Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-10
On THE SEX Of E.B. GLENN
THE CASE WILL DEPEND
uoTrI. KEEPER, WHO EMPLOYED
THE DExTRoUs YOUNG MAN,
TEsTIFIES.
lie SAYS THEY ARE THE SAME.
THE PRISONER UNNERVED BY
SOME OF THE THINGS TOLD
OF HER CAREER.
.noclal 70 the Register.

Special to the Register.
PARKDRSBURG, w. Va, July g.
Little progress was made in the Ellis
Glenn forgery trial to-day on account
of the United States Court holding a
session and taking possession OF the
courtroom in which the Criminal Court
IS meeting. the new county court house
not being completed as yet. Only one
witness was examined this morning up
10 the time when the court took a re-
cess till tomorrow morning, but his
testimony was interesting and positive
" identified Ellis Glenn. the woman
who is now on trial, as the same person
who had worked for him several years
ago at Williamstown, this county, IN
mans clothes and under the name OF
+. B. Glenn or Ebert Glenn. The wit
ness was NJ. j. Byers. who conducts a
hotel at Williamstown, and who had on
several times since her arrest seen and
identified Ellis Glenn. His testimony
vas that as soon as he heard of the
arrest he secured a permit to visit her
az the jail and then recognized her as
Bert" Glenn. Since then he had seen
her in Parkersburg and recognized her
as the same person. At the trial this
morning
He Took n Good Look at Her
and again positively identified her as
the same person. He told of the va
r.ous things Glenn had done while
working for him and living at Williams
town. Glenn was a good carpenter,
plumber, painter, paper hanger, butch
IT. barber, acted as hotel clerk, cham
lermaid. waiter. drove a team and did
various other things which are already
known to the public. For several weeks
lie said that his. son, Frank, had occu-
pied the same room and the same bed
with Glenn, but did not know that she
was not a man.
The defense attempted in every way
10 break down his testimony, but did
not succeed. in changing his testimony
in any way. A determined effort was
made to induce him to leave some loop
hole through which his Identification
might be attacked, but he was very
positive. He admitted under cross-ex-
animation that Gilbert Glenn, while
working in a butcher shop at his place
had
One Day Cut His Hand
On a sharp bone and had to send for a
physician. He could not state wheth-
er the wound had been sewed up or not.
The purport of this is to indicate that
Ellis Glenn is not the same person, for
The defense will show that she has no
scar on her hand. Byers was question
ed or cross-eXamination as to whether
one of Ebert Glenn's leg was shorter
than it really ought to be, but he stat
ed that it was not, that Glenn was a
perfect man. The defense will attempt
10 show that one of Ellis Glenn's legs
IS a little shorter than the other, caus-
ing her to walk with a slight limp. Mr..
Byers was questioned as to whether he
mad ever examined Glenn's bust or
arms, and he said that he had no., that
he had no reason to suspect that Glenn
vas anything else than what he sup
posed him to be, as he had never
Thought of Investigating.
The case will be taken up again the
first thing tomorrow morning. The
courtroom to-day was crowded with
persons of every station in life and with
many women who were anxious to see
this famous character. She was firm
and composed all day, but the flowers
on her hat swayed with her heart
throbs and the color was high in he-
cheeks, especially when Mr.. Byers was
questioned as to whether he ever slept
with E. B. Glenn, and whether his son