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Speaker 1: co dot uk if you dare. It is just after
Speaker 1: two pm on the eleventh of December twenty fifteen when
Speaker 1: a stranger walks into the Clarence Pub in the village
Speaker 1: of Greenfield at the edge of Saddleworth Moore, in Britain's
Speaker 1: Peak District. On brighter days, the nearby Moors can seem
Speaker 1: a place of stark majesty, colored by vibrant tufts of
Speaker 1: pink and purple heather and swathes of thawny grass, a
Speaker 1: place where, from any number of its rocky ledges, you
Speaker 1: feel you need only hold out your hand to reach
Speaker 1: through to the heavens. But on days like these, in
Speaker 1: the dreak and dreariness, the Moors seem charged with a
Speaker 1: far more ominous beauty. Green and grays of their gritstone
Speaker 1: crags are turned black, and all color seems washed from
Speaker 1: the land. The shadow lands at the edge of an
Speaker 1: apocalyptic John Martin painting, perhaps shortly before the ground is
Speaker 1: ripped asunder and the fiery boughs of the earth are
Speaker 1: revealed from below. The man is middle aged, around six
Speaker 1: feet tall and wearing a cedar brown mac He has
Speaker 1: white and graying hair at the sides and only a
Speaker 1: small tuft of it on top. After approaching the bar,
Speaker 1: he asks for nothing but directions to the top of
Speaker 1: the mountain, and is pointed towards Chew Reservoir by the
Speaker 1: pub landlord. It's the highest place he can think of
Speaker 1: but one. He warns the man that he will not
Speaker 1: be able to return from after dark. Undeterred, the stranger
Speaker 1: thanks the landlord, and as a light drizzle begins to fall,
Speaker 1: sets off into the gloom. The following morning, on a
Speaker 1: path between the dove Stone and Chew reservoirs, a cyclist
Speaker 1: spots a body lying parallel to the road that was
Speaker 1: oddly unresponsive to the unforgiving rain lashing down and the
Speaker 1: bitter coldness of the air. It's the Stranger from the Clarence.
Speaker 1: When police and Mountain Rescue arrive, they find no form
Speaker 1: of ID, and only some cash train tickets and a
Speaker 1: container emptied of its thyroxine sodium tablets with which to
Speaker 1: determine his identity. In the months that follow, media outlets
Speaker 1: across the globe pick up the news of the body's discovery.
Speaker 1: It's hard not to be intrigued by the mystery of
Speaker 1: why the man who was eventually discovered to have committed
Speaker 1: suicide chose to enter his life in such a way.
Speaker 1: But more than anything, we're gripped by the mystery of
Speaker 1: the man's identity. We seem compelled regardless of whether anonymity
Speaker 1: had been his desire to want to name him, Although
Speaker 1: it's fairly likely that names were used verbally for many
Speaker 1: years before the first to be recorded by Homo sapiens
Speaker 1: appear sometime around three thousand, five hundred to three thousand
Speaker 1: BC in Samaria, Mesopotamia. They were scrawled on to what
Speaker 1: were essentially ancient receipts made from clay. The Cushim tablet,
Speaker 1: thought to describe the transaction of twenty nine thousand and
Speaker 1: eighty six measures of barley, also seems to bear the
Speaker 1: name of the person who'd regulated the transaction. Turn in
Speaker 1: a corner from the combination of two symbols that are
Speaker 1: believed to translate phonetically as Ku and shim, the name
Speaker 1: Kushim may well be the first ever name to be
Speaker 1: recorded in the history of humanity. As writing and language evolve,
Speaker 1: so too does our capacity to comprehend ideas and, by extension,
Speaker 1: the world around us. In this sense, the Cushim tablet
Speaker 1: represents a key moment in the evolution of communities. As
Speaker 1: Yuval Noah Harari notes in Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind,
Speaker 1: it's a reflection of how increasingly complex societies needed more
Speaker 1: sophisticated ways of keeping track of their engagements. Perhaps the
Speaker 1: recording of the first name marked another transition of sorts,
Speaker 1: moving away from communal ideas into a world whereby we
Speaker 1: all began to think personally about who we were and
Speaker 1: our place in that world, and how, as individuals we
Speaker 1: could shape it. Before the written name, we could leave
