Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-07
For Prosecution in Hattie
lie Blanc Trial.
Her evidence Given 10 Police
After Arrest Admitted.
Nurse leila Gallant Comes irea
Canada 10 Testify.

Cambridge Mass, Dec. CAS- the
| trial of Hattie LIE Blanc for the muir
| der of Clarence F. Glover was drawing
to close today. the prosecution won
| it's first important point since the case
| was taken up week ago yesterday.
in obtaining permission to have In
troduced the evidence given by the lit
| tie girl at her examination by the po-
lice Immediately after her arrest.
This evidence was given in French,
through the aid Of Miss leila Gallant.
a nurse in Waltham at the time, but
who was brought in by the police to
assist in the examination. Up TO to-
day the prosecution had been unable
to introduce this evidence because
Miss Gallant was in Cape Breton and
had refused to come to Massachusetts.
A special officer was sent to Canada
and persuaded her to make the trip,
and this afternoon she appeared in
court -
With the jury out of the room and
the defence and the prosecution both
reinforced by native Frenchmen and
women, she was asked series Of
questions in English and ordered to
!
half an hour of this work, Judge Bond
decided that she might testify, proyid-
| ed it was found she was keeping close
to the written evidence taken by q
stenographer at the police station.
! Mr.. johnson, counsel for Miss lie
Blanc. protested vehemently. and took
an exception to the ruling. Miss Gal
liant was excused after the decision
Ian inly hn ioIx 10 ali hnr
mind from the fatigue OF the journey
and appear on the witness stand to-
morrow. She may be the last witness
for the government. This testimony
is regarded with great interest by the
district attorney, for it is said to con-
tain much of the governments case
against the girl.
Half a dozen witnesses were on the
stand today, beside Miss Gallant, and
their evidence was partially contra
dictory as compared with what they
gave before other tribunals.
| Seymour Glover beneficiary under
the VIII of his brother. admitted mat
he had heard his sister-in-law Mrs.
Glover, express the wish that her hus-
band would behave himself. She might
have made serious threats but he could
not remember them.
Another witness picked up a comb
in the laundry where the shooting IL
said to have taken place. but instead
Of stating that it belonged to Hattie
he said that he saw Mrs. Glover wear
n3 il. ~
| One of the incidents in the old court
house today was the filing of a declar-
alton in a $4,000 libel suit of Captain
| OF
against Mrs. Glover. in which he al
legged defamation of character by Ats.
Glover in the course Of her testimony
in the probate court.
| Cambridge Mass, Dec. 1.-THE ex-
pected sensation of todays session OF
the trial of Hattie LIE Blanc, chaSneA
with The murder of Clarence +. Glover.
Waltham laundry man, was delayed
| because of the late arrival of a train
from the Provinces on which leila
| Gallant, an important government Wit
ness, was passenger. Miss Gallant
was formerly nurse at the Waltham
| hospital. and acted as interpreter on
the night that Hattie LIE Blanc was
questioned at the Waltham police sta
ton after her arrest for Glover's muir
| der ..f
| The first witness today was Louis
E. Callahan, u Waltham automobile
dealer. who testified to seeing Glover
al about o'clock on the night he was
killed and again Is or 20 minutes later.
Glover was alone both times. After
conference with the judge, Melvin NJ.
johnson. chief counsel for the defence,
was given permission to defer his
cross examination of the witness untN
later
Herbert L. Wiley told Of going to
Newton by automobile, carrying
number of police inspectors who were
searching for Hattie after the MUIR
der. He was present at the Glover
house when the first search for Hattie
was made. He saw Mrs. Glover at that
time. but did not notice what she was
doing. n NJ tsrht
: Gilbert Mccall, superintendent Of the
laundry owned by Glover. testified ttiHt
after the murder he had found. Glow
er's cap in a basket in q passageway.
He had seen the marks on the. floor
described yesterday by Attorney H.
more but as he was unable to qualify
as ar expert on marks, he was not a.
lowed to describe them. He also foufsd
comb and a pin, which, 1t Ia alleged,
belonged to the defendant. MCCALL
identified the comb which was pro-
duced as an exhibit, but when shown
the pin he could only say ut looks
like it." A quilt was found by the wit
ness on the floor Of one Of the rooms
Of the laundry. Two handkerchiefs also
were found by Mccall. one large. the
! other small. So
Il LIZ
! Mccall, however, was unable posi-.
tiveiy to identify either Of the two
liandkerchiefs produced or cap as
the same that he had found.
In the cross-examination Mr.. Mccall
admitted that he might have made thu
marks found on the floor of the Iaiin.
dry the day after the shooting. for no
was in the building the night before
between 7.45 and s O'clock The
prosecution in its opening last week.
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