Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 26, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 August 1872 — Page 6
Poor.
r ha 1 another offer. wife a twenty acre snore, Ot hin and dry iruirie land. as latel a I th night IM wait und Myou6rit, a Lawyer Bradl raid. To tell hew ttiin will turn out belt a woman ii ahead.
and we hare cot all the land we
And when thie lot ii iaid for. the deed IH tay t hit I tu niined - it
need. And next well ee aboat the yard, and Hi the noue up cone. And ma i n the NUN of ti oae t have a bet t er
vir. There i bo ue of talking, Charlee yoa buy that twen'y more. And we'll go crimpieg all our lire, and alway be L n. i Poor. Wot thirtv yean we've tugged :in iiareJ. denying half ur need. While 1! we bare to show for it l tax receipt and deeds! I'd jell she land if it were mine, and have a better home. With broad, licht room to front the street, and take hfe as it c me. If we could lire as other lire, and bare what other de.
W e 1 lire enough gigbt plewanter, and bare a plenry. too. While other bare amusements, and luxury and books. Jast think how tirgr we have live 1. and how thi old lace looks. That at igf farm you boucht of Wells, that took so many year Of clearing up and feneinc in, hau cost ir.e many tear.'. Ye, Char!. . I 're thought of it. a hundred times or mure. And n ii it red if it really paid to always be " P'or : Tha! had we built a cosy house, took pleasure as it come. Oar children, once so dear to us, had never left our home.
I grieve to think of wasted weeks, and year ami
uiorins ana day. While for it all we never yet have had one word of praise.
Men call us rich, but we are poor would we not
ireely give The land, with all its fixtures, for a bettor way to live ? Don't think I'm blaming you. Charlee you're not a whit to blame. I've pitied you these many years, totee you tired and lame. It's just the way we started out. our plana too far ahead; We've warn the cream of life away, to learo too much when dead. Tis putting off enioyment long after we enjoy. And after all toe much of wealth seema useless as a toy. Although we're learned, alas too lata! what all must learn at last. Our brightest earthly happiness is buried ia the past. That life is short and full of care, the end is always nigh, . We seldom half begin to live before we're doemed to die. Were I to start my life again. I'd mark each separate day. And never let a single one pass unenjoyed away. If there were things to envy. I'd bare them now and then. And hare a home that was a home, and not a eace or pen. I'd sell some land if it were mine, and fit up well the rest.
I re always thought, and think so jot mall
Mrtu ic'H teorkeä are ben.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL ETIDE5CE.
Cae
Htatery efa Remarkable Marder Tratk Bcraacer than Flrtlea.
From the St. Louis Democrat. Ort the 12th of September. 186K.
farmer's bor discovered on the banks of
White nver, about three miles north
of the city of Indianapolis, the dead bodies of Jacob Young and Nancy Young, his wife, two reputable citizens
of that place. The pott mortem exami nation disclosed the fact that Mrs.
Young had been killed by a pistol phot, the ball entering; the back part of the
bead and coursing upwards through the
Drain until it lodged upon the inner sur
face of the frontal bone. The ball
proved to be a cartraidge pistol ball. Mr. Young had been killed by a discharge
rrom a double barreled snot-gun, which
was tound by his side with one barrel
exploded, the other barrel heavily charged with ten buckshot, and stand
ing cocked. The position and course of
the wound upon Young and his wife
proved conclusively that they had been murdered. No pistol was discovered. The day after the discovery of the murder, it was ascertained that the shotgun feund by the dead bodies had been purchased from a pawnbroker in Indian
apolis on the day of the murder. The
gun was identified by means of a broken thimble and a peculiarity about the locks, and the man who had purchased it was accurately described by the pawnI roker and a negro servant who was present when the purchase was made. At the time of the murder a gentleman and his two children, who were fishing some distance below the scene of the murder, heard the report of firearms in the direction of the place where the bodies were found. Fire minutes before the report was beard the children saw the deceased and another woman walking on the sand-bai near where they were killed. A farmer and his son driving along the road, within a few hundred yards of the place, heard two report, one like a shot-gun, the other sharp like a pistol, and so near together that it was difficult to distinguish them. A man nnd his wife, living a quarter ef a mile from the scene, hoard the two report, and a scream between them. The witnesses agree that the time was about 4 o'clock p. m. The horse and JUgcy of he deceased were found nitched in the road near by. On examining the neighboring ground, the well-defined tracks of a woman, wearing a new number three gaiter, making long steps, as in flight, were traced from a point near the dead bodies through the woods to a place where they intersected the track of a buggy, going in the direction of Indianapolis, and ii iwn by an animal wearing smallsized interfering shoes. The tracks of the wn.nan, an(i tue horse and buggy, were i 1 accurately measured. These w. r id clues, and the question arose, who to.jght the gun ? Who was the wont-.ii -en in company with the decess. .1 . Who drove the buggy in which the murderers fled from the scene of the tragedy? The pawnbroker sold the gun at 9 o'clock :n the morning. Between the hours of I and J three applications for
