The Portland daily press., 1872-07-13
ARemarkabIe Murder Case
History of aIGreat Crime i'm Indiana.
SUICIDE OF ONE AND CONVICTION OF TWO
OF THE AIURDERERS.

river, about three miles north OF the city Of
indianapolis, the dead bodies of Jacob Young
and Nancy Young, his wife, two reputable
citizens of that place. The post-mOrtem ex-
animation disclosed the fact that Mrs. Young
had been killed by pistol shot, the ball en-
tering the back part Of the head and coursing
upwards through the brain, until it lodged
upon the inner surface OF the frontal bone.
The ball proved to be cartridge pistol ball.
Mr.. Young had been killed by a discharge
from q double barreled shot gun, which was
found by his side with one barrel exploded,
the other barrel heavily charged with ten
buck shot, and standing cooked. The posi-
ton and course of the wound upon Young
and his wife proved conclusively that they
had been murdered. MOI pistol was discover
ed. The day after the discovery of the muir
der, it was ascertained that the shotgun
found by the side of the dead bodies had been
purchased from pawnbroker in Indianapo-
lis on the day of the murder. The gun was
identified by means of a broken thimble and
popularity about the locks, and the man
who had purchased it was accurately de-
scribed by the pawnbroker and negro SER
want who was present when the purchase
was made. At the time of the murder gen
tleman and his two children, who were fish
ing some distance be ow 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 an
other woman walking on the sand bar near
where they were killed. A farmer and his
son driving along the road, within a few hun
dred yards of the place, heard two reports,
and one loud like a shotgun, the other sharp
like pistol, so near together that it was diff
ficult to distinguish them. A man and his
wife living quarter of mile from the scene
heard the two reports and scream between
them. The witnesses agreed that the time
was about four o'clock p. 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 a woman, wearing a
new number-three gaiter, making long steps,
as if in flight, were traced from a point near
the dead bodies, through the woods to place
where they intersected the track of buggy
going in the direction of indianapolis, and
drawn by an animal wearing small sized, in
terfering shoes. The tracks of the woman
and the 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 fled from the scene of the
tragedy.
The pawnbroker sold the gun at 9 o'clock
in the morning. Between the hours of eight
end nine three applications for the purchase
OF secondhand shot gun had been made at
as many auction stores and pawn-brokers's
shops by a man having sandy hair
and complexion, and at the third
place he had inquired of a bright little girl,
who took him to the door, directed him
across the street, and saw him enter the es-
tablishment where the gun was purchased
which in seven hours afterward had slain
Young. Five witnesses identified William
j. Abrams, reputable carpenter of Indian
apolis,~as the man who purchased the gun.
Mr. Abrams was arrested, and the attention
was then directed to the subject of the horse
and buggy tracks.
The afternoon of the murder Silas Hart
man had hired horse and mare from liv-
cry stable. The mare wore small interfering
shoes, and a shoe taken from her feet was
applied to the track made in the woods near
the scene of the MURDER and it fitted exact
ly. A plaster cast of the shoe was taken and
was compared with thousands of horse shoes
without finding one that would 90 in it.
Hartman was lodged in jail
Some farmers, coming to Indianapolis the
afternoon of the murder, met Young and his
wife going in their carriage in the direction of
the place where they were murdered. with
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 recognized, but
when they attempted to speak to him he turn
ed his head and drove by them without re-
spending to their salutation. Several of
these witnesses testified that Nancy E. Glen,
the wife of leading grocer in 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 placed upon Mrs. Clem's
movements, but her arrest was DELAYED for
three weeks. This delay in her arrest insur-
ed her conviction.
The confederate Abrams was in Jail, and
had difficulty in raising money to pay attor-
ney's fees. He sent for his brother and d.
rected him to so secretly to Mrs. Clem's
house and get several thousand dollars, and
to ''tell her that the money must Gomez
The brother obeyed these directions. and
Mrs. Glen, yielding to the demand, went in
to cellar where she had package of bills
concealed in stove-ppe hole in a chimney.
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 ex-
cite suspicion.
The murdered man was known to have had
over seven thousand dollars on his person a
few hours before he was murdered On the
day of the murder Abrams, who purchased
the gun, went to Mrs. Clients house from
which she was absent good portion of the
afternoon, and remained there until she re-
turned, and received large sum of money
from her Immediately upon her return.
1t was proved that Mrs. Glenn offered her
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
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
81 her slster-in-law, next door, during that af-
Iernoon, and these persons atterward con-
fessed their perjuries, and testified on oath
that she had suborned them. She procured a
book peddler to swear that he had delivered a
book to her in person, at her house, the af
Iernoon OF the murder; and persuaded a
miller, who had delivered sack of -four aft
her house on another day, to swear that it
was the day of the MURDER and that he con-
T1rsed with her at the very hour of the MR.
Ter. She procured another man to swear
that he met her in the Indianapolis post of
ice and accidentally trod upon her dress aud
tpologiZed to her, the same afternoon. She
procured two women to swear that thew met
Ter shopping in a dry goods store few min
ties afterwards. Immediately upon her re-
urn from the murder she told her neighbor.
who noticed her flushed appearance, that she
lau Deen at home canning grapes over hot
'tove all the afternoon of the murder, the fact
BENG That no grapes had been canned. And
IN her examination before the coroner's iury
before her arrest she swore that she was at
lome at the time the murder was committed |
IN the day OF the funeral of Young and wife |
he stood at her front gate as the procession
vent by, and said to friend that She had No
acquaintance with Young or his wife: tho
act being that she had been visiting his house
With her sister-in-law two or three times n |
week for months prior to the murder. In |
act, there was no end to the lies she told and |
hired Others to tell for her.
When she was arrested she was wearing q |
air of carpet slippers belonging to her color
d servant, and not slipper or shoe of anv
ind belonging to her could be found abont |
er house. Inquiry was made at a number
# the shoe-stores in indianapolis, and it was
scertained that boy had sold Mrs. Glenn a
alr OF No: CATERS few days before the
a u The boy was requested to get pair
1 the same size of the same manufacture.
hey We're procured, and a arefulmeasurement
moved tllat the heels were too deep for the
roman tracks in the woods near the dead
odles, but corrcsponded with them in every
ther particular. Upon this being mant;on,
d, the boy remembered that Mrs. Glenn con-
lained OF the high heels when she houni,+
hem, and inquired for shoemaker and g.,
n being directed where to 90 started to ~
hem altered. The shoemaker remembaroS
nat he had altered the heels of a nair of rait
'lem. and, upon being requested
similar manner, he
neel just as he had