The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-09
RIVAL TO CHADWICK
MRS. NANCY E. CLEM CUT 4
 SWATH YEARS AGO.
Duped IndianapoIfs Men--Borroyyed Large sums on Her Personal Notes ana Paid Enormous Interest,"
 Convicted of Murder.

had a counterpart in this city many years ago in the ability of a shrewd woman to play upon the confidence of well known fnanciers, and more than counterpart in the tragic and sensa- tional features which brought the ca- reer of the Indianapolis woman to ap end.
 Nancy E. Glenn was the wife of a grocer. She was a woman of fine presence, dressed neatly but not ex- travagantly, and. so far as her imme- diate friends knew. was leading a life in no way foreign to their own Among her intimates was a Mrs. Ja- cob Young, and 1t began to be whis- pered about that Mrs. Glenn was en- gagged in some mysterious business in which large sums of money were needed, and that Young, who was wealthy, was her packer.
 What the business was ne one pre- tended to know, but Mrs. Glenn was having frequent dealings with the banks, and the fact that she always attended to her business herself gave 1t an air of mystery which excited much curiosity, and led to speculation on the part of her neighbors.
 One Sunday morning the bodies of Jacob Young and Mrs. Young were found on a sand bar in White River. ucdI Wudt was tHel hnOWn dS SOIo Springs. The head of MT. Young had been blown nearly entirely away and Mrs. Youngs body was badly burned. A horse, attached to carriage, was found hitched in clump of bushes near the river bank. The rig was rec ognized as belonging to MT. Young and the Identification of the bodies fol- lowed.
 When the police visited the Young residence they found that the house had been entered, presumably on Sat- urday night, and ransacked from top to bottom. Every drawer, every press had been opened and carefully search ed
 Every detective and policeman in the city was placed at work on the case and developments came rapidly. Farm CTS were found who, while coming in to the city Saturday had seen Young and his wife and Mrs. Nancy Clem go- ing in a northwest direction. They were talking and laughing, and bowed to acquaintances as they passed. Then another farmer was found who had seen Silas Hartman, a brother of Mrs. Clem, going north, in a buggy. by him. self, and later returning with a wo- man.
 Two days after the discovery of the
 
 River about one hundred yards from the scene of the murder. Only one barrel had been discharged. A search of the place failed to reveal any other evidences, but there were tracks of a woman's shoes in the sand, evidently made in running hurriedly from the scene. A canvass of the pawnshops resulted In the discovery that the shotgun had been bought on the Fri day before the murder by William Abrams, a friend and associate of Si- las Hartman. Mrs. Clem, Hartman and Abrams were placed in custody and In the Clem home was found q pair of shoes. badly soiled and fitting exactly the tracks on the sandbar.
 Then came the denouement. It was discovered that Mrs. Glenn had bor- rowed large sums of money from cap italists, that she had paid interest as high as 20 per cent a month, and that she had always met her obligations promptly. Her deposits and withdraw als at the banks showed a peculiar condition. Today. for instance, she would check out $12,000 and tomorrow deposit $20,000 in sums ranging from $500 to $5.000. Small portions of these deposits would be checked out from time to time, and then the larger bal ance would be drawn at once to be succeeded in a day or two by a still larger deposit.
 This went on month after month. and in the meantime she was paying unexampled interest. The banks trust ed her without security, and she met every note to the day. pr. Duzan one of the wealthiest men of the city. lent her thousands of dollars with on- ly her personal note to show for 1t.
 What the Itlf fa the woman has never been learned, but the State evolved the theory that she was borrowing from one to pay loans and interest to another, increasing the amounts at every stage in her game: that Young had loaned her large sums and that she had reached a point in her operations where she could not pay him; that she enticed him and Mrs Young to Cold Springs, where the hus- band was shot down by Silas Hart man, and Mrs. Young, as she fled, ter ror-stricken from the scene. was shot in the back of the head by Mrs. Clem: that the object of the double murder was to secure the notes which Mrs. Glenn had given Young for borrowed money; but, not finding them on his person, a search of the Young resi- dence had followed that night and the notes found and destroyed.
 The first jury failed to agree, but she was convicted by the second and sent to prison for life. Hartman cut his throat in jail. The Supreme Court reversed the verdict on a technicaIity and after two trials the indictment against her was dismissed. William Abrams was sent to the penitentiary also for life, but was pardoned.
 Mrs. Clem had hardly been released from custody before she began her financial operations again, and, strange to say, found capitalists who were will ing to trust her with their money for the sake of the interest she paid When one of her victims sued for re- covery on notes, which had passed in- to the hands of other parties, Mrs. Clem swore they never had been in her possession. On account of this testimony she was arrested and in- dicted for perjury. and was sentenced to the womans prison for term Of four years.
 Through all of her troubles the wo- man had maintained an undaunted spirit and had defiantIy asserted her innocence. Her husband. an honest self respecting citizen. had stood by her till she was convicted of perjury. but after prison doors had shut her out from the world he applied for a divorce. She never recovered from the