A horrifying spectacle was discovered in Alcona county Tuesday afternoon. Ed BALDWIN, traveling on the road from Lincoln to Eales's camp, found a team of horses headed toward home, with a wagon box upset and the dead body of a man underneath it. There was a bullet wound in his left arm and much blood around.

The body was recognized as that of Philo F. HENSEY, a prominent farmer of Michell township. He had left home Monday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon to go to Eales's camp, a seven-mile drive. It is not yet known whether he reached there or not, although the fact that 24 hours had elapsed from the time he left home until he was found dead and the additional circumstances that his horses were headed toward home would indicate that he was returning from the camp.

He had his gun with him and it is supposed that the jar of the wagon shot it off, the bullet going into his left arm. He was of a very nervous disposition and probably fainted, the loss of blood through the unstaunched wound caused death. The uncontrolled horses had continued on the way or ran away at the noise of the shot until the wagon box had overturned.

Mr. Hensey was 50 years old and leaves a wife and four children.

(Marcia Shears' Note: Ed BALDWIN is Edwin Morris BALDWIN, my 2nd great-grandfather. Philo F. HENSEY was the first husband of Emma FULLERTON.)