Wakey wakey, hand off snakey as our CSM was fond of saying. By the way Dud Aebi’s dad Charles aka Swiss Cheeze was in his day, a renowned forensic photographic authority and wrote a number of books on the subject. Guess Du followed in his dad’s footsteps.
Remember all the lovely ladies he groomed to fill in for him. Tney loved me like an adoring, all knowing older brother, and he hated my guts for getting all the attention, snake in the grass, you be me you betcha.
Strange, that if Dorothy Webb saw the newspaper(s) with Carl Webb’s face, you would have thought she would have been the first to put her hand up? Assuming, of course, she had seen a newspaper, then again, a ‘reconstructed face’ may have been all the ‘higher authority’ wished for?
In 1948 Clive every body and their dog got the daily newspapers wherever they were in Australia and the big small town press stories were syndicated from the capital city rags eg., The Age, Herald, Courier Mail, Adelaide News, Western Aust., Hobart Mercury, Northern Standard and Canberra Times etc., etc. You can rest assured they all followed the Somerton Man case from the get go til it died out after sayJuly 1949, mortuary picture and all. That in spite of Prof. D. Abbott always arguing this not to have been so. This being his excuse for forlorn Dorothy and the Webb/Keane families not coming forward to ID their missing Charlie. If the death pic was a likeness of their Charlie as Derek has also maintained, then they would have come forward in droves to claim him. Gotta be a load of cobblers, right Peteb?
When you remember the absolute flood of so-called scholarly research DA did on SM’s ears, and how hopelessly wrong he was.. how could anyone take the man seriously. If a bloke is so hopelessly wrong in that instance, what has he got now that makes up for it?
Carl Webb. One hair. No provenance. 3 inches too short ??? Let me count the ways.
Something as simple as the suitcase T. Keane tie which Abbott the rabbit connected to Thomas Keane, one in a million according to his research team’s Ancestry find-a-grave calculation based on death records or lack thereof in fact. Turned out to be a Gerald Thomas Keane, not Thomas Gerald (He never admitted the error to his DNA partner in grime Colleen Fitzesomat) but that didn’t stop the cream team changing tack and coming up with their false genetic trail concept based on Gerry Kean’s wife’s family twice removed descendant Antero from Geeong. Let You be the judge; if I’m still on the right track after all is said and done
I guess the lack of Webb’s family to confirm it was Carl Webb speaks for itself. No wonder Stuart was/is reluctant to continue any further contact with the hype over the SM. So, the question is why can’t DA see the issue, he is a professor after all. Perhaps that is the problem, can’t see the wood for the trees?
Unless I’m mistaken Clive, the word ‘professor’ be derived from ‘profess’, ie., to claim/imply without proof, a certain knowledge. That’s according to my trusty Funk and Wagnell. So simply put, our learned professor of electrical engineering likely knows FA ‘sweet fanny adams’ about how to identify the Somerton Man.
True enough Dust, but he sure did know how to move fast and join Robin’s family by quickly marrying into it. Then you look at the collection of press photos of him and wife Rachel perching up on the Somerton Man’s grave.
That was not normal behaviour, and given he was 100% wrong about whose grave he was sitting on, it shows he had no respect for the dead.
Might’ve blundered with Easts, bunch a loser you ask me. I’ve been assured from the grave of an old rah rah mate’a mine, now deceased that the lady in question barracked for Randwick in their hay day
Note Clive. I said she barracked for Randwick, and not rooted for them. So please don’t tempt your dirty mind to parody or pun my straight lace well meaning late comment
That’s right Clive; Alf’d just started his post war job at Randwick bus service & repairs depot. This following a long stint in PNG and the islands, shuttling the dead to new locations by barge, and cashing in on American war surplus e.g., Zippo lighters ‘C’ rats, Hershey bars, carded Barbour linen threads and Sherman tank tracks etc.
I wonder if the SM was an “American war surplus”? Soldier of fortune who never returned to the USA but, like Lord Jim, lived among the natives, in his case, trading WW2 supplies to the islands?
