People pay final respects to Reading's Stoneman Willie
"He's just been a celebrity since I can remember."
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"He's just been a celebrity since I can remember."
Alcoholic pickpocket 'Stoneman Willie' was mummified by an undertaker experimenting with a new embalming technique in 1895.
Inside Reading's Auman Funeral Home, people pay their respects to Stoneman Willie one last time.
The mummified body of an Irish-born pickpocket who died in jail of alcoholism in 1895 will receive a proper burial in Reading, Pennsylvania, Saturday, at which time his real name will finally be revealed.
Nov. 2, 1994 The American Lung Association requests stronger control of hazardous waste burning by cement kilns in the state. The Paulding Lafarge plant, which