East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-03-28
NUMBER IS.
TRAGEDY AT ITHACA, GlSA-
TIOT COUNTY.
A MAN Murders his Daughter ANA
Another Girl, and then
Commits Suicide.
From tie St. Johns Republican, March %.

FROM t.eSt johns hepuDicani March ~
One of the most frightfu and inhu-
man transactions which it has ever been
our lot to record was enacted last week
in the village of Ithaca, Grstiot county,
about twenty miles north Of this place.
The result of the horrible transaction
which was the murder of three persons,
a man, aged about forty-fve, and two
girls of about seventeen years, was dis.
covered on Friday of last week, and in
consequence of which that village was
thrown into the highest state Of excite
ment. The circumstances attendingthis
heaatrending transaction, as we have
learned them from persons who resiinde
that immediate vicinity, are as followa:
The murdered man, whose name was
Thaddeus Green, moved into that vicin-
ity about five years ago, where ho re-
sided some time, and then removed to
Ohio. Subsequently, however. he re-
turned, and has since been keeping house
at that place with his daughter, his wife,
during this time, for reasons which We
failed to learn, having left him. On Sun
day, the 9th inst, the daughter Of Mr..
tant, went to Green's house to spend .
day or two with the daughter, but, not
returning as she had intended, the family
very naturally became somewhat uneasy
about her, when Mr.. Taylor started off
to learn the canse of her delay. Upon
arriving at Green's house, lie knocked At
the door, but no response was made. lie
then attempted to open it, but found 1t
fastened, aud upon looking into the win
dow, he discovered pair Of boots stand
ing at the side Of bed, as well as other
things which excited his suspicion that
all was not right. Upon inquirlng oiths
neighbors he learned that nothing had
been seen of the family since the previ-
Gus Sunday, and, as everything nsa re-
mained quiet about the house, II WAS
supposed they,were absent from home
This aroused his suspicious still more,
and he, in company with three OF four
others, Immediately proceeded to the
house, and broke in the door. Upon Ell.
tering the room, such sight there pro-
sented itself to their view as would mako
ones blood run cold to look upon. There
upon the bed lay the lifeless forms Of tho
two girls, murdered by blows upon tho
head from a hatchet which vas found
near by. And upon furtehr search being
made, another equally horrid sight ar
rested their attention. There upon an
other bed lay lifeless the body Of the
man, with his throat cut from car to car,
evidently by his own hand, as the knife
with which the act had been committed
was sticking in the floor at the opposite
side of the room, as though it had been
thrown from the bedside.
Considering the circumstances con.
nected with the affair, as they have
reached us, there can be but one opinion
Is to who the perpetrator Of the foul
Iced is, and this, we learn, is the only
,ne which obtains any credence in that
vicinity. 1t is that the man first muir
Tered the two girls, and then, pre(erring
leath to the penalty of the law, put tho
lnife to his own throat, thus ending
miserable existence. And this belief 10
trengthened by the fact that the house
vas securely fastened from the inside,
nd nothing could be found indicating
hat any person or persons had left tho
louse after the act was committed. But
S to what should bring about snch act.
on on the part of Green is still more in
he dark, and circumstances would seem
o warrant the belief that the whole mat.
err will ever remain so. Although there
re many conjectures and suppositions as
o the cause, that there is just foundation
pr any of them we are not aware. Our
lformant states that Green was man
{ limited circumstances, and possessed
{ rather shiftess disposition, but that
therwise ho bore an ordinarially good