Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-18

And "now'' is a sprite that tricks us ever,
Till 1t floats and is lost in the vast Forever"
Miscellany.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
History Of a Remarkable Murder Case.
ON the 18th of September, 1868, a
farmers boy discovered, on the banks of
White 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 naortem examination disclosed the
fact that Mrs. Young had been killed by
pistol shot, the ball entering the back
part of the head and coursiIg upwards
through the brain until it lodged upon the
inner surface of the frontal bone. The
ball proved to be a cartridge pistol ball
Mr.. Young had been killed by discharge
from double -barreled shotgun, which
was found by his side with one barrel ex-
ploded, the other barrel heavily charged
with ten buck-shot, and standing cooked
The position and course of the wound
upon Young and his wife proved conclu-
sively that they had been murdered. No
pistol was discovered. The day after the
discovery of the murder, it was ascer-
tanned that the shotgun found by the
dead bodies had been purchased from
pawnbroker in Indianapolis on the day of
the murder. The gun was identified by
means of a broken thimble and a pecu-
liarity about the locks, and the man who
had purchased it was accurately described
by the pawnbroker and negro servant
who was present when the purchase was
made. At the time of the murder gen
tleman and his two children, who were
fishing some distance below the scene of
the murder, heard tine report of firearms
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 qo0naan 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 a
shotgun, the other sharp like pistol,
and so near together that it was difficult
to distinguish them A man and his wife,
living a 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 nitched in the road near by.
On examining the neighboring ground,
the well defined tracks of a woman, wear
ing 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 inter-
sected the track of buggy, going in the
direction of Indianapolis, and drawn by
an animal wearing small-sized interfering
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 PURCHASE OF THE GUN.
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 second-han shotgun
had been made at as many auction stores
and pawnbrokers' shops, by man hav-
ing sandy hair and complexion, and at
the third place he had inquired of bright
little girl, who took him to the door, di-
rected him across the street, and saw him
enter the establishment where the gun
was purchased, which. in seven hours af-
terwards, had slain Young. Five wit
nesses identified William J. Abrams, a
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 ahorse and mare from
alivery stable. The mare wore small in
terfering 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 exactly. A plaster cast of
the shoe was taken and was compared
with thousands of horse. shoes, without
finding one that would go into it. Hart
man 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 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 Hartman, driv-
ing 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 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. Silas Hartman, who fol
lowed 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 ar
rest insured 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
to Mrs. Clem's house and get several
thousand dollars, and to "tell her that
the money must come" The brother
obeyed these directions, and Mrs. Glen,
yielding to the demand, went into cellar
where she had a package of bills con-
cealed in stove-pipe hole in a chimney,
and gave Abrams brother several thou.
sand dollars, and told him to tell his
brother In Jail not to send for more
money, as it would excite suspicion.
MOTIVE FOR THE MURDER.
The murdered man was known to have
had over 1000 on his person few hours
before he was murdered. On the day O
the murder Abrams, who purchased th'
gun, went to Mrs. Clem's house, from
which she was absent good portion O
the afternoon, and remained there till sh'
IeGurueu, anu foCe1V6Q d large Suul v
money from her Immediately upon he
return.
BRIBERY OF WITNESSES.
1t was proved that Mrs. Glen Offered
her sewing girl $500 if she would sweal
that she was at her home during the af
ternOon of the murder. By means O
bribes and threats she procured he
niece, her sister-in-law and an Irish ser
want girl to swear before the Grand Jur,
that she was at home and at the house o
her sister-in-law, next door, during tina
afternoon, and these persons afterward
confessed their perjuries, and testified o.
oath that she had suborned them. Sh
procured book peddler to swear that h
had delivered book to her in person, a
her house, the afternoon of the murder
and persuaded miller, who had delivere
a sack of flour at her house on anothe
day, to swear that it was the day of th
murder, and that he conversed with her
the very hour of the murder. She pr
cured another man tO swear that he mi