All Discussions Tagged 'John Stamp' - The Wild Geese2024-03-28T23:05:05Zhttps://thewildgeese.irish/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=John+Stamp&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe Irish at Duffy's Cut: New York Times -- Massacre or Epidemic ... or Bothtag:thewildgeese.irish,2013-03-26:6442157:Topic:145562013-03-26T20:12:21.332ZGerry Reganhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/ger_regan
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/us/secrets-of-duffys-cut-yield-to-shovel-and-science.html?hpw&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/us/secrets-of-duffys-cut-yield-to-shovel-and-science.html?hpw&_r=0</a></p>
<p><span>"MALVERN, Pa. — They laid his bones in a bed of Bubble Wrap, with a care beyond what is normally given to fragile things. They double-boxed those bones and carried them last month to the United Parcel Service office on Spruce Street in Philadelphia. Then they…</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/us/secrets-of-duffys-cut-yield-to-shovel-and-science.html?hpw&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/us/secrets-of-duffys-cut-yield-to-shovel-and-science.html?hpw&_r=0</a></p>
<p><span>"MALVERN, Pa. — They laid his bones in a bed of Bubble Wrap, with a care beyond what is normally given to fragile things. They double-boxed those bones and carried them last month to the United Parcel Service office on Spruce Street in Philadelphia. Then they printed out the address and paid the fee. ...</span></p>
<p>Dr. Monge found signs of blunt head trauma in three more sets of remains, as well as a bullet hole in another. For the researchers, these forensic clues, coupled with contemporaneous news accounts, conjure a possible sequence of events in which a few workers escaped from an enforced quarantine, were subdued and killed, then returned in coffins to Duffy’s Cut, where the rest soon died of disease. Then all were buried in an anonymous grave.</p>
<p>“I actually think it was a massacre,” Dr. Monge said. ... "</p>
<p><span>Interesting evidence clues cited in this story, but of what? What's your view? </span></p>
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