Perhaps the invisible ink story has come to a 'satisfactory' conclusion. Nearly twenty years after he was defrauded into financing the second C.A.G.E. Expedition, Leslie George Bridge commented on Neville Harding's 1951 expedition to find Lasseter's Reef. The source is hardly reliable yet widely quoted. From the Sydney Truth 21/01/51.

                

The Milwaukee Journal. 14/07/1931.

Death in Desert Again

Ends Search for Gold

Canberra, Australia – A nomad tribe of desert blacks has bought the skeleton of “possum” Lasseter to the outskirts of civilization and there ends a story of an attempt to obtain gold from the arid heart of the Australian continent.

There have been many reports of gold in the central Australian desert. Some gold has been found but many lives have been lost.

Lasseter’s expedition was the best equipped, but it ended, like the others, in death. A little more than a year ago Lasseter struggled out of the interior with a story of gold in the dread Petermann ranges and a company was formed to equip an expedition.

Two airplanes, a camel and a tribe of blacks co operated in placing stores of food, water and gasoline along the route to the ranges. Lasseter was left at the most distant base to await the main party. The first airplane crashed and the pilot barely escaped with his life and then the second plane met with a similar fate and its crew was rescued after privations.

Through all this Lasseter waited. Finally he tried to make his way out of the “great thirst” and perished.

The only clue to his claim is a prospector’s rough chart in the possession of his widow.