The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-11-29
Great Crowd at Trial of Hattie
LIE Blanc, Aged II
HUNDREDS WERE BARRED
Attorneys in Trial Of Girl for Murder
Quibbled over Technicality as to
Admission of Glover's Dy-
ing Statement.

Cambridge, Mass, Nov 20. trial
OF Hattie Leblanc for murder Of Clar-
ence +. Glover was resumed in the
criminal court this morning, with a 81.
gantic crowd struggling for a sight at
tile girl Hundreds stood outside the
building, unable to gain entrance and
drenched with rain Hattie was pale
and tired and her lips twitched nerv-
ously She sat between Mrs. Warnerck,
the lail matron and court officer Rhodes.
The jury We're not present during the
argument on the point raised by Hat
ties chief counsel, Melvin johnson, that
Glovcr's words Hattie shot me" We're
not lis dying statement; hence, they
were not admissible in District Attor
ney Higgins address. The witnesses
who testified at the Glover inquest We're
examined for credibility Of what they
remembered testifying. Herbert King
remembered testifying that he reached
Glover first after the shooting.
Thomas Conners remembered that he
asked Glover who shot him and that
Glover replied, Hattie Leblanc" Med
zeal Examiner West, who performed the
autopsy, testified primarily to Glover's
wounds. Mary Dutch testified regarding
what she said at the inquest, that she
heard Glover say "lm shot; I'm dying"
Patrick Mathew denied that lie testified
at the inquest He heard Glover say
lie was dying.
The jury was selected in two hours
and 3j minutes. It is made up as fol-
lows; Foreman, Winthrop H. Fairbank,
farmer, Sudbury; Charles II. Perry,
painter, Burlington; Gilman r. Carter,
clerk, Reading; J. Frank Robbins, farm
er, STOW; James g. McGrath, painter,
Newton: Ellexia d. Mertel, retired,
Aver; Lawrence r. Yeager, teamster,
Natiek; William H. Campbell, farmer,
Wayland Albee Annis, elestic web
weaver, Shirley; Wilfred A. Clark, har-
ness manufacturer, Newton; Patrick s.
Ward, merchant, Chelmsford, and Leon
A. Whitcomb, sawyer, Pepperell
At 3 o'clock the squadron Of a dozen
or more automobiles bearing the Jurors,
attorneys and deputy sherfTs, rolled
away from the court house When they
stopped in front of the Glover house,
SIS Main street, they were shiyering
ard covered with dust.
Although Mrs. Glover was at home,
she dd not show herself Neighbors
peered from windows and porches at
the crowd, in which the white stats
of the court officers loomed conspicu-
ously. District Attorney Higgins led the
jurors around the house, which is sur
rounded by wide lawn. He told the
jurors to take particular notice of
side balcony and bulkhead Attorney
johnson pointed out the windows Of
the corner room, where Hattie Leblanc
was found Mr.. Higgins then called at
tcntion to the large doghouse in the
yard and to the north side of the barn,
where he called attention TO a cellar run
way.
The party was then escorted across
field in the rear Of the Glover home,
through a fence forming the blind end
Of Barton street then down Townsend
street to Main, where the automobiles
were taken again for the Waltham
lsundry across the bridge, half a mile
away. The party passed through a
driveway from Moody street into the
laundry yard.