'Stoneman Willie' was revealed to have been named James Murphy as his gravestone was unveiled.
After more than a century living with a macabre mystery, the city of Reading, Pennsylvania closed the casket Saturday on its oddest-ever resident -- a mummified man who was finally buried.Crowds of people have lined up in recent days to pay their respects, snap photos or gaze with bewildered awe on a scene unlikely to ever be repeated in the United States.'Stoneman Willie' was the nickname bestowed long ago on an alleged thief who died in 1895 in jail and was taken to the Theo C.
'He's been gawked at enough' The corpse has been in an open casket for almost his entire stay at the funeral home, until being loaded into a motorcycle-drawn hearse Saturday.His leathery skin and smooth sunken facial features have been the object of fascination for thousands, including countless curious locals, researchers and, in decades past, schoolchildren on class trips.
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