In the thirties Neville was asked by a wealthy Barbadian father, through his own father, to find his estranged alcoholic son Ken in New York and bring him home; they found him in the gutter, and Neville got him, stopping at every speakeasy on the way from Coney Island, onto the boat for the ten-day voyage — Ken survived, outlived everyone, inherited a quarter of a million dollars and lives in Barbados vegetating.
Date (happened)
between 1930 and 1939
unresolved
between 1930 and 1939
stated · preferred
between 1920 and 1933
stated
No date
relative
Reasoning
The witness directly says during Prohibition, but the packet supplies no calendar bounds for that named era.
Told / reported
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14 January 1966
estimated
Why
Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
Reasoning
Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1232 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1232 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1966-1-14 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1966-1-14 certain; 1969-4-7 refuted; 1966-1-14 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1969-04-07 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
7 April 1969
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1232, 1969-4-7) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1966-1-14. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources
Source
- The Bible Is All About You ¶30 (Picked him up near Coney Island, got him in the cab…he knew every speakeasy all the way down.)
- Blake: Four Types of Vision ¶14 (I think of a friend of mine in Barbados. I poured him on the boat during Prohibition, but I mean poured him on. He would drink anything that was alcohol, but anything. Why he didn’t die!)