I would imagine there would have been quite a few Americans etc, who, having fought in the Pacific, saw a golden opportunity to remain incognito and live/work as they wanted without Uncle Sam’s shadow?
Can’t fully concur Clive, their attrocious table manners and empty sluggo ball bangers would catch them out as AWOL Septics quick as a flash. What’s more consider the veteran entitlements they’d be missing out on in Terra Australis
I was thinking about the amount of unused munitions/supplies etc; left behind in the Pacific area. Would have been a goldmine to individuals selling to rebels/militia groups etc. Employing natives without much cost, while they pocketed all the rewards.
David Herbert was Xavier’s younger brother and an officer in the Nacaroos same company as he & Alf Boxall. Before the war he was a ship’s captain, plying illicit trade goods between China and the Pacific Islands so they say. After the war he settled in PNG, bought a wartime cargo vessel and began trading in war surplus equipment like radio transmitters then in demand, between PNG and Australia. That sound close to the kind of dodgy caper you’re referring Clive?
Exactly! No questions-no pack drill, no taxes, government inspectors-who, if sniffing around, a stuffed, brown envelope would do the trick. Unlicensed cargo boat(s), locals needed jobs etc
It’s possible that Boxall did cross paths with the SM perhaps, more than once, perhaps officially and unofficially. And, I’m sure, if that was the case, the police visit to the Randwick bus depot, to speak to Boxall, was the last thing he wanted.
Both SM and Boxall knew Jessica, they both knew the Rubaiyat, Boxall was a ship’s engineer and SM’s tools suggested to some he may have been employed as a ship’s 3rd officer.
Suggest you study David Francis Herbert’s service record Peteb. It includes being Boxall’s company. commander with Nacaroos whatever then chief engineer and later ships master (Captain) with Alfs 12th Water Transport SS unit, same time, same station until the end. They must have been real close, even post 45 when Dave settled in Rabaul.
Got that mate, and I’m remembering that AUS was secretly checking our uranium resources in the late 40’s with the view of sharing knowledge with the yanks and poms … and here we have SM showing signs of being in contact with radioactive sources.
Add to that the influence Sir Mark Oliphant wielded at the time, and that the yanks labelled him as a security risk.
If you care to search my dated CM stuff concerning the Herbert brothers, Dave & Xavier, think you’ll find my mention of their trip to Rum jungle circa.1947 in order to stake their claim on an ore find they’d been shown ortold a out years before.
Is that a possible place that could be used for a lethal injection, that those giving it thought might not be of interest in an examination of the body, or even missed
Was he given a choice ?
Fry in the chair back in the US for serious crimes, treason, espionage, murder ?
Or was he given a better option when in custody, with the same result
Which leaves a dead body that has to be disposed of, and that can be done by dumping it on a beach and fabricating a story around it.
Punching a person in the head can sometimes cause abrasions on or between the knuckles of the hand used to deliver the blow, particularly if it connects with bone, like someone’s forehead. I speak from bitter experience as a callous youth.
Note also that Dave Herbert & Alf Boxall, 12 & 13 WT SS were discharched Sydney April 1948 (post war 2/3 year extended service for clean up ops) Sure they were good mates dating back to their time together in NT with NAOU sent to course at RAE thence transfered from NAOU WT together late 1943. Anything spring to mind re their time tin the tropics perhaps on the Crusader and in their predeparture interactions in Sept. ’45 with Jestyn.
Dave Herbert, married Agnes Rixon, army nursing sister from Bega whom he met in NT during his stint with NAOU and they settled in PNG then QLD about 1955. I served in Vietnam with one of her relaives it would appear
I’m sure that both Herbert & Boxall had a lot to talk about, the individuals who crossed their paths in the Pacific. What’s the betting they also knew individuals who kept themselves to themselves?
The little lady in the Adelaide Hotel, the one who remembered a man who came in carried a small case, a gentleman who spoke good English, the case being something like a doctor’s briefcase, though some say it may have been a musical case, for a flute maybe, and the needle shaped object may have been a flute needle …
Ina also recalled his parting gift of Talc powder (Lilly of the Valley), but not any of his personal particulars like name or profession.wonder why not.
