The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-07-25

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From the Missouri Democ,ut.
A Remarkable Case.
The HISTORY OF A GREAT CRIME IN INDI-
ANA-FIvE TRIALS AND A SUICIDE.
On the 18th of September, 1868, farmers
boy discovered on the banks of the White Riv-
er, about three miles north of the city of Indi-
annapolis, the dead bodies of Jacob Young and
Nancy Young, his wife, two reputable citizens
of that place. The post mortem examination
disclosed the fact that Mrs. Young had been
killed by pistol shot, the ball entering the
back part of the head and coursing upward
through the brain, until it lodged upon the In
ner surface of the frontal bone. The ball
Young had been killed by discharge from a
double barrel shot gun, which was found by his
side with one barrel exploded, the other barrel
heavily charged with ten buck shot, and stand
ing cooked. The position and course of the
wound upon Young and his wife proved con-
clusively that they had been murdered. No
pistol was discovered. The day after the dis
covery of the murder it was ascertained that
the shot gun found by the dead bodies had been
purchased from pawnbroker in Indianapolis
on the day of the murder. The gun WAS iden-
titled by means of broken thlmbie and pc,
culiarity about the locks, and the man who had
purchased it was accurately described by the
pawnbroker and negro servant who was pres
ent when the purchase was made. At the time
of the murder gentleman and his two chill
dren, who were fishing some distance below the
scene Of the murder, heard the report of fire.
arms in the direction of the place where the
bodies were found. Five minutes before the
report was heard the children saw the deceased
and another woman walking on the sand bar
near where they were killed. A farmer and
his son driving along the road, within few
hundred yards of the place, heard two reports,
one loud like shot gun the other sharp like a
pistol, and so near together that it was difficult
to distinguish them. A man and his wife liv,
ing quarter of mile from the scene heard
the two reports and scream between them.
The witnesses agreed that the time was about
4 o'clock D. M The horse and buggy of the
deceased were found hitched in the road near
by.
On examining the neighboring ground the
well defined tracks of woman, wearing new
number three gaiter, making long steps, as if
in flight, were traced from point near the
dead bodies, through the woods to place
where they intersected the track of a buggy,
going in the direction of Indianapolis, and
drawn by an animal wearing small sized, inter-
fering shoes. The tracks of the woman and
horse and buggy were all accurately measured.
These were the clues, and the questions arose,
who bought the gun? who was the woman seen
in company with the deceased? who drove the
buggy in which the murderers fed from the
scene of the tragedy
TIE PURCHASE OF THE GUN.
The pawnbroker sold the gun at o'clock in
the morning. Between the hours of and 9
three applications for the purchase of second
hand shot gun had been made at as many auc-
having sandy hair and complexion, and at the
third place he had inquired of bright little
girl, who took him to the door, and directed
Elm across the street. and saw him enter the
establishment where the gun was purchased
which in seven hours afterward had slain
Young. Five witnesses identified William j..
abrams, reputable carpenter of Indianapolis,
as the man who purchased the gun. Mr..
Abrams was arrested, and attention was then
directed to the subject of
THE HORSE AND BUGGY TRACKS.
The afternoon of the murder, Silas Hartman
had hired horse and mare from livery sta
BILE. The mare wore small, interfering shoes,
and shoe taken from her feet was applied to
the track made in the woods near the scene of
the murder, and it fitted it exactly. A plaster
cast of the shoe Was taken, and was compared
with thousands of horse shoes without finding
ene that would go in it. Hartman was lodged
in Jail.
WHO WAS THE WOMAN
Some farmers, coming to Indianapolis the
afternoon of the murder, met Young and his
wife going in the carriage in the direction of
the place where they were murdered, with a
lady sitting in the same seat with Mrs. Young.
A few yards behind the carriage Silas Hart
man, driving the livery stable mare, was seen
by the same parties. He was recognized, but
when they attempted to speak to him he turned
TO their salutation. Several of these witnesses
testified that Nancy E. Glen, the wife of a
leading grocer of Indianapolis, was The lady
who occupied the seat with Mr.. Young's wife
in his carriage. Silas Hartman, who followed
In the buggy was 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 secured 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
to 20 secretly to Mrs. Clem's house anc get sew
eral thousand dollars, and tell her that the
money must come. The brother obeyed these
directions, and Mrs. Clem, yielding to the de-
mand, went into cellar where she had pack
age of bills concealed in a stove-pipe hole in q
chimney, and gave Abrams brother several
thousand dollars, aud told him to tell his broth
er in Jail not to send for more money, as ii
would excite suspicion.
MOTIVE FOR THE MURDER.
The murdered man was known to have had
ever seven thousand dollars on his person q
few hours before he was murdered. On the
Gay of the murder Abrams, who purchased the