the purchase of a second-hand shot-gun had been made at as many auction store and pawnbrokers' shops, by a man having sandy hair and complexion, ami at the third place had inquired of a blight little girl, who took him to the door, directed him across the street, and caw hiut enter the establishment where the gun was purchased, which, in seven hours afterwards, had slain Young. Five witnesses identified William J. Alinimi, a reputable carpenter of Indianapolis as the man who purchased the gun. Mr. Abrains was arrested, and attention was then directed to the subject of the horse and buggy tracks. The afternoon of the murder Silas
tl'M tnitin li.-ul Ii.red a in iv,c ami mate
from a J i very table. The marc wore
small interfering shoes, and a shoe taken from her feet was applied to the track
made in the woods, near the scene of
the murder, and it fitted exactly. A planter cast of the shoe was taken and
was compared with thousands of horse
shoes, without finding one that would
go in it. Hartman was lodged in jail
Some farmers, coming to Indianapo
lis the afternoon of the murder, met
louncand his wife going in their carriage in the direction of the place where they were murdered, with a lady sitting
in the same seat with Mrs. Young. A
lew rods behind the carriage, Silas Hart
man, driving the livery stable mare, was
seen by the same parties. He was recognized, but when they attempted tospeak
to him he turned his head and drove by them without responding to their
salutation. Several of these witnesses testified that Nancy E. Clem, the wife
of a leading grocer in Indianapolis, was the lady who occupied the seat with Mr. Young's wife in his cariiage. Silas
Hartman, who followed in the buggy, was her brother. A close watch was placed upon Mrs. Clem's movements, but her arrest was delayed for three weeks. This delay in her arrest insure d h r conviction. The confederate, Abrains, was in jail, and had difficulty in raising money to pay attorneys' fees. He sent for his brother, and directed him to go secretly to Mrs. Clem's house and get several thousand dollars, and to " tell her that the money must come." The brother obeyed these directions, and Mrs. Clem, yielding to the demand, went into a cellar, where she had a package of bills concealed in a stovepipe hole in a chimney, and gave Abrams' brother several thousand dollars, and told him to tell his brother in jail not to send for more money, as it would excite suspicion. The murdered man was known to have had over $7,000 on bis person a few
hours before he was murdered. On the
day of the murdar Abrams, who purchased the gun. went to Mrs. Clem's
houee, from which she was absent a good portion of the afternoon, and remained there till she returned, and received a large sum of money from her immediately upon her return. It was proved that Mrs. Clem offered her aewing girl $500 if she would swear that she was at her home during the afternoon of the murder. By means of bribes and threat! she procured her niece, her sister in-law, and an Irish servant girl to swear before the erand
jury that she was at home and at the
house of her sister-in-law, next door during that afternoon, and these per sons afterwards confessed their perju
ries, and testified on oath that she had
suborned them. She procured a book
pedler to swear that he had delivered a
book to her in person, the afternoon of
tne murder: and persuaded a miller.
who had delivered a sack of flour at her
house on another dav. to swear that it
was the day of the murder, and that he
conversed with her at the very hour of
me murder, fche procured another
man to swear that he met her in the Indianapolis Postoffice, and accidentally
trod upon her dress, and apologized to
her, the same afternoon. She procured
two women to swear that thev met her
snopping in a dry gooda store a few
minutes afterwards. Immediately upon her return from the murder, she told a neighbor, who noticed her flushed ap
pearance, mat sne nad neen at home,
canning grapes over the hot stove all
the afternoon of the murder, the fact
being tnat no grapes had been canned
And on her examination before the
Coroner's jury, before her arrest, she
was at home at the time the murder was
committed. On the dav of the funeral
of Young and his wife, she stood at her
front gate as the procession went by, and said to a friend that she had no ac
quaintance with Young or his wife the
tact 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.
