Another Morbid, Typical Tidbit on the identification of Clell Miller's Skeleton

[James Allder]

I enjoy reading this stuff, even though it seems to be taking forever for experts to reach a consensus on whether or not this is indeed Clell Miller's skeleton. 

 

http://www.startribune.com/local/south/161649095.html

 

There's also a letter available on-line at the Minnesota Historical Society.  I went hunting for it (again) and couldn't find it (again).  The letter was written to the pardon board to persuade the governor not to release any of the Youngers from prison, and was written by a woman who when she was a little girl in school, was made to walk past in single file, the dead body of William Chadwell.  She said this was to influence children not to take up a life of crime.  But she also mentioned in the letter a doctor who eventually took the bones, placed them in a wooden coffin and sunk it in a lake, which people fished from LOL  Eventually, the bones were left in a field to be bleached by the sun and the skeleton was sold for academic purposes.  She says.  At least that's what I remember.  It was a very interesting letter.      

 

 

[Nicholas Narog]

I believe this is the letter you are looking for:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00861/pdf/00861-000007.pdf

I find this letter interested because she mentions a lot of places around where I grew up. I have been to Como Lake many, many times.

[Gay Mathis]

James, funding & etc..is an issue..Kearney Courier--Finding an outlaw--(Excerpts)

(Complete Newspaper Link)

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Unearthing the truth

The Clay County prosecutor’s office had not received a request for exhumation as of June 26, according to Jim Roberts, spokesman.

A request has been sent to the Jackson County Medical Examiner’s office, which also serves Clay County, but has stalled there. Neither Dr. Mary H. Dudley, chief medical examiner, nor Tom Hensley, deputy chief investigator, have returned phone calls from The Kearney Courier seeking comment. Hensley emailed Kearney City Administrator Jim Eldridge asking if the Kearney Police Department could provide 24-hour security at the gravesite during an exhumation and stated Clay County Sheriff Bob Boydston had already turned down a request for his deputies to do so.