People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT PETOSKEY. [ARTICLE]

DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT PETOSKEY.

A Michigan Man Fatally Shoots His Wife and Js Himself Killed by a Boarder. Petoskey, Mich., Sept. 25. —Saturday afternoon Abe Wilsey shot and fatally wounded his wife and was in turn shot aud instantly killed by a Swede named Henry Sik. The tragedy occurred at Kegomic, where the Wilseys kept a boarding house. The couple had never lived happily together since their marriage Beven years ago. They separated three weeks ago, Wil--sey leaving his wife to run the house. He returned Saturday afternoon and called his wife into a room and tried to persuade her to live with him again. She refused positively, and Wilsey drew a revolver. As she fled shrieking from the room he fired four shots, all taking effect. One grazed the head, one entered the arm at the elbow, a third took effect in the side and the last passed through the right leg. Henry Sik, a boarder, rushed into the room and claims that Wilsey pointed his revolver at him. Wilsey had previously threatened Sik’s life. Sik dodged behind the door, and, reaching his arm around, fired four shots. When help arrived Wilsey lay on his face in a pool of blood. One ball had gone clear through the body and another struck him squarely in the forehead. The woman said Wilsey had shot himself, but Sik frankly admitted that he fired the fatal shots. He has not yet been arrested. The woman is still alive, but cannot live.