Beheaded Statue Restored After Vandalism

HIRAM, Ohio—An Ohio college’s beheaded statue of President James Garfield is back in one piece months after it was vandalized.

The restored statue of the Ohio native and America’s 20th president was presented Tuesday in a ceremony at Hiram College in northeast Ohio.

The 95-year-old sandstone sculpture was found without its head in May, just a day after it was dedicated on the Hiram campus. The statue had been acquired for the college by one of the school’s trustees, who found it on a farm in eastern Ohio.

A person turned the head over to police in July. Police say that person is not a suspect.

The decapitation led students in the college’s entrepreneurship center to sell T-shirts with the image of Garfield’s head and the slogan, “Get A Head at Hiram College.“
 
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