You Will Shoot Your Eye Out

In 1911 he attacks a train together with his gang but uses so much explosives to blow up the safe that nothing remains of the loot.

A few months later his escape ends with the police riddling him with gunshots, thus ending his life but not his adventure.

The funeral home that had been entrusted with the body couldn’t find anyone willing to pay for Elmer’s funeral, so they embalmed him, gave him a hat, a rifle and turned him into a local attraction that could be visited for a fee. .

Soon the rumor spreads that putting coins in his mouth brings good luck, so every day visitors fill Elmer with change which is extracted from his body in the evening.

In 1916, 5 years after his death, some relatives showed up to collect the body, but they weren’t real relatives, just some guys who had decided it was the easiest way to take over the local tourist attraction and turn it into a show for their circus. traveling.

Even though Elmer was embalmed, he still showed the signs of aging, so 10 years after his death he underwent a restyling in which he was covered in wax and made up, to be exhibited together with real wax statues in various traveling crime museums to which he was gradually surrendered.

In 1933 it was sold to the producer of an anti-drug film: “Narcotic!” by Dwain Esper who used it as a drug addict’s props for advertising purposes.

In 1949 he takes a break from show business and rests for more than twenty years in a Hollywood warehouse without anyone knowing that he isn’t a real wax figure.

In 1967 he made a cameo in David Friedman’s masterpiece She She’s Freak.

In 1970, now worn out by time and neglect, he was deemed worthless and sold to a house of horrors in Long Beach as a mannequin.

On December 8, 1976, an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man was filmed in that house of horrors.

For stage needs, an assistant director is sent to move Elmer who is hanging from the ceiling.

And one of Elmer’s arms is left in his hand.

He notices that mannequins aren’t usually filled with real bones, real muscles and real cartilage so he decides that maybe it’s time to call the police.