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POLICE NOT EXCITED OVER HUMAN SKULLMuch amusement haa been createdIn local circles by the announcement of the finding of a skull during the excavation at Mineral Park and the deductions of some Junior Sherlock Holmes that It came from the body of a man who disappeared some years ago, and who presumably was mur-l,| dared for his money,Joe H. Myers chief of police asserted this morning that no investigations were being made by his department relative to the finding of the skull.•‘Years ago” said Myers, when a cemetery was being removed to make way for the alte where the Children's Home now stands, many bodies were taken away by relative* of the dead persona, and buried.*Those not claimed were “dumped in the Kansas City bottoms and In the grading which has been going on for the past two months, a workman brought the skull to light yesterday and In his excitement conveyed it to police headquarters’*
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Thu, Jan 16, 1919
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