<?xml version="1.0" ?><html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">There has been talk on and off of trying to get a lawsuit against S&B to recover these but so far not much has happened. There is a on-line petition being passed around by the San Carlos Apache's petitioning for a Congressional investigation. I don't think on-line petitions do anything constructive and may even be counter-productive so I'm not a fan of taking this route. A real petition would be easy enough to get signatures on in many locations across the country.</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I do note that this writer makes a point to tell us that Miller (whom I respect) and Spikey (whom I don't know) believe this is a hoax but does not mention that Robbins, after conducting her interviews, found the story credible. The author also cites an image from 1878 that has been erronously listed somewhere as being the remains of Geronimo as if it is the only such evidence. There is another image from the correct time period that was made available by Endicott Davidson to Raleigh Thompson and Ned Anderson showing bonesmen with a different skull and a silver bridle that appears authentic. Geronimo was buried with his silver bridle. The story of the theft did not surface in the 1980's as the author claims but rather the connection to S&B surfaced in the '80's. The theft was talked about before that. The author is cherry picking his evidence to cast more doubt on the veracity of the claim than currently exists. It isn't known for certain that Geronimo's remains are iat Yale but the evidence is better than this author lets on.</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I had a FB great-grandfather who was a judge in Indian Territory, later OK, in Ft. Gibson and then later out of Muskogee who supposedly knew about the theft. This story has an oral history in my family and many others in OK and CO. I have been told that the grave theft was noted at the time but the that the Office of Indian Affairs (now the BIA) prevented any investigation. I do not know that this is true however, only that one of my grandfathers claimed he was told by his father that the remains had been stolen. Certainly the oral history of the theft itself predates the San Carlos Apache Tribe receiving a copy of a logbook describing the graverobbing and a photograph of a skull on display. I never heard of Prescott's name or S&B being invoked until after '86 however. Before that it was just a theft by persons unknown.</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I do think that since the grave site is know digging it up and looking for the silver bridle, which was known to have been placed with him, would reveal if the case is worth further investigation. Anderson is a blood relative so perhaps some DNA tests might also be helpful. Without knowing the condition of the remains I don't know if the later is possible. </span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">John Thornton</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><br/></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">On 8 May 2006 at 8:32, Doug Henwood forwarded:</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Wall Street Journal - May 8, 2006</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Dig Through Archives</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Reopens the Issue</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Of Geronimo's Skull</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> A 1918 Letter Points to Theft,</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> But Grave Was Unmarked;</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Skeleton in Bush Closet?</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> By ROBERT TOMSHO</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Historians agree that Geronimo died of pneumonia in 1909 and was </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> buried in a prisoner-of-war cemetery at Fort Sill, Okla. But whether </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> the Apache warrior's remains still rest there is a matter of growing </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> dispute.</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> The grave of the famed warrior has long been rumored to have been </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> robbed during World War I by a small group of young military officers </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> that included Prescott Bush, the president's late grandfather, and </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> other members of Yale University's secretive Skull and Bones society.</span></font></div> <div align="left"></div> </body> </html>