Montreal Gazette

SUPERSTORM REVEALS COLONIAL SKELETON

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NEW HAVEN, CONN. — New Haven police say superstorm Sandy has revealed a skeleton beneath the town green that may have been there since colonial times. A police spokesman says a woman who was with other bystanders looking at a fallen oak tree called police Tuesday after she saw bones in the upturned roots. He says the tree was planted on the green in 1909 on the 100th anniversar­y of president Abraham Lincoln’s birth. He says the remains likely belong to one of thousands of people buried there in colonial times.

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