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Affidavit from Aleister Crowley regarding the Frau Ital—Hanni Jaeger—Professor Leschke Incident
[7 April 1931]
In answer to your letter [summons] of March 21 I give my statement as a witness as follows.
Frau Stolpe or Ital is in my opinion an adventuress, who tried to exploit the youth and inexperience, as well as distress of Miss Jaeger [Hanni Jaeger]. It is therefore well possible that she might have induced Miss Jaeger, against all common sense, to agree to pay the fee of Dr. Leschke. I myself would, of course, have been responsible for the payment of the fee, if I had not with sharpness thrown Dr. Leschke out of my studio, because of his unfair and insolent attempt to exclude my own physician, in this arrogant way. I on my part had to consider him as an imposter, for his diagnosis was pneumonia, of which there was no trace, also he did not even take my temperature, I cannot swear what Miss Jaeger did not say to Frau Stolpe, especially so as she talked to her in my absence and moreover in German, a language which I often do not understand.
However, I can swear that Frau Ital explained to me as well as to Miss Jaeger immediately after the expulsion of Dr. Leschke—that Dr. L. was a friend of hers and that he would not demand a fee in any way.
Up to the moment that I heard of the suit against Miss Jaeger, I had considered the whole matter with the doctor as merely a silly joke.
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