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CONAN DOYLE WAS FOOLING
A University of Georgia professor claims to have solved the greatest Sherlock Holmes mystory" 'of all.
Pope Hill, Sr., a slim, graying associato pro- fessor of mathematics who has studied tho Holmes stories for 17 years, said the literary world for 60 years has been the victim of a hoax perpetrated by the Into Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the master détective of Baker Street.
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Scholars have known for years that Dr Wat-, son's accounts of the great deducer's casos shot through with mistakes-wrong dates, times and places; impossible situations. Thoy give varying reasons, but most of them lay the mis- takes to carelessness by the author.
But Hill believes the truth will be disclosed when document left by Doyle is opened in England, soon.
The
"The solution." Hill said, "is very simple. errors are intentional.
ERRORS DELIBERATE
"He was creating à character with accurato powers of observation, who decried the lack of observation in others. To prove his point that people do not observe, he put simple and obvious errors by wholesale into the stories.
"Conan Doyle tried to fool the world and he succeeded beyond his expectations. No wonder he put this statement into the
they
know the real Philip
HOPEMAN, MORAYSHIRE,
RAIN SWEPT misty Scottish village perched on rocky cliffs that are continually battered
by the North Sea; a village of fisher. folk who spend their lives in a never-ending battle with the never-ending gales; a grim, primitive place with no artifi- ciality and no luxury. That is the place where Hopemun Philip Mountbatten spent four of the most impressionable years of his life.
Phillp arrived in Hopeman in the autumn of 1934, and became one of the first pupils at Gordonstour, public school that had just been established here. The founder was Mr Kurt Hahn, who had been ban ished from Germany after a bitter quarrel with Hitler.
from MILTON, SHULMAN
to double
up with
he continued laughter at the sight of an upraised Nazl aran. also for us it he returned to Eng- "We thought it better for him, and land right away," his sister told Mr Hahn when she brought Gordonstour.
him to
a
mouth of Holmes:
"Nothing Is so deceptive as an obvious fact"."
He rejects the "careless"
theory others with an example. Only five times in the 760,000-word - Buga 15 the colour of Holmest eyes given, and 20 years Intervene between the first time and the Inst, he said. "Yet every time their colour is given as
ray."
of Christopher Morley and
DATES SCRAMBLED
On the other hand, in "The Sign
at times was the despair of his more. "He was one of the best," saya of the Four," the date is given 15 serious-minded tutors.
Mr Main. “And he would take on early July in one place, as Septem- This inability to concentrate his every job that we gave any of the ber in another, and as "a spring absorb him is reflected in the school's seme visitors asked me if they could energies on something which did not other boys. I remember one day evening" In a third... report to the "Prince Philip seo Prince Philip of Greece, See it reads, but he that boy underneath that boat scrap born
leader.". it will
need the exacting demands of n ing seawood and barnacles off In his new environment Philip was great service to do justice to himself bottom,I said, 'that's rapidly absorbed into the communi- His best is outstanding, his second Philip
y life both of the school and of the best is not good enough." local villages. For Mr Hahn belleve a Academically then Philip was only that his boys must become members average. Linguistically he under taught Philip rowing, of the community around the school stands and can speak German. He
as well as of school community,
boys Gordonstoun are Ts Yeast Curts in the New tonal Coastguard Service and as par of the National Fire Service organisa- tion.
knows some Greek and his French Is just fair. Only his.English is per- fect.
to
"Doyle, was n doctor. Yet he gives Holmes the symptoms of a morphine addict and calls him a cocaine user.
the Prince
He knew American money, yet he referred to an American "gold dol- tar."
Or Daniel Malu, Junior, who The idea of the Holmes deception, sailing and Hill said, probably came from Ed-
cupework in Hopeman harbour.
gar Allen Poe's story, "The Pur- loined Letter." In that case, Parisian police searched an apartment inch by inch for an important leiter, and failed to find it because it was right before their eyes.
DOCUMENTS UNCOVERED
"He was for above the average in seamanship," says the younger Mr. At school he was high-spirited and Main, and took his share along with in his games would at times all the others in every job board.
Kive impatience. way
Intolerance and He always hated the limelight, and He got into a fair to avoid publicity he often soiled number of scrapes
through his with me under the nume of John recklessness and wildness, but, na Philip, so that he could avold you
Its long years of study led HI Philip was always playing about the village harbours,
headmaster points out, "he was reporter chapa"
to the conviction that somewhere, sailing and talking with the local fishermen. often naughty, never nasty."
somehow, Doyle must have written What annoyed Philip most was Se successful a seaman did he be what may be described as "Royally HERE you have Hopeman spcuk-
secret document to
explain the come that his tutor, Commander
"substructure worked out with so Jonn Lewty, now deputy head of the nonsense."