Speaker 1: handprints or unique symbols painted on rocks, such as those
Speaker 1: found in the cast caves of Sulawesi in Indonesia, but
Speaker 1: their ownership has long since been lost to time. Without
Speaker 1: recorded evidence to attest to who we were individually, whole
Speaker 1: swathes of society could be forgotten, ignored, and left out
Speaker 1: of the conversation. But now exemplified by Kushim's bureaucratic cornerstone,
Speaker 1: here was the chance for anyone to be able to
Speaker 1: exist in print. You would know we existed, because it
Speaker 1: says so right there. It equipped us with a tool
Speaker 1: with which, even in the most forgotten and marginalized of corners,
Speaker 1: like a New York et artist of the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 1: you could scream your refusal to be ignored in Fire
Speaker 1: and Thunder, emblazoned on the side of a subway carriage
Speaker 1: as it rolled out at the Bronx. In January twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: after an exhaustive search lasting over a year, the body
Speaker 1: found on Saddleworth Moore was finally identified as being that
Speaker 1: of David Lytton, who'd been living in Lahore, Pakistan for
Speaker 1: the previous ten years, before returning to the UK when
Speaker 1: he decided to take his own life. David's story, as
Speaker 1: described in William Atkins's twenty sixteen article for The Guardian,
Speaker 1: The Mystery of Saddleworth Moore, who was Neil Dovestone, or
Speaker 1: at least what little we know of it has parallels
Speaker 1: with another that began seventy five years earlier on the
Speaker 1: other side of the world. Like all such story, it
Speaker 1: two begins with the discovery of a body. You're listening
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Speaker 1: on a ledge of rocks down by the water's edge
Speaker 1: when they found him. Judging by the state of the
Speaker 1: corpse and the newspaper dated twentieth of May nineteen forty
Speaker 1: five tucked neatly under his head, he'd been dead just
Speaker 1: over two weeks. The calm cobalt waters of Sydney's Tailor's
Speaker 1: Bay a little duller than usual that afternoon under the
Speaker 1: overcast skies lapped gently against the rocks below. As the
Speaker 1: officers in spe did the scene. To the left of
Speaker 1: the body, they found a small glass and a half
Speaker 1: emptied bottle of lemonade, next to an open sachet, now
Speaker 1: void of its contents. On his chest, still nestled in
Speaker 1: the grip of his right hand, a small hardcover book
Speaker 1: no more than five inches in length. Pages flapped back
Speaker 1: and forth in the light breeze. As one of the
Speaker 1: officers bent down to pick it up, he blew the
Speaker 1: sand from the cover and held it out to read
Speaker 1: the Rubayat of Omar Khayam printed in gold across the front.
Speaker 1: A quick glance inside revealed a faint cross marked in pencil,
Speaker 1: next to the lines, ah, make the most of what
Speaker 1: we yet may spend before we two into the dust,
Speaker 1: descend dust into dust, and under dust to lie, sans song,
Speaker 1: sans singer, and sans end. The man was later identified
Speaker 1: as thirty year old Joseph him Saun Marshal, who lived
Speaker 1: in Sydney for the past six years after arriving from
Speaker 1: Singapore in nineteen thirty nine. Although Joseph would sometimes prefer
Speaker 1: to be called George and the name Marshal had in
Speaker 1: fact been changed from Maschau, an all too common attempt,
Speaker 1: perhaps to disguise the family's true Jewish and Bagdaddy heritage
Speaker 1: for fear of how others might receive them. The inquest
Speaker 1: into Joseph's death revealed the empty sachet found next to
Speaker 1: his body to have contained barbituric acid, and death by
Speaker 1: suicide was confirmed. It was also revealed that the night
Speaker 1: before Joseph was thought to have died, he met with
Speaker 1: Gwyneth Dorothy Graham, a young Sydney based hair dresser. Graham,
Speaker 1: who had become close friends with Joseph over the last
Speaker 1: four years or so, attended the inquest as a principal
Speaker 1: witness in the case. Less than two weeks later, Dorothy
Speaker 1: Graham's body was discovered bent over and partially submerged in
Speaker 1: the bath tub of her Roslin Road flat in King's Cross, Sydney.
