Mummy Identified As Train Robber LOS ANGELES (AP) -Elmer McCurdy swore he'd never be taken alive so he died with his boots on, shot to death by an Oklahoma sheriff's posse in 1911. He'd be mortified to know that he ended up mummified, as a fun house dummy. The body tentatively identified as the train robber's was used as a carnival sideshow attraction and as security against a $500 loan. It gathered dust in a wax museum's warehouse and painted to glow in the dark hung from a gallows in an amusement park fun house. The body was found in that undignified position Thursday, when a television crew was filming a segment of "The Six Million Dollar Man" in the fun house at Long Beach, Calif. One of the mummy's arms fell off, and when a technician tried to glue it back on, he discovered the arm bone of a human corpse. The discovery sparked a search into the mummy's origin, and an autopsy was conducted. During the medical examination an old-style copper-jacketed bullet was extracted from the corpse's stomach. Identification of the mummy as McCurdy was traced through sales and purchases by carnivals and exhibitors. On Oct. 4, 1911, McCurdy and three of his outlaw gang held up a Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad train near Okesa, in Osage County, Okla. The robbers took $46 from a mail clerk and fled with "considerable merchandise," according to newspaper accounts of the time. Bloodhounds and neighbors helped capture one of McCurdy's sidekicks, who led deputy sheriffs to McCurdy's hideout on the "old Charles Ravard place" near Big Caney River. Western historian Glen Shirley, of Stillwater, Okla., said he found the following account of McCurdy's death in a clipping from the Pawhuska, Okla., Journal: "Ravard went to McCurdy in his perch in a hayloft in Ravard's barn and gave him a message from the posse come out or die. "McCurdy refused, saying he would not be taken alive and opened fire on the posse that surrounded the barn. "A 30-minute gunbattle raged, ending when Elmer was picked off by a bullet ..." The sheriff apparently sold his outlaw prey to a carnival owner, who had the body mummified, according to Dave Friedman, president of Enter- DIRECT IMPORTS 7 DAYS A WEEK In our lamp department you will find HANGING LAMPS in alass. Dlastic or metal; wood, 3 J Judge Urges Rock Star To Become 'Evangelist' SAN JOSE (AP) - Former rock music star Rick Stevens has been urged to become "an evangelist" against drug abuse by the judge who sentenced him to life in prison. Stevens, a 35-year-old former lead singer for the Tower of Power rock group, was sentenced Friday by Superior cess." Mclnerney urged Stevens, who says he has experienced a religious conversion, to become "an apostle, an evangelist... reach out to people and tell them how much harm came to you because you got involved with drugs." In a presentencing interview with news reporters, Stevens tainment Ventures, Inc., in Los Angeles. Displaying mummified bodies was a common practice among carnivals in the 1920s and 1930s. Then, carnival owner Louis Sonney, founder of Friedman's company, obtained McCurdy's body in 1921 as security on a $500 loan that was never repaid, Friedman said. Sonney used the mummy in his traveling freak show until the World War II years, when such attractions lost their appeal. McCurdy's mummy was retired to a dusty warehouse, where it remained until 1968. The Hollywoodm Wax Museum bought the cadaver from Friedman, but McCurdy was never given a place among the waxen figures of Hollywood's Golden Years. The museum sold the mummy to Nu-Pike Amusement Park, where it was painted fluorescent red and hung from a makeshift gallows. There it remained until the discovery on Thursday. Officials here say Elmer McCurdy will finally find his peace after 65 years in freak shows and dusty warehouses. Final arrangements, however, have not yet been made.