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"Mummies" Exhibitors Face Trial Monday on Swindle Charges

MACON Ga. Oct. 29--  
 
L. J. Gregory and Dr. W. C. Bryant will go on trial in
Recorder's Court Monday on Charges of cheating and
swindling growing out of the exhibition of the forms of
an Indian Woman and Child which were reported to have
been unearthed at Indian Springs, GA.

Physicians who examined X-ray pictures made of the so-
called 'mummies' said  the internal organs appeared to be
nails, wood and scraps of metal.  

A fee was charged for admission to the exhibit,
authorities who brought the charges against Gregory and
Bryant said, A maximum penalty of one year on the chain
gang and a fine of $1000 is provided under the statues
for conviction on cheating and swindling charges.