New-York tribune., 1910-12-10
GIRL DIDN'T BUY PISTOL
Salesman Denies He Sold Fire
arm to Hattie Leblanc.
MRS. GLOVER AGAIN ACCUSED
Defendant Will Not Take the
Stand in Her Own Behalf
Fight Over Transcript.

Cambridge Mass Dec. 9-The Leblanc
| murder trial to day was a long distance
duel by legal methods between the youth
full defendant, Hattie Leblanc, and Mrs.
Lillian Glover, the widow of the Waltham
laundry man. The defence aimed all its
shots at the widow in marshallng its wit
nesses and drawing out the evidence,
while the prosecution sought to turn these
darts in the direction of the Cape Breton
girl.
The defence has five more witnesses, and
may rest before the adjournment OF
to-morrow's single session. Nearly a
| dozen men and women. who knew the
Glover family and Hattie more or less in
timately. occupied the witness stand to-
day Their testimony tended to show that
Glover was persistent in his attentions to
women, that his wife became so angry on
many occasions that she was heard to say
more than once that she would like to
kill him. and had applied indecent epithets
TO her husband
Thomas j. COffey, a clerk in a Boston
sporting goods house, who sold the re-
volver which was said to have been used
in the shooting, said that a woman bought
il, but when Miss Leblanc was led past
him he declared that she was not the
woman
The District Attorney drew from the re-
volver salesman the fact that he could not
remember anything distinctly regarding
the woman. He also succeeded in having
excluded considerable testimony given by
Seymour NJ Glover at a previous hearing
which was aimed at Mrs. Glover. Some of
the witnesses for the defence admitted to
the District Attorney to-day that their tes
timony was different from that given at the
inquest and could give no reasons for
changing it.
One of the last witnesses of the day. Mrs.
Alma NJ. Roche, said that she heard Mrs.
Glover declare eight years ago that she
would like to kill her husband.
Counsel for Defence Satisfied.
That Miss Leblanc will not take the stand
in her own behalf was the statement made
by her leading counsel to-day. Mr.. john
son intimated that he was entirely salts
fed with the testimony given by the de-
fendant, as given to the police the evening
Of her arrest, and saw no necessity of sub
jecting her to the strain of testifying at
the present tribunal or the searching in
quiries of the District Attorney.
My sister told me while she was in jail
that if she convicted by the evidence
of Mrs. Glover she would kill herself said
Mrs. Irene Leblanc Langley. one Of the
numerous sisters of Hattie Leblanc. at
the opening OF the days session of the
trial Mrs Langley's statement was made
in response to questions by District Attor-
ney Higgins on crOsS-eXamination.
In the brief direct questioning by Mr..
johnson Mrs Langley said that she visited
the Glover's house on the Monday following
Co
her lie down on a sofa with her head COW
cred by shawl Later she said she went
into the spare chamber, where her sister
was found the following day, and while
there she heard slight noise. She declared
that when the body of Glover was brought
into the house that afternoon (Monday)
Mrs Glover turned her back on it.
A mail carrier was then called who said
that Mrs Glover had received more than
five hundred letters in the last three years
under the name of Minnie Everett Clark
Betriended by Mrs. Glover.
Lillian Leblanc, another sister of the de-
fendant, said that Mrs. Glover was con-
tinually f1inging harsh words at her hus-
band and uttering vile epithets. In the
cross-exarnination by the District Attorney
Miss Leblanc admitted that Mrs. Glover
from West Arichat to Boston and assisted
her after she came to this state by giving
her clothing and money.
After a brief recess the jury remained
out of the courtroom and Mr.. johnson
asked the court to allow the admission as
evidence in the case of a transcript of an
interview between the District Attorney
and Seymour Glover in the office of Gren-
the Thanksgiving eve following the death
of Glover.
According to the transcript, parts of
the District Attorney that ne came to Mr.
MacFarland's office TO see his brothers
personally and that he did not intend TO
make any statements al the time which
might injure "a certain party
In response to a question he said that Mr.
Elmore, Mrs. Glover's counsel, was the
certain party"
At this point, according to the transcript
Arthur Glover. a brother, said:
Seymour, do you remember of telling me
of lots of occasions when you wished to
punch her Mrs. GloversI head?"
Yes responded Seymour. He said that
Elmore had told him to keep quiet, al
though he admitted that Mr.. Elmore had
not instructed him not to talk to the Dis
trict Attorney.
Says Couple Had WranaIes.
Seymour Glover. according to the tran
script, admitted to Mr.. Higgins that he had
often heard Mrs. Glover speak harshIy of
her husband; that she had shown hatred of
him at times, and that the couple fire.
quently had wrangles. He heard her say
that she wished her husband was dead.
Il don't feel justified in saying anything"
Seymour said. Il might tell you more.
know a good deal more. l know what her
Mrs. Glover'sl life has been, and it was
not one sweet song
After the transcript had been read
Thomas ]. Coffey at the present studying
for the priesthood at the College CT the
Holy Angels, Buffalo, was called to the
stand.
Mr. Coffey testified that on March 81
1903 he was employed as a salesman at a
sporting goods store in Boston. He identi-
fed the revolver with which Glover is al
legged TO have been killed as having been
sold by him to a woman. The woman, he
said, was about thirty or thirty-fve years
old but he was unable to give a good de-
scription of her.
At the request of Mr.. Johnson Hattie
Leblanc was led by the court officers a
space in front of the witness stand Hattie
was smiling as she faced the witness.
rs that the woman to whom you sold
this revolver" asked Mr.. Johnson