On The Trail Of The Forgers

[Steve Powell]

On The Trail Of Fantasy

Howdy Troopers,
The trail led me to the Old Melbourne Gaol.
Interesting black past of a place.
They hung me mate Ned Kelly there
and that Ripper suspect Deeming.
Walls soaked with sorrow and madness.
What was once a mighty and proud tree
now shaved, bleached and tortured
by the weight of sins from the hangman's rope.

Steven Park went to see the gaol when it opened in 1972.
For him it was a church of dead heroes.
A thrilling fantasy of himself in every cell.
His diary was one of those fantasies.
It took Feldman to bring it to life.

[Graham]

Steve,

Good to have you back - I don't care what anyone else sez!

"Such is life!" were Ned Kelly's last words.

As for Feldman.....

Cheers,

Graham

[Victoria]

Yes, many people make heroes of the likes of the 'bushrangers',
maybe in the case of some, the adulation goes too far . . .

I like Ned Kelly with his Irish heritage .. but 'Thunderbolt' or should
I say 'Captain Thunderbolt', alias Frederick Ward, holds appeal to me
because of the stories I have heard.
He supposedly hid out in caves, in a mountain called 'White Rock' ..
in country New South Wales, in a town called Glen Innes, on part of my
great grandparents property. After he was presumed dead in 1870, there
were still sightings of him there.

[Steve Powell]

Keep it simple.

It's just remarkable to myself reading all of the theories
of how old the scratches are on the watch
and which scratches were there first and such.
'Tens of years old' was the catch cry of the investigators.
'Maybe older' said someone else.
If I didn't know the simple truth about the watch,
all of this wonderful speculation might intrigue me.
'The truth is often the most simple and logical explanation'
Now that's right thinking and I think some of the troopers here
have forgotten that age old, wise saying.
When I told someone on another thread that Steven Park
had intentionally 'roughed-up' the watch and then constantly
'aged' it by cleaning it again and again, (after he scratched the initials into it)
the dear reader thought it was the most ridiculous thing
he had ever heard of.
Yet, it is the simple truth.
Too simple it seems for some.
Those of you that have studied Maybrick should know:
He was a tidy man; a gentleman who liked to look good.
Even if he was addicted to his arsenic - like a lot were back then -
he wasn't a deranged maniac who was 'down on whores'
and decided to mutilate and kill a few of them.
What type of person would scratch initials of their victims
on the inside of their watch?
A madman? Of course, that's what Steven Park wanted you to think.
But if you think about it, it's just dumb, like I said to Steven when he told
me that was his plan.
He thought it was brilliant.
I still shake my head at the thought of it.
However, it has worked! Some people believe that Maybrick is the Ripper
and that the watch proves it.
God, what a lot of rubbish.
The only amazing thing about the whole diary and watch saga,
is how Paul Feldman managed to pull the whole thing off.
He put together a good, but childish idea
and turned it into one of the biggest hoax's of the last century.
I have to hand it to the guy, he was near brilliant.
I say 'near' though.

All the best
Steve Powell

[caz]

What did Feldy and Park do to you, Steve? Tell you all about their dastardly plans and then gag you and lock you up somewhere in case you spilled the beans too soon? Drug you with something that only allowed a very slow release of impossibly garbled recollections?

Or did they pay you extremely well to come out with one unbelievable claim after another, until every last reader is finally convinced that they had nothing to do with hoaxing the diary or watch?

In short, are you working against your hoaxers or for them?

Something you may want to think about.

Love,

Caz
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[Steve Powell]

Caz hates Yoko!

What was that again about 'impossibly garbled recollections?'
If you are referring to the record of 'Cambridge '69' by Yoko Ono,
don't blame me, I didn't perform on that record at all.
As for :"Something you may want to think about."
naaa...

Anon

[Bailey]

Steve, everyone hates Yoko.

B.

[Steve Powell]

Love will turn you on.

No Bailey, not everyone hates Yoko.
She is despised by those who think she broke up the Beatles.
John Lennon loved the woman and that should be enough for his fans
to know that she too must have had her merits.
To lose her husband and lover the way she witnessed,
is too terrible to comprehend.
Change your mind on her Bailey.
Hate is over if you want.

[Bailey]

Steve

I assure you, I have nothing against Yoko - and endless sympathy for how she lost her husband - tho I think there are many who will agree that, whether definitely because of her influence or not, *some* of Mr L's later works when she was around were of extremely dubious quality...

Anyhoo, back to topic...

B.

