Detective Sergeant Lionel Leane –
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May 4
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What we know about the Somerton Man, the Thomsons, the Egans and their DNA
“I was an accidental conception." Rachel Egan.
Has Rachel Egan’s DNA finally ended Derek Abbott’s involvement in the Somerton Man Mystery?
Is Derek Abbott’s belief that his wife and their children are related to the man at the centre of one of the world's most intriguing mysteries dashed?
The Somerton Man inquest was closed for lack of new evidence despite the police having found more than enough.
Why was the coroner’s court denied the opportunity to subpoena new witnesses?
The Somerton Man Case .. an uncommon timeline.
The Somerton Man Case appeared to be nothing more than the unexplained death of an unknown man found on a beach near the small coastal town of Glenelg in South Australia.
Believing Alf Boxall
That was no sweet innocent quiet reserved young babe who wrote Verse 70.
“If the (Somerton Man’s) body had been taken to the place where it was found, the difficulties disappear.”
Coroner Cleland invites speculation as early as 1949.
Was the state of the Somerton Man’s health a factor in his death?
Someone must have a doctor in the family.
A closer look at the Somerton Man’s NINE medical conditions.
As a personal note, my medical qualifications only extend to the ability to Google various medical words and phrases, find what I'm looking for then cut and paste it here.
Some of TSM’s medical conditions appear (to the layman’s eye) to be interrelated, but there is little doubt he needed medical assistance.
Was the Somerton Man seriously unwell?
The discrepancies between the effects of Glycoside poisoning and the condition Dwyer found the Somerton Man to be in may have indicated he was not only seriously unwell but in need of regular medical assistance prior to his sudden and unexpected death.
Feb 9
Boxall’s memories of Jessica and the meaning of Verse 70
‘She was a very quiet sort of girl ..’
Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before
‘She was very young, she was very young, .. ‘
I swore – but was I sober when I swore?
‘..she was just a young girl.’
And then and then came Spring,
‘.. she would be a very reserved young woman.’
and Rose-in hand
‘.. very quiet sort of girl ..’
My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore.
‘.. and even today, I don’t know what the girl’s surname was.’
Littlemore: ‘That’s funny isn’t it, because she knew yours.’
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The meaning (of V70) is clear enough: The writer intended to mend his ways often enough, but never quite made it! The Spring and the Rose are here symbols of the attraction back to his old ways.
Bob Forrest.
Boxall’s responses lifted from Stuart Littlemore’s interview notes.
The incongruity evidenced above might lead to the conclusion that the inscription was not written by the same very young, quiet and reserved woman Alf Boxall remembered.
How and where did the Somerton Man die – and who was he with at the time?
This was not murder disguised as suicide, it was suicide underlined !
Implications stemming from Rachel Egan’s shared DNA and a word from Dr Carolyn Bilsborow.
It would be one thing to ask someone to move the body of a murdered man, another to dispose of the body of a suicide.
35 Who was the ‘real’ Jessica Harkness?
She lied to his face: a detective with thirty homicide years on the clock,
33 Whatever happened to the Somerton Man’s brown knitted pullover?
Fifteen investigative and one coronial failure cannot be the result of incompetence, surely.
Jun 30
18 Proof the code is an acrostic depends on whose edition of Omar Khayyham’s quatrains you are looking at.
Imagine asking Australia’s foremost post-war decoding unit to determine if a code was an acrostic without providing them with the book it was written on.
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W R G O A B A B D
Meet Clarke Willis Walton (1885-1938), cotton goods manufacturer, small-time amateur printer and well-respected American publisher.
‘Walton published at least 15 small (17.5cmX12cm) numbered limited editions of the Rubaiyat.. For An Omarian Alphabet (cover pictured end of post) he selected 26 quatrains by 24 translators (2 each from Fitzgerald and Thompson) and associated each quatrain with a different letter of the alphabet. To each quatrain he added a caption of the form, A IS for Allah, the Lord of Omar or M IS for Morning, time for youth to rise.’
That’s generally the picture, and if we use Walton’s Omarian Alphabet on the first line of code – this is the result.
W is for wine, Omar well knows. Quatrain LV1
R is for Rose, like a Ruby rare. Quatrain 1X
G is for Garden, that lovely place. Quatrain 1X
O is for Oblivion, cheat it if you can. Quatrain XV1
A is for Allah, the Lord of Omar. Quatrain CLXX
B is for Bahram, a great old sport. Quatrain XX1
A is for Allah, the Lord of Omar. Quatrain CLXX
B is for Bahram, a great old sport. Quatrain XX1
D is for Dowry, love to the bride. Quatrain CLXLV111
Sounds like a semi-religious love chant .. Omar style.
Perhaps the Somerton Man carried a copy of one of these memorable, traceable, numbered rare editions with him, or perhaps one of Walton’s 15 editions of The Rubaiyat, but seeing the police didn’t release an image of the Freeman Rubaiyat, we’ll probably never know.
https://omarkhayyamrubaiyat.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/an-omarian-alphabet/
*An acrostic (verse) is a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, message or the alphabet.
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14 The seventy-year old secret of the Somerton code
The simplest of codes.
The letter A.
The position 7.
….. gives number 8
10 DNA, mtDNA, genealogy,mass spectroscopy and nuclear related matters. Byron Deveson.
Comments by Byron Deveson and a word from Derek Abbott.
The Somerton Man 