Speaker 1: Her wrists seemingly cut by the razor blade found at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the bath, yet her autopsy later revealed
Speaker 1: that her death had in fact been caused by drowning.
Speaker 1: Just across from Taylor's Bay, barely three kilometers from where
Speaker 1: Joseph Marshall's body was discovered, lies Chowder Bay, a popular
Speaker 1: scenic spot for twilight walks by the sea or swift
Speaker 1: dips in the sheltered waters of its Grand seapool. One
Speaker 1: especially popular location, owing largely to the Army barracks located nearby,
Speaker 1: was the Clifton Gardens Hotel. Built in a striking Federation style,
Speaker 1: it was perched just a few yards inland from the bay,
Speaker 1: peeking out from a surrounding cover of woodlands, the perfect
Speaker 1: place to spend an evening with friends in the soft
Speaker 1: glow of the winter sun. The perfect place, too, perhaps
Speaker 1: to surreptitiously watch the movement of warships as they pulled
Speaker 1: out of Sydney Harbor, past Watson's Bay and beyond into
Speaker 1: the treacherous waters of the South Pacific. There was something
Speaker 1: special about evenings at the Clifton during wartime, often materializing
Speaker 1: out of the moment, an embodiment of the spirit of
Speaker 1: the age for those only too familiar with how precious
Speaker 1: such moments might ultimately prove to be. One night in
Speaker 1: early August nineteen forty five, around the time of the
Speaker 1: inquest into Joseph Marshall's death, a group of friends from
Speaker 1: the barracks chanced their luck at the hotel's back door,
Speaker 1: despite it being passed the usual six o'clock closing time.
Speaker 1: Moments later, ensconced in the bar and raising toasts to
Speaker 1: the hotel staff for letting them in. One of the group,
Speaker 1: thirty nine year old Army Lieutenant Alfred Boxall, is introduced
Speaker 1: to a young training nurse of the Royal north Shore Hospital.
Speaker 1: The pair strike up an instant rapport, so much so that,
Speaker 1: at only their second meeting, with Boxall due to ship
Speaker 1: out the next day, the nurse is moved to offer
Speaker 1: him a parting gift, a copy of the Rubaiyat of
Speaker 1: Omar Khayam. Inside the front cover is Britain. Indeed indeed
Speaker 1: repentance oft before I swore? But was I sober when
Speaker 1: I swore? And then came spring and rose in hand
Speaker 1: my threadbare penitents A pieces tour. The number of the
Speaker 1: verse seventy is marked just below, and the inscription is
Speaker 1: signed Jest. In the following day, Boxall leaves for the
Speaker 1: Northern Territories to join up with the rest of the
Speaker 1: Fourth Water Transport Company. The pair will never see each
Speaker 1: other again. Look at the way that man slumped, says Helen,
Speaker 1: as they make their way across the sand. On warm
Speaker 1: evenings like this, with the sound of waves lapping softly
Speaker 1: at the shore and the light turning pink and gold
Speaker 1: under the darkening sky, Helen and her husband John Lyons
Speaker 1: could often be found taking a stroll along Summrton Beach.
Speaker 1: Today is Tuesday, thirtieth November nineteen forty eight, the last
Speaker 1: day of spring, and as Helen and John amble north
Speaker 1: towards the quiet Adelaide suburb of Glen Elk, it has
Speaker 1: just gone seven when Helen first spots the smartly dressed
Speaker 1: man lying on the sand just below the Summerton Children's Home.
Speaker 1: John looks to where his wife is pointing at the
Speaker 1: figure lying down with his legs crossed over and stretched
Speaker 1: out towards the ocean. He certainly seemed strangely propped, as
Speaker 1: if he hadn't quite the strength to pull himself fully
Speaker 1: up against the wall. Helen is greatly relieved to see
Speaker 1: the man raise his arm as they pass. Someone's had
Speaker 1: a bit too much to drink by the looks of it.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should report him to the police, jokes John.
