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The Ludington Record
Thursday, April 16, 1896
Volume XXIX

        MR. W. B. O. SANDS.
        Mr. Sands, president of the village of Pentwater, was shot and
     mortally wounded on the streets of that village last Friday night by
     S. B. Minshall, who afterward went home and killed his own family of
     four, ending the awful tragedy with suicide.
        Five shots in all were fired at Mr. Sands, three of which took
     effect.  The first one struck him in the arm between the elbow and
     shoulder and shattered the bone, another cut off his thumb and a third
     struck him in the leg.  When the assassin was satisfied with his work
     he left the scene and Mr. Sands was cared for by his friends.  Dr.
     Crosby, of this city, was sent for to assist the local physicians who
     had been called.  Amputation of the arm was absolutely necessary.  Mr.
     Sands died the following evening from loss of blood and the nervous
     shock.
        He was buried Tuesday afternoon, the services being attended by a
     great multitude of people.  On Tuesday the Pentwater boat Maxwell was
     placed at the disposal of the people of Ludington who could make it
     convenient to go, but the boisterous weather prevented the trip being
     taken.
        The following people from this city drove down to attend the fun-
     eral:  Congressman Bishop and son, ex-Mayors Goodsell, Scott and
     Cartier, Messrs. Olney, Dunwell, Mrs. Goodnough and son and others.
        William B. O. Sands was born July 2, 1838, on a farm in Boone
     county, near Belvdere, Ill., where he resided until the breaking out
     of the civil war when he enlisted in the 37th Illinois infantry, serv-
     ing until January, 1866.  In 1866, soon after his return, he was mar-
     ried to Miss Carrie A. Carmichael, and they moved to Pentwater in
     March of that year.  He engaged in partnership with Geo. W. Maxwell in
     the lumber and mercantile business, in which he remained until his
     death, making some slight changed and remarkable increase in business.
     He leaves surviving him the widow, Mrs. Carrie A. Sands, and three
     sons, Gardner Tripp Sands, who has charge of the extensive furniture
     manufacturing business; Herbert T. Sands, who was at the time of his
     father's death in Salt Lake City, and arrived home a few hours before
     the funeral, and Roger Sands, 13 years old.  At the time of his death
     Mr. Sands was president of the Sands and Maxwell lumber company, mana-
     ger of the Pentwater bedstead company, and president of the village of
     Pentwater.  He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and the G. A. R.

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