Only two ‘reliable’ witnesses admitted to seeing the Freeman Rubaiyat

Fully intrigued by Gerry Feltus’ admission that he was only able to find two reliable witnesses who said they saw the Freeman Rubaiyat, I did a quick flick-through of his book – The Unknown Man – and listed everyone in Adelaide who may have had an official or semi-official interest in viewing what was without doubt a prime piece of evidence.

Given the book was about events that took place in 1948/49, some of the following individuals may have died over the intervening 70 years between then and 2010, when the book was first printed. Any info of such a nature would be appreciated.

As follows:

Const. John Moss – Brighton Station.

Sgt. Lavender – Adelaide Metro.Station.

Const. W Sutherland – Adelaide Metro. Station.

Superintendent F Holmes – Adelaide Metro. Station.

James Durham – Police Photographer and Fingerprint Expert – stationed in Adelaide. #

Mounted Const. Knight –

Detective Strangeway – Glenelg Police Station.

Detective H Gollan –

Const. R Venning –

Detective Sgt. Gully –

Const. McCallum –

Detective Senior Sergeant Leane –

Inspector Ross –

Sergeant Fenwick – Glenelg Police Station.

Detective Sergeant Gill – Adelaide Detectives Office.

Constable FC Horsnell.

Constable Curtis –

Constable Storch –

Detective Sergeant McGrath –

Const. Canney –

Detective Sergeant A Evans –

Superintendent W Sheridan –

Detective LD Brown –

Senior Govt. Analyst Cowan –

Const. D Bartlett –

Professor John Cleland –

Commissioner of Police – Adelaide.

CIB Superintendent of Detectives –

Paul Lawson – Taxidermist

Const. Dunham –

Detective Noblet – Adelaide

SA Coroner Thomas Cleland.

RN Capt. Eric Nave – Naval Intelligence.

CIB Forensic OIC Dudley Aebi.

Sir Cedric Stanton Hicks.

Dr. Dwyer.

# It can be noted that Durham photographed the body three days after it was found but there is no record of him photographing the Freeman Rubaiyat or the torn page.

Old ground … https://tomsbytwo.com/2024/08/13/who-saw-the-freeman-rubaiyat/