The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-02

had been made ~ ~ many auction
stores and pa~wnbrokers' shops, by {
man having sandy hair and complexion
and at the third place had inquired Of
bright little girl. who took him to the
door, directed him across the street, and
saw him enter the establishment where
the gun vas purchased, which, in seven
hours afterwards, had slain Young
Five witnesses identified William J,
Abrams, a reputable carpenter of Indi,
annapolis, as the man who purchased the
gun. Mr.. Abrams was arrested, and at.
tention was then directed to the sub.
ject Of the horse and buggy tracks.
The afternoon of the murder Silas
Hartman had hired u horse and mare
from a livery stable. The mare wore
small interfering shoes, and a shoe taken
from her feet was applied to the track
made in the woods, neal the scene of
the murder, and it fitted exactly. A
plaster cast Of the shoe was taken and
was compared with thousands Of horse
shoes, without finding one that would
60 in it. Hartman was lodged in jail.
Some farmers, coming to Indisnapo-
lis the afternoon of the murder, met
Young and his wife going in their car.
riage in the direction Of the place where
they we're murdered, with a lady sitting
in the same seat with Mrs. Young. A
few rods behind the carriage, Silas Hart.
man, driving the livery stable mare, was
seen by the same parties. He was recog.
nized, but when they attempted tospeak
to him he turned his head and drove
by them without responding to their
salutation. Several Of these witnesses
testified that Nancy E. Glenn, the wife
of a leading grocer in Indianapolis, was
the lady who occupied the seat with Mr..
Young's wife in his carriage. Silas
Hartman, who followed in the buggy,
vas her brother. A close watch was
placed upon Mrs. Clem's movements,
but her arrest was delayed for three
weeks. This delay in her arrest insured
her conviction.
The confederate, Abrams, was in Jail,
and had difficulty in raising money to
pay attorneys fees. He sent for his
brother, and directed him togo secretly
to Mrs. Clem's house and get several
thousand dollars, and to tell her that
the money must come" The brother
obeyed these directions, and Mrs. Glenn,
to the demand, went into q
where she had q package Of bills
concealed in a stove-pipe hole in chin.
ney, and gave Abrams brother several
thousand dollars, and told him to tell
his brother in Jail not to send for more
money, as it would excite suspicion.
The murdered man was known tohave
had over $1,000 on his person a few
hours before he was murdered. On the
day of the murdar Abrams, who pur.
the gun, went to Mrs. Clem's
house, from which she was absent a
good portion of the afternoon, and re-
there till she returned, and re-
,eived a large sum Of money from her
upon her return.
1t was proved that Mrs. Glenn offered
Ter sewing girl $500 if she would swear
hat she was at her home during the
'fternoon of the murder. By means of
tribes and threats she procured her
iiece, her sister.in.law, and an Irish
ervant girl to swear before the grand
ary that she was at home and at the
Of her sister-in.law, next door,
uring that afternoon, and these per-.
ons afterwards confessed their PERU.
les, and testified on oath that she had
them. She procured a book
edler to swear that he had delivered q
ook to her in person, the afternoon of
murder; and persuaded q miller,
tho had delivered . sack of -four at her
ouse on another day, to swear that it
as the day of the murder, and that he
onversed with her at the very hour of
he murder. She procured another
IAN to swear that he met her in the 4,
Indianapolis Postofice, and accidentally {
cd upon her dress, and apologized to i
er, the same afternoon. She procured ,
70 women to swear that they met her |
topping in . dry goods store a few {
linutes Afterwards. Immediately upon {
return from the murder, she told a !
who noticed her flushed ap-
earance, that she had been at home, Z
inning grapes owe the hot stove ali
le afternoon of the murder, the fact /.
eng that no grapes had been canned. !.
nd on her examination before the .
oroner's jury, before her arrest, she !
a. at home at the time the murder was :
,mmitted. On the day of the funeral !.
Young and his wife, she stood at her !
ont gate as the procession went by, !,
said to a friend that she had no &C. :
with Young or his wife the :
ct being that she had been visiting his :
,use with her sister-in.law two or three =
q week for months prior to the !.
urder. In fact, there was no end to =
e lies she told and hired others to tell =
r her. =
When she was arrested she was wear a
g a pair of carpet slippers belonging d
the colored servant, and not q slipper =
shoe Of any kind could be found r,
out her house. Inquiry was made at f
number Of the shoe stores in Indian. "
oils, and it was ascertained that q boy l.