By November that year there had been 251 different identifications, all of which were ruled out by the police. No one had a clue.

Later in the month a brown suitcase was unearthed at Adelaide train station. It too had its label removed and held a dressing gown, slippers, under crackers, PJs, shaving stuff, trousers, a screwdriver, a filed down table knife and some sharpened scissors. The suitcase also contained the type of stencil brush used by merchant ships for marking cargo. Lastly, they found some orange waxed thread of a kind which wasn’t sold in Australia, but that Somerton’s trouser pocket had been fixed with. Surely it was his case.

Adelaide train station:

Some name tags were finally found on Somerton – T.Keane on a tie, Keane on a laundry bag and Kean (no ‘e’) on a singlet. These are now widely thought to be a red herring. No T.Keane was registered as missing in the entirety of the English-speaking world. Further analysis on the stitching in the coat proved that it was made in the US. Details were slowly adding up but they weren’t adding up to any kind of solution.

His bag and contents:

The general theory of Somerton’s last movements were that he had missed his train and taken the bus to Glenelg where he wandered around for the day. The coroner’s inquest however pointed out that his shoes were too clean and unruffled to have been walking around for long. They started thinking that the body may have been moved to its final resting place after death which would explain the lack of vomit and signs of convulsions. Poisoning was still thought to be the cause of death but still no traces of any poison were found.

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