Speaker 1: Helen smiles, then turns her head for one more look
Speaker 1: at the prostrate man, her smile becoming a little less
Speaker 1: sure as she turns back to John, threading her arm
Speaker 1: through his and pulls him a little closer. As they
Speaker 1: continue along their way, a young couple pull up outside
Speaker 1: the children's home on a motorbike. Olive and her boyfriend
Speaker 1: Gordon have come for the sunset too, and pick a
Speaker 1: prime spot on a bench just next to the small
Speaker 1: set of steps leading down to the beach. There'd only
Speaker 1: been there five minutes when Olive notices a pair of
Speaker 1: legs in striped brown trousers sticking out from the base
Speaker 1: of the sea wall. She taps Gordon and points leave
Speaker 1: it out. You should mind your own business. What if
Speaker 1: he's dead, you mean sleeping more like. The pair laugh
Speaker 1: it off, but for the next thirty minutes it certainly
Speaker 1: seems odd that the man hasn't moved once, especially with
Speaker 1: so many mosquitoes buzzing about, But each time Olive tries
Speaker 1: to get a better look, Gordon pulls her back, telling
Speaker 1: her it's rude to pry. As twilight descends and all
Speaker 1: around them the street lights are coming on, Olive notices
Speaker 1: a man in a blue suit walking past, before stopping
Speaker 1: just above where the man is lying. She watches him
Speaker 1: as he looks down at the obscured figure on the
Speaker 1: sand for what seems like a good few minutes, before
Speaker 1: turning away and disappearing down one of the streets off
Speaker 1: the seafront. Not long after, Gordon and Olive are back
Speaker 1: on their bike and riding off into the warm, hazy night.
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Speaker 1: John Lyon is back at the beach for an early
Speaker 1: morning swim. After emerging from the water, he notices two
Speaker 1: men with horses looking at something close to the sea wall.
Speaker 1: As John draws closer, the object of their interest slowly
Speaker 1: begins to reveal itself. Although he can't be sure, it
Speaker 1: looks for all the world to be the same man
Speaker 1: from the night before, still lying strangely slumped, with his
Speaker 1: head hanging limp to the right. The two other men,
Speaker 1: local jockeys, Neil Day and Horry Patching, had just been passing,
Speaker 1: they said when they found him like that. As John
Speaker 1: draws closer in the starkness of the early morning light,
Speaker 1: he sees him clearly now for the first time, his
Speaker 1: broad shoulders and coarse, reddish hair receding from the front
Speaker 1: and graying slightly at the sides. He's dressed in a
Speaker 1: white shirt with a red and blue tie, under a
Speaker 1: brown wool knitted pullover, with a gray and brown double
Speaker 1: breasted jacket and brown leather shoes. John sees two immediately
Speaker 1: and without question that the man is dead. Police Constable
Speaker 1: John Moss of nearby Brighton Police Station arrives to find
Speaker 1: John Neil and Horry, along with the steadily growing crowd
Speaker 1: of onlookers waiting by the corpse. Moss inspects the body,
Speaker 1: finding it cold, stiff, and damp from the morning dew,
Speaker 1: then opens the eyelids to briefly examine the gray irises
Speaker 1: and dilated pupils. He makes the routine and ultimately unsuccessful
Speaker 1: check for a pulse and discovers a half smoked cigarette
Speaker 1: between the man's right cheek jacket lapel, but no sign
Speaker 1: of blistering, suggesting it had perhaps fallen from the mouth
Speaker 1: after it had already gone out. The constable judges the
Speaker 1: man to have been somewhere in his forties or fifties.
