Human Skin of The Candy Man

Lehi, Utah

Chauncey W. Millard, a transplanted New Yorker, holds the record as the youngest person ever executed in Utah, barely 18 years old when he was shot dead by a firing squad on January 29, 1869. By his own reckoning he had killed at least six men. Before his execution, Millard sold his body to a local doctor who wanted a human skeleton. The doctor mistakenly melted the bones in lye, but managed to save a section of Millard's skin, which he then tanned into leather. For years he used it as a wrap to carry his surgical instruments. The skin was eventually purchased by collector John Hutchings, and his namseake museum displays it along with the six-shooter used by Millard in his last murder.

Millard sold his body to the doctor for a pound of candy, which Millard was still eating as he was strapped into the firing squad execution chair. He was thereafter known as, "The Candy Man."