![]() After bringing McCurdy’s body in, the sheriff claimed the reward money, a whopping $2,000!īut, the sheriff did not pay the undertakers and the Johnson Funeral Home took McCurdy’s body as payment, displaying it for a small fee to curious looky-loos in order to recoup their losses for having already embalmed the corpse. A shootout commenced that lasted for an hour, McCurdy was found dead when the smoke cleared, a gunshot wound to his chest the culprit. After making off with only 40-some dollars, two jugs of whiskey, and two kegs of beer from a disappointingly un-wealthy train, McCurdy hid out in a barn and drank away his troubles.Ī sheriff’s posse (complete with bloodhounds) was formed to find McCurdy and find him they did. It was after this last exploit that the desperate gang took to becoming train robbers in 1911. Another time the bank was blown to bits while the safe remained untouched. Once he and the gang had to scrape melted silver coins off the safe because the whole thing had exploded. McCurdy frequently miscalculated his use of explosives on bank safes and the results sound almost like plots from a comic book. He became part of a gang that robbed banks, but McCurdy never quite had the hang of it. After working as a plumber and then later joining the Army (where he learned a little about explosives), McCurdy fell into some pretty bad ways. Via/ Wiki Commonsīorn in 1880, the subject of our story, one Elmer McCurdy, turned to drinking and trouble-making when he found out he was an illegitimate child. And be warned, there is graphic content ahead. Read on to find out what happened to the outlaw corpse. But, this unbelievable tales has quite a few twists, one of which involves The Six Million Dollar Man. It was a long journey which took decades but, in the end, one outlaw’s corpse finally ended up in the ground and with a headstone no less.
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