Body of Scots kid for sale on web.THE mummifed body of a Scots child which was put up for auction on the internet may have been stolen from its grave. Police moved in when an advert was placed on eBay by Lynn Sterling from Port Huron Port Huron (hy  r`ən), city (1990 pop. 33,694), seat of St. Clair co., S Mich., a natural, deepwater port of entry at the junction of the St. Clair River with Lake Huron; inc. 1857. in Michigan, USA.
They confiscated the human remains. An investigator found that the body was that of a child aged between six and nine in the 19th century. The remains came from the collection of Glasgow doctor Allen Burns, whose brother was a graverobber. Burns was put in charge of the dissecting dis·sect tr.v. dis·sect·ed, dis·sect·ing, dis·sects 1. To cut apart or separate (tissue), especially for anatomical study. 2. rooms at the College Street Medical School in Glasgow in 1797, when he was just 16. He died in 1813 and left his collection to Glasgow surgeon Andrew Russel, who sold them to an associate, Granville Sharp Pattison. Pattison took them to the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:
The woman who was trying to sell the mummy said a demolition worker friend had found it in a Detroit school when it was being knocked down 30 years ago. The advert was axed by eBay because they ban the sale of human remains. |
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