06/10/09

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) _ A Mountain Meadows massacre descendant
group wants additional tests on a skull with purported ties to the
1857 southern Utah attack, despite findings that show a connection
is unlikely.

Tests by an Idaho scientist concluded the skull was that of a
young Asian male.

Wagon train members killed in the massacre were from Arkansas.

Patty Norris, president of Mountain Meadows Massacre
Descendants, says she's not convinced.

Norris, of Omaha, Ark., says her organization still wants more
tests to determine the skull's age and may compare DNA samples from
descendants with DNA from the skull.

The skull was found in a Utah pawn shop in 1982. Owner Jeff
Webb, of Sugar City, Idaho, turned it over for testing in February.
He's since given the skull to Norris.

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