Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-03
NOISE IN HOUSE THE
NIGHT AFTER MURDER,
But Neither FreemanS Nor Mrs. Glover
Admit Seeing Any Trace Of Hattie
lie C---0verturned Chair
Found in the Laundry.

hiding under a bed in the spare room
three days after the shooting.
Mrs. Freeman admitted to Mr.. john
son that she had placed some furni-
ture in front of the door of the spare
room, but said she could not explain
her motive. She and her husband told
OF the thee searches of the house
made by the police, saying that the
house was thoroughly examined on the
first two, which were futile She said
that the outside doors of tile house
were not guarded While the searches
were going on.
Attorney Johnson spent considerable
time IN trying to get both Mr.. and Mrs.
Freeman to testify that Mrs. Glover
had used profane or indecent express
soins in denouncing her husband. Mrs.
Freeman said she never heard Mrs.
Glover speak in that manner. but her
husband admitted that he had heard
Mrs. Glover apply one vile epithet to
her husband
Throughout the day Mr.. johnson
continued the method which he has
pursued from the beginning of the
trial of directing his cross examination
against Mrs. Glover.
In the late hours of the days scs-
sion several minor witnesses were
called One of them, Charles McCar-
thy. who assisted in carrying Glover
from the piazza into DR.. Couscns' hos
pilal. said that he visited Glover S
laundry the next day and found there
a coInh, a cap and a pin which were
later identified as belonging to Hattie
lie Blanc.
Samuel d. Gilmore, attorney for the
GloverS for many years. was on the
stand when court adjourned for the
day and had told of visiting the laun-
dry The day after the shooting and see
ing an overturned chair there.
Cambridge, Mass. Dec. 2.-When
thc trial cf Hattie lie Blanc. the
Young Cape Breton girl charged with
the murder of Clarence f. Glover at
Walthum, was resumed in the SUI
I,crior court here today, the cXamina
lion of Mrs. Lillian NJ. Glover widow
OF the murdered man, was practically
competed. although Melvin NJ. John
Nti, 'I'ti COUNSEL !bI tHt prisoner,
may recall Mrs. Glover later in the
ease. Mrs. Glover was summoned as
Il witness for the prosecution. but
the chief interest in her testimony
came when she was examined
by Mir. Johnson. vino had previously
characterized her as a 'vampire' and
one who had the motive, the oppor-
tunity and the physical and mental
capacity to accomplish Glover's DEATH
Mrs. Glover stood the ordeal of the
cross-examination well and for Il time
her encounter with Mr. Johnson was
a battle Of wits. The past life of
the witness was probcd extensively
ma ptiessly. Although some slight
discrepancies from evidence given at
the police court hearings, the inquest
aud the hearing on the contest over
GloVer's will developed, Mrs. Glovcr's
story III its essential points was lul-
shaken.
The governments witnesses for to-
day included a number Of police off
GERS ana other Investigators who were
Expected to give testimony showing
that there had been struggle at
Glover's laundry on the night of the
murder.
Mrs. Glover was given only a brief
cross-eXamination by Mr.. Johnson at
the opening of todays session and
then excused. with an intimation
from the lawyer that he might want
to ask her a few more questions later.
The widow was smartly dressed,
with an crmine stole and muft added
to her semimourninSs. She was as
calm today as she remained through
out her ordeal yesterday. and no
amount of sharp questioning by Mr.
johnson could shake her testimony
She was asked if she had found
the letters which were sent to Hattie
Le' E!"nc by her Cape Breton rela-
tives and which Mr.. johnson wished
to see. but she replied that she had
hunted for them without avail.
Considerable time was spent in go
ing over her testimony before other
tribunals which have investigated,
various phases Of the same case, but
she ciunS tenaciously to her previous
testimony. referring to the house
in Waitham she said that she bought
admitted transferring it to her brother
William commonly known as Toby.
but said that he never had a dollar
of his own. She refused to say why
she gave him the house.
Mrs. Glover was followed on the stand
by one of her intimate friends. Mrs.
George j. Freeman of Newton. who
was examined by Assistant District
Attorney Wier She said her husband
was an agent for the laundry of Mir
Glover and that she had known Mrs.
Glover about five years She went to
Waltham on the afternoon Of the
shooting and accompanied Mr.. and
Mrs. Glover and Hattie LIE Blanc in
an automobile to the football game.
She went to he- home in Newton
after the game. and that evening be-
tewen and 9 o'clock, tried to get Mrs.
Glover by telephone. Mrs. Glover an