When she was arrested she was wear
ing a pair of carpet slipners beloncinc
to the colored servant, and not a slipper or shoe of any kind could be found about her house. Inquiry was made at
a number of the shoe stores in Indianapolis, and it was ascertained that a boy had sold Mrs. Clem a pair of No. 3
gaiters a few days before the murder.
I he boy was requested to get a uair of
the same size of the same manufacture.
hey were procured, and a cereful
measurement showed that the heels were too deep for the woman's tracks in the woods near the dead bodies, but corresponded with them in every other . : 1 IT. .1 , J .
particular, upon inis wing mentioned, the boy remembered that Mrs. Clem 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 h
had altered the heels of a nairof fjaisssa
for Mrs. Clem, and upon being requested
wr me new pair in a similar man
ner, he removed a portion of the heel
just as he had done for her, and when
thus altered the gaiters fitted the track neat thedead bodies totierfection. The
servant rirl swore that she saw Mrs.
Clem's new gaiters lying on a bed in the house a day or two before the murder ; that she saw the same gaiters soiled and muddy on the porch the morning after the murder ; that Mrs. Clem passed out by them upon the porch, and that they were never seen afterwards. - It was also proved that Mrs. Clem was seen to get 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 com iug home in a buggy 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 unt 1 the guilty parties confess and explain it, grew out of the secret and mys
terious financial ti attractions which were carried on between Mrs. Clem and her victim, Young, and other prominent citizens of Indianapolis for months prior to the murder and up to the very day of its commission. Young, the murdeied man, had been "a jorter in a hardware store, and was known to be poor. Suddenly he gave signs of wealth, improved his property, bought him a horse and carriage, quit working, and informed his former employers that he was engaged in a business that was realizing enormous profits. 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 established a credit that
enabled htm to procure the indorse
ments of some of the leading business
men ot the place. No one knew his
business, and when asked bv his in
dorsers what he was doing, he nut them
on witn evasive answers. le was mur
dered Sept. 12, 1868, and $27,000 of his
paper matured in bank on the 14th
This amount was paid by his indorsers
lie was seen in a bank the day he was
murdered with $7,500 in his pocket, and one witness swore that Mrs. Clem said
that oung had given her $20,000 in
the morning ot the day of the murder.
These financial transactions of Young's j - j , - .. e .
cuverea a penou oi six montns, and during the whole time he was visiting
Mrs. Clem's house as often as two or
three times a week, and always when
ner nusband was at his grocery storr.
Mrs. Clem's husband never met Younc.
ana never knew that his wife was ac
quainted with him until after the mur
der. Mrs. Clem was also in the habit
of visiting Young's home two or three
times a week in company with her sister-
in-law, rnd when there she and Young
wouia retire w an adjourning room, where they would be encased in con
versation and writing for a few minutes
wnen questioned by her sister-in-law
about the nature of her business rela
tions with Young, she put her off with indefinite answers. Meanwhile Mrs.
Clem and Young both had plenty of
money. During the same period the
fortunes of her convicted accomplice, a . t a .
Aorams, wno purchased the cun, began
visibly to improve. He quit working at
uis iraae, commenced loahng and borrowing money at high rates of interest,
Kept a respectable balance in bank
paid his bank paper promptly, and spent a good portion of his time visiting Mrs. Clem's house. But the strangest . - f . 1 n ... SJ
pari oi inese nnanciai transactions remains to be told. Dr. Duzan. a leadins
physician of Indianapolis, and a man of
wealth, had been acquainted with Mrs,
Clem since she was a child, and had
always been her family physician. Be
fore her arrest Mrs. Clem had testified
as witness in me grand jury room,
and mere positively asseverated that
she had never had any financial deal
ings with Dr. Duzan, and that he would
not testify otherwise. All the leading
bankers in the city were examined and compelled to produce the bank accounts of Dr. Duzan, Young, the murdered
man, and Abrams, Mrs. Clem's confederates. Mrs. Clem kept no bank account during these transactions.
