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- Notes from Find a Grave:
Robert Hamilton GLASGOW, is the 7th born & 5th Son of Alexander GLASGOW & Mother: Sarah TAGGART. He was "murdered by gang members" at the age of age 20yrs, 4mths, & 13 days, in Yellow Springs Twp., Des Moines Co., Iowa.
Robert H. GLASGOW, was murdered, A group of boys in the neighborhood became involved in stealing, it began with chickens to roast, then to pigs, hiding them in a cave and selling them. Robert H. GLASGOW was involved but was determined to break with the gang. The others were afraid that he would reveal to authorities what he knew of the evil which had been going on. He was apparently confronted by the boys, near some hay stacks along the creek west of the Rock Bottom schoolhouse. His body was found there and he was buried in Sharon Cemetery. After Mr. James HENDERSON found a club covered with blood, John C. GLASGOW, (brother of Robert) doubted his alleged accidental death and insisted the body be disinterred. One member of the gang was present and was trembling continually and when the body was produced, examined and a skull fracture was discovered, the fellow confessed. The assailant was arrested, convicted. and served a sentence.
See: Source: FOPC©-ID# 1.3.1.2.07 GLASGOW Family
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- The Hawk-Eye gives an account of a mysterious murder that was committed near Morning Sun, in Louisa county. The victim was Robert Glasgow, and the murderer David M. McClure. The murder was committed about 10 o’clock in the evening, McClure striking Glasgow on the head, causing immediate death, and then rousing his brother to help carry the body home, stating that Glasgow had died in a fit. Not until after the funeral, was there any grave suspicion of foul play. McClure was put on trial and finally admitted the crime, but assigned no reason for its commission.
Muscatine Weekly Journal, Muscatine, Iowa. Friday, 28 December 1866.
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- Mysterious Murder
A Farmer Killed In Iowa – Apparent Lack of Motive – A Mysterious Affair.
[From the Burlington Hawkeye, December 17]
The people of Morning Sun, a village about twenty-five miles north of this city, in Louisa County, have been greatly excited over a mysterious homicide that took place about four miles this side of that village, just within the limits of this county, on the night of Monday, the 10th Inst. We have been in possession of the main facts for some days, but preferred to await the result of the Coroner’s Inquest, which enables us to present the full particular as far as known.
The Victim
Of this premeditated murder was Robert Glasgow, a young man of about twenty years of age, who resided in Yellow Springs Township, with his mother, a widow in very limited circumstances. He passed his time doing chores at home, and working for farmers around, but was inclined to be wild and kept company with a class of disreputable young men who had been suspected of many petty robberies that have taken place lately in that village. Glasgow, however, was not charged with any of these villainies and was regarded as a very decent young man, expecting this waywardness.
The Murderer
Is David Mitchell McClure, about twenty years of age, who lives with his father on the Wapello road, in Yellow Springs Township, about a quarter of a mile north of the dwelling of the deceased. His father’s name is John McClure, and he, with several brothers and sisters, compose the family. The prisoner is rather slim, about five feet six inches in height, has a downward look, shows very little signs of hard work, and from his appearance has evidently loafed considerably, though it is difficult to imagine that one so stupid and so artless could be guilty of such a cold blooded murder. His reputation in the neighborhood has been positively bad, roving about with a band of worthless characters, who with him, have been suspected of stealing hogs, horses, wheat, &c. Since the murder a great many petty crimes, committed of late in the vicinity of the tragedy have been attributed to him, with what truth we are unable to learn.
The Murder
Was committed Monday night about ten o’clock in a field near McClure’s home about three hundred yards from the door. That morning the deceased, Robert Glasgow and Taylor Mickle had set out on a hunt in the vicinity of Morning Sun and returned in the evening to attend a panorama on exhibition at the village. At the close they visited Wright & Thompson’s drug store and purchased a bottle of Red Jacket Bitters. While there, they were joined by Robert Barr and Cass Williams, young men and chums of the prisoner. On leaving for home Barr and Williams started on ahead leaving the prisoner, McClure, and the deceased, Glasgow, to come on together, as they were neighbors. The journey was made very pleasantly and when the Wapello road was reached, McClure succeeded in inducing his comrade to accompany him up the lane to his (McC’s) house rather than take the direct route for home. On coming opposite the house they crossed the field in which it is situated, passing a couple of stacks near the fence and taking a roundabout way to three other stacks that were about three hundred yards from the door. There Robert Glasgow ended his life. As soon as the fatal deep was done McClure started to the house and aroused his brother Thomas, stating that Robert Glasgow had suddenly fallen dead in a fit and asking his assistance to take the body to his mother’s. While yet warm the corpse was taken into McClure’s house, the prisoner making the strongest assertions that the deceased died in a fit. The body did exhibit any signs of violence and the neighbors readily assented to this explanation. Before the funeral , however, on Wednesday afternoon, a little suspicion began to arise that all was not right, some contending that Glasgow had been poisoned and that the poison was administered in the Red Jacket Bitters purchased that Monday evening at the drug store. The doctors of the village were requested to make a post moriam examination of the body but they refused till an inquest could be regularly held. The corpse was then buried and notice given to Coroner Wilder of the suspicious circumstances that attended the case.
The jury having duly heard the evidence and examined the body of the deceased, returned the following verdict:
“That the deceased, Robert Glasgow, came to his death on the night of the 10th of December 1866, supposed to be by the hand of David Mitchell McClure, by means of some round or blunt weapon by a blow, fracturing the skull.”
The prisoner, who to the conclusion of the testimony had been regarded as an innocent man, finding that circumstances pointed very strongly against him, slipped away, and evaded the officers. Search was immediately instituted by Coroner Welder, and over fifty men who had anxiously listened to the proceedings, engaged in the pursuit, which occupied the whole of Saturday night. He was finally secured, and brought in irons to the city Sunday evening. Yesterday he was taken before Squire Wil___- counsel, B.J. Hill, Esq., waived an examination and he was formally committed to away his trail at the next term of the District Court, which sits on the 7th proximo.
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois. Thursday, 20 December 1866.
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Abt 1845 - 1866 (21 years)
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