The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-13
ATT. JOHNSON COMPLETES HIS
 IMPEACHMENT
Hattie Le Blanc's Counsel Points Strongly to Mrs. Glover As Her Illus
 ,
 bands Murderer
Rapid Progress Made In Closing Arguments and Case May Go to Jury Late Today.
Especial from United Press.)

Especial from United Press.) Cambridge. Mass. Dec. 1s-Hattie Le
 Blanc returned to the grim old East {. Cambridge court room today. knowing that it is possible to learn whether sine will go free or be condemned tc die in the electric chair by nightfall The closing scenes of the drama o1 life, which has gone through many settings on the stage over which Judge Bond has presided. began today when
 senior counsel Melvin NJ. Johnson. fol accused of the murder of Clarence F, Glover. took up the last half of his summing up.
 It was thought in the court room that Johnson would take the greater part of the morning to complete his address District Attorney Higgins then will launch into his summing up for the prosecution and, according .o his statement. will be able to finish within the day.
 The length of the courts charge is unknown and it is possible that Judge and send the jury to their de!ibera- tions fresh from a nights sleep in their guarded quarters.
 All in the court room connected with the case showed the effects of the two weeks and two days that the trial of whom it means most probably showed the effect of the nervous tension the least Throughout the trial Hattie Le Blanc has sat quietly for the most part with her arms folded. her eye glasses focused upon the witness or the attorneys. little frown of per plexity indicating her difficulty in fol- lowing the procedure. The girl has poor vision and experts have stated that in later life she may have catar- acts. eventually shutting out the world of light and life she is fighting to remain in.
 Today when she walked into the court room between Matron Warnock and Court Officer Rhoades. she talked a little nervously with them and look ed eagerly at her counsel. Johnson, for smile of encouraRement.
 Johnson. in whose favor all of the courts important rulings have been, looked tired and worn. but smiled tri- umphantly as he prepared to resume his summing up.
 After a stormy closing trial yester- day. marked by intellectual attempts of District Attorney Higgins to intro duce an alleged confession of Hattie Le Blanc. the deathbed words of Clar- ence F. Glover. and bar out all evil dence against Mrs. Glover. the sum- ming up began. "A vampire is what Johnson called Mrs. Glover widow of the murdered man. and he recited Kip lings poem. ''The Vampire" to the jurors. as an illustration.
 Court was Very lete in reconvening, tod ' and CT 'wd as great as yes- rday ught for permission to get in to hear Johnson's fiery speech As the gal fraternity was largely repre- sented and gained admittance by l.. To-: ed to enter. Hundreds stood out side. Johnson began by relating the we'll known story of Jonathan Brad ford. who was arrested, tried and executed on purely circumsta nrial had not killed the man whom he was charged with murdering. The crime, shouted Johnson, was com mitted by a man in Bradford's em- ploy. Bradford, who was the pro- prietor of a hotel, was found in the room of one of his guests named Hayes. standing beside the body with knife dripping with blood in his hand. Be careful said Attorney Johnson. in finishing the story, "how you allow circumstantial evidence to prejudice the case of this defendant.
 we are not required to establish anything. Upon the government must rest the burden of proving be- yond 8 reasonable doubt the guilt of this defendant. You cannot convict if you can find any other way in the evidence by which this act could have talks of murder but they have not proved 1t. The murder may have been committed by another, we argue. It is not necessary that We should tell who. The defendant is we point to the circumstances and tell you that Mrs. Gloves may have committed it. don't ask you to find this as a fact, but if you find that she might have done it, you must acquit this defendant.
 What the district attorney thinks is true Is of no consequence, what l think Is true is of no consequence. You are to regard only the evident e and pay no attention to what yol may have heard or read in the pa pers for or against this defendant. The assistant district attorney. in his opening address to you, said that the government must present to you what evidence they have as they had ob- tained it. They cannot select th .;r witnesses. They must take what they can get. say that the government call Mr. Whitehill? Did they call MT. Gilman, superintendent of the Metropolitan Park police? No. Did they call the Freeman children? No. Did they call fdarOld Garuner! NO.
 "The government said that they would prove that Glover was seen go- ing toward the laundry on the night of the murder, with @ woman. Have they done so? Mo-, Either they could not produce such a witness or they left out some very important testimony. No witness has been pre- sented by the government, I charge YOU to remember, who has testified that Hattie Le Blanc was outside of the house on the night of the shoot ing. You must decide that the gov ernment has not made good its promise"
 Johnson finished his summing up at 12:35, having spoken a total of about four hours. Immediately after wards District Attorney Higgins com olnSifac a l1,aao fc ENr