The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-13
ARGUMENT BEGINS
 IN GLOVER CASE Attorney Speaks in Defense of
 Hattie Leblanc LAWYERS WAX. WRATHY District Attorney and Council for the : Girl Get Into Such War of Words That Former Is Called Down
 By the Judge
 
LAWYERS WAX. WRATHY

Cambridge, Mass, December 12.-The evidence upon which a jury will con vict or acquit Hattie Leblanc of the murder of Clarence F. Glover, Wal tham laundryman, was completed to- day and Melvin M. Johnson, leading counsel for the little Cape Breton girl, began his plea for her life. The young lawyer said at the outset that the lit tie girl was brought from the provinces solely for the white slave" traffic, and then turning to Mrs. Lillian M Glover. by whom she was induced to leave her home, MT. Johnson denounced the widow as vampire and recited Kip ling,s poem to emphasize his point He wifi finish his argument tomorrow.
 District Attorney John J. Higgins to- day made one last effort to introduce Glover's alleged dying statement that Hattie Leblanc shot him but when he stated that MT. Johnson himself said Hattie had admitted the shooting there was a burst of passionate protest by the defense.
 Again Judge Bond ruled the evil dence out of the case.
 When Mrs. Glover was on the stand the district attorney became involved In heated argument with Judge Bond upon the admissibility of some of her evidence and the colloquy eacame so bitter that the district attorney was threatened with expulsion.
 Two more witnesses were introduced who said that they saw Mrs. Glover close by the laundry on the evening of the shooting, whereas the widow denied that she was out of her house on that night. Then, after a breath ing space of half an hour, the prin- cipal defender of Hattie Leblanc be- gan his final effort to obtain her free dom.
 When the trial opened today At torney Johnson, for the defense an nounced that he had discovered a new witness, whose testimony he considered so important that he asked the court to be allowed to reopen the defense.
 The district attorney interposed no objection ana Mr. Johnson called Miss Nellie Walsh of Waltbam to the stand
 Miss Walsh testified that she Is now employed as cock in the family of Judge Bond, who is presiding at the trial. She said that five years ago she was employed in sGlover's laun- dry and that she knew Mrs. Glover very well.
 She said that on the night of No vember 20, 1909 the night that Glover was shot she was walking near the Glover laundry.
 Whom did you see on Moody street that night?7 asked MT. Johnson.
 q saw Mrs. Glover" replied Miss Walsh The witness said that she DOS itively recognized Mrs. Glover. Mrs Glover was walking away from the laundry, she said. ~
 Mrs Lillian M Glover then re- sumed her testimony In rebuttal
 Mrs Glover denied telling Mrs Rice or MT. Gardner, witnesses for the de- fense, that she had married Glover in order to get the control of her own property
 Mrs. Glover denied that she went to the laundry on the night of the shoot ing and she denied unqualifedly, so far as she was concerned, the testimony given by witness for the defense about woman who cameA from the alleyway. boarded car, got off at Central street, met a man on Waltham Cotton, hid be- hind a fence and afterward received man at the Glover home.
 The rebuttal of the defense was be- gun when the afternoon session opened 1 James F. Dumas, a boilermaker, tes- tified that on the night of the murder he was in a tea store directly across He said he saw Mrs Glover come our of the laundry. The defense rested it's ease at 2:53 D. m., and court took a re- cess