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"OMAR" CLUE BIG LEAD
IN S.A. MYSTERY
ADELAIDE, Tues. - The copy of Omar Khayyam's
"Rubaiyat" handed to the police on Friday has
given a definite lead to the identity of a man found dead
on a beach near Glenelg on December 1.
ONE of the few clues on the body
was a piece of trimmed paper
bearing the printed words "Taman
Shud"-the last words of the "Ru-
baiyat." They mean "The End."
A long hunt ended when a busi-
ness man gave the police a book he
found in a car.. It was a copy of
the "Rubaiyat"-with the last words
missing.
A telephone number written in
the back of the book proved to be
that of an Adelaide woman, who
says-she gave a copy of the "Rubai-
yat" to an army lieutenant in Syd-
ney about three and a half years
ago.
The officer later tried to com-
municate with her. She told him
she was married.
Then the body of the unidenti-
fied man was found within a
quarter of a mile of her home.
Melbourne and Sydney police are
checking lists of missing people to
see if the officer is among them.
They are satisfied the slip of paper
in the dead man's pocket is of the
same texture as the paper in the
book handed to them.
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