Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-07

Office of the district attorney.
When court adjourned for its noon re-
cess. Seymour S. Glover, a brother of the
murdered man. was on the stand. being
cfoss-eNamined by Mr. Johnson Glover
| said that he was 5S years old and had
been employed as shipper in the Wal
imam laundry for five years. At 435
O'Clock on the morning after his broth
| vi oeath he was notified of the affair
ny telephone. He went to Waltham from
HIS RoNbury home ana at the laundry
ne found Mr.. Whitehill, the manager.
lie and Whitehill searched the laundry
several times. The witness testified that
| he saw two handkerehiefs on the floor
| and that upon the second search White
| NIL picked up a comb at the foot of the
| stairs. This contradicted the statements
made by previous witnesses.
Seymour Glover said that he SAW his
brothers cap on the sorting table in the
laundry and that Whitehill took both
the comb and the cap. He thought that
Mccall. the superintendent, found the
pm, but was not sure. He noticed the
| marks on the floor at the foot of the
stairs but Attorney Johnson objected to
the witness description of the marks
ana Judge Bond sustained the objection
The witness then described the search
of the Glover house on the Tuesday af-
ter the murder. when Hattie lie Blanc
was found under the bed in the guest
chamber. There were in the house at the
time, he said. Inspector McKenna. Mr.
and Mrs. Freeman, Mr.. Elmore Mr.
Tupper, Mrs. Lillian Glover, the witness
and his wife. When the house was
searched one of the officers carried an
electric flash light and someone else
had a Kerosene lamp. Lighted matches
were also used He could not recall
whether the gas was lighted in the guest
chamber but thought that it was. In
describing Hattie's appearance, the wit
ness said that she was pale haggard
and dirty and that her clothing was dis
hevelcd. She had hat in her hand.
He heard Nh fillmore ask Hattie if she
had been under the bed for three days
and the girl nodded, but he did not hear
her say anything. lie heard Gilmore ask
her a few other questions but he did not
hear Hattie make any reply. He noticed
that Hattie's hands We're very dirty but
saw no other marks upon them.
Cross-examined by Mr. Johnson. the
witness hesitated when asked how many
brothers and sisters he had He finally
enumerated them but seemed to be ig-
norant of the doings of his four broth
ers. William. Albert. Norman and Ar
thur. He said that on the day after the
murder he refused to allow his brothers
to enter the laundry.
At the request of Mr.. Johnson. Glover
drew a diagram of the marks on the
floor at the foot of the laundry stairs
as he remembered them. When he had
completed the sketch he handed it to
Mr.. Johnson. who compared 1t with the
diagram made previously by Witness FL
more. The attorney then presented the
Glover and the Gilmore diagrams to the
jury for comparison.
At this point the noon recess was
taken.
Mr.. Glover said that several Of the
board partitions at the laundry We're
taken down shortly after the shooting
and were probably burned, so that
there was no way to trace amy marks
on them, for they We're not examined
He was asked if he remembered that
his brothers overcoat. showed marks
of being burned but could not do SO.
Later his attention was called to ms
TESTIMONY before another tribunal ana
he said he did remember such marks.
Did you ever hear Mrs. Glover cali
her husband and your brother vie
Names" asked Mr.. Johnson. NO.
Did you ever hear her condemn MIN
for going around with other women?
eyes,
Did you ever hear your brother say
that he was afraid some one would
plug him if he kept going with Wo-
men?" Yes"
Mr.. Johnson drew from the witness
IN. admission that he had not told all
he knew OF his brothers affairs to the
district attorney but Mr.. Glo:er re-
fused to disclose what those affairs
were except in answer to questions
Toward the close of the ross-"Xamln-
alton he admitted that he was arrest
ed in 1871 for the larceny of $500 of Mr.
canGis and that his father fixed up
the case.
The government then called Miss
leila Gallant cf Bloomfield, Cape Bret
on. ,vho acted as Interpreter at the
nolica station when Hattie lie Blanc
was examined Immediately following
her arrest.
The Jury was excluded while the dis
trict attorney cnfleavoreG to show to
Judge Bond that Miss Gallant was
qualified to give in English the ques-
tons which the police asked through
her to- Hattie and Hattie's answers n
thick roll of manuscript comprising %
pages was produced, the French con-
sn! i'm Boston and a French stcnoSra-
pner seated themselves at the liable ol
the defence and the district attorney
also had the assistance of French-
man. With this array, Chief M"kenha
os the Waltham police took tn" STAND
and said that at the examination there
were present Attorneys Eimore ana
TUNER, Sergt Curran. Mavor l.. a.
walker and his stenographer, Miss
Gallant Hattie and himself.
Miss Gallant was then called tune
iurv being still oub and after stating
that she had been in Cape Breton Tor
several. montlis. and of her pelhS
called TO tho police station in Naitfm
to act as an interpreter on the ooca-
sion was asked by the district attor-
new il she put the first question 10
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