A comparison of these bank accounts
revealed the fact that
his maturing notes, and when she found
it impossible to effect a loan from Du
zan, she found herself at the end of
the rope. She was compelled to close
the account, and catching the nearest
way, she accompanied Young and his
wife on their ride, her brother, Silas,
followed in a buggy with the gun pur
chased by Abrams, Young snd his wife
were murdered, an 4 the murderers rled
to Indianapolis in the manner described
Mrs. Clem was first tried in the fall of
1868, and but for the obstinacy of a
German juror, who stood out tor con
viction against eleven for acquittal, she would have gone scot free. Upon the second trial she was convicted, and sen
tenced to the State s Prison for life. Hef brother Silas who had tehtitied in her behalf, and had been detected in a dozen perjuries concerning his whereabouts on the day of the murder committed suicide it. jail, the night of her
conviction, by cutting his throat with a
razor. Abrams was then tried, and convicted of murder in the first degree the proof of the purchase of the gun by him, a few hours before the murder, being clear and conclusive; also, bis dividing the money with Mrs. Clem after the murder. The Supreme Court reversed the judgment against Mrs. Clem and gave her a new trial, upon a shallow technicality that led many ignorant people to believe that the court had been corrupted. Her counsel took a change of venue, and she was tried the third time at Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana ; that trial resulted in a divided jury. The fourth and last trial has just been concluded by a verdict of guilty, with a sentence of im
prisonment for life. Thus has ended one of the most remarkable chapters in
the history et the criminal lurispru
dence of this country. We doubt if
even the celebrated Webster case fur
nished a stronger illustration of the
efficacy and reliability of a connected
chain of circumstantial evidence. At first it was pronounced incredible that
Mrs. Clem should have had any connec
tion with the murder of her two friends,
but little by little the truth came to
light, until her guilt was so clearly re
vealed that no intelligent mind could
doubt it after carefully considering the
iacu.
IVraana I.
Mil l t.;
5ung to Kurope
Joaquin again.
Stkauss is 47 years old, and is worth a million dollars. Ex-MlNISTBR J. L ITU Hoi' MOTIIV is permanently settled in Holland. Mk. L. F. Johnson died in N'ew Haven last week, and upon examination his stomach was found to be petrified. It is said that Hon. Mrs. Yelverton is now in India, and is about to start out in search of Dr. Livingstone. Mr. Cobb, of Georgia, recently married Miss Webb. He knew that they were to be joined as soon as he spied her.
Dowell, of Macon
father of 27 chfl.
county, 7 kfl
T .
0 AMES Ml'
N. C, aged 76, is the
dren.
Mr. Levi Ti'itNirsun. an old im,i
esteemed citizen of Georgia, recently died, but, as he was buried, his resur
rection is sure. What is the difference between the
entrance to a barn and a lo-tfer in a printing otlice ? One is a barn door and the other is a darn bore.
Janauscubh wears $120.000 worth nf
jewels in one of her characters.
Georoia girls use none but reliuiom
papers for Sunday bustles.
The oldest printer in the United
States is William Lawson Ha
Nashville, Tenn. He becan to lenrn hia
trade in 1797.
M. D. Conway tells a frightful tale of
an fcnglisliinan who has just arrived from New Zealand with a new i,......! nf
14,fJ00 verses. Who is this fiend ?
The oldest sinker in the Host.
Jubilee chorus was Dr. Ebenezer A Men
rvanuoipn, aiass. ins age u etghty-
ot
four.
The Fecundity of Flies.
