Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-10

witness. he said. that she would get
1t back some day.
He said he had testified at the In
quest about an incident when he said
Hattie threatened to shoot Glover.
| Mr.. Johnson wanted to know how
Hattie's countenance appeared at that
time and Gardner said that she was
smiling. He said he put his hand
across her face. He considered her
words to be meant as a joke.
| Mr.. Higgins then cross-examined
Gardner. He brought out the fact that
the witness was simply friendly with
Mrs. Glover. He said he went to the
Glover house when he was Is or 10
years old and lived there for some
time. For the past four years, since
witness had been married. he had not
been at the Glover house much. He
said he was not friendly with Hattie.
never having spoken more than few
words to her, considering and treating
her simply as servant. When the
district attorney asked Gardner why
he did not give at the inquest the ties,
timory he had given here. Gardner
said that it was because he had not
been asked about these matters. and
had answered all questions asked him
at length regarding what he had said
at the inquest.
| Answering question, witness said
he had testified at the inquest that
Mrs. Glover had told him that If she
! ever caught Glover with another girl
she would fix him, Mrs. Glover adding:
You know if q woman catches her
| husband with a girl she could shoot
him and court would not hold her for
it." He had further said at the inquest
that Mrs. Glover Had told him after
+, the bathroom incident that she had
had a fight with her husband: also
that he had heard her threaten to kill
Glover, and that SMpt. Mccall of the
laundry had told him her had heard
Mrs. Glover threaten her husband
many times. The night Of the murder,
Gardner said. he was in the laundry
between $50 and and heard a noise
which was Of a nature to make him
| scarJ."
He said he had been cautioned not
| to tell what he had said ct the In
quest and did not think he had told
anyone. Mr.. Elmore, Mrs. Glovers at
torney, he said, had asked him about
his testimony at the inquest, but wit
ness refused to tell him what he had
, testified. On the Monday following the
murder, he said. he talked with Ell
more, who said to witness, who said:
You'd better keep your mouth shut
You're apt to get TO get into trouble.
You know there are only two keys to
the laundry and YOU had one Of them
the night of the murder
Witness denied that Elmore had in
nuenced him in any way.
Cross examined by District Attorney,
Gardner denied that he had ever done
anything wrong with Hattie. He said
that sometimes when he had called at
the Glover home Hattie had acted
Flip Ike" and that at one time she
was kind of loving. He stated that he
liked to talk to Hattie. as she was
,, jolly.
In redirect examination, mir john
son asked Gardner if he had ever
heard any of the boys at the laundry
say anything about Mrs. Glover ever
doing anything wrong. He replied that
he never had.
Gardner stated at one time he called
at the Glover home, Mr.. Glover was
that the next day Mr.. Glover called
dry and had talk with him about his
stopping at the Glover home.
He said that Mr.. Glover asked him
if Mrs. Glover said anything about
him (Mr Clover. He said that he
didn't want to answer the question as
he didn't want to mix up in any FAM
lily trouble. He said that evidently
Mr.. Glover thought that he didn't want
to say anything about what Mrs.
Glover had said to him on the day
previous fer Mr.. Glover said: go
ahead and tell He then told Mrs.
Glover, according to his testimony,
that Mrs. Glover had said that Mr..
Glover was mixed up with a girl that
was going to have him arrested be-
fore night.
The witness testified that one time
while Mr.. Glover was down In Maine
hunting he went to the Glover home
to make some windows and that Mrs.
Glover talked to him about her family
! troubles.
Asked if Mr.. Glover was ever known
as Woman chaser" the witness re-
piled that he had never heard him
called that. Asked If Mrs. Glover
had q bad reputation. he said. that
| he did not know. He added that she
| had q terrible foul mouth and called
everybody by their right name. There
was no bluff about her" he said. MI.
Johnson asked the witness If he had
ever been called as j witness at any
Of the Glover trials. The witness re-
piled that he never had. Neither at
the grand jury or here" asked the at
torney. NO." he said.
The district attorney then asked him
| If Mrs. Glover was not straight for
ward woman. Gardner said that she
was. This concluded his testimony,
and he left the stand, after being on
| the stand more than two hours.
The testimony of the last witness TO-
| day. Mrs. Alma NJ. Roche OF Somervlile'
| who was employed at the Glover home
about eight years ago, proved sensation
al. Mrs Roche testified that her Tor
mer home was West Arichat and that
she went to work for tho Glovers on
| Oct. IS, 1901. She said that she got
through on Dec. 10, 1902. Mr.. Johnson
asked Mrs. Roche if she had ever heard
Mrs. Glover say anything about her
| husband. She said that she didn't care