Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-09
FOR SUPREME Bench SUICIDE IF CONVICTED
Appontment of SWayze and Hattie lie Blanc Would Kill
Russell Indicated. Herself Found Guilty.
PROMOTION OF HUGHES HER SISTERS TESTIMONY
Associate Justices Mrs Langley CrosExamined by
List of Eight. Prosecution
MADE KNOWN BY PRESIDENT HEAVY MAIL MRS. GLOVER
Of Kansa House Con-
ference in Three Years
Hattie lie Blanc Would Kill
Herself if Found Guilty.
HER SISTERS TESTIMONY
Mrs. Langley Cross-Examined by
Prosecution.
HEAVY MAIL FOR MRS. GLOVER
Five Hundred Letters, Addressed in
Assumed Name, Delivered Her
in Three Years.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. December g.
MY sister told me, while she was in
Jail, that if she was convicted by the
evidence of Mrs. Glover she would kill
herself said Mrs. Irene LIE Blanc Lang
ley. one of the numerous sisters Of Hat
tie lie Blanc, at the opening of today S
session Of the Glover murder trial.
Mrs. Langley's statement was made in
response to District Attorney Higgins
cross examination.
In the brief direct questioning by Mr..
Johnson, counsel for the defense, Mrs.
Langley said that she visited the Glover
house the Monday following Saturdays
lie down on a sofa with her head COW
cred by shawl.
Noise in Spare Chamber.
Later, she said. she went into the spare
chamber where her sister was found the
fol owing day. While there she heard a
slight noise.
She declared that when the body of
Glover was brought into the house that
Monday afternoon Mrs. Glover turned her
back OH it.
mail carrier was then called who said
that Mrs. Glover had received more Ian
500 letters in the past three years under
the name of Minnie Everett Clark.
Just before the trial began today MIR.
Johnson expressed the opinion that the
defense would rest it's case about the mid
die of next week.
Miss LIE Blanc today settled back in her
seat beside the police matron with tired
expression on her small young face. She
frightened up considerably when her sis
foS followed
her words with considerable attention.
Yesterday Afternoons Testimony.
Mrs. Lillian NJ. Glover three times
threatened to buy a revolver and shoot
her husband, Clarence F. Glover, of
Waltham. according to the testimony OF
Mrs. Kate Sampson Of Auburndale, half
aunt Of the prisoner, one of the witnesses
for the defense, yesterday.
Mrs. Sampson said that Mrs Glover.
made these threats while visiting her at
Auburndale, and that she appeared en-
ragged because, she said, she had found
her husband with Hattie lie Blanc, who
was working in their home. The wit
ness further said that Mrs. Glover told
her Of having repeatedly beaten Hattie,
and that once Mrs. Glover brought Hat
tie to the home Of tine witness and struck
her under the chin in an attempt to
make ner confess that she nad acted 1nl-
properly with Glover.
Neighbors and relatives of the defend
ant were called, including the girls ia
ther, Abraham LIE Blanc Of West Ari.
chat, N. S. These witnesses testified
that Hattie was one Of nineteen chill
dren, who lived In a small house in a
tiny fishing settlement on an island that
she had little opportunity for an educa-
ton, and had spent only six months at
school.
Bore Good Reputation.
She always bore a good reputation be.
fore coming to the United States, they
said.
A firearms expert testified that the re.
volver with which Glover was killed
could not backfire. this tending to show
that alleged marks on Hattie's hand
could not have been received in that way
The final witness Of the day, Hattie l.,
Blanc's sister, Mrs. Langley. said tha
Mrs. Glover showed her three note.
which she had written, in which sh,
declared that she wished to rid herself
Of her husband, and would do SO.
The night before the murder, Mrs
Langley testified, Mrs. Glover forbade he
husband to come into the house for sup
per- and exclaimed that If he did come
IN it would be the last supper he would
ever eat
She said she had heard Mrs. Glover sa,
that her husband was mo good" On
day when she called at the Glover hom.
she found Tobie lie Blanc. Mrs. Glover.
brother, choking Hattie