The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-04-03
servant who was present when the pur-
chase was made

chase was made.
At the time of the murder gentle
man, and his two children, who were
tishing some distance below the scene OF
Ike 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 chill
dren saw the deceased and another wo-
man walking on the sand-bar near
where they were killed. A farmer and
his son driving along the road within a
few hundred yards of the place, heard
two reports, one loud like a shot gun,
and the other sharp like a 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 two reports and a
scream between them. The witness
agreed that the time was about four
o'clock p. m. The horse and buggy of
the deceased was found hitched In the
road near by.
On examining the neighboring ground
the well defined tracks of woman,
wearing number three gaiter, making
long steps as if in flight, were traced
from point near the dead bodies,
through the woods to a place where
they intersected the track of buggy,
going in the direction of Indianapoli. s
and drawn by an animal wearing small
sized interfering shoes. The tracks of
the woman and the horse and buggy
were all accurately measured. Those
were the clues, and the questions arose:
Who bought the gun? Who was the
woman seen i'll company with the de-
ceased Who drove the buggy in which
the murderers fled from the scene of the
tragedy?
The pawnbroker sold the gun at nine
o'clock in the morning. Between the
hours of eight and nine three appli-
cants for the purchase of secondhand
shot gun had been made at as many
auction stores and pawnbroker's shops,
by man having sandy hair and COM
plexion, and at the third place he had
inquired of 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 pur
chased which in seven hours afterward
had slain Young. Five witnesses iden-
titled William j. Abrams, reputable
carpenter of indianapolis, as the man
who purchased the gun. Mr.. Abrams
was arrested, and attention then directed
to the subject of the horse and buggy
tracks.
The afternoon of the murder Silas
Hartman had hired horse and mare
from livery stable. The mare wore
small interfering shoes, and shoe taken
from her foot was applied to the track
made in the woods near the scene of the
murder, and it fitted exactly. A plaster
case of the shoe was taken and was
compared with thousands of horse-shoes
without finding one that would go i'll it.
Hartman was lodged in Jail.
Some farmers coming to indianapolis
the afternoon of the murder, met
Young and his wife going in their car
rage in the direction of the place where
they were murdered, with lady sit
ting in the same seat with Mrs. Young.
A few rods behind the carriage, Silas
Hartman, driving the livery stable
mare, was seen by the same parties. He
was recognized, but when they attempt
ed to speak to him he turned his head
and drove by them without returning
their salute. Several of these witnesses
testified that Nancy +. Glen, the wife
of a leading grocer in Indianapolis, was
the lady who occupied the seat with Mr..
Youag's wife in his carriage. Silas
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 in
sured her conviction.
The confederate Abrams was in Jail,
and had difficulty in raising money to
pay attorney fees. He sent for his
brother, and directed him to go secret
ly 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 a
cellar where she had package of bills
concealed in stovepipe hole in Chin
ney, and gave Abrams brother several
thousand dollars, and told him to tell
his brother in Jail not to send for mon
ey, as it would excite suspicion.
The murdered man was known to
have had over seven thousand dollars
on his person few hours before he was
murdered On the day of the murder,
Abrams, who purchased a gun, went to
Mrs. Clem's house, from which she was
absent good portion of the afternoon,
and remained until she returned, and
received large sum of money from her
Immediately upon her return.
1t was proved that Mrs. Glenn offered
her servant 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 procured her
niece, her sister-in-law and an Irish
servant girl to swear before the grand
jury that she was at home and in the
house of her sister-in-law, next door,
during the afternoon, and these per.
sons afteward confessed their periuries,
and testified on oath that she had sub
orned them. She procured book
peddler to swear that he had delivered
book to her in person, at her house
the afternoon of the murder, and per
suaded a miller, who had delivered q
sack of flour at her house on another
day, to swear that it was the day of the
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