European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Debarking at the various health spas and deluxe hotels Long the route. I climbing toward the source of the Rhone the train passes onion domed towers of Stockalper Castle and i the slender Steeple of the Jesuiter Kurche then edges its Way along precipitous crags and ledges and around i Sharp bends through the Furka pass one of Bertand s highest to the ornate ski lodges of vue Matt. From there its whining whistle lugubrious As an Jatae Nhom echoes through the Obe Ralp pass the line s Shigri Point on the Way into Disentis which claims the Lold esl Abbey in Switzerland founded in 614, and lies in ithe heart of the Romanish speaking Countryside. I before beginning its final ascent toward the posh resorts of Davos and St. Moritz the Glacier express moans through the ancient Valley town of Trun which was an etruscan settlement even before Caesar s legions passed Over the Alps. Entering tha enchanting Vorden Hein Valley it races Rushing streams and moves i Mirror image along Crystal Clear lakes now led by the june instead of the Rhone. Like one s Bent Stem souvenir wine Glass the whole Gummy from High noon on the matterhorn to Sunset litre among through the Fine stained Glass windows of a Davos  Ircne almost overflows h enjoyment and leaves the traveler with the Avant afterglow of snoozing in reverie by an open fire n a cozy Lodge. The Price of a one Way ticket Between Zermatt and1 8 it 121 Swiss Franca it exit $7$ first class and 77 at to Trout $47 second class. The train runs daily in it auction. Glacier express trips Are also offered ugh the German Federal railway a Short motions packages. Frozen for 400years matter Tom Glacier releases another victim by John a. Callcott United press International painting by q. Dot def Cut to tote of four of a flirt own to to afew Spito Crit few taif Huffom. 7j�y few to their Dot a in a. Ski teacher Annemarie Julen Lehner found the first Bones. They were on the Sid of the theodul Glacier which was softening inthe hoi  was t he first Lime thai the Glacier was reluctantly releasing a victim from its Frozen Depths of Blue and Green ice. Liche Bretter or Corpse Stab is the local Swiss German dialect name for the huge mass of ice winding around the Matte Rhom Mountain. For centuries it was a treacherous crossing at 10,680 feet Between Switzerland and Italy for those Brave enough and too pressed for time to spend Weeka travelling through the Valley. Merchants and messengers in a hurry would use it for example or soldiers and mercenaries who were willing to risk the deep crevasses concealed by a deceptively thin layer of Snow. Usually the Glacier would give up entire bodies perfectly preserved by the ice making identification a fairly simple matter. But this time was different because Annemarie at first found Only Bones. Collecting some of them she look them Down to the Village and called her brother Peter Lehner who happens to be a biologist in Richler Wil dose to Zurich. They were the Banes of a human being a Man. And of an animal which was probably a mule Lehner recounted. The Man and he animal had obviously been exposed at one time but were then taken in by the Glacier once  local record in did show that the theodul Glacier grew enormously at the end of the 16th Century in what was known As a Little ice  almost certainly the preserved bodies of Man and mute had emerged during a previous Retreat of the ice and decomposed in the air and Sun. But the Bones which were left were then covered again when the Glacier advanced anew. Scientifically glaciers Are masses of ice and Snow that Are formed in regions where Snow Falls at a greater rate than it melts. They can be hundreds of feel deep and move Down valleys and mountainsides sometimes As fast As several feet a year sometimes Only inches victims preserved in the moving ice Are disgorged after tens of years or in this Case even centuries when the Glacier gets Down to Tower attitudes where the ice melts at a tauter rate than it Occum Murales. Most thawing occurs at the Bottom and sides but sometimes a Glacier Wui simply break Oil on reaching heed a of a Cliff. So a Tio was this mystery Man of the Glacier Whan did he die and Why had he tried to make the crossing a a Firch through Zermatt chronicles showed that a certain Anton Fux disappeared on the Glacier in 1584. His body has never been found. That was t the right Man however As Peter and Annemarie Lehner discovered in further searching up on the Glacier. They found pieces of clothing but More importantly they found 35 Small Bronze and Copper coins. Three of them bore the picture of Bishop Hildebrand i of Riedmatten on the Swiss Side of the pass. The others had been minted in Northern Italy. The oldest Coin was dated 1585 so that meant the Boras could not be those of Anton Fux who had disappeared a year earlier. So the initial conclusion was that the Bones were those of a merchant and his mule who had fallen into the depth of the Glacier while on the Way from Italy to Switzerland. Only Peter Lehner had a nagging doubt.  he says would a presumably wealthy merchant have been carrying Only the equivalent in those Days of Loose change in september he resumed to the Glacier and there stuck in the ice was the Man s Skull Complete with Brown hair and parts of the brain just like a Coconut at first  close by were a fencing sword a Flint Musket and two Silver coins dating from 1588, the coins showed the lace of Philip a the Habsburg ruler at that Lime in Spain and Northern Italy. The weapons and Coina seemed of prove that the Man was a Soldier rather than a merchant who would not have been so armed. He May we have been a Swiss Soldier in a hurry to return Home after fighting in Italy. But there again an Ordinary Soldier was unlikely to have been Able to afford a mule so the search continued for additional dues. They were soon found a coat with Gold bordering expensive footwear parts of a pleated silk shirt. Thai expensive clothing plus the weapons and Silver coins provided the final due. There is now Lillie doubt thai the Man was a mercenary and an officer As Well in the pay of Phi Fly a who ruled from 1556 to 1590. He was a avid defender of roman catholicism against the protestant reformation in the North. It would have been Only logical for the King to have sent an officer As fast As possible to the North with Money to help finance by anti Reform movement. Until now no one Ever know Why he never made ii. The stabs and stripes