Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
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- of an ethnologist who has searched almost connu-
! ousy for decade to locate a tabled "centaur man
horse half human-frequeny reported by Indians as
occupying mountain lair near Limapampo-today are
undecided whether to change their tune or not
The champions of the scientist Professor Juan Men
who has borne the ridcue of associates friends and
newspapers during long pgrimages to prove of
the most incredible legends of the Andes say ne may yet
have the last laugh at the expense Of sceptcs.
Evidence just brought from the remote mountain
country the universities by the by Professor
Mentone has TO his amazing theory dozens OF
faculty members professor They longer doubt
the worlds greatest monstroses
actually does galop through the heights of their country
the discovered by Professor Mentone actually
centaur, anything like the NEUROLOGICAL monster
described vrgneatng phenomenon with the torso OF
growing of the body of horsehe may, he be-
stumbled upon of the most remarkable dis
coveres of all time.
While the controversy RACES the credibity OF his
story insists that he not only discovered
a centaur, but talked with it as we'll
The centaur a most friendly fellow" the Pro-
lessor goes to say. He spoke Spanish, but was
the archaic Greek weighed about 500 pounds was
dapple gray parts. but his human hair was
long flowing He had beard tinged with gray
His of great size but OF good long
lines bespeakng character of grace and charm
AS a matter of fact" the Professor said you couldn't
imagine a companion He laughed at jokes and
many of his have been student of classic
Greek for 40 years and readily understood him
when the laughed it boisterous, about
roar that through the mountains 1t this laugh
which the that he has occupied for
many years"
Professor Mentone started his hunt for the
more than years ago inspired by legend of the ncas
by the early Spanish conquerors This
story that such "man-horse had been since
the time first Inca King Viracocho During this
period the Professor studied Greek Mythology Liberal
critics persuaded faculty heads to permit him to pursue
his studies expeditions reasoning that whether he
a centar not he might contribute something 70
chronological lore.
So Professor Mentone made his annual pigrimages to
the hnterlands his horseman Each year he
returned admitting failure but declaring that ne was
right its trail
Privately Professor Mentone ntimates that he be-
eved the descendant of the wise of old
who taught dem-gods during Homers time and which
had in enabled 90 live through the
At times he uttered something about the Lost Continent
of Atlantis possibility the centaur might even
been cast upon South American mountain through
its engufment in the
The evidence" presented in Peru by Professor Men
tone thing that has scores OF persons
over side says When the scholar arrived at the
university gleeully procaiming that his search at last
had borne fruit stated emphaticay that he had proof
incontrovertble nature His hearers were intrigued
sufficiently listen to his story
Gathering them in great hall in Lima the professor
went detail in describing his discovery
why the centaur wouldn't hurt flea the Professor
said He subsss herbs from trees, and
bread he makes himself He milks llamas and vicunas
He undoubtedly Of the kndest of creatures and must
be nearly 5000 years old
BY this time his scientific Jurors" really ready
to run a mad man. and Professor Mentone sensing
their reaction, said:
wait have actual proof Here it is"
With that the professor reached into bag he had
carried into the chamber exhibited ancient chamys
"a coat in the 9th Century by soldiers ana
bound on the shoulder to leave the right arm free for
sword and spear undoubtedly relic Of old Greece
One OF the professors in the audience asked heavens
Where did you get that -
why, from the centaur" the professor answered
CALMLY Hell come later Just you wait and see"
The chlamvs was enough TO convince some OF Pro-
fcssor friends who predict the scholar VIII pro-
dce the actual centaur itself later, and while many stu
dents think he crazy others have rallied to his side and
most the population of Peru is waiting noncommttaiy
TO see IT, some time the incredible Professor won't
come riding down of the Andes asride the broad
back Of centaur