Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-08

!, tedious method which involved the
mixing up of French and English
Questions and answers. Mr.. Johnson.
the leading counsel for the defence.
scored another point when Judge
Bond refused to admit that party of
the stenGgraphic report which re-
ferred to GlOver's alleged dying state
ment that Hattie shot him. Tho jury
does not vet know and may never
know that the dying man made such
an accusat ton.
The strain OF the trial became too
mucn today for the tall young law
yer who had scored so heavily in be-
half of the little Cape Breton girl and
the court adjourned at noon COR two
hours while Mr.. Johnson received
medical treatment.
The afternoon session was compare
tivey brief cnl the only features
We're the introduction by the govern
ment and allowed by the court Of
! Glover's overcoat which has two
holes in it. and the statement by
| Chief McKenna Of the Waltham po-
lice that hc saw no marks. as if made
| by powder, rn Hattie's hands when
she vas dragged from her hiding
yer E.,nore. who represents Mrs
Clever. unrn the witness stand on
Moniay was still further made a
matter Of question When the district
attorney said that both sides had
agreed that there We're no signs of
pC Eder grains on a part of her hand
that lad been infinitely examined by
experts.
Tie government then rested ard to-
morrow the defence will begin.
Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 1.-THE vic
tory scored by the prosecution ycster-
dav in the trial of Hattie lie Blanc
for the murder of Clarence r. Glover,
when the court ruled that the tran
, script Of The questions put to and the
answers made by the defendant at the
Watham police station on the night
of her arrest, might be introduced as
evidence, proved today to be a short
lived triumph Soon after court con-
vened today Judge Bond ruled that
there must be excluded from consider
alton by the jury any portions of the
statements which referred in any way
to the declaration said to have been
made by Glover before his death. that
Hattie lie Blanc had shot him. Earlier
in the case, Judge Bond refused to al
low witnesses to testify as to Glover's
accusations, on the ground that Glover
probably was not conscious that death
was impending and that. consequently.
his accusation could not be considered
as an ante -mortem statement.
In order to get Glover's declaration
before the jury, the prosecution yes
terday brought from her home in
Prince Edward Island, Miss Zella Gal
liant, the Interpreter who translated
Hattie's answers to the questions at
the police station hearing. and Judge
Bond decided that the testimony would
be competent, in spite of objections
from Attorney Melvin NJ. Johnson,
chief counsel for the accused girl The
transcript OF the questions and an
swerS was pronounced to be correct
today by Miss Gallant and also by
NJ ISIS Bowers, q stenographer. who was
present, but when the district attorney
proceeded to place the statements be-
fore the jury, Counsel Johnson object
ed to the admission of any reference
to Glovers dying declaration. and the
Judge ordered such reference to be ex-
cluded.
Dist. Atty. John j. Higgins, who has
led the prosecution in the trial of Miss
Hattie LIE Blanc for the murder of
Clarence +. Glover. came into the
! court room, crowded to it's limits, with
smile on his face today for the first
time since the trial began, II days ago,
for he had at length succeeded in OBJ
tanning permission to introduce the
Ier;, t,x &c 80 do
directly after her arrest Until the
| closing hours of the trial yesterday,
f., the district attorney had seen the
! greater part of the essential elements
, Of his case thrown out by the adverse
rulings of the court and in addition
| there had been an unusual amount Of
contradictory evidence from his own
witnesses.
| But he sent 700 miles to Prince Ed
! ward Island and brought back Miss
leila Gallant, French Canadian
nurse, who happened to be in Waltham
! at the time of the murder and acted
/ as the interpreter for the police in the
| examination of Miss LIE Blanc after
the girl had been dragged from under
bed in the Glover house three days
after the shooting.
| With Miss Gallant on the scene and
the approval of the court to her evil
dence, the minutes of the examination
, Of the girl at the police station, her
statements which the district attorney
has been particularly eager to lay be-
fore the jury were all available when
the court opened today.
! Yet the tall young lawyer, Melvin
NJ. Johnson. who has battled for his
client both before and during the trial,
did not seem to be cast down when he
came into the court room today, and
was just as eager and aggressive as
before Judge Bonds adverse ruling to
his client yesterday
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