Editing Semester A Progress Report 2012 (section)

====Background====
At 6.30am on the 1st December 1948, a dead man was discovered on Somerton Beach, South Australia, resting against the seawall. No identification was found on the body, the only items he carried being some chewing gum, cigarettes, a comb, an unused train ticket, and a used bus ticket - for a bus stop just 250 metres from where his body was found.
The pathologist performing the autopsy found that the man's stomach and kidneys were deeply congested and the liver contained excess blood. He suggested the victim died from poisoning, but was unable to identify the specific poison used. A review of the case in 1994 concluded that it was likely the man died from digitalis poisoning.
As is evident from the previous paragraphs and one of the goals for this project, the identity of the man remains a mystery to this day. He was described as being Eastern European in appearance, mid-40s in top physical condition and with his hands showing no signs of physical labour. He was clean-shaven, dressed in a fashionable European suit and his boots were polished, but all the name tags from his clothing had been removed and no record of his fingerprints or dental structure was found in international registries. By February 1949, there had been eight different "positive" identifications of the body by members of the public.
A month and a half after the discovery of the body, a brown suitcase believed to belong to the man was found at Adelaide Railway Station. It contained various items of clothing - again with no name tags - shaving items, and tools such as scissors, a screwdriver and stenciling equipment. The only identifying marks were "T. Keane" on a tie, "Keane on a laundry bag and "Kean" on a singlet, along with three dry-cleaning marks; these have never successfully been linked to anyone.
Many theories have been put forward as to the identity of the mystery man. One of the more popular is that he was a spy, with the lack of identification and the mysterious poisoning pointed to as evidence for this theory.