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 Amazing Tales Connecticut – XYZ Tombstone, Deep River

The name on his gravestone is XYZ. He was shot to death during a bank robbery in Deep River in 1899. No one knows for certain who he was. The one person who might know was the mysterious woman, dressed in black, who laid a flower at his gravesite each year.

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