The Advertiser (Adelaide, South Australia) 22 June 1949. Page 2.
Curious Aspects of Unsolved Beach Mystery
The other event, which has been advanced as having a possible association with the Somerton mystery, was the report that Mrs Roma Mangnoson, of Largs Bay North, mother of the two-year-old boy whose tragic death in the sandhills near Largs a fortnight ago shocked Adelaide, had been the victim of terrorisation by a masked man.
Mrs Mangnoson told a reporter from "The Advertiser" yesterday that she had been almost ran down by a battered cream car in Cheapside street, Largs Bay North on Saturday. "The car stopped and a man with a khaki handkerchief over his face told me to 'keep away from the police, or else.'" she said. A man has twice been seen lurking near the house in the last few days.
The Acting Mayor of Port Adelaide (Mr A.H. Curtis) has also been threatened with "an accident" if he "stuck his nose into the Mangnoson affair" in three anonymous telephone calls since Sunday.
Mrs Mangnoson said yesterday that it was possible that the incidents could be related to the Somerton body, which her husband had unsuccessfully tried to identify. "My husband thought that he had worked with the man at Renmark." she said. "When he came home after seeing the body at the morgue he was so upset that he could hardly eat his tea."
Mrs Mangnoson said that the only occupants of the house beside herself were her mother, Mrs S.M. Mclntyre, 57, her sister. Mrs J. Lockard, 23, and Mrs Lockard's two-month-old baby. A man had shouted in the doorway on Thursday night, and since then they had been afraid to cross 20 ft. of open ground between the kitchen and the bedrooms.
The secretary of Largs North Progress Association (Mr J.M. Gower) has also received a telephone call telling him that Mrs Mangnoson would meet with an accident.
Detective L. Bond, of Port Adelaide, who is in charge of police investigations, believes the terrorist to be a crank. Several months ago, he said, the same man had frightened a young woman in a nearby district who had also lost her husband in tragic circumstances.
Another tragic parallel between the Largs and Somerton tragedies, pointed out yesterday was that the cause of death of Clive Mangnoson, like that of the Somerton victim, who lies in West Terrace Cemetery beneath the starkly lettered headstone "Unknown Man." is still undetermined, although it was known that it was not from natural causes.
Note that the above article has been cut/pasted from the Trove .nla .gov .au website. I have done some light editing to remove typos and rearrange from newspaper column format. There was no journalist name that I could find to credit the above article to and so and I'm open to correction.
Re: the underline above. I inserted it.
What are the chances the deceased, re: underlined, also served in a military-related capacity?