Year: 1872

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accidentally trod- upon her dress,
and apologized to her the same afternoon.
She procured two women to. swear that
they met her shopping in dry goods
store a few minutes afterward.- Imme
diately upon her return from the murder
she told a 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 Coro.
ner's jury, before her arrest, she swore
that she was at home at the timeth muir
der was committed. 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 or three
times a 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.


THE SHOES SHE WORE.


When she was arrested she was wear
ing pair of carpet slippers belonging to
her colored servant, and not a slipper or
shoe of any kind belonging to her could
be found about her house. Inquiry was
made at a number of the shoe stores in
Indianapolis, and 1t was ascertained that
boy had sold Mrs. Glen pair of No. 8
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
measurement showed that the heels were
too deep for the woman's tracks in the
woods near the dead bodies, but CORE
sponded with them in every other particu-
lar. Upon this being mentioned, the boy
remembered 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 re-
membered that he had altered the heels of
a pair of CATERS for Mrs. Clem, and upon
being requested to alter the new pair in a
similar manner, he removed portion of
the heel just as he had done for her, and
track near the dead bodies to perfection.
The servant girl swore that she saw Mrs.
Clem's new CATERS lying on 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 upon the porch, and that they
were never seen afterwards. 1t was also
proved that Mrs. Glen was seen to get
into the carriage with Young and 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 a buggy from
the direction of the murder, at rapid
pace, and swore that they refused to rec
ognize him.


MYSTERIOUS FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS.


The most remarkable feature of the
case, however, and one that has excited a
curiosity that will never be allayed until
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,
Young, and other prominent citizens of In
dianapolis 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 carriage, quit working,
and informed his former employers that
he was engaged in business that was
realizing enormous profits. He bOr-
rowed large sums of money at enormous
rates of interest, invariably upon short
time, and always repaid them before his
obligations matured He kept large
bank balance at one of the Indianapolis
National banks, and established credit
that enabled him to procure the indorse-
ments of some of the leading business
men of the place. No one knew his
business, and when asked by his indorsers
what he was doing, he put them off with
evasive answers. He was murdered Sep
tember -, 1868, and $27, 900 of his paper
matured in bank on the 18th. This
amount was paid by his indorsers. He
was seen in bank the day he was MUIR
dered with 81, 500 in his pocket, and
one witness swore that Mrs. Chem said
Young had given her $4,000 in the
morning of the day of the murder.
These financial transactions of Young's
covered period of six months, and
during the whole time he was
visiting Mrs. Clem's house as
often as two or three times week, and
always when her husband was at his
grocery store. Mrs. Clem's husband never
met Young, and never knew that his wife
was acquainted with him until after the
murder. Mrs. Glenn was also in the habit
of visiting Young's house two or three



in law, and when there she and Young
would retire to an adjoining room, where
they would be engaged in conversation
and writing for few minutes. When
questioned by her sister-in-law about the
nature of her business relations with
Young, she put her off with indefinite an
swers. Meanwhile Mrs. Glenn and Young
both had plenty of money. During the
same period the fortunes of her convicted
accomplice, Abrams, who purchased the
gun, began visibly to improve. He quit
working at his trade, commenced loafing
and borrowing money at high rates of in
terest, kept respectable balance in bank,
paid his bank paper promptly, and spent
good portion of his time visiting Mrs.
Clem's house. But the strangest part OF
these financial transactions remains to be
told. DR.. Duzan, leading physician OF
Indianapolis, and man of wealth, had
been acquainted with Ms. Glen since
she was child, and had always been hel
family physician. Before her arrest Mrs
Glen had testified as a witness in the
Grand Jury room, and had there positive
ly asseverated that she had never hao
any financial dealings with DR.. Duzan, and
that he would not testify otherwise. AL
the leading bankers in the city were eX





bank accounts of DR.. Duzan, Young, the
murdered man, and Abrams, Mrs. Glenn:
confederate. Mrs. Glen kept no bank &C
count during these transactions.


A comparison of these bank accounts
revealed the fact that there were the mos
intimate relations existing between them
When DR.. Duzan would check $10,00(
out of his bank, Young would make de
posit OF the same amount the same day
and when Young would draw upon hi
bank balance, Duzan's would be increased
to the same extent. 1t was the same witt
the bank accounts of Young and Abrams
DR.. Duzan swore in all the trials that h
never saw or knew Young, and that h
had never had any dealings with him, di
rectly or indirectly. Duzan, however
had large money transactions with Mrs
Glenn She began by borrowing smal
sums of $500 to 81 900 at time, for shoI
periods of seven to ten days, at enormou
rates of interest, invariably returning tn
money with interest before due, and tel


ing Duzan that she was engaged in larg
speculations with leading business me


of indianapolis, and that she would te