“Who spoke good English”, interesting comment, was Ina Harvey stating the man sounded well educated or, was an overseas visitor? If the story about the needle in a case is true, possible speculation could be that he had arrived in Adelaide to do one a job. A job that meant a visit to a certain property in Glenelg?
Wasn’t Ina Harvey the sister of Elliott, the undertaker? Of all the hotels in the centre of Adelaide, he stayed at Ina Harvey’s place of work, just around the corner from the Victoria Hotel, where Tibor Kaldor ended his life.
Ina Harvey was 44 when SM rode in to town and booked a room at Strathmore, 22 it would seem, though that puts the overlander of 30 November totally at odds with her yarn. She was married to Frank at the time but not for much longer so not likely that she had a thing going for our three day stay gentleman. Ina lived til 2000 (96) and her story was published in ’58 from memory and seems she never mentioned a word of the well heeled stranger with the valice after that. I’d give her SM story a fair chance of being dinkum, truth and memory wise that is.
Speaking of Jo’s higher authorities, could do with one at present. Past eight days sitting at the bedside of an old Battle of Balmoral mate Barry Glassenbury of Adelaide. Got knocked of his bike near south border crossing to Cambodia. 81 and doubtful of his having another birthday July 6 ’27 next. Could do with some DVA high authority help as well to ease the burden. Alas poor Bazza fighting hard PS his dog Bongo in safe hands thank the good Lord for small tidings.
Kate Thomson, the daughter of Jessica and Prosper Thomson, said that her mother was the woman interviewed by the police and that her mother had told her she had lied to them – Jessica did know the identity of the Somerton man and his identity was also “known to a level higher than the police force”
Jessie knew who SM was. Kate said Jessie told her that. 60 Minutes on Channel 9, at 6 mins 10 secs. Kate’s description of what Jessie told her about the higher authority than the police force is detailed. She says “it was a mystery only known to a level higher than the police force”. She is questioned what that means by the interviewer. “Spooks?” Kate was spontaneous in her response “yeah” “wasn’t at a State police level”. Spontaneous and accurate.
When Kate got married on her return from the jewish school in America, the couple moved into High Street Glenelg next door but one to the Freemans which was a long after SM’s day at the beach. Her husband’s family, the Leahys, owned St. Vincent Hotel 24 Jetty Rd and the Broadway too from memory. Any value in that lot?
Just out of curiosity but, Jessica had her name in the Adelaide telephone directory, in bold lettering, as “Sister J.E. Thomson”. Was it ‘normal’ for a nursing sister to place her name in the telephone book, with “Sister” before her name in those days? Couldn’t “Sister” also be regarded in a religious sense?
Well, there you go, maybe she put the ‘sister’ there so SM knew where to look, assuming he knew her working as a nurse in either Sydney or Melbourne. Clive, do you remember how many Thomson’s were in the Adelaide phone book?
Freeman’s the chemists had a lease on part of the St. Vincent Hotel in 1948 for their Pharmacy. This used to all impodtant pre Webb though no body cares so much these days. Sorry I brought it up; trying my best to improve my image but looks like I failed the test once more.
….not that it matters so much especially where Somerton Man be concerned. Incoming contributions to Nick’s blog can be delayed 24 hours, usually more, by which time the importance has more than likely lost any value it might have contained.
Just had me a legthy five session confab with my local AI consultant and guess what, They agree that all the Keane tie stuff was undoubtably used as a convenience, initiated with Abbott’s getting T for Thomas confused with Gerald then using J as an easy escape route to introduce his deceased son Jack/John as a rather fortuitous alternative. With regards the rootless hair’s Keane/Stevens DNA positive return from Astrea, my AI reckons, words to the effect of that being way over the top suspicious, in that an imbeded rooted hair cut off at the rotten end would most certainly produce the exact same result. So why all the uneccessary scientific methodology explaining to and fro on it’s sure fire proof credentials.
All that is well, but going by the commentary on this business, the number of coincidences is unbelievable .. people and places, names and relationships, maybe it’s an Adelaide thing but it has me beat.
