There seems to have been some discrepancy between them from the first, since, as has already been pointed out, the description published from the data of Adams and Lambie, was modified after Barrowman had given her information. Adams and Lambie said:
“A man between twenty-five and thirty years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches in height, slim build, dark hair, clean-shaven, dressed in light grey overcoat and dark cloth cap.”
After collaboration with Barrowman the description became:
“Twenty-eight or thirty years of age, tall and thin, clean-shaven, his nose slightly turned to one side. Wore one of the popular round tweed hats known as Donegal hats, and a fawn-coloured overcoat which might have been a waterproof, also dark trousers and brown boots.”
Apart from the additions in the second des
