Why were post-mortem photos taken of Harvey Logan a.k.a. Kid Curry?Juha NakariUnited KingdomI went to Wild Bunch historian Dan Buck for this one. He tells me that the post-mortem photos were taken to figure out the identity of a dead bandit who had shot himself to avoid capture after robbing a train near Parachute, Colorado, on June 7, 1904.You see, people were claiming the man was a number of bandits. Buck says the best evidence, though, suggests the man was Harvey Logan.Pinkerton Detective Low


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