The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-29
CRUCIAL POINT 0F LIE BLANC
 GIRLS TRIAL
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 Cambridge. Mass. Nov. 29-When thu
 dismal courtroom. in the East Cam
 bridge courthouse was thrown opel
 today for the second day of the tria of Hattie Le Blanc for the murder O. Clarence F. Glover, hundreds of spec tators crowded into the available seats to hear the technical argument betweeI attorneys on what may be the most crucial point of the trial. This wa: whether the district attorney should be allowed to make any reference tt Glover's alleged dying statement. ir which he is declared to have charged Hattie Le Blanc shot me-"
 Senior counsel for the little 17-year- old French Canadian girl. who wa: brought from her home in West Ari- chat. Cape Breton. by the murdered mans wife, and made a favored ser want in their home, Melvin M John son. argued that these reported words did not constitute a dying statement by the district attorney as such. On the decision of Judge Daniel Webster Bond, therefore, who is presiding al the trial. alone, hangs the introduction of the alleged statement.
 The issue was raised. late yesterday. at the closing of the first days session when such rapid progress was made. Neither side had shown any tendency towards dilatory tactics. and Judge Bond had kept every part of the pro- cedure moving in rapid succession, bidding fair to establish record for the promptness and dispatch with which the case. one of the most wide ly followed and bitterly fought murder trials ever heard in New England, was gone through with.
 According to testimony at the Glover hearing, Glover was wounded by two bullets and, suffering from internal hemorrhages, had crawled to the door of his cousins hospital in Waltham. and had been placed in bed. He stated that Hattie Le Blanc had shot him at the laundry and he did not know why she had done it. Attor- ney Johnson said that he did not wish the district attorney to be permitted, in his opening statement to the jury, to outline any evidence which might be deemed incompetent when it was 
 Johnson said that, whatever state ment of Clarence F. Glover the district attorney had, and proposed to use. was not dying declaration. within the law. He cited a definition of the lim- itations of dying declaration. and said that he would endeavor to convince the court that the statement of Clar- ence F. Glover was not declaration made in apprehension of death, and, therefore, not admissible in evidence.
 The attorney said that he would ob- ject to this evidence if it was offered. Instead of being convinced that he held. Glover believed he was going to having no understanding of the seriousness of his injuries.
 After the selection of the jury yes terday, the twelve good men and true' were taken to Waltham to view -r-s 1 &.- murder of Clarence F. Glover was staged. They saw the Glover home, where Hattie was brought as a ser want, and made almost a companion to Glover's wife. who also formerly lived in West Arichat. They were shown the room where. under a bed. Hattie was found. three days after the mur- der. Also, they were shown the laun- dry where Hattie went to meet Glover the night the man was shot, and the side stair outside, down which the de- fense will probably hold that an un- seen assassin could escape.
 Today, after the argument on the Hattie. District Attorney Higgins will outline his case. It was expected to be a temperate, plain though what relations he would charge existed between Glover and the girl on trial. and what the conditions of Glover's family affairs, ne has steadfastly refused to give a hint. He will declare that Hattie went to meet Glover that night. a year ago. about g o'clock. of her own free will, and, it is expected. will attempt to show that no other person could have been in the vicinity. Glover was shot with his own revolver. and this point $ expected to enter largely into the testimony.
 When court opened, Hattie Le Blanc was sitting in her seat, near. the pri- soner's cage between Court Officer Rhoades and Miss Elizabeth Warnock, the prison matron, and looking ner- vously at the crowd struggled with the court officers for view of her. room was filled, but though a dismal, soually rain was driven first on one window pane and then on another, by ! New England November wind, ,rowd extended out through the court house and into the street, where the morbid waited.
 Hattie looked worn, as though she and she talked nervously, now and hen, to her attendants and again sat staring vacantly at the dismal rain outside. She wore the same blue lress, with blue trimmings that she wore yesterday, with her hair in the lsual effect of childish smartness.
 As soon as Judge Bond took his ;eat, witnesses, who testified in the ,oroner's inquest, regarding Glover's leath and his statement in reference Q Hattie, were examined as to how much of their former testimony they This was purely a pre- iminary skirmish. Herbert H. King, vas the first witness called. He was ,ne of the first to reach Glover's side liter the laundry owner had crawled rom the door of his establishment, lying of his wounds. His testimony, It the inquest, was brief, as it was oday, merely giving the circumstances If finding Glover wounded.
 vas next called. He remembered well having testified at the Glover inquest hat he questioned Glover regarding low he came by the wounds. He tes- flied, today, that he remembered cling that Glover said woman hot him. Questioned further, he tes- flied that Glover said: Hattie Le Blanc shot me-"
 Dr. George l.. West, medical exam ner, who performed the autopsy on slover, Nov 21, last year, was called o tell of his testimony at the in ,uest He described the two bullet During the physicians talk Hattie seem agitated, and nervously noistened her lips with her tongue, between spells of biting them. Un- ,nown to her, her father, Abram Le Blanc. one of the most picturesque characters in the personnel of the lrama being played here, entered the courthouse and remained about the lalls. awaiting an opportunity of go-