Somerton Man

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Long reference article drawing on the inquest record (Cleland 1949), Feltus's 2010 book and press coverage.

Somerton Man (Tamam Shud)Web pageChecked against the original0

What it's used for here

Used for the narrative of 1948-1949 and the code transcription pending direct reading of the inquest file and Feltus.

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He died of natural causes.

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He was another named candidate (H. C. Reynolds, Carl Halban, or a relative of Jessica Thomson).

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He was poisoned by someone else, possibly in connection with espionage.

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She did not know him; the number came to be in the book some other way.

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She knew him and concealed it.

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The letters are meaningless, the product of a disturbed or intoxicated mind.

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Brown suitcase and contents

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Plaster bust (death cast) of the Somerton Man, with hair embedded

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Police photographs of the body and of where it lay, December 1948

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The Rubaiyat (Whitcombe and Tombs, 1941) with the pencilled code and telephone number

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The exhumed remains

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The five pencilled lines from the Rubaiyat, with variant readings

Dataset

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A 1994 review by John Harber Phillips concluded 'there seems little doubt it was digitalis'.

Evidence

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A witness in 1959 reported seeing a man carrying another along the beach the night before.

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Defence cryptographers in 1978 found too few symbols for a satisfactory answer.

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Her daughter said in 2013 that her mother had lied to police and knew who he was.

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No physical evidence ties the death to another person or to intelligence work.

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The heart was normal and the pathologist found no natural disease to account for death.

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These candidates rest on photograph comparison or circumstance, not DNA.

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Webb's wife said he tried to kill himself with ether in 1946 and wrote poems about wanting to die.

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A brown suitcase linked to the man is found in the station cloakroom

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Body found against the sea wall at Somerton Park

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Department of Defence cryptographers report the code cannot be read

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Inquest resumed and adjourned sine die with no new findings

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South Australia Police exhume the body for DNA testing

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The man is buried at West Terrace Cemetery

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The man is presumed to arrive by train, check a suitcase and take a bus toward Glenelg

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Jessica Thomson (born Harkness)

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The Somerton Man (Tamam Shud)

The mystery article

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Did Jessica Thomson know the man?

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How did he die?

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Jessica Thomson: Shown the plaster cast by police, said she did not recognise the man;…

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anonymous (two couples): One couple saw a man lying on his back in the spot where the body was…

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Cite it

Wikipedia contributors (n.d.). Somerton Man. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerton_Man

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