Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-24
Told By Hattie Leblanc,
Arrested at Wa|tham.
Assaulted by Glover, Threaten
ed, Escaped, Heard a Shot.
Found Hiding Under Bed in Form.
er Home Of Dead Man.

| under the he'd Of Clarence r. Glover,
the ran with whose mysterious death
she has been connected, after hiding
for three DAYS without food and sub.
hitting to 31s hours questioning, Miss
| Hattie Leblanc, of Arichat. c. B., COZ
| Iapsed in the police station early this
| morning under the 3tress of weakness
| and the intcrrogations.
In a statement given out early to.
day. the police say the 17-year-old girl
admitted having been with Glover on
Saturday night, claimed that he as
saulted her in his laundry, that he
drew a revolver and threatened her
life following which she ran from the
building
She said that as she was leaving by
window in the rear she heard one
shot. Then she made her way to the
Glover home, went to Mr.. Glover's room
and mid herself under his bed. 40
other person had any knowledge of her
presence in the house, she said.
Miss Leblanc had been sought for
since tn. statement by Glover before
mis- death, in which he charged her
with his shooting. An undertaken be-
lieved she was in the Glover home and
told the police of his suspicious. The
girl was found under the bed.
The funeral of the dead man was
neld today from the Glover home. Mira.
Glover. the widow, went to the Gene
terry with the body and had returned
but short time when the search was
made.
Waltham, Mass, Nov. 23.-Mss Hat
tie Leblanc, the 15-year-old domestic,
who was accused by Clarence +. GLOW
er, her employer, in an ante-mortcm
statement with shooting him. was
found tonight in the Glover home,
where the funeral of the dead man was
held during the afternoon. Taken to
the police station the girl was ques-
toned and then formally placed under
arrest.
Since the shooting in Glover's laun-
dry Saturday night the police have
been searching extensively for Miss
Leblanc until tonight.
The attitude of Mrs. Glover in re
fusing to visit her husband when he
was dying, in disclaiming relationship
with the Leblanc girl, although the
latter's sisters claimed they were
cousins, and in refusing to submit to a
police interview, had caused the au
thorities to seek an explanation from
her. A search of her house, in which
Miss Leblanc was found, resulted to-
night.
The suspicious of an undertaken,
aroused by something he had seen Or
heard in the house while laying out
40 tor to
the police, led the authorities to search
the Glover house for the girl. Mrs
Glover was not consulted.
1t was in room on the first floor
of the house. entirely apart from the
flat whici\he Glovers occupied on the
second floor. that the girl was found.
Mr.. Glover had used this room solely
during his life. The other rooms on
this noor are occupied by a minister
and his family.
Laid PROSTATE and close against the
wall the police found the girl under
the only bed in the room. She shrunk
away as they probed. but when they
grabbed her dress, unknowingly. she
could not pull or run and was forced
to come out from under the bed.
Questions could not intelligibly be
asked or answered between the young
woman or the police, as she spoke very
little English Without informing Mrs.
Glover, in a room above, OF their dis
covcry the police hurried the girl to
the police station. Then n watch was
set around the house.
At the station beginning shortly af-
ter O'Clock the girl was put through
an exhaustive questioning. An interp-
reter was necessary, making the in
ouirv laborious one. Mayor Edward
A. Walker. who had employed a sister
of Miss Leblanc, his stenographer. the
interpreter, and several police officials
were present. They were still closeted
at midnight.
Miss Leblanc has been in Waltham
and this country only Is months COM
ing here from Arichal, c. B., the
home also of Mrs. Glover. She had
stated, together with her sisters, that
Mrs. Glover was her cousin. but the
latter disclaimed any relationship. She
has many relatives in Massachusetts,
all of the same general family, al
though some have changed their
French name to IT'S English equivalent
(Whitc).