The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-20

ter-in-law, and when there she and Young
would retire to an adjoining room, where
they would be engaged in conversation
and writing for few minutes. When
questioned by her sister-in-law about
the nature of her business relations with
Young, she put her off with evasive an
swers. Meanwhile Mrs. Glenn and Young
had plenty of money. During the same
time the same time the fortunes of her
convicted accomplice, Abrams, who
purchased the gun, began visibly to i'm
prove. He qnit working at his trade,
commenced loafng and borrowing mon
ey at high rates of interest, kept re-
spectacle balance in bank, paid his bank
paper promptly, and spent good portion
of his time visiting Mrs. Clem's house.
But the strangest part of the transactions
remains to be told. DR.. Duzan, lead
ing physician of indianapolis and man
of wealth, had been acquainted with Mrs.
Glenn since she was child. and had al
ways been her family physician. Before
her arrest Mrs. Clem had testified as a
witness in the Grand Jury room, and had
there positively asseverated 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 produce the bank accounts of DIR. Du-
zan, Young, the murdered man, and
Abrams, Mrs. Clem's confederate. Mrs.
Glenn kept no bank account during these
transactions.
A comparison of these bank accounts
revealed the fact that there were the
most intimate relations existing between
them. When DIR. Duzan would check
$4,000 out of his bank, Young would
make deposit of the same amount the
same day; and when Young would draw
upon his bank balance, Duzan's would
be increased to the same amount. 1t
was the same with the bank accounts of
Young and Abrams. Dr. Duzan swore
in all his trials that he never knew or
saw Young, and that he never had any
dealing with him directly or indirectly.
Duzan, however, had large business tran
sactions with Mrs. Glen. She began by
borrowing small sums of five hundred or
thousand dollars at time for short
periods of seven to ten days at enormous
rates of interest; invariably returning
money with interest before due, and
telling DuZan that she was engaged in
large speculations with leading business
men in indianapolis, and that she would
tell him all about it at the proper time.
These loans increased until Duzan at
one time advanced her over twenty
thousand dollars, for which he took no
receipt, note, or memorandum. 1t in
variably happened that the very day she
would obtain the money from Duzan,
Young would make a deposit of like
amount to pay off note in bank.
AS has been stated, $27 900 of Young's
paper matured in bank on the 14th of
September, 1868. Four or five days be-
fore that time Mrs. Clem came to Duzan
in great distress of mind, and as he tes-
titled, wept bitterly, and begged him to
lend her $50, 900. Just at this time;
Duzan's bankers had become inquisitive
concerning the use he was making of his
money, and upon his refusal to tell
them, they withdrew their accommoda-
dations. He informed Mrs. Glen that
he could aid her no longer. Young evil
IDENTIFY 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 at the
nearest way, she accompanied Young
and his wife on their ride Her brother
(Silas) followed in a buggy with the gun
purchased by Abrams. Young and his
wife were murdered, and the murderers
fled to Indianapolis in the manner de-
scribed
Mrs. Clem was first tried in the fall of
1868, and but for the obstinacy of Ger
man 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 per-
juries concerning his whereabouts on
the day of the murder), committed sui
eide in jail the night of her conviction
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 few
hours before the murder being clear
and conclusive; also his dividing the,
money with Mrs. Clem after the murder
The Supreme Court reversed the
judgment against Mrs. Clem and gave
her new trial, upon a shallow techni-
cality that led many ignorant people to
believe that the Court had been corrupt
ed. Her counsel took a change of venue,
and she was tried the third time at Lee
banon, Boone County, Indiana That
trial resulted in divided jury. The
fourth and last trial has just been con-
cluded by verdict of guilty, with a
| sentence of Imprisonment for life. Thus
has ended one of the most remarkable
chapters in the history of the criminal
Jurisprudence of this country. We
doubt if even the celebrated Webster
case furnished stronger illustration of
the efficacy and reliability of a connected
chain of circumstantial evidence. At
first it was pronounced incredible that
Mrs. Glenn should have had any connec-
ton with the murder of her two friends,
but little by little the truth came to
light, until her guilt was so clearly re-
vealed. that no intelligent mind could
doubt it after carefully considering the
facts. = Bench and Bar for October.
Louise Muhlbach, the popular Ger
r,op 1,oJ DaxI,- Al.