The notorious Mrs. Clem
Subtitle: murder and money in the Gilded Age
By: Wendy Gamber
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781421420202
Subjects: Murder; Women murderers; Case studies; History; Biography; Crime
Description: In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of Indiana's White River. Suspicion for both deaths turned to Nancy Clem, a housewife who was also one of Mr. Young's former business partners. Wendy Gamber chronicles the life and times of this charming and persuasive Gilded Age confidence woman, who became famous not only as an accused murderess but also as an itinerant peddler of patent medicine and the supposed originator of the Ponzi scheme.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New Year's Day; title: Business; title: Cold Spring; title: Detection; title: Trial; title: Self-reliant and God defiant!; title: Knowed it was them; title: I wish I was an angel; title: A good soldier; title: Lebanon; title: The Indiana murderess; title: Indiana justice; title: I kept it rolling; title: Aunty Smith; title: Mrs. Dr. Patterson.