[Graham]

Steve

I assure you, I have nothing against Yoko - and endless sympathy for how she lost her husband - tho I think there are many who will agree that, whether definitely because of her influence or not, *some* of Mr L's later works when she was around were of extremely dubious quality...

Anyhoo, back to topic...

B.

Hi Bailey,

Couldn't agree more.

Graham

[Victoria]

'Instant Karma' ..

No Bailey, not everyone hates Yoko.
She is despised by those who think she broke up the Beatles.
John Lennon loved the woman and that should be enough for his fans
to know that she too must have had her merits.
To lose her husband and lover the way she witnessed,
is too terrible to comprehend.
Change your mind on her Bailey.
Hate is over if you want.

I agree with you, also ..
Yoko may have seemed like the cause of the Beatles break up, but as
I firmly believe in fate and/or karma .. it was just the unfoldment of the
events of life as they were mean't to be.
Yoko is ok.

And ok then, back to the topic ..
finding the forger, and his accomplices.

[caz]

What was that again about 'impossibly garbled recollections?'
If you are referring to the record of 'Cambridge '69' by Yoko Ono,
don't blame me, I didn't perform on that record at all.
As for :"Something you may want to think about."
naaa...

Anon

Steve, I honestly don't know what the hell you're on about - or what the hell you're on - but I don't want any thanks.

And ok then, back to the topic ..
finding the forger, and his accomplices.

Well quite, Victoria.

But I thought you and Steve were claiming to have found them already and that the book was going to expose them. Have you now joined him in his aim to do his level best to confound that object?

Are you not even curious to know how much Steve was paid by Park and Feldy to make absolutely sure that he would make his 'trail' back to them impossible for anyone with two brain cells to take seriously?

Love,

Caz
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[Victoria]

Well quite, Victoria.

But I thought you and Steve were claiming to have found them already and that the book was going to expose them. Have you now joined him in his aim to do his level best to confound that object?

Are you not even curious to know how much Steve was paid by Park and Feldy to make absolutely sure that he would make his 'trail' back to them impossible for anyone with two brain cells to take seriously?

Love,

Caz
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Good morning Caz,

Well, firstly my comment was just a general one to make the point
that I knew that talking about Yoko was 'off topic'.
And yes Steve knows, but as for finding them 'physically' .. I do not
know if he has, or what evidence he has found.

No, I am not curious to know, "how much Steve was paid by Park and Feldy."
For starters, back in the days when Steve would have last saw Steven,
Steven would not have had any money to pay anyone anything, and also ..
Steve is not someone who could be bribed or paid off, it is not in his nature,
as far as I remember, and I doubt that has changed.

Caz, I realise also that I have answered your post in a serious way, but
your comments were 'tongue in cheek'.

enjoy the day,
love,
Victoria

[Steve Powell]

Sweet Caroline.

Caroline said:
"Are you not even curious to know how much Steve was paid by Park and Feldy to make absolutely sure that he would make his 'trail' back to them impossible for anyone with two brain cells to take seriously?"
Two brain cells eh?
There you go being bitchy again.
Is the truth an embarrassment to you because of the book you wrote?
When the truth does come out very soon and everyone sees
that your co-written book was simply a prop for the ongoing diary saga,
what can you say then Caroline?:
'I just followed the leads I was told.';
'I wasn't told about that.'
Maybe you could try: 'If I had not have been told by others that Steve Powell
was a waste of time, I might have believed him.' Or:
'We all believed Feldman, how could we know that he set this all up himself?'
To be fair, as I shall to you, (unlike yourself to me)
I feel that maybe you haven't been told all of the truth about the diary?
Certain facts have been withheld from you?
Or do you know all of the truth and are willingly participating
in the continuing conspiracy to make money out of this covert lie?
You keep coming here to attack anything I say. Anything at all.
It just makes me wonder, is all.
The simple explanation would be to say that you are
just securing any assets that your book makes in the future.
But gosh Caroline, knowing what I do about the participants
in the diary hoax and fraud, I can't help but wonder about you.
If ever you want to contact me privately to shed some doubts
about things you may be 'confused' over, please do so.
The same goes for any of your 'friends' as well.
Now, if you don't mind, if you have to say something about me
in the future, don't be bitchy about it huh?
And, while you are still here..
What do you think the embedded numbers of '1286'
in the watch mean?
No idea?
Ah well, you'll just have to wait and read my book now.
I mentioned you by the way.

Steve Powell

[caz]

Ah well, you'll just have to wait and read my book now.

What makes you think your book will contain anything of any possible interest to me?

Love,

Caz
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