Speaker 1: He notes the loose hanging arms by his side and
Speaker 1: the lack of obvious signs of violence or damage to
Speaker 1: the body, nor does the surrounding sand appear to have
Speaker 1: been much disturbed. He notes, also with some surprise, how
Speaker 1: clean the man shoes appear for someone who might have
Speaker 1: been walking along the seafront. Searching the pockets for id,
Speaker 1: he finds instead an unused second class rail ticket from
Speaker 1: Adelaide to Henley beach, a seven p tramway bus ticket,
Speaker 1: a thin aluminum comb, some chewing gum, a packet of
Speaker 1: Army Club cigarettes and a box of matches. A short
Speaker 1: time later, with the pale morning sun lifting ever brighter
Speaker 1: and higher into the sky, a warm breathe sweeps loose
Speaker 1: grains across the beach as John Lyons watches the body
Speaker 1: being placed into the ambulance and finally driven away. Doctor
Speaker 1: John Bennett is on hand to meet the vehicle as
Speaker 1: it palls into the forecourt of the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Speaker 1: Going on the extent of cyanosis and degree of rigor mortis,
Speaker 1: Bennett judges the man to have died no more than
Speaker 1: eight hours, previously putting the time of death loosely at
Speaker 1: some point around two o'clock that morning. Doctor Bennett formerly
Speaker 1: declares the man deceased, suspecting a possible coronal seizure as
Speaker 1: the cause, although his unable to ascertain exactly how he
Speaker 1: died at this point. From here, the body is driven
Speaker 1: directly to the city Morgue at West Terraced Cemetery in
Speaker 1: the southwest corner of Adelaide's Central park Lands. Piece Moss
Speaker 1: helps to wheel the body inside, where moments later coroner
Speaker 1: John Dwyer removes the clothes and ties a blank cardboard
Speaker 1: label around the big toe. Dwyer places a sheet over
Speaker 1: the body and wheels it up to the refrigeration unit,
Speaker 1: opens the door and eases it on to one of
Speaker 1: the racks. Moss bags up the items found with the body,
Speaker 1: along with each piece of clothing, noting with some curiosity
Speaker 1: how most of the labels appear to have been snipped out,
Speaker 1: leaving only frage remains. With Moss's work complete, the task
Speaker 1: to identify the man is transferred to the Adelaide Metropolitan
Speaker 1: Police where Detective Sergeant lion Or Lean is instructed to
Speaker 1: oversee the investigation committed as they are to putting a
Speaker 1: named unknown bodies. Even with little suspicion of any foul play,
Speaker 1: such cases can often prove to be lengthy distractions from
Speaker 1: more pressing work, so there is some relief when later
Speaker 1: that evening, Lean's department receives a call from Sergeant Fennick
Speaker 1: of Glenelg Police Station with a strong lead on the
Speaker 1: man's id. Fenix suspects the body to be that of
Speaker 1: fifty five year old Edward Cecil Johnson, who'd recently gone
Speaker 1: missing from his home in Paynham, a northeastern suburb of Adelaide.
Speaker 1: Fennick asked them to look out for a fractured elbow
Speaker 1: and partially missing little finger. The following morning, the second
Speaker 1: of December, Constable Sutherland of the Metropolitan Police joins John
Speaker 1: Dwyer to oversee the unknown man's autopsy and watches patiently
Speaker 1: as the sheet is pulled back, only to reveal five
Speaker 1: digits clearly intact on each hand. Edward Johnson is not
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Speaker 1: finds the body to be that of a man in
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Speaker 1: and his face is clean shaven, none of which talies
Speaker 1: with the police's first suspicion that the man was a
Speaker 1: drunk or vagrant of some description, although there are a
Speaker 1: significant number of teeth missing from both the up and
Speaker 1: lower jaw eighteen in total. Dwyer puts him at roughly
Speaker 1: forty five years old and measures him at five ft
Speaker 1: eleven in height. He has a significant physicality, with the
Speaker 1: broad and muscular body of a man possessed of considerable strength.
Speaker 1: Dwyer pauses for a moment at his eyes. Looking a
Speaker 1: little closer, he notes an odd unevenness in his pupils,
Speaker 1: as if they'd been unnaturally reacting to something just prior
Speaker 1: to his death. Moving round the back, Dwyer finds a
Speaker 1: deep lividity behind the ears and neck where the blood
Speaker 1: has settled, consistent with the position the body had been
Speaker 1: in after the man died. He also finds a small
Speaker 1: amount of sand in the hair, but nothing in the
Speaker 1: nostrils or mouth, suggesting, along with the cleanliness of his shoes,
Speaker 1: that he'd not been on the beach before he died.
