Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-09

On examining the Delghb0rlng ground, the
well defined tracks of a woman, wearing new
number three gaiter, making long steps, as if in
fight, where traced from point near the dead
bodies, through the woods to place where they
intersected the track of q buggy going in the
direction of Indianapolis, and drawn by an ami
NAL wearing small sized, interfering shoes. The
tracks of the woman and the horse and the
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?
The pawnbroker sold the gun at nine O'Clock
in the morning. Between the hours OF eight
and nine, three applications for the purchase of
a secondhand shot gun had been made at as
many auction stores and pawnbrokerS' shops by
a man 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 him
across the street and saw him enter the estab-
lishment where the gun was purchased, which,
in seven hours afterward, had slain Young
Five witnesses identified VIM. J. Abrams, a
reputable carpenter of indianapolis, as the man
who purchased the gun. MIR. Abrams was ar
rested, 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 a livery stable
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, aud was compared with
thousands of horse shoes without finding one
that would 90 on it. Hartman was lodged in
Jail.
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
lady sitting in the same seat with Mrs. Young
few yards behind the carriage Silas Hartman
driving the livery stable mare, was seen by the
same parties He was recognized but when
they attempted to speak to him he turned his
head and drove by them without responding to
their salutaton. Several of these witnesses
testified that Nancy e. Glen, the wife of a lead
ing grocer of indianapolis, was the lady who
occupied the seat with Mr.. Young's wife in his
carriage. Sas Hartman, who followed in the
buggy, was her brother. A close watch was
kept 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 go secretly 10 Mrs. Clem's honSe and TO get
several thousand dollars, and TO "te her that
the money must come" The brother obeyed
these directions, and Mrs. Glen, yielding 10 the
demand went into a cellar where she had
package of bills concealed in a stove-pipe hole
in the chimney, and gave Abrams brother sew
eraI thousand dollars, and told him to tell his
brother in Jail not to send for more money, as il
would excite suspicion.
The murdered man was known to have had
over seven thousand dollars on his person few
hours before he was murdered. On the day of
the murder Abrams, who purchased the gum
went to Mrs. Clems house, from which she was
absent good portion of the afternoon, and re-
manned there till she returned, and received
large sum of money from her Immediately upon
her return.
1t was proved that Mrs. Glen offered he7
sewing girl $500 if she would swear that she
was at her home during the afternoon of the
murder; by means of brides and threats she
procured her niece, her sister-in-law, and an
Irish servant girl to swear before the grand jury
that she was at home and at the house of her
SsteT-in-law, next door, during that afternoon;
and these persons afterwards confessed their
peTjurieS, and testified on oath that she had
suborned them. She procured a book peddler
TO swear that he had delivered book to her in
person, at her house, the afternoon of the muir
der; and persuaded miller, who had delivered
a sack of -four at her house on another day, to
swear that il was the day of the murder, and
that he conYersed with her at the very hour Of
the murder. She procured another man TO
swear that he met her in the Indianapolis post
office and accidentally trod upon her dress and
apOlogized TO her the same afternoon. She pro.
cured two women to swear that they met her
shopping in a dry goods store few minutes
afterward
Immediately upon her return from the muir
der she told il neighbOr, who noticed her flush
ing appearance, that she had been at home
canning grapes over q hot stove all the afternoon
of the murder, the fact being that no grapes
had been canned. And on the examination be-
fore the corOner's jury before the arrest she
swore that she was at home at the time the
murder was committed On the day of the
funeral of Young and wife she stood at her
front gate as the procession went by, and said
10 friend that she had no acquaintance with
Young or his wife; the fact being that she had
been visiting his house with her sster-n law
two or three times a week for months prior TO
the murder. In fact, there was no end to the
lies she told and hired Others TO tell for her
When she was arrested she was wearing
pair of carpet slippers belonging to her co ored
servant, and not slipper or shoe of any kind
belonging to her could be found about her
house. Inquiry was made at number Of shoe
stores in Indianapolis, and it was ascertained
that boy had sold Mrs. Glen a pair of No. 3
CATERS a few days before the murder. The boy
was requested TO get pair of the same size of
the same manufacture. They were procured
and careful measurement showed that the
heels were too deep for the wOman's tracks in
the woods near the dead bodies, but correspond
ed with them in every other particular. Upon
this being mentioned, the boy remembered that
Mrs. Glen complained Of the high heels when
she bought them, and inquired for shoemaker,
and, upon being directed where 10 90, started to
have them altered The shoemaker remembered
that he had altered the heels of a pair of CATERS
for Mrs. Glen, and, upon being requested TO
alter the new pair in similar manner, he re-
moved a portion of the heel Just as he had done
for her, and when thus altered the CATERS fitted
the track near the dead bodies TO perfection.
The servant girl swore that she saw Mrs. Clem's
new CATERS lying on a bed in the house day or
two before the murder; that she saw the same
CATERS soiled and muddy on the porch the morn
ing after the murder; that Mrs. Glen passed
out by them upon the porch, and that they were
never seen alterward. IL was also proved that
Mrs. Glen was seen TO get into the carriage with
Young and wife, as they were going in the drec-
ton where they were murdered, the afternoon of
the murder; and one witness who has known
her ana her brother Sas for years, met them
coming home in buggy from the direction of
Inc murder, at rapid pace, and swore that they
refused TO recognize him.
The most remarkable feature of the case
however, and one that has excited A curiosity
that will never he allayed until the guilty par
ties confess aud explain it, grew out of the So
eret and mysterious financial transactions which
were carried on between Mrs Glenn and her vie
tim, Young, and other citizens of IndiananoIis
for months prior to the murder and up 10 The
very day OF its commission. Young, the mur.
dered man, had been porter in hardware
stree, and was known TO be poor. Suddenly he
gave signs OF wealth, improved his property
bought ulul morse ana Cuffldgc, quit work inu
and informed his former employers that he was
engaged 10 business that was realizing enor-
nous profits. lie borrowed large sums of money
at enormous rates OF interest, invariably on
short time, and always returned them before his
obligations matured. He kept a large bank
balance at one of the indianapolis national
banks, and established a credit that enabled him
TO procure the endorseme ut Of some of the lead
ing business men Of the place. No one knew
his business, and when asked by his indorsers
what he was doing, he put them of with eyasive
answers
lie was murdered Sept. ~, 1868, and s27 900
Oh MS paper .natured in bank on the 18th. This
amount was paid by his indorsers. lie was
seen 10 oank the day he was murdered with
si,oVv ID ms pocket, and one witness swore
l1at mrs Glen said that Young had given her
szOOOO on the morning Of the day of The mur-
| der. These financial trausactinns of Ynung
| covered period Of six months. and durin,s ,he
| whole time he was visiting Mrs Clem;s honee
| as often as two or three times a wpct anil al.
ways when her husband was nj Li5 p ~
store. Mrs. Clem's husband never me-, yn,,,,,ys
aud never knew that his wife was aconain,ed
| with him until after the murder. Mrs, YounS
WAS also In the habit Of visiting Young house
| two or three times week In company with M
sister'in-law, and Gwhen. there she aud Young