The unnamed pickpocket was accidentally mummified after his death from alcoholism in 1895.
Fraud trial judge calls out Trump's since-deleted Truth Social post about his law clerk, threatens 'serious sanctions'An alcoholic pickpocket — known affectionately as “Stoneman Willie” — who was accidentally mummified by a mortician trying out a new embalming technique will finally receive a proper burial after being on display at a Pennsylvania funeral home for 128 years.
“We don’t refer to him as a mummy. We refer to him as our friend Willie,” said Kyle Blankenbiller, funeral director. “He has just been become such an icon, such a storied part of not only Reading’s past but certainly its present.” Until now, not much was known about the mysterious decedent beyond his Irish roots, his ties to New York State, and the fact that he had a mustache in life and died from alcoholism at age 37.
All this week, Willie will be on display at Auman’s Funeral Home, allowing local residents to pay their respects.“It was nice to have our hometown hero and see him one last time,” Mark May, who traveled from Mechanicsburg with his son Thomas, to visit Willie,Veronica Dangler said seeing the famous mummy was part of her childhood, and she visited the funeral home again this week to bid Willie a final farewell.
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