Speaker 1: Like doctor Bennett, Dwyer too assumes a condition of the
Speaker 1: heart to be the most likely cause of death, and
Speaker 1: Dulie finds a congestion of blood in all the major organs,
Speaker 1: a telltale sign of heart failure. So it's with some
Speaker 1: surprise that when he examines the heart itself he finds
Speaker 1: it not only in a healthy condition, but tough and firm,
Speaker 1: like the heart of a younger man. He's even more
Speaker 1: surprised when he opens the stomach to find blood inside,
Speaker 1: which points to a very different cause of death. Indeed,
Speaker 1: Dwyer can't yet be sure, but going on the evidence
Speaker 1: so far, he's left with the suspicion that although it
Speaker 1: may well have been heart failure that killed the man,
Speaker 1: his death had not occurred naturally. He had been poisoned,
Speaker 1: either by his own hand or by some one else's.
Speaker 1: With no obvious signs of anything lethal having been ingested,
Speaker 1: Dwier wanders for a moment if a hypodermic needle had
Speaker 1: been used. He checks in between the toes and the
Speaker 1: knuckles for a puncture wound, but finds nothing save for
Speaker 1: a light scar on the left arm and a few
Speaker 1: abrasions across the hand. Later that afternoon, Constable Sutherland delivers
Speaker 1: tissue samples to the state Government Department of Chemistry in
Speaker 1: the north of the city, along with samples of blood
Speaker 1: and urine. Each is received by doctor Robert Cohen, the
Speaker 1: deputy government chemical analyst, and will be tested for cyanides, alkaloids, barbiturates,
Speaker 1: and carbolic acids. It will be a few days before
Speaker 1: the results can be known. The following morning, Detective Lean,
Speaker 1: in his white panama and dark sea succor suit, grabs
Speaker 1: the copy of the Adelaide Advertiser from a new stand.
Speaker 1: Lean's attention is momentarily caught by a front page article
Speaker 1: announcing the arrest of two spies captured in the British
Speaker 1: zone of Vienna, before he flicks past to page two
Speaker 1: and finds what he's looking for. Dead man still unidentified
Speaker 1: reads the title. Satisfied that that will do the trick,
Speaker 1: he returns the paper to the new stand and heads
Speaker 1: off to work. A hot day as steadily brewing as
Speaker 1: Lean makes his way to the City Detective's office on
Speaker 1: Anger Street. The South Australian task Force consisted of fifteen
Speaker 1: or so personnel spread out across four small rooms, and
Speaker 1: base was at a premium. It wasn't uncommon to see
Speaker 1: any one of Constables Sutherland and Storch or Detective Caney
Speaker 1: squeezed onto the window sills or perched on the end
Speaker 1: of tables as they compiled their reports and checked their
Speaker 1: paperwork that morning. As they gather around, Lean takes the
Speaker 1: team through Dwyer's report, advising them to start considering the
Speaker 1: case as a suicide or a possible homicide, and to
Speaker 1: step up their search for the man's identity. Later, after
Speaker 1: receiving photos of the body and fingerprints from the morgue.
Speaker 1: The team put together case packs to be mailed with
Speaker 1: copies of the prints and photographs to all major police
Speaker 1: headquarters in the nation. In late nineteen forties Australia, by
Speaker 1: identifying a dead body could be a particularly arduous task.
Speaker 1: The end of war had triggered a tidal wave of
Speaker 1: mass migration, as many people unwilling or unable to return
Speaker 1: home looked to re establish their lives elsewhere. For Australia,
Speaker 1: the sheer scale of the hostilities, not to mention the
Speaker 1: attacks on Darwin and Sydney Harbor, had left many in government,
Speaker 1: perhaps recognizing the manner in which the nation had itself
Speaker 1: been established, terrified that such a young and underpopulated country
Speaker 1: was dangerously susceptible to invasion. Between nineteen forty seven and
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two alone, what was called a populate or
Speaker 1: Parish policy resulted in a hundred and eighty thousand people
Speaker 1: arriving to take up homes and jobs. The policy was
Speaker 1: heavily racially controlled, with Minister for Immigration Arthur Corwell terrified
Speaker 1: that what he called the Yellow Races might one day
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