You would have thought that someone in the media would have also raised the amazing ‘coincidences’ in this case. Perhaps some brave, media soul did try that but, soon learned that ‘a higher authority’ had a quiet word not to go down that road.
Speaking of “very last words” Clive, Its been 100 hours since any word from Nick de Pomfret or his minnows. Could it be that he’s gone fishing, perhaps more likely he’s got a new lead on Piltdown Man’s DNA from the recently relocated manible. Close to home too, if I’m not mistook.
The Somerton Man .. 
To sleep, perchance to dream ..
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Wakey wakey, hand off snakey as our CSM was fond of saying. By the way Dud Aebi’s dad Charles aka Swiss Cheeze was in his day, a renowned forensic photographic authority and wrote a number of books on the subject. Guess Du followed in his dad’s footsteps.
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It’s all over mate .. Pelling has signed off and Cramer is, well, Cramer. And if all we have left is SteveH, that’s the bottom of the barrel reached.
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Been four years almost to the day since Pelling signed off, by doing a Charles Webb supportive interview with ABC. Funny how time slips away ay?
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Picture me as being a brown snake in long grass. poison is within my bite … lurking is my proven method .. good, eh?
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Remember all the lovely ladies he groomed to fill in for him. Tney loved me like an adoring, all knowing older brother, and he hated my guts for getting all the attention, snake in the grass, you be me you betcha.
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Strange, that if Dorothy Webb saw the newspaper(s) with Carl Webb’s face, you would have thought she would have been the first to put her hand up? Assuming, of course, she had seen a newspaper, then again, a ‘reconstructed face’ may have been all the ‘higher authority’ wished for?
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In 1948 Clive every body and their dog got the daily newspapers wherever they were in Australia and the big small town press stories were syndicated from the capital city rags eg., The Age, Herald, Courier Mail, Adelaide News, Western Aust., Hobart Mercury, Northern Standard and Canberra Times etc., etc. You can rest assured they all followed the Somerton Man case from the get go til it died out after sayJuly 1949, mortuary picture and all. That in spite of Prof. D. Abbott always arguing this not to have been so. This being his excuse for forlorn Dorothy and the Webb/Keane families not coming forward to ID their missing Charlie. If the death pic was a likeness of their Charlie as Derek has also maintained, then they would have come forward in droves to claim him. Gotta be a load of cobblers, right Peteb?
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When you remember the absolute flood of so-called scholarly research DA did on SM’s ears, and how hopelessly wrong he was.. how could anyone take the man seriously. If a bloke is so hopelessly wrong in that instance, what has he got now that makes up for it?
Carl Webb. One hair. No provenance. 3 inches too short ??? Let me count the ways.
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Something as simple as the suitcase T. Keane tie which Abbott the rabbit connected to Thomas Keane, one in a million according to his research team’s Ancestry find-a-grave calculation based on death records or lack thereof in fact. Turned out to be a Gerald Thomas Keane, not Thomas Gerald (He never admitted the error to his DNA partner in grime Colleen Fitzesomat) but that didn’t stop the cream team changing tack and coming up with their false genetic trail concept based on Gerry Kean’s wife’s family twice removed descendant Antero from Geeong. Let You be the judge; if I’m still on the right track after all is said and done
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I guess the lack of Webb’s family to confirm it was Carl Webb speaks for itself. No wonder Stuart was/is reluctant to continue any further contact with the hype over the SM. So, the question is why can’t DA see the issue, he is a professor after all. Perhaps that is the problem, can’t see the wood for the trees?
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Unless I’m mistaken Clive, the word ‘professor’ be derived from ‘profess’, ie., to claim/imply without proof, a certain knowledge. That’s according to my trusty Funk and Wagnell. So simply put, our learned professor of electrical engineering likely knows FA ‘sweet fanny adams’ about how to identify the Somerton Man.
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True enough Dust, but he sure did know how to move fast and join Robin’s family by quickly marrying into it. Then you look at the collection of press photos of him and wife Rachel perching up on the Somerton Man’s grave.
