The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-29
SECOND DIsPATC 2.

SECOND DIsPATC9.
11:30 A. M.-The murdered person is an
unknown child, soY, apparently ten or
twelve years old. Clemens was caught in
the ACT OF putting the body in a box, evil
IDENTIFY int ending 70 bury il, or ship it to
some other place, and thus conceal the fatal
evidence of his crime. The body was stiff,
if the victim had been dead for some
hours. All toe clothes had been destroyed,
and even the child's hair and eyebrows were
shaved of, to mske anything like identifi-
cation impossible. Clemens, who was ex-
ceedingly agitsted at first, has reganed his
equanimity. He even jokes about his stu
and he and they say everything will be sat
isisctorily explained.
THIRD DISPATCH.
1910 p. M.-The Clemens affair is the
universal topic. II is certainly mysterious
affair, but the account which the accused and
his friends gave of it is plausible, to say the
least. By this mornings mail Clemens re-
ceived note postmarked Boston, saying: II
send you the body by express. L will call
tor the reward in two days. II is TO your in.
terest to keep the secret, for you are as deep
in the mud as l am in the nire. Abraham
Taylor" At O'Clock an Adams Express
wagon drove up and delivered a box at
Clemens door, for which he receipted. This
box, when opened, was found to contain
the corpse of child. It was in the act OF
opening the box that Clemens was arrested,
and hence his surprise and CONSERVATION.
This account of the affair is corrobor-
ated bv the eXpressman's testimony. the
postmsn and Clemens servants. Some
Dersou- arc Low of the opinion that there
has bean 30 murder at all, but only an IN
justifable practical joke played upon Glenn
ems. Most think, however, that there has
been murder actually committed by some
impecunious ruffian, 100 obtuse and i'm
bruted to see the point of Clemens's own
joke. IL Will be remembered that some
weeks ago Clemens put n the newspaper an
advertisement offering S205 reward for the
return of his um brella, stolen by "A boy, and
for the body of the thief, not alive. One
possible theory of the matter is that some
school boy of the Jesse Pomeroy order has
murdered his companion in order to secure
the reward II these copjectures have any
basis, Mr.. Clemens's situation is a grave
one, for if a murder has been COM
United, his advertisement undoubtedly
makes him accessory before the fact.
FOURTH DISPATCH.
2P. M-Tbe authorities have concluded to
release Mr.. Clemens upon his parole. The
mystery is still not cleared up. Mr.. Glenn
ems, acting under tho advice OF his friends,
has offered reward of 500 Tor the sppre-
hension and conviction OF the parties wh o
practiced such joke upon him. The police
have been using the telegraph with vlgor,
and the box containing the body has been
definitely traced to the express office at
Cam bridge, Mass. 1t was LETT there by a
colored man, who is now being hunted for.
FIFTH DISPATCH.
! Boston, 4:3O p. M.-The Clemens mystery
has now been pretty fully cleared up. Last
night the body OF boy, in every way
answering tae description OF the one sent
to Mark Twain, stolen out of the dis
secting room OF the Medical Faculty, Cam.
bridge. The supposition is that the theft
was perpetrated by some medical students
with the object OF practicing a joke upor
Mr.. Clemens, whose advertisement for the
bOy and umbrella has been widely pub
lished. II this be so, il is to be hoped thai
Mr.. Clemens will have more prudence in The
! future. There are too many Jesse Pomeroy.
in our midst for these sort of things TO by
safely practiced. The medical faculty bees
at Cambridge look wise, but say nothing
The perpetrators of the act will scarcely b,
found.
| SIXTH DISPATCH.
HARTFORD, P. M.-The body of the DO,
supposed to have been murdered has beer
claimed by the janitor of the Cambridg
Medical College.