SOMERTON MAN: THE STORE HOUSE

THE STORE

This post contains a link to a download location where a number of documents with images in some cases, can be found, at the time of writing this post in all there are 57 documents in this location, I do have others and will post them gradually..

Some of you may already have seen some and possibly all of these but hopefully, it will fill a gap for everyone.

In the light of posts and comments elsewhere on the web, I judged that these items may be useful to the serious researchers of the Somerton Man case.

Amongst the documents are Police files, newspaper reports, an interesting discussion by CJ Philips, Criminal Law Journal on the likely cause of death for the Somerton Man (it seems it was a speedy death), a detailed historical document on Stamina trouser manufacturing including an image of 2 fob pockets, two PDFs that discuss 'Questioned Documents' including the recovery of indented writing, Len Brownes notes.

Managed to track down a copy of the elusive Sydney Sunday Mirror dated November 1959 and the pdf is at this location.

The list of businesses in Jetty Road is most interesting, look up number 166.

One item from the Police files states that the T.Keane on the tie found in the suitcase could be a J. Keane.

On poisons, it is I believe an established fact that the Somerton Man was poisoned using a fast-acting substance or liquid, two documents discuss poisonings, the Soviet 'KAMERA' organisation which was active in the time frame plus German Poisoning methods in WW2.

I hope that this store of information will be of interest and perhaps fill in a few gaps.

The Store

Especially for you Misca, a long-promised link to a deluxe version of a W&T Rubaiyat, published 1942 I think. The Williamson inscription may be interesting.

SOMERTON MAN: DR HANS KAMMLER, BORN 1901, STETIN, POLAND

BUT FIRST SOME PHOTOGRAPHS:

Lots of snaps of our friend on the web and a quite an amount of information, the problem is no one seems to know exactly when and if he died. Some say it was May 1945 and others suggest, with supportive evidence, that he was taken to the USA where he was interrogated at length and to some accounts, he spilt the beans on many of the German's top-secret weapons development programme. Including this example:

So, did he actually survive a supposed poisoning in 1945 or was he spirited away to the US and then down to sunnier climes in South Australia to meet his maker on Somerton Beach on December 1st 1948?

There is a wealth of conflicting information out there, the stuff that good healthy and, just maybe, valuable discussion can be made from.

Cue Clive :)