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A mummified US man, known as Stoneman Willie was finally buried after over a century as a local legend in Pennsylvania. | World News
READING, Pa. — A leather-skinned mummified man lying in an open coffin in Reading, Pennsylvania, known only as “Stoneman Willie” to the public got two things Saturday he went without
A mummified man known as 'Stoneman Willie' in Reading, Pennsylvania, was given a proper burial and his real name, James Murphy, after 128 years. Murphy, an Irish alcoholic, died in 1895 while in jail. His remains had been accidentally mummified by a mortician experimenting with embalming techniques.
In Reading, Pennsylvania, a mummified man named “Stoneman Willie,” with leather-like skin, finally received a proper burial and revealed his true...
James Murphy, nicknamed ‘Stoneman Willie’ because of hard skin from experimental embalming, has been ‘gawked at long enough’