Join these two dots. Plus a little look at what everybody is talking about
How would the corpse of a man – described by Paul Lawson as being uncommonly well-built with broad shoulders, tightly muscled calves and a wedge-shaped body – have been the corpse of a habitual barbiturate user and ether addict? A bloke who liked to slap his wife around, stomp off to bed early when the cards weren’t going his way and being a non-communicative friendless dickhead in general. She probably had to change his sheets every day; a bloke zoned out on ether sometimes lets his bodily functions misbehave. At least heavy cocaine usage is free of such early morning complications, or so I’ve been told.
So, on the one hand we have a fit, well-dressed man and on the other a shambling wife-beating doper and I don’t remember anyone joining those two dots for as long as I’ve been in the game.
…. and seeing the subject matter has shifted, I thought this might assist.
The Somerton Man .. 
Not a problem Bozo. A fairly thin circumcised penis would join the dots handsomely in my inexpert opinion; speaking of which, Somerton Man would therefore not make for a decent fit. That be according to his pist mortem report by Dr. Dwyer Not so Carl Webb who was born in a big city hospital in 1905 when foreskin removal for newborn boys was all the rage, and therefore most likely a victim of such procedure himself.
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Some more dots to join. There appears to be a cover-up of writing on the luggage ticket under S.A.R.
Why would that be
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The date ‘1948’ looks a mite suspect?
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Good luck getting an ent ry visa to the US
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Some person over at CM, one of the few still active @ AT or IT, maintains that Dorothy Webb was likely to have been persuaded by her legal counsel to use all means at her discretion including character assassination to show prove her husband’s anti social behavioral trends, for maximum effect re her pending divorce petition.
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What ever happened to the the lodgers luggage reclaim stub? No mystery there, two ‘good as’ answers can be found in Det. Supt. Brown’s 1978 Inside Story interview ie. er ah…rest… etc.
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So here’s Derek’s guy, three inches short, wrong head shape, wrong hair shape, wrong body shape (bloke’s a wife beating barbiturate ether snorting dead set loser) wrong hair colour, wrong face, possibly wrong lower body asset, is an early to bed and late to rise loser plus he has a relo also named Charlie who fills the head hair and height bill but nobody but this mob here are onto it .. plus we have to deal with the current daily bullshit attack, like the Nobel Peace Prize has been GIVEN TO TRUMP?
The world is not in order.
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Giving any type of prize to an imbecile called Trump is an insult to all decent humans. Oops, sorry! How can I have put Trump and decent in the same sentence.
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Hope you lads are not planning a trip to Disneyland any time soon. ICE have both of yous in their sights and they don’t hold with Trump sledging. Truth being he has always been ‘Fair and Just’ if’n you get my drift.
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Disneyland and a ‘Mickey Mouse’ president. Even Walt would be turning in his grave to see how far the USA has sunk in morality and decency. Visiting the USA?, Yes, as a matter of fact I was planning to see the Grand Canyon, I guess it will remain a dream now.
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In re Jo’s opinions, you’re not wrong Bowser. She was a bit over the top when once refering to Slanders as being ‘Pelling’s pet poodle’, but didn’t go far enough in her more recently comparing our poor Nick with a cowardly, treacherous ‘dingo’.
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I can read 32/- (32 shillings) under the covered up part of the luggage ticket. Which is 32 x 12 = 384 pence and at 4 pence per day that is 96 days. But the suitcase was said to be retrieved on 14 January 1949, which is 31 days December plus the 14 days in January 1949 a total of 45 days. Which isn’t 96 days.
What’s more being official police business, I can’t see any money being paid by the coppers to take it so no money would be shown to be payable on the ticket
It’s likely to be a ticket ripped off abandoned luggage, been there for a long time, and someone who went to collect it wouldn’t pay the 32/- and just left it there. It’s not off the suitcase in question.
If any one thing is shown to be fake, then it’s a whole concoction, and it’s all fake
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Head porter with SAR Harry North was a stooly in my opinion, soon to be a deceased stooly. In his Sworn testimony, he let it be known: “There was another article lodged on 30th November which was unclaimed” For the life of me I can’t see a reference to 32/- on the issued ticket for said date but my eyes be nothing but facial decoration these days. I can make out a hand written K16 and what appears to be a bracketed figure three but what they represent is beyond my reasoning capacity. I wonder could it be Keane Sixteen?
