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

would retire to an adjoining room, where they
would be engaged in conversation and writing
for a few minutes. When questioned by her
siSter-in-law about the nature of her business
relations with Young, she put her off with indeh-
mite answers. Meanwhile Mrs. Glen and Young
both had plenty of money. During the same
period the fortunes of her convicted accompice,
Abrams, who purchased the gun, began visi6ly
TO improve. He quit working at his trade,
commenced lOafing and borrowing money at
high rates of interest, kept respectable balance
in bank, paid his bank paper promptly, and
spent 4 good portion of his time visiting Mrs.
Clem's house. But the strangest part of these
financial transactions remains TO be told. DIR.
Duzan, leading physician of Indianapolis, and
a man OF wealth, had been acquainted with
Mrs. Glen since she was child, and had always
been her family physician. Before her arrest,
Mrs Glen had testified as witness in the
grand jury room, and had there positively as
Seyerated that she had never had any financial
dealings with DR.. Duzan, and that he would not
testify otherwise. All the leading bankers in
the city were examined and compelled 10 pro-
duce the bank accounts of DIR. Duzan, Young,
the murdered man, and Abrams, Mrs. Clem's
confederate. Mrs. Glen kept no bank account
during these transactions.
comparison of these bank accounts revealed
the fact that there were the most intimate rea-
tions existing between them. When DR.. Duzan
would check $4,000 out of his bank, Young
would make deposit of the same amount the
his bank balance, Duzans would be increased TO
the same extent. 1t was the same with the
bank accounts of Young and Abrams. DR..
Duzan swore in all the trials that he never
knew or saw Young, and that he had never had
any dealings with him, directly or indirectly.
Duzan, however, had large money transactions
with Mrs. Glen. She began by borrowing
small sums of five hundred or a thousand dol
lars for short periods of seven TO ten days, at
enormous rates of interest, invariably returning
the money, with interest, before due, and telling
DuZan that she was engaged in large specula-
lions with leading business men Of Indianapolis
and that she would tell him all about it at the
proper time These loans increased until Du-
Fan at one time advanced her over twenty thou
sand dollars, for which he took no receipt note,
or memorandum. 1t invariably happened that
the very day she would obtain money from Du
zan, Young would make a deposit of like
amount, or pay off note in bank:
As has been stated, S27 900 of Young's paper
matured in bank on the 18th of September,
1858 Four or five days before that time Mrs.
Glenn came TO Duzan in great distress OF mind,
and as he testified, wept bitterly and begged
him TO lend her So, 600. Just at this time
Duzan's bankers had become inquisitive con-
corning the use he was making of his money,
and upon his refusal to tell them, they with
drew their accommodations. He Informed Mrs.
Glen that he could aid her no longer. Young
evidently looked to her TO provide the means to
meet his maturing notes, and when she found
it impossible TO effect loan from Duzan, she
found herself at the end of the rope. She was
compelled to close the account and catching
the nearest way, she accompanied Young and
his wife on their ride; her brother, Silas, fol-
lowed in buggy with the gun purchased by
Abrams; Young and his wife were murdered,
and the murderers fed TO indianapolis in the
manner described
Mrs. Glen was first tried in the fall of 1868,
and but Tor the obStinacy OF German Juror,
who stood out for conviction against eleven for
acquittal, she would have gone scot free. Upon
the second trial she was convicted, and sentenced
to the state prison for life. Her brother Silas
who had testified in her behalf, and had
been detected in dozen perjuries concern
ing his whereabouts on the day of the murder
committed suicide in Jail the night OF her con-
viction, by cutting his throat with razor.
Abrams was then tried and convicted of murder
in the first degree-the proof of the purchase of
the gun by him, a few hours before the murder,
being clear and conclusive; also, his dividing
the money with Mrs. Glen after the murder.
The supreme court reversed the Judgment
against Mrs. Glen, and gave her a new trial,
upon a shallow technicality that led many ig-
norant people to believe that the cOnrt had been
corrupted. Her counsel took change of venue
and she was tried the third time at Lebanon,
Boon county, Indiana; the trial resulted in Il di-
yided Jury. The fourth and last trial has lust
been concluded by verdict of guilty, with Il
sentence of Imprisonment for life.
Thus has ended one of the most remarkable
chapters in the history of the criminal urispru-
dence of this country. We doubt if even the
celebrated Webster case furnished a stronger il
lustration of the efficacy and reliability of a con-
nected chain of circumstantial evidence AT
first it was pronounced incredible that Mrs.
Glen should have had any connection with the
murder of her two friends but little by little
the truth came TO light, until her guilt was so
clearly revealed that no intelligent mind could
doubt it after carefully considering the facts.