Port Huron, Michigan, January 6th, 1909.

This morning, Mr. Myron Brown was going to rattle run to use the telephone, and stomped in

front of the Methodist Church to wait for William Sturdivant of Smith Creek, whom he saw

coming. Mr. Brown stepped into the edifice of the church to escape the wind and the chilly atmosphere of the morning.

The interior of the building resembled a slaughterpin. Blood covered the floors, the pews, and even the

pulpit. One window was broken and a chair was smashed. Mr. Brown called Mr. Sturdivant and they found in the

blood a pair of trousers and a stained dagger. Red stained undergarments which were later identified

as having belonged to Reverend Mr. John H. Carmichle, pastor of the Methodist Church, were torn to shreds and scattered

about the structure.

The trail of blood led past the disordered and tumbled pews down the main aisle.

Halfway it stopped, but drops led on to a stove where there was a big pool of blood.

The stove is an old-fashioned one for wood.

Inside, there were bones in the ashes and the back of the skull.

A head, arms, chest, and legs were burned until the largest bone was not over eight inches long.

The central part of the body was not so badly burned, its form being plain.

In the stove was another dagger and a hatchet.

On the floor was a folded paper dollar and in the

watch pocket of the trousers was a silver dollar. Mr. Brown hurried to rattle run and telephone

sheriff WF wagon cell. When the county authorities reached the church about noon today, they found the door locked,

and all things in the condition in which Brown had left them.

In the opinion of the officers, Reverend Mr. Carmichael, was stabbed to death following a battle

within the church. His body was then cut to pieces with the hatchet.

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