The flies are beginning to become nu
merous and troublesome. The streets
and the houses are even now full of
them, and the great fly season is only
commenced. The ingenuity of man
has not invented agents that can destroy
them as fast as they come. Nor is this
to be wondered at when it is known
that from a single fly more than two
millions of these pets are produced in
one summer. ine ramditv and mulu
plicity with which they increase may be
learneu irom me touowing table :
A fly lays four times during the summer.
ku uuie fU eiguiy eSTCS. wniCD
makes vn
T , ir r . . a . . "
nan oi inese are supposed to De females.
so tnat eacn of tne lour broods produce forty:
1. First eighth, or the forty females of
the first brood, also lay four times i . the course of the summer, which
makes it aas
MtU . ) ... -. . . - . " " . ' "
ist nrsi siisu oi toese, or l.ww femalea, three times 384,000 Tk. iMiniiil t,k t;n. neu . . .
- " " ..uvu. ..IVB ÄJO.UUU The third and fourth eighth, at least one E 1'iBiujJt vu v a 256.0CO
i. me second eignin. or forty female or
the second brood, lay three times, the produce of which ia
One-sixth of these, or 1.600 females, three
umes
The second sixth, twice The third ones.
3. The third eighth, or the fortv family
of the second brood, lay twice, and proritt st
One-fourth of ÄeVeTor i'. twice more
4. The fourth eighth, or forty females of
the fourth brood onna
Half of these, or 1.600 females, at' least
once 2,huo
Total produce of a ringle fly in one sum-
9.600
384.000 256,000 lJj.UOO
6.400
.OOO
3.200
mer.
.2,080.320
Dr. Livingstone's Discoveries.
African Correspondence of the New York Herald.
I he stories which the Doctor relates
of the two immense countries through
which the great river Nile runs, read like a fable. The most southerly is
called Kua; the northern is called Man
yema by the Arabs, and Mnnueraa by
the natives, who are cannibals. He tells
there were the
rry rvc f infim.lo mUiIah. I .
u.V.. ..lumn. ifiauuui CAUUUI UCMWn I." 1 1 . . - them. When Dr. Duzan would cheek of bei.n cheaP M.at twenty-five
f 1,000 out of his bank, Younjr would
make a deposit of the same amount the
same day; and when Young would draw upon his bank balance, Duzan' s would be increased to the same extent .
It was the same with the bank accounts
of Young and Abrams. Dr. Duzan
swore in all the trials that he never
knew oi saw Young, and that he had JS. never had any dealings with him, direct- JEmi
ly or indirectly, uuzan, however, had
large money transactions with Mrs. Clem. She began by borrowing small
sums of $500 or 11,000 at a time for short periods of seven to ten dayi, at
enormous rates of interest, invariably returning the money with interest before due, and telling Duzan that she was engaged in large speculations with
leading business men in Indianapolis, and that sne would tell him all about it at the proper time. These loans in
creased until Duzan at one time advanced her over twenty thousand dol-
ars, lor which he took no receipt, note,
or memorandum. It mvariablv han-
pened that the very day she would obtain money from Duzan, Younc would
make a deposit of like amount or Dav
off a note in bank. As had been stated, $27,000 of Young's paper matured in
nanK on tne 4tn ot Sentemhor 1 RAM
Four or five days before that time Mrs!
Clem came to Duzan in meat distress
of mind, and, as he testified, wept bit-
wny, anu bcirged him to end her
$22,000. Justat this time Duzan's bank
ers had become inquisitive concerning
the use he was making of his monev.
and upon his refusal to tell them, they withdrew their accommodation. He informed Mrs. Clem that he could aid
her no longer. Young evidently loot
ed to her to provide the means to meet
. l -r . in ,
i cum rm ui copper win purcnase a
large tusk, worth $120 at Zanzibar. He
tells of ivory being turned into door
posts and eve stanchions by the cannibals ; of skillful manufactures of fine
grass cloth, rivaling that of India ; of a people so nearly approaching to white people, and so extremely handsome
that they eclipse anything ever seen in a a I to . .
Ainca; anu irom this fact suDnoses
them to be descendants of the ancient
Egyptians, or of tome of the lost tribes
of lrael ; he tells of conner mine at
Katauga vhich have been worked for
ages; ot docile and friendly peoples, who up to this time have lived buried in the lap of barbarism, ignorant that there lived on earth a race so cruel and
callous as the Arabs who have come
among them, rudely awakening them
out of their sleep with the thunder of
gunpowder, to kidnap, rob and murder them without restraint, and of many other things he tells, some details of which will follow this telegram.
