-content; al
though forced to renounce all hopes of
getting back their money, they at least
hod the satisfaction of believing Dunl
kowskl to be ruined.
TDUT it takes more than a lawsuit and
a couple of years In prison to anni
hilate an ambitious man In the possession
of a gold-making secret. Arrived In
San Remo, Dunlkowskl Immediately set
up a laboratory In his kitchen and com
menced work anew. For almost a year
he lived content with bis wife and four
children In a small two-room flat over
looking ths blue Mediterranean. Each
day, from about 400 pounds ot earth, ha
would extract six to ten grams ot gold
which he would sell each evening to ths
varlons Jewelers of th vicinity.
Lost February Albert Bonn, th tech
nical expert and former director of tha
Lille Municipal Laboratory, recognized
Dunlkowskl's method as efficacious After
experiments In collaboration with the
Inventor and examination of the samples
In Paris, he announced that there was
no fraud In the Pole's discovery and
that his machine produced a larger
amount of gold from auriferous earth
than would be possible by methods now
In use.
And now, within the month, Dunl
kowskl quietly packed up his blow-pipes
snd test tubes and disappeared from
Italy. Today he Is working with richer
earth which is being sent to hla in all
probability from Southern Franca The
machine of his new little factory are
already functioning and extracting, from
one to two tons of earth, fifty to a hun
dred grams of gold each day.
Th work an Invention of Dunlkow
tkf hava awakened again on of ths
oldest aspiration of humanity, that of
Glauber, of Albert L Orand and of
Roger Bacon. Today, in an age when
modem science has managed to pro
duce synthetically everything from dia
monds to manure, it may bs that th
dream of the men has ben realised,
that electro-chemistry has taken th
plsc of alchemy and that th philoso
phers' stone is nothing mors m less
than Dunlkowskl's wonder-working leta-ray.