...THE ADVERTISER 26th JULY 1949...
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Please note the highlighted penultimate paragraph. There were two phone numbers described as being from 'suburban subscribers'.The issue of telephone numbers has been covered numerous times by this blog, in fact, we were the first to raise the matter of just what number may have been it is believed to be C7407.
This was first published here in March 2020 almost 2 years ago, and then reposted with additional information in April of this year, you can view the complete posts with newspaper clippings and references to the Commonwealth Investigation Service, Adelaide Branch.
You can read the post and view the images here
THE CHANGING FACE OF THE SOMERTON MAN:
In the highlighted area of this post from the Advertiser dated 27th July 1949, you will see that the facial features of the man had altered materially before the bust was made.
This supports the comment made by Paul Lawson in an interview I had with him some 2 years ago when he told me that he had made the features of the man's face not from the body he was working on but from the original post-autopsy images:
On the left is the pre-burial image and on the right is the post-autopsy image.
There is little in the way of similarity between the two and, importantly, the left-hand image is of the face of the man from whom the DNA hair samples were taken and that, it is said, they prove that this man was Carl Webb.
Additionally, the son of Laurie Elliot the man who embalmed the Somerton Man has stated that, following the original embalming, Laurie visited the morgue to 'top-up' the embalming fluids and to keep the body in good condition. You can hear those comments in the Missing Pieces' film clip here:
Let me confirm that the information regarding the second phone number originally came from this blog.
As, indeed, the information claimed to have been found by 'David Morgan' from another blog regarding the fact that the X3239 number was also to be found in Victoria was also first made by this blog some 4 years ago. this is the second time that Mr'Morgan has 'found' information in this way. As a matter of interest, the X3239 number can also be found in Canberra, NSW, and Brisbane.
As, indeed, the information claimed to have been found by 'David Morgan' from another blog regarding the fact that the X3239 number was also to be found in Victoria was also first made by this blog some 4 years ago. this is the second time that Mr'Morgan has 'found' information in this way. As a matter of interest, the X3239 number can also be found in Canberra, NSW, and Brisbane.
Here are the 6 posts made here over the last 4 years on the subject of Interstate telephone numbers: