Word: cusick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absence of Indian relics near the new skeletons was what suggested they were the remains of white men. But without waiting for the arrival of Expert Parker, the excavators continued digging in the Hill of Torture. They found five more skeletons. Then Rev. Peter F. Cusick, director of the shrine, and Curator John E. Wyman of the Montgomery County Historical Society became suspicious. The hill crest must have been the burial ground not of the martyrs, but of those who had tomahawked them. A leaden trinket, tortoise-shaped, seemed to indicate an Iroquois burial ground...