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Rack K, bay 16, and entered on the ledger as G 52703
32/- is as plain as day directly above N in No.
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That’s the collection receipt for the passenger’s reference.
Our SAR ledger shows you lodged it on 30 November 1948
You picked it up 96 days later and you owed us 32 shillings
We put the delivered back to you date stamp on it, to show you the accounting, and for your records to show the date you picked it up, and attached it to the item for you
However, there is no delivered date on that receipt, which means it never left the storage area, not because SM didn’t pick it up, but because its true owner abandoned it at pick up because of the cost of 32 shillings
What’s more, 96 days on 14 January 1949 doesn’t correlate to a lodgement date of 30 November 1948 as stamped
When the coppers picked it up, it would still have to show a collected date stamp on the ticket as the procedure, what’s more that would need to be on the ledger as G52703 having been taken, otherwise it has to go to the abandoned storage which is anything not collected within 3 months by statute, is held in custody by a bailee and then disposed of at a public auction and the proceeds of that paid into the Treasury. Money taken by the cloak room has to be on the ledger and all accounted for as public money, and all items processed and accounted for, not just taken by anyone, including the police.
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Not even my cat Mai, who has excellent vision, like her doting owner, can’t see anything above N in No. either; However you’ll note that my bracketed (top & bottom) 3 be seen clearly directly above the letter o in No. I vote we get Cramer’s expert Alan H to give us his his best guess on the so called ‘left-luggage’ ticket.
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It’s there. Download the picture of the ticket. Open it with MS Photos and zoom it in and out until it is clear to read.
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Trump told all the US car manufacturers to re-tool and go back to building petrol driven cars, this was after claiming Venezuela’s oil as his own – and did I mention they had the world’s largest oil reserves?
Climate change? What a laugh, so suck it up boys and girls.
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So Trump ended up with the gold medal for his selfless peace efforts, and now we might wonder if he also scored with the prize money a lousy mil US plus change in Krona. Kind hearted gentleman that he is, probably let the nominal winner keep the change forherself.
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Inconsistencies:
On the ticket, the underline alongside “Received” is thicker than the underline alongside “Delivered”
The year has larger characters than the day and the character height varies because of camera skew used to produce it, whereas the ticket skew itself is smaller on the right
The “4” is incorrect at the top and doesn’t look like a “4” anyway
How to get the same paper colour: turn the ticket over, put your own date stamp on it 30 Nov 1948, and photo it, or alternatively mask the original out and use a transparent transfer, except the camera was skewed to make the overprint
Substitute it as a block, and in any event, it has been tampered with. It’s a photo of a doctored original.
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Funny you should mention The Grand Canyon Clive. One of Jeff Epstein’s top prime numbers, name of Melanie (or similar) as I recall, was effectionately known to those who were close to her as ‘The Grand Canyon’, somit to do with the size of her navel I suspect.
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Navel manoeuvres no doubt?
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Some people in high places will be very worried
with what we now know
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Interesting set of four consecutive letters, all different sizes, within the word Adelaide on the SAR ticket, bordered by AD and DE. Obviously a code and I’m astounded that no body else, I mean No. 1 in particular, picked up on it early in the piece.
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reference to LA, USA
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No. I: you say “with what we know now” , ‘WE’ being the new BS/TS handle for Cramer & Co. And so I’m here to say, neither GC nor the Co.will ever know shit from clay on a sunny day comes to our Somerton Man truths and their infernal host of bright shining lies.
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GC sees me as someone who steals his thunder
I’m not part of Cramer and Co. Promise
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It just dawned on me, quite contrary to Mr. Cramer’s insistance that there be no pic of the luggage tag reverse, one has been staring him in the face all along. Whilst there be no printing or stamp, the number A48605 be hand written in overly large letters taking up all the available space and clear as day. I recall making similar comments, ado about a photo of the case with tag attached on several occasions at Nick’s place which not unexpectedly received no response of any consequence
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Police storage reference
Adelaide 48605
on a register of items held in the cop shop
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AD ‘E L A I’ DE .. By my rough reckoning could also be a short cut to El Alamein and/or El Arish, place names in Egypt and Australia where the AIF won battles in both world wars one & two.
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No. I. What would set you to thinking I’d be suggesting for a New York minute that you might represent the Co. in my last post?
