An alleged thief dubbed “Stoneman Willie” was preserved after his 1895 death in an embalming mishap. He has been in the same Reading, Pa., funeral home ever since.
One of the oldest mummies in the U.S., Stoneman Willie, will receive a proper burial after being on display at a funeral home in Reading, Penn., for 128 years. An alleged thief whose body was accidentally mummified by an experimental undertaker and kept in a funeral home for 128 years is finally going to be buried.
According to local historian George M. Meiser XI, the body was preserved shortly after death by Theodor Auman, a mortician who at the time was experimenting with innovative arterial embalming. The technique was still relatively new in the late 19th century, when corpses were frequently stored on ice until burial.“There was no recipe so he made his own,” Meiser said in a telephone interview Tuesday, referring to Auman’s rogue method.
In 1896, one newspaper report described Stoneman Willie as “white as wax.” Today, the mummy has taken on a more leathery hue. According to Meiser, the body belonged to an alleged thief who provided the false name of James Penn when he was arrested for theft in West Reading, Pa., in October 1895.
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