Jessica Ellen Thomson

Was living at the residence to which a phone number was wriiten in a book called Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám which is alleged to be the copy that the words Taman Shud was torn from and found in the pocket of a pair of trousers that an unknown deceased male was wearing when found upon Somerton Beach on the morning of 1/12/1948. Jessica was interviewed and taken to see the plaster cast of the unknown corpse, to which she is alleged to of almost fainted, but told detectives that she could not identify him. Her son was believed by some to be the offspring of the Carl Webb AKA Somerton Man? due to some physical similarities. This was not proven by DNA. An exhumation of the corpse to extract DNA has not occurred

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HARKNESS JESSIE E Registration number 2727/1921  Father's Given name(s) THOMAS L Mother's Given name(s) ELLEN District MARRICKVILLE