5. Edgar Claude Hasler - Part 2

Edgar Claude Hasler    -   1874 -1946

Continuing from Part 1 :

 

 

(Bit of dialogue and back story)
When I initially developed interest in Edgar, my Great Aunt, gave me some documents (quite a lot), that was to be of Edgar's life story.
His own personal documents. It was to be, quite the historical documentary, on his life.
It took about 6 months to initially understand him (and a few years later to fully understand). I would talk to my father, my wife and great aunt about him, because I couldn't fully grasp his behaviour, I needed 2nd and 3rd opinions on my hypothesis, as a lot of my thoughts were confused.
It is only now that I can write up about him, as I found what is the biggest explanation to his life story - to date. It also directly involves his ancestors. A document found a few weeks ago, on his Great Grandfather, opened a door to explain in great detail, on why the "K R Moure" persona, was into Mining and Well Boring operations. The link and story is mindboggling and astounding (More on that later)

The above document, shows K R Moure up to about 1930, even what was to be the concept of drawing up Kelwylyn's life story.
This document shows exactly, how he adjusted Kelwylyn's life to fit in with the stories. I suppose, like a scriptwriter, he was depicting the story board of Kelwylyn right before my eyes.
It shows that Edgar even corrected himself on Kelwylyn's early life. Something's were a little to 'bright', so he had to tune down the story to make it fit within his own life. This document gave me great insight to what and how he worked.

Part of the document, shows that he worked in Papua New Guinea. Yes he did go, but it was for 1 week. A little bit more on that story later.
But the placement of timelines, shows that it looks like he was there till 1921.
During WW1 era, he was actually in Western Australia, digging and working the Gold Mines with his younger brother. Whilst it's true what he did, he did not elaborate on his timelines, which gave a false indication of what he was actually doing.

Edgar manipulated the persona K R Moure so much, that it was hard to define what was truth and what was fact. Because the stories were quite strong in concept, a lot of people around him, who weren't educated to a University level, actually believed him.
It wasn't until a few people who had this high level of education, actually called his bluff. He squirmed so much, it was almost like watching Nixon being grilled by David Frost about the Watergate affair.
But the funny thing is, he always "got away with it", in a manner of speaking. This is something that I cannot understand, particularly in today's world. Flabbergasted, would be the word.

As mentioned before, Edgar doesn't appear until 1903 and is under the persona of K R Moure in Adelaide, South Australia.

From 1903 - Edgar Claude Hasler, is now long gone and forgotten.
(until 2 events in 1918 and 1920 - more on that later)

The first public instance of K R Moure was here :  http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4963848

Same page here :  http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4963969

It shows we already have a US Senator and an Oil Expert in June of 1903.
The mentioning of "County of Washington - Ohio" is a little ironic to pick.
Seemingly that his ancestors (Great Great Grandfather and Great Grandfather) were good friends of 1st President - George Washington and the US political hierarchy.
Interesting references to "George Washington" pop up a few times during his life.
It was like he is "chuffed to bits", on being associated with his ancestors.

Moure investigates the "Coorong" district for Oil. Initially some reports came out of Coorong about a substance found that contained "Oil", but after later tests it showed that it was an algae with similar properties.
But this substance was promoted highly that Coorong was to be "mined and drilled" right away. Because I couldn't find a lot of reference to this Oil find, recent searches on Google showed nothing in today's world of Mining (on a grand scale) ever happening in Coorong district. It was all park land. After learning of this discrepancy, I treated Mr Moure with a doubtful respect. Every piece of info was analysed to see if there was a discrepancy.
I later found out Mr Moure was, I suppose - Cold Calling or being like a Water Diviner on the suspected Oil Fields of Coorong.
When this Coorong project was debunked, Moure moved on to other projects of a similar nature

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