The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-14
TWO HUNDRED
DOLLARS REWARD
Is Yours II You Can Identify An
Unknown Man on the Fair
GrOunds-A Remarkable Dis
eOvery of Lost Art.

Although unfortunately placed among
the side shows on the fair grounds on the
way to the grandstaud, hundreds OF
people, including doctors, chemists, ed
ucated men as we'll as women in every
walk of life, will 60 TO see the unknown
man who was murdered in the south part
Of Lima nearly a year ago. Like the
man, who while on the way 10 Jericho
fell among thieves and was jumped up
on, beaten, robbed and stripped of his
clothing and left for dead, Sept. IA, 1912
a stranger to Lima, a man apparently As
years of age, healthy and robust, IN the
prime of life, was pounced upon by ruff
fans, stripped of every stitch of clothing
stabbed to the heart and under the cover
OF darkness of the midnight hour was
carried to a barn loft where II hours lat
er he was discovered by boys who re-
ported their discovery to the Lima police
who in turn sent for the Floyd {. Whit
lev ambulance and the body was remov-
ed to his morgue.
Anxious TO preserve the stranger for
identification and in the hopes of secur-
ing some clue as to the murders, Mr.
Whitley, who is a graduate in chemistry,
embalmed the badly mutilated body with
a special embalming fluid of his own max
ing which he prepared after many years
of study along the lines of the long lost
Egyptian art of mummifying bodies.
The weeks and months rolled by, dur
ing which time the unfortunate man was
kept in the Whitley undertaktaking par
lors, burial not being necessary, Whit
ley's remarkable fluid had not only pre-
served the body but made it hard so that
the man could be stood up in the corner.
Anyone knowing him in life should be
able to identify him now-or 20 years
hence. Thousands Of people went to
see the murdered man at Whitley's par
lors, but to this day no one has been able
to tell who he is.
Following reports Of this remarkable
case in the leading newspapers of the
country thousands of letters were receiv-
ed by the police department of Lima and
Mr.. Whitley, coming from people from
all parts of the country who have missing
relatives, who thought perchance the
man who had met so cruel and untimely
death was some lost loved one, but 50 far
he is still unidentified. Two hundred
dollars reward is now offered to any per-
son who is able to tell who the murdered
man is.
The wonderful discovery of preserve
ing bodies of loved one for centuries to
come is indeed a subject that everyone
is interested in. The mummy of Ram
ses II, the great Pharoh of Bible fame
the prosecutor of the Israelites was con-
sidered of enough attraction to be taken
from Egypt to London-the greatest city
in the world, and since has been seen by
millions of people in the British museum
and like the mummy of the great Pha-
roah every man, woman and child can
look at the Lima mummy which will be
on exhibition at the fair grounds, as one
of the wonders of the century. There is
not that feeling of horror that some peo-
pie have when looking at people cold in
death. For when looking at mummifled
person you look at a person hardened
like a statue Mr. Whitley has even the
Egyptian art beaten in that every organ
in the body is preservek while the Egyp-
tians removed the brains and other or
gans in their mummifying process. Mr..
Whitley has discovered a fluid that pre-
serves all of the human body.
Don't fail to see the Lima mummy at
the fair grounds. You will find it un-
der tent on the way to the grandstand.
Two hundred dollars reward is yours if
You can identify the man. adv.