The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-07-23


want. No shoe nor boot of any kind be-
longing to her could be found in the house,
and there was, therefore, nothing that she
wore with which to measure the footprint
of the "No, CATERS" found near the
dead bodies, and which it was evident were
on the feet of woman who fled from the
scene of the murder, and stopped when the
footprints of the interfering mare were
reached. A rigid inquiry was made in the
shoe stores of indianapolis till one was, at
last, found where Mrs. Glen had bought
pair of emo CATERS" few days before
the 18th of September. A pair of the same
size and manufacture were produced and
carefully compared with the measurement
of the footprint. They corresponded in
every particular save one; the heels were
too deep. The boy who sold them was
again examined, and he at length recalled
the fact that when he sold the shoes to Mrs.
Glen she complained that the heels were
too high. She was directed to shoemaker
who could cut them down for her. The
shoemaker was examined; he remembered
altering a pair of No. CATERS for Mrs.
Glenn at the time referred to. He was di-
rected now to alter another pair of the same
kind in the same way, and the shoes thus
altered exactly fitted the footprint of the
fleeing woman. Here seemed to be the
most conclusive evidence that the foot
step of the woman near the scene of the
tragedy was the foostep of Mrs. Glenn had
stopped in her flight on foot when she reach
mare with small feet; and that this mare,
with another horse, had been hired by ST.
las Hartman, Mrs. Clem's brother, on that
afternoon. The conclusion was that Silas
Hartman was in waiting to drive away with
his sister, Mrs. Glen, when the bloody deed
was finished.
There was other corrobor ative evidence
of Mrs. Glenn guilt. She had bribed and
otherwise induced several persons to testi-
fy that she was at home and at other places
where she could not have been had she
been on tho banks of White river on the af-
ternoon 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 confessed
that they had been guilty Of perjury. The
chain of circumstantial evidence was thus
shot was bought by Abrams. Abrams, in
Jail, had demanded money of Mrs. Glen,
which she to the amount of thousands of
dollars, had produced from an unusual
place of concealment and sent to him, be-
sides having paid him money on the day OF
the murder and after its committal. On
that afternoon she was absent from home,
and footsteps curiously corresponding to
hers in the cut-down heel of a gaiter-boot
she was proved to have purchased, were
found near the dead bodies of Young and
his wife. Where these footsteps ended,
the singular marks of a horseshoe COM
menced, and a mare, the only one that
could be found in Indianapolis whose shoes
answered to this impression, was hired
that afternoon by Hartman, Mrs. Clem's
brother Mrs. Glenn had made away with
all her shoes, lest apparently, her connec-
ton with the woman's footsteps should be
traced. She had attempted, by bribery to
prove an alibi. Hartmen, the brother,
when she was convicted on her second trial,
cut his throat with razor, and killed him.
self. And the motive for the crime in
which this guilt seemed so conclusively
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 stovepipe hole in Mrs.
Clem's cellar, and on which she drew to
satisfy Abrams demands. To make all
this the more probable, if not most positive
proof of guilt, it was sworn by one witness
that he saw Mrs. Glenn get into the buggy
with Young and his wife ON the fatal after
noon; and by another that he saw her re-
turning, later in the day, at a rapid pace,
in buggy with Silas Hartman, her brother,
who was driving the small-footed mare,
The wonder is that with such mass Of
proof before them any jury should have
hesitated in giving verdict of murder in
the first degree, except that there might be
a doubt whether the actual deed was com
mitted by Mrs. Glenn or by her brother,
Hartman, or by Abrams.
The $1,000 in Youngs possession may
have been sufficient motive for this murder
but other circumstances in the case indicate
less obvious and it may be, more pow
erful reason. Young, till within six months
of September, 1868, had been poor porteI
in hardware store, subsisting upon hi