That was not normal behaviour, and given he was 100% wrong about whose grave he was sitting on, it shows he had no respect for the dead.
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And neither was a woman seen playing touch footy in the Eastern Suburbs FC mens change room after closing time.
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Might’ve blundered with Easts, bunch a loser you ask me. I’ve been assured from the grave of an old rah rah mate’a mine, now deceased that the lady in question barracked for Randwick in their hay day
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Note Clive. I said she barracked for Randwick, and not rooted for them. So please don’t tempt your dirty mind to parody or pun my straight lace well meaning late comment
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I’ve threatened Clive with a painful death if he ever looses off another pun. We’re watching his house 24/7
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Isn’t that the place where Alf tinkered with old gaskets?
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That’s right Clive; Alf’d just started his post war job at Randwick bus service & repairs depot. This following a long stint in PNG and the islands, shuttling the dead to new locations by barge, and cashing in on American war surplus e.g., Zippo lighters ‘C’ rats, Hershey bars, carded Barbour linen threads and Sherman tank tracks etc.
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I wonder if the SM was an “American war surplus”? Soldier of fortune who never returned to the USA but, like Lord Jim, lived among the natives, in his case, trading WW2 supplies to the islands?
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The bloke had an upper thigh suntan like the kind you get wearing sluggos … and who was wearing them in 1948?
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I would imagine there would have been quite a few Americans etc, who, having fought in the Pacific, saw a golden opportunity to remain incognito and live/work as they wanted without Uncle Sam’s shadow?
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Can’t fully concur Clive, their attrocious table manners and empty sluggo ball bangers would catch them out as AWOL Septics quick as a flash. What’s more consider the veteran entitlements they’d be missing out on in Terra Australis
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I was thinking about the amount of unused munitions/supplies etc; left behind in the Pacific area. Would have been a goldmine to individuals selling to rebels/militia groups etc. Employing natives without much cost, while they pocketed all the rewards.
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Xavier Her
David Herbert was Xavier’s younger brother and an officer in the Nacaroos same company as he & Alf Boxall. Before the war he was a ship’s captain, plying illicit trade goods between China and the Pacific Islands so they say. After the war he settled in PNG, bought a wartime cargo vessel and began trading in war surplus equipment like radio transmitters then in demand, between PNG and Australia. That sound close to the kind of dodgy caper you’re referring Clive?
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Exactly! No questions-no pack drill, no taxes, government inspectors-who, if sniffing around, a stuffed, brown envelope would do the trick. Unlicensed cargo boat(s), locals needed jobs etc
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Who’s to say he didn’t meet Boxall when he was up north salvaging left-over war material ..
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It’s possible that Boxall did cross paths with the SM perhaps, more than once, perhaps officially and unofficially. And, I’m sure, if that was the case, the police visit to the Randwick bus depot, to speak to Boxall, was the last thing he wanted.
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Both SM and Boxall knew Jessica, they both knew the Rubaiyat, Boxall was a ship’s engineer and SM’s tools suggested to some he may have been employed as a ship’s 3rd officer.
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Suggest you study David Francis Herbert’s service record Peteb. It includes being Boxall’s company. commander with Nacaroos whatever then chief engineer and later ships master (Captain) with Alfs 12th Water Transport SS unit, same time, same station until the end. They must have been real close, even post 45 when Dave settled in Rabaul.
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Got that mate, and I’m remembering that AUS was secretly checking our uranium resources in the late 40’s with the view of sharing knowledge with the yanks and poms … and here we have SM showing signs of being in contact with radioactive sources.
Add to that the influence Sir Mark Oliphant wielded at the time, and that the yanks labelled him as a security risk.
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If you care to search my dated CM stuff concerning the Herbert brothers, Dave & Xavier, think you’ll find my mention of their trip to Rum jungle circa.1947 in order to stake their claim on an ore find they’d been shown ortold a out years before.
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The thick plottens ..
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So what were the scratches between the knuckles ?
Is that a possible place that could be used for a lethal injection, that those giving it thought might not be of interest in an examination of the body, or even missed
Was he given a choice ?