He was often pestered ing about Philip Mountbatten. The much time and thought." Pulling- Coastguard Service in Britain, was at games and theatres for his auto- place is full of stories of his school himself in the author's
graph. This he found ridiculous able to write of him in his report:
his
MONG the fishermen, the shop- Royal Family reception
for over
place. Hm
hidden
Mr
MR Hahn is a tall, intense mun, 61 years old now, with a massive forehead and piercing blue eyes. "He is one of the most efficient and on one occasion a bewildered days: Of the time when the barber became certain that such a document
in Elgin, clippers in hand, chased had been written, and then Philip Mountbatten had been sent members of the Seamanship Guild at autograph hunter found Philip had Philip and some other lads down until some future date. to Mr Hahn's school at Sakm in Gordonstoun, and he can be trusted signed himself in his books as "the the High-street because they had
Recently a new and of Doyle's Germany after leaving his
to take charge of a cutter under oars Earl of Baldwin." prep
made squeaking noises by ribbing their fingers along his shop window. papera was revealed, a cache Includ school at Cheam, Surrey, in 1933. and sails.
ing a play, left in Doyle's town bank It intended
Was
he
"He has taken part in two of the would spend a year there
Or the time he delayed a Greek vault, Among the papers was one before
to school's sea expeditions, the first to returning
called "some personalia about England to start his public school Norway and the second cruising or Akeepers, the Dont bullders of half an hour while he went off to
Sherlock Holemes." The manuscripis the West Coast of Scotland. During education. Philip's sister, Theodora, was married to the son of Prince these cruises he proved himself to be Hooeman-Philip Mountbatten was get a chocolate bun from a local have been turned over by the Doyle family to the author's blographer, quick- boker.... Max of Baden
who
was at that a cheerful shipmate, and very con- received and accepted as a
John Dickson Carr, mystery writer, time attempting to defend the school scientious in carrying out both major willed, lively, likable lad.
Or the time Take Alexander Findlay, for ex-
he left his biology Hill said Adrian Conan Doyle against the corrupting influences of and minor duties. He is thoroughly
of the "personal!" Nazi doctrine. godi
trustworthy and not afraid of dirty ample, who has been building boats class through the window, went for speaks and arduous 'werk,"
In Hopeman for over 25 years. "He a swim, and returned to find his unique document that will explode In the summer of 1934 Philip was
said teacher had never even known he the old myths about Conan Doyle Hood ind was a
lad, was Philip," Philip leadership qualities were
and Sherlock Holmes." Doyle has abruptly removed from Baden. In
when he was made cop- Mr Findlay, "and very eager about had been gone, September of the same year he was proved
If Philip's future activities endear been quoted as "tired of miaropre- tain of the school cricket and hockey boat-building. He was easy to get enrolled at Gordonstoun.
father." Hil teams.
and in his last term when he along with and very good natured. him as much to the people of Bri-sentations about my The renson for Philip's removal was chosen as head of the school. The people of Hopeman think he's tain as his childhood endeared him says that means the family is tired Recused of from Salem
to the folk of Elgin, Hopemon of seeing the author was the fact that he
This is not to say that Philip is u just the man for his now job."
posterity will carelessness for mistakes he made could not control his mirth when driving, forceful personality. He is Or take Daniel Main, senior, who and Lossiemouth, ever he saw the Nazi salute. Al- far from it. At school he was an has been a fisherman for most of agree with them that he was "the deliberately to prove that people do
not observe,-United Press. though he was cautioned about it easy-going, laughter-loving boy, who his 74 years.
right man for the job."
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the Shaftesbury Food-Con- Two for me, one for you DURING a recent sale of that
Government left-overs, trol Committee have refused * AN hotel company blushingly what were painstakingly des.. licence to Clayesmore School tuck- Aadmits that, Instead of dis- cribed as "25 amphibious ducks" shop. "What is to happen to the Billy tributing the money to its staff as it brought £150 apiece.
Bunters of tomorrow, where are the used to do it now pockets the 10 per Since hearing of this, and in one cream horns, the jam, puffs, the ginger cent, added to every visitor's bill, and which was supposed to take the place mad scramble to be "in the money," pop, the strawberry messea and that of tips. I said: was supposed to take all backyard ducks for 50 miles round sense of fulness afterwards? "Pasti the place of tips. have started to take swimming les Smith Minor, you little stinker, hand Commenting on this, Mr Ernest Sons. Peer over almost any fence
over those B.Us or I'll twist your Slyboots, the eminent business can- and you can see them trying to mas- ter the breast-stroke and the crawl, unm behind the quad," cried the bully sultant, said: "It would have been those in the elementary stages wear- of the Remove. "And if you sneak more tactful of course, if instead they had added 30 percent. They Ing water-wings. Sald one elderly to the Food Committee I won't share could then have kept one-third for Khaki Campbell I interviewed yes- my cooking fut dilolment,"
themselves, handed another third to terday, as he splashed round and
the staff, and returned the remaining | round in a wasntub. "Why didn't Big business
10 percent, to the visitor as a cash somebody tell us ducks about this
discount. Everyone then would have amphibious business before? All the
been happy especially the visitor who folks seem to think about in thesa
loves getting something for nothing' ports is eggs, eggs, eggs,
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