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===Timeline=== * '''1949''' June 2nd, Paul Lawson is shown the dead body at the City Morgue in order to prepare for plaster cast manufacture. * '''1949''' June 7th, Paul Lawson makes plaster moulds of head and shoulders of the Somerton man at the City Morgue. * '''1949''' June 8th, Lawson takes the moulds back to his lab to complete the bust. Also the plaster moulds of the ears are converted to wax moulds so that they can be melted off at a later stage. Lawson receives a phone call from Constable Dinham regarding the disposal of the body. * '''1949''' June 9th, Paul Lawson fills moulds with plaster of Paris combined with sisal fibres. The process is overseen by Detective Schwartz. * '''1949''' June 10th, Paul Lawson finishes breaking away the moulds from the plaster. * '''1949''' June 14th, the Somerton man is buried. * '''1949''' June 15th, Lawson completes finishing touches to the bust in his lab. Brown, Noblet, Leane, and Cleland inspect the bust. The anthropologist [[Norman Barnett Tindale|Norman Barnett ("Tinny") Tindale]] also inspected the bust. He was an expert in ethnic facial features, and his comments were not recorded (presumably this means he was unable to make any firm judgement). * '''1949''' June 16th, Cast is handed over to Police Constable Horsnell who arranged photographs and delivery to inquest. * '''1949''' June 17th, The coronial inquest begins in the [[IOOF]] building at 11-13 Flinder's Street, Adelaide. Lawson's testimony was given on the morning of the 17th. * '''1949''' June 21st, The coronial inquest ended inclusively with an [[Sine die|adjournment ''sine die'']]. * '''1949,''' June 21st, After the inquest, the plaster cast of the bust is delivered to Paul Lawson's office for safe keeping. * '''1949''' July 26th, The former-nurse ("Mrs Thompson") is shown the bust in Paul Lawson's office.
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