Year: 1873

dollars, and told him to tell his brother
in Jail not to send for anv more money,
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 muir
dered. On the day of the murder,
Abrams, who had purchased gun, went
to Mrs. Clem's house, from which she
was absent a good portion of the after
noon, and remained there till she return
ed, and received large sum of money
from her Immediately upon her return.


1t was proved that Mrs. Glen offered
her sewing girl $500 if she would swear
that she was at home during the after
noon of the murder. By means of bribes
and threats she procured her niece, her
sister-in-law, and an Irish servant to
swear before the Grand jury that she was
at home and at the house of her sister-ln-
law, next door, during that afternoon,
and these persons afterwards confessed
their perjuries, and testified on oath that
she had suborned them. She procured
book peddler to swear that he had de-
livered book to her in person, at her
house, the afternoon of the murder, and
persuaded a miller, who had delivered a
sack of flour at her house on another day
to swear that it was the day of the muir
der, and that he conversed with her at the
very hour of the murder. She procured
another man to swear that he net her in
the indianapolis post office, and accl-
dentally trod upon her dress and apollo
gized to her, the same afternoon. She
procured two women to swear that they
met her shopping in a dry goods store
few minutes afterward. Immediately
upon her return from the murder she
told neighbor, who noticed her flushed
appearance, that she had been at home
canning grapes over the hot stove all the
afternoon of the murder, the fact being
that no grapes had been canned. And
on her examination before the Coroner's
Jury before her arrest. she swore she was
at home at the time the murder was com
mitted On the day of the funeral of
Young and his wife she stood at her front
gate as the procession went by, and said
to friend that she had no acquaintance
with Young or his wife; the fact being
that she had been visiting his house
with her sister-in-law two o. three times
week for months prior to the murder.
In fact, there was no end to the lies she
told and hired others to tell for her.


When she was arrested she was wear
ing a pair of carpet slippers belonging TO
her colored servant, and not slipper or
shoe Of any kind belonging to her could
be found in ner house. Inquiry was
made at several of the shoe stores in In
dianapolis, and it was ascertained that
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CATERS few days before the murder.
The boy was requested to get pair of
the same size of the same manufacture.
They were procured, and a careful meas
urement showed that the heels were too
deep for the wOman's track in the woods
near the mead bodies but corresponded
with them in every other particular.
Upon this being mentioned the boy re-
membered that Mrs. Glen complained of
the high heels when she bought them,
and inquired for a shoemaker, and upon
being directed where to go, started to
have them altered.


The shoemaker remembered that he
had altered the heels of pair of CATERS
for Mrs. Glen, and upon being request
ed to alter the new pair in similar man





just as he had done for her, and when
thus altered the CATERS fitted the track
near the dead bodies to perfection. The
servant girl swore that she saw Mrs.
Clem's new CATERS lying on a bed in the
house day or two before the murder;
that she saw the same CATERS soiled and
muddy on the porch the morning after
the murder; that Mrs. Glen passed out
by them on the porch, and that they
were never seen afterward. It was also
proved that Mrs. Clem was seen to go
into the carriage with Young and his
wife as they were going in the direction
where they were murdered the afternoon
of the murder; and one witness, who had
known her and her brother Silas for
years, met them coming home in bug
gy from the direction of the murder at a
rapid pace, and swore that they refused
to recognize him.


The most remarkable feature of the
case, however, and one that has excited
a curiosity that will never be allayed un-
til the guilty parties confess and explain
it, grew out of the secret and mysterious
financial transactions which were carried
on between Mrs. Glen and her victim
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indianapolis, for months prior to the
murder, and up to the very day of its
commission. Young, the murdered man,
had been a porter in hardware store,
and was known to be poor Suddenly
he gave signs of wealth, improved his
property, bought him horse and car
riage, quit working, and informed his
employers that he was engaged in bus
mess that was realizing enormous pro-
fits. He borrowed large sums of money
at enormous rates of interest, invariably
upon short time, and always repaid them
before his obligations matured. He
kept a large bank balance at one of the
Indianapolis national banks, and estab-
lished credit that enabled him to pro-
cure the endorsements of some of the
leading business men of the place. No
one knew his business, and when asked
by his endorsers what he was doing, he
put them off with evasiye answers. He
was murdered September 18th, 1868,
and twenty-seven thousand dollars of his
paper matured in bank on the 18th.
This amount was paid by his endorsers


He was seen in bank the day he was
murdered with seven thousand five hun
dred dollars in his pocket, and one wit
ness swore that Mrs. Glenn said that
Young had given her twenty thousand
dollars on the morning of the day of the
murder. The financial transactions of
Young covered period of six months.
and during the whole time he was visit
ing Mrs. Clem's house as often as two or
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