Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Pease, Joseph  July 26, 1923
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County News, Thurs., July 1923
Funeral services for Joseph Pease, who was shot and instantly killed by a 
former partner, near Hale, Michigan, Monday afternoon, are expected to be held 
at the church near Woodard Lake Thursday afternoon, although the reamins of 
the murdered man had not arrirved in Ionia up until the hour this was written.

From reports coming out of the north country, Pease and a man named Earl 
Rodged, had been engaged in buying and selling huckleberries.  Rodged, it is 
stated, said he was not receiving his share of the profits and threatened 
Pease he would shoot him the next time they met.  Pease, it is alleged, was 
driving into one of the marshes with a load of women and children when Rodged 
suddenly arose fom the side of the road and shot him with a rifle, the bullet 
entering his chest. The injured man was taken to Pinconning and later an 
attempt was made to get him to a hospital at Bay City, but he died while on 
the way.

Pease was 46 years of age and up until last spring was a resident of the 
Woodard lake country, this county.  He leaves a mother, Mrs. Maria Pease at 
Woodard lake and three brothers.  One of the brothers, George Pease, lives at 
719 West Main, this city.

Although search parties, headed by the sheriff's force, are combing the 
marshes in the vicinity of Hale, no trace of the murderer has been so far 
discovered.  It is a wild country and possible for a man to hide in it for 
weeks, until driven into the open by hunger.  One version of the shooting is, 
Pease was known to carry large sums of money, but press dispatches do not 
state he was robbed after being shot.  Pease, it is said, left Ionia county 
last spring for the purpose of hauling milk for a cheese factory conducted by 
an uncle.

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