Three Hundred Pounds of Ice and a Forged Charity Tag 104

Three Hundred Pounds of Ice and a Forged Charity Tag 104

A three-hundred-pound block of lake ice arrived at a Millhaven church with a wired donation tag - and a man frozen inside, dressed in a wool overcoat and polished boots. Who forged the Coldwater Ice Co. tag, built custom iron molds on company property, and delivered a body that began melting the moment it was found?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the November 14, 1893 discovery to the clues left at Morrow Lake and the boarding house, and ask how one newcomer’s disappearance, a butchered ledger entry, and two small payments in Wayne Hensley’s books connect to the frozen corpse in the ice.

Person: Wayne Hensley
Date: November 14, 1893
Location: Bethel Lutheran icehouse, Pratt Street, Millhaven, Wisconsin
Person: Ronald Evans
Officer: Deputy Gregory Slater

- The body was encased in a 300-pound block of lake ice tagged "Donated - Coldwater Ice Co., Millhaven Branch" dated November 11, 1893.
- Wayne Hensley was 44 years old and reported missing by his wife Norma on the morning of November 10, 1893.
- Two ledger payments in Hensley’s books, totaling $60, are recorded as "R.E. - agric, consult" in August and September 1893.
- Ronald Evans paid rent through the end of October 1893, vacated his boarding-house room on November 12, and left a false forwarding address in Milwaukee.
- Custom iron casting molds measuring 22" x 36" x 18" were found in an unlocked secondary barn at Morrow Lake with frozen drips and lake-water residue, not belonging to Coldwater Ice Company records.

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