After more than a century the town of Reading, closed the casket on Saturday on its oddest-ever resident - a mummified man who was finally buried, 128 years after his death.Crowds of people began to line up in recent days to pay their respects, snap photos or gaze with bewilderment at the macabre mystery in 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. Auman Funeral Home when no one claimed the body, before being accidentally mummified by undertakers.
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