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Show HOLDS BODY NINE YEARS. Undertaker Is Still Waiting for Embalmed Em-balmed Mummy to Be Identified. A man who is bolloved to havo be longed to a noble Kngllsh family dltd from cxposuro In Wayne nine years" ago nnd his body still lies unclaimed In tho morgue of S. P. Frnnkcnfleld's Sonst says a dispatch from Ardmoro, Pa. ' Mack was employed for several years by H. II. Johnson, a contractor ot Wnyno. Hu was a man of education educa-tion nnd culture, nnd, nccordlng to rumor, was the heir to a British tltlu which, for some mysterious reason, ho would not or could not claim. When tho man died J. S. Pearco, at that tlmo an undertaker, but who has since retired, embalmed tho body and decided to hold It until It should bo claimed. No ono ever claimed It, and, as trio embalming was unusually successful, suc-cessful, a number of efforts have been mndo by museums to purchase tho body, hut Mr. Penrro says ho will not surrender It excupt to some memhci of Mack's family. Tho body has boon viewed by thou sands of people, many of them Englishmen, En-glishmen, who hoped to Identify It. The skin retains Its natural color, and tho sandy mustncho and hair remain as In life. Tho noso has become, unnaturally un-naturally sharp from having boon pinched by people who doubted If tho jnan was really dead. Over tho head of tho mummy n cuckoo clock is kept going to keep him from getting lone-some. |