The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-30
ATTORNEYS FIGHT
/ TO BAR DYING
MANS CHARGE
Halt in Trial OF Hattie Leblanc
for Employers Murder
STATE ADMITS WEAK CASE
Unless Clarence F. Glover's State
ment That Girl Shot Him Is
Admitted
STATE ADMITS WEAK CASE

Cambridge, Mass, Nov S0.-The
question of what constitutes a dying
declaration" occupied the second SEES
sion of the trial yesterday of Hattie
lie Blanc, the Cape Breton girl charg-
ed with the murder of her employer,
Clarence F. Glover. Waltham laun.
dryman, year ago.
There was really no trial at al for
the jury filed in and filed out with the
witnesses after them, so that the Dis
trict attorney and the defendants
counsel might substantiate or disap-
prove to the satisfaction of Judge
Bond that Glover was in extreme
mortis" when he declared that Hattie
lie Blanc shot him.
Lawyer NJ. M. Johnson for the de-
Tense, objected to the introduction Of
any such statement, or even refer
ence to 1t by the prosecution.
Judge Bond listened all day to the
evidence of those who stood around
Glover In his last hours In DR.. Cou-
sens private hospital, which was a
few yards from the laundry. Nearly
all these witnesses were positive that
Cover had accused Hattie lie Blanc,
but many of them said he hesitated
in making such a declaration, and
others testified that he continually
asked the doctors to operate upon
him. remarking that unless they did
so he was gone.
District Attorney Higgins after ex-
pressing some surprise over the stu
alton, first called grocery clerk,
Herman A. King who discovered Clio
yer kneeing on the piazza of DR.,
Cousen's hospital after the shooting
King said that Glover remarked.
I'm shot | can't live
When asked who shot him Glover
said:
"a woman"
King said he pressed Glover to tell
her name but 1t was only after being
asked several times that Glover said
Hattie lie B'anc," and then gave hel
address.
T. II. Conner who followed King tC
the piazza, also heard Glover say thai
he had been shot by a woman. Con
nor said he urged Glover to tell who
II was.
"He seemed to hesitate" said the
witness, "but after l repeated The
question several times he at last saiC
It was Hattie lie Blanc "
Conner said he heard Glover say:
ITS all over. I'm going to die"
DR.. Il. F. Dowd said that after Gle
yer had been told that he could no
live he repeated several times tina
Hattie lie Blanc shot him.
DR.. George p Mcdonald, anothe
Of the attending physicians testifie,
that Glover was not told that he wa
dying, but was informed that hi
chances we're poor. When asked
his wife should be sent for Glove
seemed to hesitate and then said;
YES, she will not shoot me-"
Police Sergeant Curran OF Walthar
signed a statement after Glover
death embodying what Glover ha
said before death. He also interview
ed Mrs. Glover and asked her II sh
shot her husband. She replied, mo
MOI Mo-"
Later when Judge Bond announce
that there should be no reference I
the statement in the opening of tn
case to the jury the District Attorne
declared that unless this statement {
Glover's were allowed to go to tn
jury the case of the prosecutio
would be very weak and that 1t mus
rely upon circumstantial evidence
prove its accusations against I'll
girl.
The pleadings of the district alto
ney were so vehement that Judg
Bond said he would withdraw his d
csion and would render two decision
today-hrst whether the governmel