The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-09
HATTIE LIZ BLANC'S DEFENCE
EVIDENCE TO SHOw YRS. GEOt =
ER HATED HER Ht SBtND
One witness sa,s she Declared Her snfrn-
tion 90 Get . Pistol and shooi hin
-Telrphsar Operators Fan q" Ne
member rak on Night 81 Nururr.

| Xen,brr al of Last year
Mr.. Kat, Sampson Of Auburndals.
hall niece Il the girl. testified that she
heard Mrs Glover say three times that
.he wis going 20 get 4 revolver ana shoot
! G,,y.r l..c ,,l,.. II his conduct with Hattie
and "a h.n ,n.. made the statement for the
third time she pounded "A table in Mrs.
! : lmp~nns hous" vigorously. declaring
I tuut he Vas unable to keep A girl because
II her husbands conduct.
Mrs Walter Langley .: Gloucester. i
sister Of Hattie. testified that when at the
Glover house a few days before the muir
der She saw three notes on the dining
room, IA bic and Mrs. Glover read them To
hsr In the first Mrs Glover had written
I will do II. | will send him 70 h IL.
The second r-ld Il want To get rid nj HIM
but don't know how 10 do IL. The third
said some thing about not wanting Glover
10 enter the house. hut IN" did not kno"
how To- keep him out
\ number Of telephone operators from
both the Newton and "altlAm Central
offices est tiled hat they could not remem-
Der Of ther. having been hall hour con
versatiun on tn. night of the murder
between Mrs Freeman al Auhurndale
and Mrs Glover at her home IN Waltham.
a. each OF the latter had declared on the
witness stand
This conversation was gong on. accord.
ing to both the women. AZ the very time
Glover Wac shot at the laundry and wa
craw ling to tn. hospital, where h. died
three hours later
The evident purpose III me d"'ehce
to-day WAS To- stier,p, TO show tina, Mr.
81 hs.r hnshand M 70
the way and that she might hay" been
in the laundry at the time II the shooting
instead OF being at horne talking over the
wire with Mrs. Freeman
A. FE.iey Brewer junior counsel Tor
Hattie outlined the case oi IN" dtionce
TIN, morning. calling the jurv'o attention
To the fact that Clover death h"n p"eh
due, 10 a bullet through his body from tn"
back and reminding them that hGtiI"
at ,h,, time Of the shooting was but IL"
months over Is year, 81 Sgc lie de-
scribed tn. great value of circnrnsfan''Al
evidence under Get il.in conditions, OUT
declared IL was very dangerous IN others
lie iIiustI ted bv cases on record and
continued
1t il not your duty 10 explain the tnys-
te.y VI this case |; 10 easy To under
stand a thing Cfter 1t his been explained
II Is your duty to find VIII go the essen
ti.l fats a. proved. Motive. exclusive
op.ortumty and conduct md a.. % Ance
Of tn, defends ~ mist bc consider ed
The (joyernrncnI VIII say n Is noI netcs-
sa-y to show motive but some one killed
Clarence l.. GloN or and IN e clrcumsiaatlEl
cr.Js YOU must lind motive. We will
show YOU thrt one other i'erson h%.d the
OF. a,or .unlty, the intent and tho apshty
10 commit th:' c. me
Alto; ney johnson then cE'.-cd ESton-
lshment 10y calling .. his ~ a" witness
District Attorney higgins nj when the
Latter refused To tGNv the stand the Jury
ives excluded from the court room while
the dfacs,y We "a S Sis n,r,os. IN calling
Mr. Higgins wa to show the bl2s @nd
lntp.sst Of Seymour y Glover Decel~c
the latter had an interEie" Win the Dls,
trict Attorney md - thR; tune showed
both bias md interest. He wished 20 sup
clement hrs cross-exa ninction OF Glover
by the direct evidence OF AT higgins.
His REASON WIZ that the District Attorney.
in ms opening. IA. sad thSt the Govern.
,n.ut h. 4 70 tFke WHIT witnesses u found
,h-. the government hr neglected 10
call certain persons having snowiedgc
Of the facts. knowing what heir testI-
mony would be.
He slso Sid he would snow 'nat VII.
Higgins ~ the close OF the inquest told
w.treas@s TO keep their mouths shut.
Mr. Higgins replied that hi- object IN
caIt.oning the inquest witnesses VAS
to keep the proceedings from mo news
papers He said he had furnished VI
Johnson with a -tcnograph pho report OF
his interview with Seymour Glove. hut
the IA wye for tho defence declared thls
was not satisfactory He wanted IN.
Jury to see what Kind 81 a man VIZ htg,
gins IL and how thoroughly ne conducted
arUment Judge Bond refused TO permit
tho calling OF the District Attorney AS
witness and he jury returned 10 the court
room
The Hon George " Kyle, a member
of the Canadian Parliament living at
81 Peters. y the Rev Mr Edward
RopitailIe. the parish priest a. West
Ari.hai y = where Hattie's homo IL.
and Capt Peter King Of tho same village
testified thar Hattie had borne a good
reput ation N home prior 10 her coming
Abraham lie Blanc. IN. Sirl's father,
aid he did not know how MANY children
hal heen born TO him. hui he named
,wenry-three. OF which number FIVE had
dyed
clerks from q firearms store IN his CITY
,o-, ti.d that the revolver with which the
shooting had been done was sold on
March 81. 1000 and an expert declared u
could not backfire
Mrs Kat. Sampson Of Aubui nd1le WIN
tc.r fled TO the very dist art re- lat ionship
of half niece o the girl On trial was then
allied and gave her answers through
french interpreter She said that Mrs
Glover came TO her hous. in March iaGp
and told her she had Aesn her man insult
Hattie in IN. bathroom. that she had no
revolver but would buy one and kill
i;lovar. that -h~ pulled Hsrtie's hair and
n ,,t her when she caught her on II a' occn
.,on and declared she could not Keep n
servant because OF Glover. Mrs Samp-
son testified that Mrs Glover declared
rh-s,. times that 81. would get a revolver
and kill her husband.
Twelve telephone girlr employed IN
,hn waitham and New on West Offices
All testified that they could not remember
81 any convnrsl;ion Of a half an hour
or more having pas~ed through their
offices on the night Of the shooting In
cro.s-examination all OF the girls said
thoy could not rccollsct any OF the bust
ness passing through rheir Offices that
nIghr mnln operator who was on
dIity at Waltham that night sa,d he had
no recollection ~ any talk over hfteon
minutes in length with the Glover house
The final witness Of IN" day was Mrs
. H -.