The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-20
Nudist Colony's
Death Puzzle Is
Revived In Berlin
But Pacific Isl and Ro-
nance Still Unsolved
Mystery


skeleton mystery in the Galapagos
"Garden of Eden" was revived TO-
day bv Frau Dorothea hoerWih
who spent four years on the Io"e'S
isle of Santa Cruz.
She added her belief that Gnt
of the bodies found was not tIl"'
of Robert PhillipSon, as tenIa !,.'
" identified year ago. fn ii!t,
son. consort of Baroness EIotS''
Won Wagner WehrbOrn OF Eienil"
and paris. disappeared from the
Equatorial Eden early III lSo 7,
Frau koerwin said tnat She "SS
certain Philiipson could not Ge
alive. however. He certainly WoIt"
cot have been found without MS
companion. the baroness Sne
argued. -. +boorv.
rocordin~ Phillipson comedies
With am Identification made by
cant G.. Allan Hancock. Los An
@eles patron OF science. ne ue
clared the bodies found were
those of Alfred Rudolph LoEehZ'
retired German business man.
and Trygve Nuggrud. sailor
SOUGHT PIRATE GOLD
>. The baroness, PhnlipSon and
Lmenz went to the Galapagos
group to hunt pirate gold. II mas
been said. Stories from traders
Who visited the islands later told
of \ weird empire ruled by
Baroness Won Wagner and OF a
love triangle which resulted IN
the self-styled empress Oansh-
ing LOrenz.
frau koerwin believes one OF
sthe bodies might very probably
have been that of a young Ger
man from Dresden who arrived on
-fhe islands three or four years
400. This settler, she continued,
Tefused assistance of any KIND
from settlers or fishermen and
rentured INTO the interior OF Sans
IN Cruz island alone, IN spite OF
all warnings from experienced
! Galapagos settlers. This man, she
= said. did not even take a compass
with him. He was never hearu OF
or seen again. ..-.-..,
The German woman lives wlth
Iher parents in small. modeStIy
~ furnished apartment in one OF the
main streets of Lichterfelde, a
southwestern suburb of Berlin.
:. Regarding Dr.. Charles F. Rlt--
ter with whom she spent several
wears on the Galapagos islands,
Frau Koerwin speaks with sincere
emphasis. DR.. Ritter, a German
nudist died on the islands. pre-,
$$sumably from eating poisoned
y, meat.
\ SUFFERS FROM PARALYSIS
= Frau hoerwln, an attractive
Sbrovn-haired woman in her Jos,
: seems to have recovered from her
ySreeent severe illness due to over
while on the islands. But.
she still limpS badly. Not long
lago she was paralyzed on her right
side.
:, Partly because of her illness,
Ssshe has postponed her intended
trim TO the United States. She
&expects, however, to sail in Jam
suary.
Frau koerwin has written a
= book, to be published shortly IN
England and in the United States.
It tells the story OF DR.. Ritter
and her life and activities on the
Galapagos.
In the United States Frau koer-
win will lecture on Dr.. Ritter
and her life on Galapagos.
d. at is my task she declared
.emphatically, "to prove to the
world that our life on Galapagos
was a valuable enterprise which
has a definite significance for
our eDOch.H
RESENTS ISLAND STORIES
On returning from the islands,
Frau Koerwin said. she was dis
gusted to read all the stories full
of adventures. DR.. Ritter's and
her being on Galapagos had de-
cidedly nothing to do with all the
"scandalous stories that had &C.
Cured on the islands, she empha-
sized.
Il now see the world with diff,
ferent eyes from the time of my
leaving the islands," Frau Koer,
win said, ''Dr. Ritter when dying
told me that he could pass away
because he. had fulfilled mis- task
But stih have a task before me
and that is to convince the worlC