The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-08-16
WAS FRANK CLANCY MURDERED
Little Doubt That He Was Done Up" Ia
Toledo While Pursuing His Eiopini
Wife.

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The following dispatch concerning
former residents of Paw Paw appeared
in the Detroit Free Press under an Ann
ArbOr date of August .: "A man came
from Toledo last Monday apparently
drugged. He was taken to the poor
house and died Tuesday without reveal
ing his identity. Accompanying him
was satcnel that contained the name
of Frank Clancy Clancy's mother to-
day recognized the satchrl as her sons,
! but the body as his brother-in-law, Grant
Stevens. Both lived in Kalamazoo.
ClanCy's wife eloped few weeks ago
to Toledo. Ii is supposed that Clancy
and stevens followed and had trouble
with the guilty pair and foul play is
feared. A post norton examination
will be held in the morning. Unknown
parties put Stevens on the train at To-
ledO.n
This was the first definite news re-
ceived here concerning the rumored
death of Frank Clancy, mention of
! which was made in the NORTHERNER
of last week. As Clancy and Grant
Stevens bore not the least personal re-
semblan &c tn each other, much wonder
was manifested as to any difficulty of
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were married here, as were also Grant
Stevens and his wife, aud great local
interest was felt Ii now transpires,
however, that ii was not Grant Stevens,
! but John, younger brother, who ac-
companied Frank to Toledo
The following Ann Arbor dispatch to
the Detroit NewS of Monday evening
definitely settles the identity of the
dead man, although it does not in any
way clear up the mystery of his death
Its Frank; it's my poor boy. Oh,
my God, it's my poor Frank, was the
first agonized cry of the heart broken
mother, AS she entered the vault under
the anatomical laboratory to look at a
new body discovered by the sheriff this
morning aud believed by him to be the
missing Frank Clancy.
1T required no careful scrutiny and
painstaking search, limb by limb, for
the mothers eye To trace, under the
| blOated skin and swollen and distorted
features, the lineamentS of her SOr, but
! the manner OF his death is still mys-
terry
The body she examined last Satur.
day was not that of her son, but one
substituted by mistake. This morning
Sheriff Judson drove up hastily to Mrs
| Clancy's residence to inform her that
he had found another body, which he
believed to he that of the person he had
delivered to the poor commissioner and
that the coroner had possession OF the
wrong body
"Wm. Haseneck, VIM. Clancy and
VIM. Vernon saw the body discovered
by the sheriff, and gave their opinion
that Frank Clancy's body lay before
them. Mrs. Clancy was then taken to
the spot and recognized her sons re-
mains instantly. Sheriff JudSon had
not been satisfied with the identitica-
ton of the body before the coroner.
"Nageley, the janitor of the medical
building and who has charge of the
picking vat and its contents, testified
that the body given to the coroner was
the one brought to him from the county
house, and on that testimony the SUBJ
sequent proceedings were based. This
informing JudSOn caused the university's
picking vat to be overhauied, and
found another body that he was con-
WINGED was that of the man who had
been few hours at the Jail, wearing
the clothes and carrying the grip of
Frank Clancy. An autopsy Of this Sec
ond body will now be ordered.
Mrs Margaret Clancy, the bereaveG
mother, has been quoted as saying that
Edith Clancy had deliberate purpose
to keep her children, especially Leo
and Beryl, away from Frank, and that
one day Edith Clancy swore that she
would kill her children rather than let
Frank get them. The mother believes
that Franks only motive for pursuing
the clipping couple was To recover his
babies, of whom he was very fond.
The mystery regarding Clancy be-
ng now in a measure cleared up, the
great question remains, where is John
Stevens, who accompanied him to To.
ledo!
The mixing of bodies came about in
"A curious manner. The body first de-
livered to the coroner from the univer
sity was that of man named Hodgins,
sent here last week from Detroit house
of correction. Coroner Ball inter
viewed every one who had seen the
strangely acting man in Clancy's clothes
as to his personal appearance. The de.
scription at the poor house and Jail
agreed with Mrs. Margaret Clancy's
description of her son, but the body de-
livered by Nagely did not correspond.
"A dispatch from Detroit brought
description OF f1OuplOS Jnal lallleu eN-
actly with the autopsy.
"Hodgins had two gunshOt wounds in
his body that removed all question, so
a second trip To the vat was made this
morning, with the result that the VERT
able body of Frank Clancy was found"
A Toledo dispatch says Clancy came
into police station in that city without
money and was given ticket to Ann
Arbor. He was in a daZed condition.
A great deal of fiction and misrepre-
sentation have been published in con-
nection with this case, notably concern
ing the fortune Frank Clancy possessed
and the way it was spent. Instead of
having been made a very rich man
from his fathers estate, he never had to
exceed eight or ten thousand dollars,
which he himself spent in unfortunate
business speculations, dissipation, etc.
He did not spend his money on his wife
"Trixie, who carried on dressmaking
business during large portion of the
time she resided here, TO care for her.
self and her children.
Wednesday mornings papers con-
fainad accounts nf tho finding Of Rovlp