Alexandria Phenix Gazette • March 14, 1826

Body Of An Indian


On Friday last, the body of an Indian of the Saginaw tribe was found on the Paint Creek Road in Oakland County, about three miles from the house of Mr. Goddard, and another mortally wounded by his side. It appears that the murders were committed by a boy sixteen years old, called Shaba-gajick, in a drunken frolic. On Saturday, the murderer having been apprehended, a coroner's jury was summoned, and after due inquiry, they found the verdict of willful murder against Sha-ba-gajick. we have not learnt that the wounded Indian is yet dead. The murderer is confined in the jail at Pontiac. Nearly the same spot, about ten days before, an Indian was murdered by one of his family, who put some poisonous substance into his liquor.