BANGOR (AP) – Workers on a courthouse renovation project have made an eerie discovery in the basement – the headstone of a man who died in 1874.
County Administrator Bill Collins says no one knows why the headstone was kept in the basement of the courthouse, but he guesses it may have been evidence in a case. The front bears the name Isaac Cobb, who was 72 when he died.
Adding to the mystery is the poem scrawled on the back of the 3-foot high grave marker.
The ditty on the flip side appears to have been painted in black paint, by jail inmates. It’s titled “Pretty Boy Floyd Redmond” and tells the story of someone who came to town to “do or die.”
Workers have been renovating the Penobscot County Courthouse since October and are due to finish the job in February.
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Information from: Bangor Daily News, http://www.bangornews.com
AP-ES-11-28-07 1717EST
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