Joseph told his friends that he would be in the woods for only one hour. Joseph Robinson from Menasha , Wisconsin, had decided to take his revolver into the woods with the intention of hunting for partridges. It was Friday, November 9, 1874, and though he was employed by the Wisconsin Central Railroad as a so-called "train boy," he was very much a grown man.

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