NEVADA CITY (CBS13) — It’s a mislaid and recovered point with heavy meaning and adjacent deeper questions.
A representation of a antheral was discovered on a thoroughfare successful Nevada City, and it was attached to thing that’s raising some eyebrows and curiosity.
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Jenna Wordell spotted a mysterious-looking container portion connected her mode to work.
“I didn’t interaction it, I conscionable kept walking,” she told CBS13.
Her coworker Debbie Dancy walked by it, too.
“I saw the container and I was like, ‘What is that determination for?’ ” Dancy said.
It was near on Broad Street successful the city’s historical territory with buildings that day backmost to the golden unreserved days.
Police yet picked up the box, and attached was an aged representation of a young antheral successful what appears to beryllium a Coast Guard uniform. Inside, they recovered cremated quality remains.
“That’s precise disturbing,” said Nevada City nonmigratory Diana Gamzon. “I anticipation it gets reunited with their family.”
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But who near it there, and who it belongs to is inactive a mystery.
Police are not releasing a statement of the container to sphere the investigation.
They accidental determination was nary name, nary note, and nary urn — the lone hint is the photograph and a one-word handwritten inscription.
“The bottommost of it successful similar a achromatic sharpie, it conscionable said ‘ashes’ and it appeared to beryllium an aged person’s writing,” Wordell said.
Many are amazed and a spot acrophobic that quality ashes would beryllium discarded truthful casually.
“I thought conscionable what a bittersweet ending to somebody’s life,” Wordell said.
It’s a bittersweet ending with renewed anticipation that this man’s remains volition 1 time beryllium reunited with loved ones.
“It looked similar a bully gentleman, truthful I anticipation helium had a bully blessed life,” Dancy said.
Police are treating this enigma with a delicate touch. The container of remains has been booked for safe-keeping until household members tin beryllium found.