Merciful Thieves. Those were merciful thieves who robbed the Blackstone Bank, at Uxbridge, Mass., early on the morning of the 13th. They entered the house of . W. Haywood, the cashier, through a chamber window, gagged the whole family, consisting of four persons, entered the room of Charles Wesson, a teller of the bank, and compelled him to accompany them to the bank and un lock the safe. They obtained $14,000, locked the safe and bank, took the teller back to his room, un gagged the whole open-mouthed family, and gave thom water to drink, in order th:tt they might not suffer, gagged them ngain and went away.
The class that graduated from Princeton College, June 26, weighed just six tons. The average birthday of the graduates was July 13,1850. The aggregate age of the class was 2,049 years, 6 months, 16 days. Miss Virqinia Goidschmidt, Jenny Lind's eldest daughter, a young lady of eighteen, is said to possess as glorious a voice as her mother's ever was. William Doty died in Marysville, Cal., on the 29th ult., having lived 21 days with his windpipe severed. His throat was cut by two robbers. The Duxb de Noaili.es, the newly commissioned Minister of France to the United States, ia a learned and most accomplished gentleman, very rich, of most distinguished lineafe, and an excellent soldier as well as an experienced diplomat. He is of the aristo-demo-cratic school of European politics, and will, with the members of hia family, make a brilliant addition to society in Washington. Henry Ward Beecher says his early life in the West was rough a large room, two slabs for seats, and these not full tallow candles, each man bringing one ; but he was quite as happy then as now. He professes great love for the Hooeier Christains, and if God should send him back to that humble kind of labor, he would not cry. A New York correspondent saya that Dr. Holland will temporarily surre nder the editorship of Scribner's Monthlu, the
coming autumn, and go abroad again ;
uia journey oeing prompted by the de
sire to Consult the leading nruliat in
Europe in respect to his wife, who, from
serious opthalio trouble, has become nearly blind.
The most sensible thing Eli Perkin
ever uttered ia, that for a girl to whiten her face, pink her litis, rnddon Imr
cheeks and blacken her eyebrows is to proclaim that she is one of the rmi.
mondf.
The Pittsburgh GwimmrtWsava th re.
cently published 44 Life of Abraham I 1 n I r ' mrmm mm I WT l TT
" um noiien VJ TT art I 11. Lamon, whose name aunears aa the
author, but by Chauncey Black, son of Jeremiah Black, Mr. Buchanan's Attorney General. Lamon sat hered
of the material, and, as a close friend of
mr. Lincoln, permitted his name to be
used as the author. The two have been falling out, Lamon being of the oninion
that some things in the book should
have been omitted.
A Mechanical Cat. Leonard, of the Cleveland Leeuier. has
invented a sheet iron cat. with cvlindri-
cal attachment andsteel claws and teeth.
It is worked by clock-work. A bellows
inside swells un the tail at will to a bei-
ligerent size, and by a tromolo attachment, causes, at the same time, the patent cat to emit all noises of which
the living bird is capable. When you
want fun, you wind un your c.it and
place him on the roof. Every cat within half a mile hears him, girds on his armor.
and sallies forth. Frequently, fifty or one hundred attack him at once. No
sooner does the imtent cat feel the
weight of an assailant than hia teeth and claws werk with lightning rapidity. Adversaries within six feet of him are torn to shreds. Fresh battalions come on to meet a similar fate, and Itl an hour several bushels of hair, toe nails and fiddle strings alone remain. A Western Woman. Grace Greenwood has found in Cali fornia, among the mountains, a young landlord's wife, who is a singularly spirited and original character, an enthusiastic mountaineer, a good rider, climber and shot. In rough Yosemite costume she explores these heights and gorges ; she hunts the deer, the fox and the hare, though the wildcat is her specialty. And she is neither dyspeptic, nor paralytic, nor bent double with spinal curvature, nor afflicted with any of the diseases peculiar to women hereabouts. The decadence of the Taris .Ifonilcvr has reached a point where it has less th in i ,000 subscribers.