Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-24
HIDING BENEATH BED
Girl Accused of WaItham MUIR
der Captured.
WAS IN DEAD MANS HOUSE
Sticks to Her Story That Glover
Committed Suicide.
SAYS HE HAD ASSAULTED HER
Heard Pistol Shot as She Escaped
From Laundry and Ran for
the Glover Home.
SAYS HE HAD ASSAULTED HEI

WALTHAAI. Mass, November 24.-Hat-
tie Leblanc, the young French Canadian
girl, was brought into the Waltham dis
trict court today and formally charged
with causing the death, last Saturday
night, of Clarence F. Glover, head of the
Waltham Laundry Company The young
woman was held without bail for hear
ing on December s.
On her own statement that she is but
sixteen years of age, the girl was given
hearing in the juvenile court, no one be-
ing admitted except the presiding judge
counsel and police.
1t Is understood that the girl will be
questioned further today regarding Glov-
er's death. The police do not accept the
story she told them last night that
Glover took his own life. nor do they
think that Hattie Leblanc shot him.
Hiding under the very bed of Clarence
f. Glover, who in his dying statement &C
cused her of his murder, Hattie LIE Blanc
was dragged out and arrested last night
by Inspector William p Mckenna and
Sergt Richard Curran of the Waltham
police
The girl was i'm a pitiabIe condition OF
fright when the police got her, and she
was scarcely able to wax into the station
house to which she was taken i'm a car
rjage.
In Hiding Since Saturday.
Although the police had twice searched
the Glover house since he was shot in
his laundry at o'clock Saturday even
ing, they had been unable to find the girl,
but it is believed she had been there
since she escaped from the office of the
laundry after the shooting.
Despite the fact that the girl was found
crouching under the bed of the man she
is accused of killing, that she had her
hat and shoes off and was provided with
a sofa pillow for her head. Mrs. Glover.
whose various statements since the
tragedy have aroused comment, Stoutly
asserted to the police that she did not
know the girl was in the house.
AS the officers came out of the bedroom
they met Mrs. Glover, still as calm and
as unexcited as she has appeared at all
times since the tragedy. and one of the
officers said to her: what does this
mean?
Mrs. Glover replied: "Why, 1 did not
know she was here"
After they had allowed her to rest a
few minutes the officers tried to inter-
rogate the girl. but met with no sue
cess. The child had apparently forgot
ten what little English she ever knew,
and the police could not speak French.
c
Gilmore & Topper. counsel for the Glover
family, were allowed to attend her ex-
animation.
Says Glover Assaulted Her.
The examination lasted until O'Clock
this morning, when the girl collapsed
under the strain. She said that Glover
assaulted her in his laundry last Satur-
day night, and then drew a revolver and
threatened her life. She escaped from
the building, she said, by a window in
the rear. AS she left she heard one shot.
She made her way to the Glover home,
and hid herself under the bed. No other
person had any knowledge of her pres
ence in the house, she said.
After Glover was shot Saturday, he
crawled to hospital, and in a statement
made just before he died that night he
accused the Leblanc girl of shooting
him. The police have hunted for her
ever since, and their failure to find her
led to a belief that she had drowned
herself.