Fry in the chair back in the US for serious crimes, treason, espionage, murder ?
Or was he given a better option when in custody, with the same result
Which leaves a dead body that has to be disposed of, and that can be done by dumping it on a beach and fabricating a story around it.
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Punching a person in the head can sometimes cause abrasions on or between the knuckles of the hand used to deliver the blow, particularly if it connects with bone, like someone’s forehead. I speak from bitter experience as a callous youth.
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Note also that Dave Herbert & Alf Boxall, 12 & 13 WT SS were discharched Sydney April 1948 (post war 2/3 year extended service for clean up ops) Sure they were good mates dating back to their time together in NT with NAOU sent to course at RAE thence transfered from NAOU WT together late 1943. Anything spring to mind re their time tin the tropics perhaps on the Crusader and in their predeparture interactions in Sept. ’45 with Jestyn.
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Dave Herbert, married Agnes Rixon, army nursing sister from Bega whom he met in NT during his stint with NAOU and they settled in PNG then QLD about 1955. I served in Vietnam with one of her relaives it would appear
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Didn’t Elliott, the undertaker, find a small needle mark on a fingertip of the SM?
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I’m sure that both Herbert & Boxall had a lot to talk about, the individuals who crossed their paths in the Pacific. What’s the betting they also knew individuals who kept themselves to themselves?
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Nêedle in the finger tip probably came from his síster Clive. How small is a small needle mark anyhow?
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Pretty small, I would say. Possibly the SM may have pricked his own finger? accidentally or …..
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Ina Harvey-s saw a needle in the flute case and Lieing Lionel found a hypodermic needle down along the beach wall so he sez
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The little lady in the Adelaide Hotel, the one who remembered a man who came in carried a small case, a gentleman who spoke good English, the case being something like a doctor’s briefcase, though some say it may have been a musical case, for a flute maybe, and the needle shaped object may have been a flute needle …
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Ina also recalled his parting gift of Talc powder (Lilly of the Valley), but not any of his personal particulars like name or profession.wonder why not.
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“Who spoke good English”, interesting comment, was Ina Harvey stating the man sounded well educated or, was an overseas visitor? If the story about the needle in a case is true, possible speculation could be that he had arrived in Adelaide to do one a job. A job that meant a visit to a certain property in Glenelg?
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Think the book says “He didn’t murder the Kings English” Clive
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Though she was the only person with a clear memory of the man she thought looked like SM.
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Wasn’t Ina Harvey the sister of Elliott, the undertaker? Of all the hotels in the centre of Adelaide, he stayed at Ina Harvey’s place of work, just around the corner from the Victoria Hotel, where Tibor Kaldor ended his life.
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Adelaide, a city of inexplicable coincidences, none of which help the poor plodding, blogging searcher of truth.
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Ina Harvey was 44 when SM rode in to town and booked a room at Strathmore, 22 it would seem, though that puts the overlander of 30 November totally at odds with her yarn. She was married to Frank at the time but not for much longer so not likely that she had a thing going for our three day stay gentleman. Ina lived til 2000 (96) and her story was published in ’58 from memory and seems she never mentioned a word of the well heeled stranger with the valice after that. I’d give her SM story a fair chance of being dinkum, truth and memory wise that is.
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Four others from memory, all of them quite certain of their identification but not verified by investigators.
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“Adelaide, a city of inexplicable coincidences, none of which help the poor plodding, blogging searcher of truth”
The nurse gave it away “higher authority than the police”
Join the dots
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No 1# God Almighty has the edge on police in “higher authority” stakes.
Peteb# criminal Pete Satoli, Liz Thomson, anonymous man from Kapara nursing home and Mango Mangnoson be the four initial SM identifiers above.
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JS .. noted
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Speaking of Jo’s higher authorities, could do with one at present. Past eight days sitting at the bedside of an old Battle of Balmoral mate Barry Glassenbury of Adelaide. Got knocked of his bike near south border crossing to Cambodia. 81 and doubtful of his having another birthday July 6 ’27 next. Could do with some DVA high authority help as well to ease the burden. Alas poor Bazza fighting hard PS his dog Bongo in safe hands thank the good Lord for small tidings.