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Some folks don’t pay attention, no names of course. From my unresponded Supt. Brown post where he makes blunders on where the sutcase was really found. Brown: “…Then going to the suitcase that we found in the Refresh – in the railway cloakroom er……..” Other references to suitcase found at the Railway Sation sans Cloakroom can also be quoted but why bother if no one’s home?
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You can’t help but see that camera skewed date stamp every time, now that you know it’s there
Yep, us folks are home and we’re listening, now that we see that the luggage ticket was tampered with
Dusty might let us all in on where he thinks the suitcase actually came from
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It isn’t what I think mugger, it’s what Brown said and what he didn’t say that points to the suitcase having been left in the Station Refreshment room. As I tried to point out in my last censored post, at some time after discovery it was booked in at the cloakroom by a porter, then an inspection of its contents carried it by the Railways doctor and security. I’m going by the alternative scenario as has been referred in other reports over the years and ignored for want of a better furphy.
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The suitcase story seems as questionable as the finding of the ROK? I wonder if Lawson knew more than he let on, he told me the suitcase, as shown by the police, was not the one found in the railway station. The next day, his carer rang me to say, in no uncertain terms, Lawson definitely did not advise me that the railway station suitcase was not the actual one. Why, as a taxidermist, would he be involved with a suitcase, surely a police matter only?
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I remember Lawson saying that for every day he was working on the bust a couple of policemen kept him company. Feltus also mentioned in his book that the police liked to chat together while they watched Lawson at his work, so who knows what he heard.
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I’m sure he heard quite a few interesting bits of information from various sources. I’m assuming that Lawson would have had to sign some kind of privacy notice forbidding him to disclose any police information he had heard about the case?
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From my limited understanding Lawson and Elliott’s son were active themselves as quasie private investigators at some point towards the year 2000. Some might recall that they had retained an original set (1/5) of SM prints which they gave to Prof. Derek Abbott around 2008, from memory, and it be the one missing details that we be most familiar with.
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Yikes. He realised that what he had said, was giving the game away. So then he tried to retract it by getting another person to do it for him to distance himself from what he said in the first place.
Too late she cried. Damage done
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They were my thoughts as well. He couldn’t deny that a suitcase was involved, so what was his thinking about ‘the’ suitcase, something about the suitcase that the police couldn’t disguise, if that’s the correct word?
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I’m thinking that there was quite a lot of what Paul Lawson said, or, to be on the cynical side, was said to have said in interviews over a period of time, be open to some question. Not only in his waning years when his hearing was failing, but also in his late fifties while presumably still in fine fettle, he was questioned by Stuart Littlemore for Inside Story.
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A48605 could be a Police evidence tag as opposed to an SAR storage tag reference, though two prefix letters would seem to be more appropriate, that being the case. Who knows?
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OK. So the SAR cloakroom docket was handed up as evidence (C4) along with other exhibits at the inquest and retained, unlike the suitcase which was returned to police. No doubt the tag as being of Sapol origin and not SAR as I had believed.
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Gremlins aboard 38 year old US Airforce One. Minor electrical fault. Oh dear looks like Trump will be late in Davos for the big Euro confrontation that he was so looking forward to. No Shit!
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Steve Bannon would like to MAKE AUSTRALIA GREAT AGAIN !!!!
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Only a ‘minor’ electrical fault? That’s a disappointment.
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Jeff Epstein’s other best buddy Steve Bannon nominates prissy Anthony Albanese for vice chair of Master Trumpet’s Board of Peace, aka a Piece of Board thick as two planks. If he doesn’t take the bait, then looks like Australia will have to forget AUKUS and put up with Japanese nuke subs for delivery in a couple of months at best.
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No doubt the board will have a thin veneer of respectability just to please that American idiot, as if he cares!
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It should have been A&US and we might have stood a chance without the UK, but we can’t when we’re still tied to a King.
The Yanks trusting us with what is theirs is a big ask, even if we do have Pine Gap for leverage
The Chinese can bugger off from Port Darwin, and the Yanks are welcome to greater presence there.
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Some may have noted that the Don in his address to the press? on at least three occasions, no less, made uninformed reference to Greenland as a big block of ice or else Iceland, and original inhabitants being either laplanders or Icelandic. No not Inuits or Esquiaux. Not so cute or astute by any stretch, the wretch.
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