Imaginations have been running riot here at Little Darwin. For some time we have been helping compile a dossier on a dashing mystery man , said to have been in the Royal Air Force but no record has so far been found, who at first glance seems to have been a conman who flitted about the world in places like Russia, Canada, America , South Africa , Switzerland , Britain and Australia , living on his wits and indulging in the high life.
During his time in America, his got his young daughter to hop up on a table at a Las Vegas casino and do a Shirley Temple - tap dance for the gamblers- who showered her with money. That daughter is doggedly trying to track down every possible avenue to try and find out more about her family, including a one -eyed Irish Quaker !!!!! grannie who went through five husbands. Interesting emails and telephone conversations have taken place between us and the daughter who lives overseas.
At one stage, daddy was deported from Australia to Britain to face a charge, details of which are expected soon. Our resident genealogical sleuth has dug up an earlier bigamy case .
Very puzzling indeed is the way the legitimate wife ???, herself a colourful, thirsty damsel, was treated in her final years. She was placed in a Melbourne retirement village with instructions from an anonymous person to be given whatever she wanted . The nursing home would not tell her daughter the name of the benefactor.
On her death, all letters , personal documents , receipts or anything which contained her name disappeared . Her residence was unusually tidy , giving the impression that it had been “swept clean ” by a team which looked in every nook and cranny.
Little Darwin was verbally told of this nursing home puzzle soon after the recent interview by the ABC Late Night Live presenter , Phillip Adams , of author / journalist, Chapman Pincher, the British expert on espionage . During the interview , which revealed spies in MI5 and elsewhere, Pincher mentioned the Australian Spy Catcher book court case in which Malcolm Turnbull beat Maggie Thatcher and the British intelligence fraternity. (It is now history that Turnbull was overthrown by an Argentinian junta backed by the malevolent Teletubbies ). Makes you wonder who' s who and if our nursing homes are the last resting place for worn out Mata Haris who can no longer perform seductive belly dances for generals and rear admirals .
During his time in America, his got his young daughter to hop up on a table at a Las Vegas casino and do a Shirley Temple - tap dance for the gamblers- who showered her with money. That daughter is doggedly trying to track down every possible avenue to try and find out more about her family, including a one -eyed Irish Quaker !!!!! grannie who went through five husbands. Interesting emails and telephone conversations have taken place between us and the daughter who lives overseas.
At one stage, daddy was deported from Australia to Britain to face a charge, details of which are expected soon. Our resident genealogical sleuth has dug up an earlier bigamy case .
Very puzzling indeed is the way the legitimate wife ???, herself a colourful, thirsty damsel, was treated in her final years. She was placed in a Melbourne retirement village with instructions from an anonymous person to be given whatever she wanted . The nursing home would not tell her daughter the name of the benefactor.
On her death, all letters , personal documents , receipts or anything which contained her name disappeared . Her residence was unusually tidy , giving the impression that it had been “swept clean ” by a team which looked in every nook and cranny.
Little Darwin was verbally told of this nursing home puzzle soon after the recent interview by the ABC Late Night Live presenter , Phillip Adams , of author / journalist, Chapman Pincher, the British expert on espionage . During the interview , which revealed spies in MI5 and elsewhere, Pincher mentioned the Australian Spy Catcher book court case in which Malcolm Turnbull beat Maggie Thatcher and the British intelligence fraternity. (It is now history that Turnbull was overthrown by an Argentinian junta backed by the malevolent Teletubbies ). Makes you wonder who' s who and if our nursing homes are the last resting place for worn out Mata Haris who can no longer perform seductive belly dances for generals and rear admirals .
