Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-11
WOMAN IN VICINITY
Two Men Saw Her Near Glover
Laundry Night of Murder.
CAR STARTER FOLLOWED
Joined by Man. She Left Him to
Disappear in Vacant Lot.
HE WENT INTO GLOVER HOME
Not Hattie lie Blanc, Both Declare.
Widow of Slain Man Contra
diets Witnesses.
CAR STARTER FOLLOWED
HE WENT INTO GLOVER HOME

was placed on trial twelve days ago for
the murder of Clarence +. Glover, evil
dence that woman was seen on the
night of the crime in the immediate vicin-
ity of the laundry in Waltham, where
the shooting is said to have occurred
was introduced today.
Two witnesses testified that they saw a
woman hurrying out of an alley way
behind Glover's laundry on that night.
Followed Nervous Woman.
One of the witnesses. Isaac Walker, 8
car starter, said that the wonlan's face
was flushed and her manner nervous
Made curious by her strange appear
ance, Walker said he followed the WON
an who went short distance on a
trolley car, left it and joined man or
the street, and Il little later left this
| man and disappeared behind a fence
on a vacant lot.
The man soon afterward went into
house which the witness later learned
was the home of Clarence Glover.
1T was woman, not child" sale
Walker, when the seventeen-year-old de-
PENDANT was led before him and he was
asked if it was this girl whom he had
seen. 1T could not have been Hattie Ii
Blanc.
Strange Woman Seen by Sexton.
Charles T.. Benner, sexton Of a church
in Waltham, was the other witness who
said he saw the strange woman coming
from the alley. He also declared it was
not Hattie lie Blanc. He said that the
woman he saw was about five feet five
inches tall and weighed about 1870 pounds
Hattie LIE Blanc admitted in her ex-
animation by police officers, Immediately
after her arrest. that sne was in the
laundry with Glover the night of the
murder. This admission has been placed
in evidence at this trial. Until today no
witness had placed any other woman in
the vicinity of the building on that night.
When the rebuttal stage was reached
the district attorney produced witnesses
VINO saiu that the alley way was COM
pletely blocked hy posts and a fence on
the night of the murder. 1t was admit
ted, however, that the fence was OF the
"spite" variety, and was cOnsta ntiy being
knocked down and set Up by contestins
property holders.
Mrs. Glover Recalled.
Before the day was over Mrs. Lillian
M. Glover, the widow. who has been the
principal target of the attacks of the
defense, took the stand again and de-
MED that she ever had threatened to kill
lCI Iucpdlu u Jldu d IcNOlNCA
She is expected to make further denia.s
when the case is resumed Monday.
The defense rested at noon. The re-
buttal will probably be concluded in
Mondays session. The sur-rebuttal will
likely be short. 49,
| 1t is expected that by Wednesday noon
the fate of the little Cape Ble.on girl
will be in the hands of the jury.
The proceedings today opened with
Mrs. Alma M. Roche, formerly a domes-
tic in the Glover home, on the witness
stand and under direct examination. She
the Glover household, Mrs. Glover fired
a revolver at a squirrel in q tree. hitting
the animal. Mrs. Roche was not cross
examined.
Motive for Marriage.
Mrs. Ida T. Rice. who knew both Mr.
and Mrs. Glover before their marriage
in 1860, testified that she had asked Mrs.
Glover why she had married "such a bad
| man. and that Mrs. Glover told her it
was because Glover had managed to Sc
cure control of her property, and that
she was marrying him in order to get her
own property back again. She was not
crOSS-examined.
DR.. HOratiO Pratt, senior surgeon at the
Eye and Ear Infirmary. Boston. testified
| to examining Hattie's eyeslsht at the
Cambridge Jail. He said that her vision
was defective. that she could not see we'll
| in the daytime and that at night her
! sight was even poorer.
| Michael ]. Corriaan, a barber. testified
that he saw Glover in an automobile be-
tween Z and 30 o'clock on the night of
| the murder. Mellen III. Smart, detec-
| tive said he had walked over the various
| routes between the Glover house and the
| laundry. covering the distance in IA
minutes by one route, in 1861 minutes by
9nnthp and in Il, minutes. NV third
Man Leaning Against Fence.
Thomas j. Cunniff, who claims to have
been in the vicinity of the laundry on the
night that Glover was shot testified that
| he saw a man and woman, a few
| minutes after O'clock, going down the
| alley. The woman was in advance of
| the man. Later he saw the man leaning
against a fence.
The next witness was Isaac Walker,
employed as u car starter by the Middle
sex and Boston Street Railway Company
at the Moody street crossing of the Bos-
| ton and Maine railroad. at Waltham. On
the day OF the shooting he got through
| work at'I O'Clock and came into Boston.
After returning to Waltham, about $40
o'clock, he went into q barber shop,
Glover was shot forty minutes later.
He testified that he saw woman come
out OF. the alley leading to the laundry
| and board the car. She looked around
In frightened manner.
/ The witness boarded the same car as
| this woman. When it stopped at the pub
| lic.1fbrary In Waitham the woman left it
and the witness followed her.
He followed her to Elm street, where
she met man, with whom she walked
away at rapid pace. When Barton
street was reached the couple separated
The woman was running, the witness
| said. When she reached an open lot she
dropped behind fence. The witness
| said that he followed the man. who final
ly went into the house of Clarence +.
| Glover, the murdered man.
| The next and final witness was Deputy
| Sheriff Bartholomew Young, who said he
had been unable to locate Toby LIE Blanc
brother Of Mrs. Glover, who had been
summoned by the defense.
Mr.. johnson announced that the de-
Tense rested its case.
| recess Of half an hour was declared
Witnesses in Rebuttal.
Henry Doherty. the first witness in re-
buttal, said he was conductor of q
| trolley car that passed through Walthan
Square. He saw no excited woman IL
the square at S:45 o'clock on the nigh
| of the shooting. He admitted that hi.
| memory was not good.
Thomas Kelly, employed in .the vicinit.
| OF the laundry at the time OF the shoot
ing, said the passageway through which
to have passed to the street was blocked
that night by posts, and no one coult
have gone through it.
Inspector Mckenna who was recalled