The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-30
Prosecutions Case Hit Hard By Judge
 Bonds Ruling Today
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 ing" in his opening address to the jury, on the grounds that the state ment was not a dying statement, in the legal sense. Today's decision bars from the evidence everything that Glover may have said implicat- ing Hattie Le Blanc or indicating that he thought he was dying. The court pointed out that the wit nesses, called by the state to show that Glover knew his words were a dying statement, couldn't agree on many such points, mainly as to wha. occurred on the front porch of the private hospital after Glover had dragged himself there, by the aid of Thomas Cousens. He pointed out are dying are not later borne out by the facts.
 How" said Judge Bond, '.do the words, I'm dying come to the lips of those who are ill. Such phrases are almost habitua1 with some sick that the evidence does not measure up to what is demanded of an intro ducable dying statement Through out this victory, Hattie Le Blanc sat quietly. Two faint red spots of ex- | citement appeared on her cheeks IS the only physical sign that she un- derstood that very important point had been won in her favor.
 After recess of Is minutes, the l jury was called in and the prosecu- ton then began its presentation of | it's case. Assistant District Attorney Charles Wier began for the state. After a very brief outline of the fact that Glover was found on the night of November 20, 1909, at the door of his laundry. in Waltham, dy- i ing of pistol wounds, murderously :n- i flicted, Wier said:
 1 "Of this murder, Hattie Le Blanc ' is accused. would speak for fair | treatment for the accused. The Com | monwealth is not vindictive. The government has set at the disposal of ty, and, without prejudice, will pro- ceed with the prosecution Of the ac- | cused, confident that she is the mur- derer of Clarence F. Glover. Ton
 must not be swayed in your decision | by the youth, sex, or apparent governed solely by the question, Did
 she kill Glover?'
 | '"The governments indictm ent charges first degree murder and the
 state must, in this case, conflne it.
 self largely to circumstantial evil | dence, direct evidence being almost | impossible to obtain. You must ar rive at your decision as to the guilt or innocence of the accused from this kind of evidence"
 | l just what circumstantial evidence | consists of. ''The government must prove this case," he continued, "be- yond a reasonable doubt, that req 1 sonable doubt must be obtained in the courtroom and not from news | papers or from what your hear out I side. The government must use what 1 witnesses they can get and not such
 as they would like to have"
 | He then reviewed the life of Clar- T L
 laundry owner and passed over the
 relations that may have existed be- 1 tween Glover and Hattie Le Blanc, as well known to all" The mur- dered man, he said, left his home,
 where Hattie Le Blanc was maid 1 and met the defendant at 7:45. He declared they met at Glover's laun- l dry. The next day, he declared, hair pins and gold pins were found at the foot of the stairs in the room, indi-
 eating struggle in which woman he impressively declared, were iden- tified as Hattie Le Blanc's."
 l Search was made for Hattie, he said, without result, until Tuesday
 after the murder. the girl was dra,:-
 ged from under bed in room III Glover's house. Her clothing was dfsarranged. her hair disheveled, she | was dirty and unkempt, he said. She l had been there three days Jurors who looked at the neat, pale figure ii
 blue sitting calmly listening, snooR
 their heads a little, as if finding il i difficult to believe the same girl who scared and tncoherent, was dragged from under a bed.
 l He declared she told many con ficting stories when taken to the po- lice station.
 The first witness to be called by | the state was pr. West, who per formed the autopsy on Glover's body He described the two wounds in the body and was excused.
 Thomas J. Corners, the barber | who first found Glover dying at tho door of his establishment, repeated his testimony of yesterday, but ac.
 cording to the new rule of the court
 omitted any reference to Glover's statements regarding Hattie Le Blanc
 or whether he was dying. Thomas
 Proctor repeated his testimony of this
 morning to the jury. expurgated, ac-
 cording to the courts ruling. Mrs
 Mary J. Dutch and pr. William Cou.
 sens, at whose private hospital Glov- CT died, was next called. and, after testifying briefly regarding. the bring of ho man thoro and t1iS lc