Elmer McCurdy (January, 1880 in Washington, Maine - October 7, 1911) was an Oklahoma outlaw whose mummified body was discovered in the Nu-Pike amusement park in Long Beach, California in December 1976. Wikipedia
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The mysterious Long Beach Mummy turned out to be the earthly remains of one Elmer J. McCurdy, an Oklahoma outlaw who was killed in a train robbery in 1911. www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_203a.html
The body was that of Elmer McCurdy , a young man who in 1911 robbed a train of $46 and two jugs of whiskey in Oklahoma. He announced to the posse in pursuit of him that he would not be taken alive. He was proved right — they killed him in the ensuing sh www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/mccurdy.asp