Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-08
G. w. Quimby, Augusta
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then was asked if she wanted to talk,
to which she replied in the affirmative.
| She said that she was 16 years old
and that she had left her home in
West Arichat, c. b., when she was Is.
She had gone directly to Mrs. Glovers
home in Waltham, where she had lived
ever since.
Describing her movements on Nov.
20, 1909, the day of the murder Of
Glover, she said that she stayed about
the house in the morning and in the
afternoon accompanied the Glovers to
a football game at the Harvard Sta
diun. They returned from the game
about p. NJ, and went for short
automobile ride. Supper followed. 1t
was about 7.15 when she left the house,
Glover having departed at $40. She
went to the laundry. That morning
when Mrs. Glover was upstairs in the
house. Glover had asked her to meet
him in the laundry that night and she
was keeping the appointment.
When she met Glover at the laundry,
he made improper proposals to her
which she rejected. He then grabbed
her and dragged her upstairs in the
laundry, where he attacked her Al
ter the assault she began TO cry and
Glover grasped her by the throat and
choked her to make her stop crying.
Glover had a revolver in his hand at
the time but she never touched the
weapon. He threatened to kill her if
she told what had occurred.
Breaking away from Glover she ran
down the stairs and as she reached
n @f 49,.
shot. She heard only one shot and
thought that Glover had shot himself.
The assault on her was committed on
the upper floor Of the laundry where
she had never been before. She had
visited the laundry only once before
Nov ~ ard then she was accompanied
ny .Iis. Glover
When she reached the foot of the
stairs the door was locked. She
climned out through a window and
went directly TO the Glover home.
where she hid under the bed in the
sGest Chamber, remaining there until
she was discovered or the night OF
the following Tuesday. During the
time she was under the bed she had
nothing to eat or drink nor did she
see Mrs. Glover. Mr.. Elmore or Mr..
Freeman.
In the statements made to the 20
lice Hattie said that she had never
seen the revolver before the night
that Glover was killed. He had never
before pointed a revolver at her. al
though often after they had conducted
themselves improperly he had threat
ened to kill her if she ever told. She
did not try to get the weapon away
from Glover. She did not see anyone
else in the laundry. If any one else
had been there she probably would
not have seen them, she said, be-
cause of the darkness. She was asked
If she had tried to shoot Glover dur
ing the struggle and she replied that
she did not and could not have shot
him because she had no weapon
She said that she did not know q
funeral was being held in the house
on the Tuesday following the shoot
ing and did not know that Mr.. Glover
was dead.
she described the struggle with
Glover, declaring that he had pushed
her upstairs in the laundry and that
She felt her comb slip out of her hair
and pin give way. She said that
Doth the comb and pin found there
We're hers. She denied that the hand
kercihef also found in the laundry
belonged to her. She said that she
had never threatened Glover, but re-
membered hearing a Mrs Hill say
that her brother-in-law had threat
ened to kill Glover
She told Mrs. Glover that her hus-
oand had ruined her. but Mrs. Glover
never told her to shoot him.
Before tie reading Of the testimony
given by Hattie was closed, it de-
veloped that she claimed to have
heard "a noise in the laundry while
she and Glover We're there. Glover
SAID to her. Listen" Hattie said that
sounded like woman's skirt
At the beginning of the afternoon
session Chief McKenna OF the Wal
tnam police was called and told how
ne searched the house.. Through this
.