Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-07-24

print OF Jne 1eelng woman. Here seemed
to be the most conclusive evidence that
/ the footstep of the woman near the scene
Of the tragedy was the footstep of Mrs.
Glenn; that Mrs. Glenn had stopped in her
flight on foot when she reached the buggy
drawn by the interfering mare with small
feet; and that this mare, with another
horse, had been hired by Silas Hartman,
Mrs. Clem's brother, on that afternoon.
The conclusion was that Silas Hartman
was in waiting to drive away with his sis
ter Mcs Glenn when the bloody deed was
finished
There was other corroborative evidence
Of Mrs. Clems guilt She had bribed and
otherwise induced several persons to testi-
fly that she was at home and at other places
where she could not have been had she
been on the bank of White River on the
afternoon of the murder of Young and his
wife In the course of one or the other
Of the trials, when concealment was no
longer possible, these false witnesses con-
fessod that they had been guilty of per-
Jury The chain of circumstantial evidence
was thus complete. The gun with which
Young was shot was bought by Abrams.
Abrams, in Jail, had demanded money of
Mrs Glenn, which she, to the amount of
thousands Of dollars, had produced from
an unusual place of concealment and sent
to him, besides having paid him money on
the day Of the murder and after its COM
initial On that afternoon she was absent
from home, and footsteps curiously cores
p0nding to hers in the cutdown heel of a
gaiter-boot she was proved to have pur-
chased, we're found near the dead bodies of
Young and his wife Where these foot
steps ended, the singular marks of horse
shoe commenced, and mare, the only one
that could be found in Indianapolis whose
shoes answered to this impression, was
hired that afternoon by Hartman, Mrs.
Clems brother. Mrs Glenn had made
away with all her shoes, lest, apparently,
her connection with the wom3n's footsteps
should be traced. She had attempted, by
bribery, to prove an ali5i. Hartman, the
brother, when she was convicted on her
second trial, cut his throat with a razor
and killed himself And the motive for
tim crime in which this guilt seemed so
conc.usively proved was supplied in the
fact that Young that day was known to
have $1,000 upon his person. which was
never accounted for, unless it was in the
stove-pipe hole in Mrs. Clem's cellar, and
on which she drew to satisfy Abrams de-
mands To make all this the more prob
able If not most positive proof Of guilt,
It was sworn by one witness that he saw
Mrs. Glen get into the buggy with Young
and his wife on the fatal afternoon and
By another that he saw her returning,
later in the day, at a rapid pace, in a bug
y with SiIas Hartman, her brother who
was driving the small-footed mare. The
wonder is that with such a mass Of proof be-
fore them any jury should have hesitated in
giving d verdict of murder in the first
degree, except that there might be doubt
whether the actual deed was committed by
Mrs elem or By her brother, Hartman, or
By Abrams.
The $1,000 in Young's possession may
have been sufficient motive for this murder,
but other circumstances in the case indicate
Jess obvious and, 1t may be, more pow
ertui reason. Young, till within six months
Of September, 1865, had been poor por-
ter ia a hardware store, subsisting upon
his daily wages. Suddenly he gave signs
Of wealth changed his manner Of living ;
set uD his carriage opened a bank account ;
borrowed large sums Of money at large
interest and was prompt in his payments.
During this period a close intimacy existed
between him and Mrs Clem-unknown TO
Nr. Clem, who had never heard of any
such acquaintance until after Young's
death-aud their money transactions were
frequent and large. The nature of the
business between them and the nature OF
Young's business was never known, and
when questions were asked the answers
were always evasive.
About the same time the circumstance,
Of ABRAMS had put on another face. HC
also gave up his trade aud became a gentle
man Of leisure, keeping prosperous bank
account, borrowing money, and frequenting
Mrs. Clem's house In an unexplained not
to say mysterious, manner. Then there
was Dr.. Duzan, a highly respectable
physician, about whom there was some
queer evidence. He had known Mrs Glen
/ from childhood and was her family physi
clan Mrs Glenn, before her arrest, testified
before the Grand Jury that she had never
/ had any financial relations with DR.. Duzan
DR.. Duzan swore that he had never haC
any business with and did not know Young
/ la the course of the trial it was shOwI
/ that Mrs. Glenn was constantly borrowing
money Of the Doctor on short time and a
+ high rates Of interest, and that at on
time these loans reached as high as S2G,
600 that when Dr. Duzan drew any suu
Of consequence from his bank, Young de
posted q like sum IN his bank the sam
day that the reverse also was true whe
| Young drew out and Duzan deposited
What was the nature of these pecuniar
transactions nobody but the parties concern
ed know; and why it was necessary tina
the account should be closed by the murde
Of Young and his wife by Mrs. Glenn G
her brother or Abrams is still more inexpl
cable.
That it had something to do with it, how
ever, is apparent. The murder was CON
mitted on the 18th. On the 18th Youn
had to meet payments in the bank of S27
1000. Duzan testified that four or FIVE day
before Mrs. Glenn had come to him in grea
distress of mind and begged for S22, ,OOC
! He could not accommodate her. Ofcours'
she could not help Young, if that We
what she wanted Of the money, but thu
does not seem a good reason for KILN
him. One witness swore that Mrs Gle
said on the morning of the murder th'
Young had just given her $4,000. b
this seems a very improbable story, Il
with that sum and the 81, 900 in his pock
Young could have met his liabilities tV
DAYS later, and with that sum between ther
: Mrs. Glenn would have been under no u
: cessity of going to Duzan and begging;
! great distress Of mind and in tears, tn
l he would lend her $4,000, for the wa