European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 10, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 a Ulmes Philip pottering his Dee stalker Cap ant Durk read profess air Moriarty Anthony Hewlett Are at i Ach other s throats in the re Tonii ctn no a Kodien Lucli Falls. Holmes Battles the evil Moriarty again meir1ngen, Switzerland a some 70 Sher lock Holmes aficionados ended a 10-Day pilgrimage through Swit Carland Friday with a re enactment of the deadly fight Between the great Ditc civic and his Arch enemy professor James Moriarty. The group of Holm sians dressed As characters from Arthur Conan Doyle s stories came from Sher lock Holmes societies in Britain the United Stales Belgium Germany and Japan. They retraced the Steps of Holmes and his biographer and Best Friend or. John h. Watson through Switzerland As described in the final  i suppose my friends think it s crazy but then they think i m crazy anyway so what docs it matter said Tim Owen. 38, who played or. Watson. Watson Clad in top hat morning coat and spats and with a Stethoscope around his neck Rode a funicular with the others to the Vrcic Hanbach Falls near Sci Ringen the last Stop in the final  i was at those Falls described by Conan Doyle As a sinister and fearful place that Holmes grappled with Moriarty the Napoleon of crime on May 4, 1891, according to Holm Sian chronology. Conan Doyle had intended to kill off Holmes. He was tins of Holmes and he preferred writing historical novels. Bui the Public outer1 was so great that Conan Doyle resurrected Holmes nearly a decade later. In the adventure of the empty House Holmes describes to Wulson How his knowledge of Maritsis the japanese form of  enabled him to slip Oslo for in s grip and save himself. Friday s re creation on a path Leiling in the Falls was largely True to form with some modifications for modern technology. Holmes and Moriarty acted out their Siru Egle in Brilliant Sunshine several times for the television cameras it was explained. As they stood opposite the Falls two dummies were tossed from the lop of the 130-Jard Cascade plunging into the churning Pool beneath it. I m off to my Waterloo cried Moriarty alias an Thony Howell chairman of the Sherlock Holmes society of London. Howlett 63, who founded the society in 1951, played Holmes on the society s two previous Pilgrim Ages to Switzerland in 1969 and 1979, but now i m too old and Loo fat he told a reporter. Besides it s much More fun to be a  Toiv Lett Clad in a sweeping Black Cape Black Trou Hewlett shins Mastery of villainous Morl arly . Sers and top hat said the Only criterion for mini Barship in his society is a inc of Sherlock  the retired lawyer said he first read Sherlock Holmes stories As a boy. My wife will Tell you most people grow out of it by age in. Net or  the Holm sians arrived in Gene a april 30. Their trip included slops in Lausanne. Montr Cux Leuker bad and snick Lakin. The group s trip partly in moored by the Swiss National tourist office was in Celebration of the ii huh anniversary this year of the first Sherlock Holmes novel a study in  Conan Doyle went on to write three More novels and ski stories about Holmes. Hewlett said popular interest in Holmes is growing in much in London Thill his society now  of ten a ill no Hahn  i intr limiting i m Barship. Holmes played by writer Philip Potter wore the familiar Dee stalker Cap Inverness Cape and knickerbockers knickers. This will be the Climax if my  he Lold a reporter before his fight with Moriarty. Polier was puffing pensively on his pipe reluctant to break character. Some journalists also wore costumes. Members of a belgian television Crew were dressed in Sherlock Holmes outfits and a japanese anchorwoman Ware to Long Blue dress comply me Uilah Hustle. In the re enactment Holmes returned in a must singular fashion As Watson might have written. There was 3 Wake for Holmes at the fool of the Falls and then a sky diver jumped from a helicopter landed on a nearby Largel and quickly switched places with Toner who Pla cd Holmes. I Sherlock Holmes am alive declared i Oller As his fellow Helm asians cheered and a brass   group then held a triumphal March into Mei Ringen. Where the so Piholic Cornerstone was Laid fora new Sherlock Holmes museum sch Erland s second. Dame Jean Conan Doyle. 74. The auth or s youngest daughter and last surviving offspring Al tended the Kli i lies. My father would have been highly amused by the activity Lite said. I m sure lie would Haie been pleased that everyone is   of her father s works she said they Are amusing stones with amusing characters my father used to chuckle when he read them aloud to  Conan Doyle first saw the Kucich chuch Falls when he came to so Guerland seeking a cure for his wife s tuberculosis. Today Minn gun has a Sherlock Holmes hotel with London to and Lamppost outside. The hold s restaurant features an even Hing on in Sherlock Holmes  and hotel towels Are Deco rated with the profile of the detective