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Put it in context, it is recorded in Wiki as:
Kate Thomson, the daughter of Jessica and Prosper Thomson, said that her mother was the woman interviewed by the police and that her mother had told her she had lied to them – Jessica did know the identity of the Somerton man and his identity was also “known to a level higher than the police force”
Jessie knew who SM was. Kate said Jessie told her that. 60 Minutes on Channel 9, at 6 mins 10 secs. Kate’s description of what Jessie told her about the higher authority than the police force is detailed. She says “it was a mystery only known to a level higher than the police force”. She is questioned what that means by the interviewer. “Spooks?” Kate was spontaneous in her response “yeah” “wasn’t at a State police level”. Spontaneous and accurate.
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That being the case, a lot of questions about the investigation could be easily answered..
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When Kate got married on her return from the jewish school in America, the couple moved into High Street Glenelg next door but one to the Freemans which was a long after SM’s day at the beach. Her husband’s family, the Leahys, owned St. Vincent Hotel 24 Jetty Rd and the Broadway too from memory. Any value in that lot?
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Just out of curiosity but, Jessica had her name in the Adelaide telephone directory, in bold lettering, as “Sister J.E. Thomson”. Was it ‘normal’ for a nursing sister to place her name in the telephone book, with “Sister” before her name in those days? Couldn’t “Sister” also be regarded in a religious sense?
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Perhaps she was advertising her medical skills, not eveyone likes going to a doctor or hospital .. maybe??
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Or, maybe if a stranger was visiting Adelaide and, was told to search for “Sister”, in the telephone directory. A “Sister” living in Glenelg?
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Well, there you go, maybe she put the ‘sister’ there so SM knew where to look, assuming he knew her working as a nurse in either Sydney or Melbourne. Clive, do you remember how many Thomson’s were in the Adelaide phone book?
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I seem to remember about a dozen Thomson’s were listed.
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You tell us, being the Somerton Man Guru..
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Freeman’s the chemists had a lease on part of the St. Vincent Hotel in 1948 for their Pharmacy. This used to all impodtant pre Webb though no body cares so much these days. Sorry I brought it up; trying my best to improve my image but looks like I failed the test once more.
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Cheer up Dustman, but according to Steve the Beaver we are both a lost cause ..
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Don’t let Steve the Beaver gnaw away at you!
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Steve who ?
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Steve’s shifted the goal poss again and Nick’s taken the bait, hook line and stinker.
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….not that it matters so much especially where Somerton Man be concerned. Incoming contributions to Nick’s blog can be delayed 24 hours, usually more, by which time the importance has more than likely lost any value it might have contained.
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Just had me a legthy five session confab with my local AI consultant and guess what, They agree that all the Keane tie stuff was undoubtably used as a convenience, initiated with Abbott’s getting T for Thomas confused with Gerald then using J as an easy escape route to introduce his deceased son Jack/John as a rather fortuitous alternative. With regards the rootless hair’s Keane/Stevens DNA positive return from Astrea, my AI reckons, words to the effect of that being way over the top suspicious, in that an imbeded rooted hair cut off at the rotten end would most certainly produce the exact same result. So why all the uneccessary scientific methodology explaining to and fro on it’s sure fire proof credentials.
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All that is well, but going by the commentary on this business, the number of coincidences is unbelievable .. people and places, names and relationships, maybe it’s an Adelaide thing but it has me beat.
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What a coincidence Peteb. Me too!
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Maybe someone might be able to list them, or maybe me.or Clive. Or you.
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You would have thought that someone in the media would have also raised the amazing ‘coincidences’ in this case. Perhaps some brave, media soul did try that but, soon learned that ‘a higher authority’ had a quiet word not to go down that road.
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Speaking of “very last words” Clive, Its been 100 hours since any word from Nick de Pomfret or his minnows. Could it be that he’s gone fishing, perhaps more likely he’s got a new lead on Piltdown Man’s DNA from the recently relocated manible. Close to home too, if I’m not mistook.
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