Not everything is as straightforward as it seems – Updated
Update at bottom of post ..
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The body was exhumed 970 days ago. 970/7=138 weeks.
We wait.
About James Cowan. But first PC Moss. Moss said on his deposition ‘I didn’t find the Tamam Shud slip,’ but what he didn’t say was ‘I didn’t find the fob pocket in the trousers he was wearing,’ and my money is that Moss did find the fob pocket and did poke his finger in to see what he might find, which was bugger-all as he said. It was an ordinary fob pocket in an ordinary pair of trousers and every Tom Dick And Harry had one. Check with Feltus on that. Don’t believe that guff about it being a ‘secret’ pocket.
So someone put the slip in there later, just like someone placed a box of matches with his clothing later. Actually there is a logical reason for somebody to make sure matches were found with the body otherwise questions would have been raised as to how Webb lit his cigarette, pair that with the ‘reliable’ witness who remembered seeing a man carrying a man along the shore on the night of November 30 – him being the dill who forgot to leave matches with the body – then a man might think if the police were responsible for the appearance of the matches – who else would have a better reason? – they may have also been responsible for transporting the body that night. A troubling theory you might agree and one that raises many more questions.
Meanwhile …..
Cowan was with Cleland when the slip was found. They’d both been playing dress-ups with Webb’s clothing. Seriously. That’s what highly qualified government analysts and pathologists like to do with a dead man’s clothing. One unanswered question is whether Webb’s clothing and effects were itemised and secured in an evidence locker and if so were they signed out when Cleland and Cowan took them away to play.
Then there was the no barbiturate problem. Cowan didn’t find an trace of it in Webb’s body and Doc Dwyer was ASTOUNDED he didn’t. Pity Cowan didn’t know CarlW tried to knock himself off with about 40 barbie tabs a couple of years earlier – everyone was going out by that route those days – so instead we got pages of learned dribble about exotic poisons that might have, could have, were possibly responsible for Carl’s death. My view is that he knew what was what with goofballs already so why try something a little on the risky side.
If you’re going to go out on a self-administered dose it’s best to go with what you know, can’t beat a little mild euphoria when things begin to go black…..
Update
Below image taken from the Littlemore Brown 1978 interview where it’s mentioned that Brown was unable to find the Freeman RoK …
The Somerton Man .. 
The impression is ‘they’ wanted this matter out of the way, no problems, no lingering doubts etc. So, PC Moss was made to look unreliable in his testimony. You can look at this in two ways, One, a simple ‘John Doe’ case whereby it’s just another dead body, let’s get it over with asap. Two, a far more involved, sinister matter involving third parties, people in the shadows only too aware of what was at stake.
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Makes sense because they’ve done this before throughout many cases, and what’s funny they think people like us researching this case and others think we’re going to buy what they say to be “Facts” when evidence points into other directions.
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Feltus did some research on the possible whereabouts of the Freeman Rubaiyat whilst writing his book and all he could come up with was that two ‘reliable’ witnesses had told him they had seen it.
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Feltus was on the outer
and a constant problem
Just a cop and not privy
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Browny reliable enough? He claims to have seen THE Rubaiyat but admits that it was long after the handover 22 July ’49. Who then be t’other reliable claimant quoted by Feltus? Errol Canny and Ron Thomas come to mind if it had been a case detective.
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Littlemore’s notes on interviewing Brown mention that the ROK was lost in Leane’s filing system. He didn’t give a date, and of course I can’t find the bloody file, it’s about 177 pages.
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Brown reckons early fifties, Leane insists “it’s down in the place” (evidence room?). Mind you this is from 1978 and in the same interviews, according to Len, the kids drove to the beach in their car, truth be known they were on motorcycle.To top it off Lional has the slip being found in SM’s coat pocket. You be the judge.
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Found it … see pic at bottom of post. Brown went looking for the Freeman RoK without any success about five or six years before the Littlemore interview.
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We’re possibly done with all of this
unless someone comes up with PAA Pan Am passenger lists
on flight 835 arrived Sydney Friday 26 Nov 1948
through the Pan Am historians
and their knowledge
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This case probably involved two victims. There are two strong indications of this:
First, the Tamam Shud slip which means “finished”, as in “killed”, was well hidden in the fob pocket. Obviously, someone who has been murdered cannot hide the slip themselves, so this would have to have been done by another who witnessed SM’s murder in a last-ditch effort to alert the authorities and who knew the meaning of “Tamam Shud”.
Secondly, a man was seen carrying another man over his shoulder in the opposite direction from where SM was found, so this victim was likely the same companion. This is also the direction in which the Rubaiyat booklet was eventually thrown away, near the Pier.
The barbiturate incident a few years earlier, as described by CW’s wife in the divorce papers, may have been a similar case.
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