The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-01
HATTIE LEBLANC
CONFIDENT Of
AN AcQUTTAL
Faced Her Accusers With Her
Faith Apparent in Her.
Buoyancy
COURT RULED OUT THE
VICTIMS DYING STATEMENTS
Indications Point to Wife as The
Murderer of Her Husband and the
Counsel Called Her a yampire-Are
Searching Her Acts.

Cambridge. Mass, Dec. Interest
in the trial of Hattie Leblanc, the IT.
year-old Cape Breton girl for the
murder of Clarence F. Glover, the
Waltllam laundryman, drew curious
crowd to the Middlesex county court
house today. Encouraged by the VIC
tory of her counsel yesterday, when
they succeeded in having excluded
from the jury's consideration the al
legged dying declaration of Glover that
Hattie had shot him the defendant
faced her accusers with buoyancy
that showed her apparent faith in her
acquittal. Mrs. Glover, the widow,
resumed the stand today.
District Attorney Higgings fought
hard to get before the jury Glovers
dying declaration that Hattie Leblanc
had shot him. Judge Bond overruled
him however, saying, after hearing
a doben witnesses yesterday and two
today, the evidence did not show that
Glover knew his end was near. The
district attorney told the court "the
dying declaration" was one Of the es-
sential props of the governments
case and that only circumstantial evil
dence remained.
The prosecution had not gone far in
the evidence when it found that the
defense on cross examination of a
witness, was seeking to turn the at
tack to Mrs. Glover. The district at
torney protested but Melvin NJ. john
son, the leading counsel for the de-
tense, said he purposed to show Mrs.
Glover had the motive, the inclina
tion, the mental and physical capac-
ity and the opportunity to murder her
husband" ~.
81 expect to. prove this" said Mr..
Johnson, "by the acts and declara-
tions of this woman before and aft
er her husbands murder. I desire
to show that she was vampire, and
l use the word advisedly."
Judge Bond decided to repeat his
method of weighing the evidence be-
fore allowing it to be submitted to the
jury.
This evidence was given by DR.. N.
W. Cousins. who owns the private hos
pital to which Glover staggered after
he was shot. DR.. Cousins told of call
ing Mrs. Glover by telephone of her
coming to the hospital, of her refus-
al to see her husband and of her go
ing away with the request that she be
notified in case of Glover's death.
Later there came an inquiry by tele-
phone as to Glover's condition and
whether he had implicated his. wife
in the shooting.
Judge Bond then decided that the
jury might hear the evidence against
Mrs. Glover and the twelve men filed
in.
DR.. Cousins repeated his testimony
under cross examination by Mr.. john
son.
The prosecution then called Mrs.
Glover.
She told of her discovery of the al
| legged relations between her husband
and the defendant. She explained her
failure to see her husband at the hos
pital by saying she was faint and was
told that he was about to be operat-
ed upon.
Although officers searched her
house twice and she searched it once
it was not until three days after the
alleged murder that Hattie Leblanc
was found hiding under a bed in one
of the rooms. How she came there
the witness did not know. She
identified jewelry found near the
laundry as belonging to Hattie Ie-
Blanc rs we'll as a handkerchief used
in the laundry. She said her husband
had number of firearms in the
house and usually carried a revolver.
She identified the weapon which the
prosecution claims was used. She said
she had owned the laundry for thir-
teen years and bought it with her
nun money