The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-03-27
Fr. m the Grstiot News
A Most Unnatural Double Murder and SUI
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FIR m the Grstiot News.
A Most Unnatural Double Murder and SUE
icide.
On Friday last our citizens were appalled, and
horror struck by the report that three persons |
Law murdered in a house, situated in the rear OF
the Court House, in this village, and occupied
for the last four months as the residence OF
Thadeus 5. Green. Upon visiting the house,
which was but one story high, and IN one room.
Thadeus ). Green was discovered lying upon one
of the beds covered with blood which had issued
from severance OF the jugular vein on the right
side of his neck-opposte and across the room
Oh another bed lay the bodies OF Josephine Eliz
abeth Green, daughter of the Green above men,
toned, and Sally VI. Taylor. daughter OF Ben
son Taylor, both covered with blooi which had
issued from wounds in the head The examina
ton before the coroner's jury, after an identf-
cation of the bodies az above elected the follow
| ing facts: That the two young ladies' had been
murdered by blows on the head with the back
or head of a hand axe. which was identified as
| belonging 10 the said Green, and left living by
the side of the bed on which the girls law Miss
| TAYLOR had received two blows upon the top of
| the head, and Miss Green five, on all portions of
| the head, the most fatal one being on the fore.
head Immediately over the ewes, which complete
/ " smashed in the skull.
! Green himself had evidently committed this
inhuman and unnatural double murder, and then
| betaken himself 20 his own bed and atoned as
/ far rs in his power, by seyering his jugulIr vein
with sharp pointed pocket knife, identified as
/ his, which found covered with blood, and
sticking in the floor on the opposite side of the
room.
! Green is about Is years of age, anu has Il wife
/ in New York or Ohio. His daughter kept house
/ for him aud the only member of his family
! in this region, and the SUNDAY preceding the
discovery OF their horrii bu,chery, he and his
daughter visited at Mr.. Benson Taylors with
whom he had been on friendly and visiting terms
| for years-each having settled in the township
OF Newark in this county, five or six years since.
| At the time of this settlement as neishbors,
Green was accompanied by his wife, this daugh-
! ter and one son, quite young, aud settled upon
/ forty acres OF land, upon which he made quite
an improvement, but being elected a Justice of
the Peace in his township, and combining the
trades OF Tinker, Dentist, Cooper and Carpenter,
/ he neglected his improvements and soon became
known as lay Green. About three years since,
! however, he was seriously injured upon the head
/ by the falling OF "A tree III the woods, and soon
after his recovery sold his farm and moved TO
Ohio with his family. Last season he returned
TO his old ueighbor, Taylor's, accompanied by
his daughter, and with the intelligence that his
wife and he had separated. After staying some
weeks in this family he rented a house in this
village and has been leading his Old life as Jack
OF all trades for the past six months.
| During the past winter different members of
| Mr.. Taylor's family have visited his daughter,
who was a pleasant innocent girl about sixteen
years of age, and pittied 10y all Thus friendly
relation existed between the two families ard
npon the last visit. Miss Taylor was urged to
visit few DAYS with Josephine. Her mother
gave her permission that she could stay until
the Thursday following, and Green, his daughter,
and Miss Taylor reached the residence of Green,
in this village, on Sunday afternoon. They were
heard singing, laughing and talking during the
! early part of the evening and were apparently
enjoying themselves.
! On the morning following Green was enquired
after by a number, for whom he doing work,
but upon visiting the house it was found fastened
and the curtains drawn, and il was known in
the vicinity that he intended TO remove 10 St
Louis, in this county, it supposed that he
was absent from home making good bye visits
among his old neighb0rs. But Miss Taylor fail
! ing 10 return on Thursday, her mother sent for
her on Friday, by neignbor, who visited the
house, and finding it fastened passed on TO the
blacksmith shop, close at hand, and learned that
| Green had not been seen at home tor a number
Of days Suspecting something wrong he i'm
Parted 10 the smith his suspicious that Green had
coaxed Miss Taylor 60 away with him, and they
went TO the house, and forced the window, I'M
boted the door, and beheld the soul sickenng
sight of three human bodies covered with gore
and disiigured with blows, completely paralyzng
them, aud shrinking their souls with fear and
dread that such murder could be committed in
their vicinity.
What motive induced the commission of these
crimes must ever remain a matter of conjecture.
had l,,., Id l. al
less citizen, but had not further occupied the
public mind, except through TIE suspicious Of
some, that an improper intimacy existed between
his daughter and himself. An examination OF
the girls by physician, show ed that neither of
their persons had been violated. Miss TAYLOR
was abort ID years Of age.
Green, here, led temperate life and had pre-
viously given 10 evidences OF insanity. lie for
inerly resided in Morenci, Lenawee county, in
this State-also in Ohio, we think, in Ashtabua
| county.