The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-08
HATTIE LEBLANC S
. STORYOF GLOVER
SHOOTING
As Told to Police Following
Her Arrest
INTERPRETER ON STAND
Girls Statement Was Made In French
and Was interpreted by Miss
Gallant

OdlHuIiuBti Mdoos, DcN. O. mios
leila Gallant, a French Canadian
nurse who happened to be in Waltz
am at the time of the murder OF
Clarence f, Glover and who acted as
the Interpreter for the prosecution in
the examination Of Hattie Leblanc
after the girl had been dragged from
under bed in the Glover house
three days after the shooting was
called as a witness yesterday in the
Leblanc trial.
The prosecution met with a setback
soon after the opening of court
Judge Bond ruled that he would ex-
clude from the statements made by
the defendant at the Waltham police
station all portions of the questions
and answers which made any refer
ence to the alleged duying declaration
OF Glover that Hattie had shot him.
One of the questions put to the de-
PENDANT at the police station was:
Mr., Glover said before he died
that you shot him. Did you?"
To this question Hattie answered
NO" ~
District Attorney Higgins read 10
the court Hattie's statement at the
police station examination.
According to this statement Hattie
was first warned of her rights, and
then was asked II she wanted to talk.
to which she replied In the affirma.
tive. She said that she was 16 years
old, and that she had left her home
In West Arichat, c. b., when she was
Is. She had gone directly to Mrs.
Glover's home in Waltham, where
she had lived ever since.
Describing her movements on Nov
ember, 20. 1909 the day of the muir.
der of Glover, she said that she
stayed about the house in the morn
Ing, and In the afternoon accompani.
ed the Glovers to a football game al
tho Harvard stadium. They returned
from the game about p. m. and went
for n short automobile ride. Supper
followed. II was about 7:15 O'Clock
when she left the house Glover hav
ing departed at $40 o'clock. She
went TO the laundry That morning
when Mrs. Glover was upstairs in
the house, Glover had asked her Il
meet him In the laundry that night
and she was keeping the appointment
When she met Glover at the laun
dry, she said, he made improper pro
posals to her. which she rejected
He then grapped her and dragged her
upstairs In the laundry where he az
tackled her. After the assault she be
gan to cry. and Glover grnsped her b,
the throat and choked her TO make
her stop crying.
Glover had revolver In his han(
at the time. but she never touched
the revolver He threatened TO xii
her IL she told what had occurred
Breaking away from Glover. she RAJ
down the stairs. and as she reached
the bottom OF the stairs she heard ,
shot. She heard only one shot, sh,
maintained, and thought that he ha,
shot himself.
When she reached the foot OF IN,
stairs the door was locked and sh,
went out through window. golnl
directly TO the Glover home. wher,
she hid under the bed in the CUES
chamber. She remained there unit
she was discovered on the night o
the following Tuesday. During tn
time she was under the bed she hal
nothing to eat or drink, she said, no
did she see Mrs. Glover. Mr.. Elmor
or Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman. In m
statements made TO the police. Hal
tie said that she had never seen IN
revolver before the night that Glove
was killed. He had never befor
pointed a revolver at her, although o
ten after they had conducted then
selves improperly he had threatene
70 XIII her IL she ever told. She dI
not try to get the weapon away frol
Glover. She did not see anv one oils
In the laundry. II any one else nm
been there she probably would n,
have seen the person, she said h
cause OF the darkness.
She was asked II she had tried
shoot Glover during the struggle. m
she replied that she did not and CON
y NOT nave shot him because she hs
i no weapon.
u AS District Attorney Higgins W,
reading the statement, Melvin j
Johnson, chief counsel for the defen,
was seized with a sudden attack
Illness and collapsed. He was r
moved to the attorneys room and n
en- was taken to Boston by automobl
Tor treatment by a specialist m
court allowed A. Farley Brewer
Boston and Nathaniel Tufts OF w,
than, associate counsel for the /
blanc girl. to proceed with the cas