Page 20 Wed., Dec. 15, 1976 The Hanford Sentinel Lookin' for Kin To Claim Elmer LOS ANGELES (UPI) - If Elmer McCurdy, the Oklahoma bandit, has any descendants or relations out there who would like to claim his much-travelled corpse and give it a long overdue burial, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office wants to hear from them. It was discovered last week that a "dummy" covered with red fluorescent paint, which had been hanging for the past five years from a gallows in an amusement park fun house, was actually a human body - that of a man who had been shot to death. The body was eventually bandit who specialized in Kansas around the turn of the in a shootout with an Osage Okla. As was not unusual with the those days, the corpse was exhibit. It became the property original owner put it up as security for a $500 loan and did not identified as that of McCurdy, a robbing trains in Oklahoma and century until he was killed in 1911 County sheriff's posse near Okesa, bodies of famous desperadoes in embalmed and sold to a carnival for of another showman when the pay. Put in a warehouse when such exhibits went out of vogue, the old gunman's body became mixed up with some dummies and spent several years in wax museums under various guises until it was sold to the fun house. The coroner's office said Tuesday it was satisfied that the body really is that of McCurdy and is searching for any relatives who may wish to claim it.