The address shown, 12 Beach Road, was the residence of one Wolfgang Wagner, a Czech Jewish man who arrived in Australia in 1939 as a refugee.
Nothing in the least unusual about Wolfgang except a few little things:
1. He was a cousin of one Helmuth Hendon, the man who lived with Gwen 'Dorothy' Graham, friend to George Marshall.
2. He was reported to the Police for monitoring Ship movements from his well located home from where he could see across the harbour and the Royal Australian Navy base at Garden Island:
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| This image is from a later time but it shows Rushcutters Bay slightly to the left and in the background, the roadway is now called New Beach Road. |
The letter and note on the Police file regarding suspected tracking of vessel movements:
So, what we have now is our code page and the letter Q referring to vessels being tracked, the Deloraine and the USS New Orleans and now we have someone suspected of effectively carrying out espionage activities by tracking vessels. Not only that, but this man was a cousin to Helmuth Hendon, the partner of Gwen Graham, friend of George Marshall.
Let's think about that awhile,
1. George Marshall apparently commits suicide,
2. Gwen Graham, who is a live-in partner to Helmuth Hendon, follows suit within days,
3. Wolfgang, cousin to Helmuth Hendon is suspected of monitoring ship movements on Sydney Harbour.
4. We have evidence of ship movement information being encoded on the code page, that covered a time period when Wolfgang resided in Rushcutters Bay.
5. The code page is found and associated with the mysterious death of an unknown man on Somerton Beach.
For those reading the above note to and by the Police, the inquiry regarding Wolfgang originally came from a Major Cohen who was based in Newcastle.
Perhaps George Marshall fell foul of both Helmut and Wolfgang, and was murdered. With George's mental health history-and me being cynical, what else would the inquest 'conveniently' find as the cause of his death, but suicide. Poor Gwen was on her own, and died a convenient death, yes, you've guessed it-suicide. Clive
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to Wolfgang's wife?
DeleteThanks JS, Seems that there is more information on Wolfgang, I didn't read anything about ship monitoring allegations on your comments? The tracking of ship movements was a major issue as per previous posts here and it links in to the letter Q and it's contents as per the HMAS Deloraine and the USS New Orleans. Did you find Wolfgang's telephone number? More to follow, hopefully shed further light on the subject.
ReplyDeleteJS, can't find any trace of earlier comments or posts on Wolfgang Wagner on your blog, perhaps you could point me at them?
ReplyDeleteGeorge Marshall describes being sacked after he discovered something crooked at the price commission. Having a brain injury doesn't make someone retarded. Then there was the rush to get him into a mental hospital. The eulogy by the brother in the newspaper was total spin.n b
ReplyDeleteWolfgang's wife, Charlota, born in 1907, died in 1947 per "Daily Telegraph" 13-09-47 Page 24. Clive
ReplyDeletethanks Clive, the article shows that Wolfgang lived at 10 Beach Street and not 12, a slip. The same article also states that she died intestate which would suggest that her death was sudden and I would guess unexpected. I wonder what happened and when?
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