Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-09

cd in her story of the threats or MIS-
Glover to Kill her husband and Of her
striking Hattie alnder the chin.
Mrs. Sampson told Mr., Higgins that
Hattie had not mentioned the bathroom
incident to her, but the witness had ask
ed Hattie il Mrs. Glover's charges were
true, to which Hattie replied:
What do you take me for? Do you
think l would do a thing like that?''
Hattie, she said, would not admit It.
The relations between Mr.. and Mrs.
Glover and Hattie, after the incident.
seemed al right she said. Mrs. Samp-
son said that she had not visited Hattie
in jail or talked over the shooting Of
Glover with her At this point court ad
iourned for luncheon.
BY go p. NJ, the defence had exam
ined q witnesses. or about half the mum
Der that have been summoned in Hattie
lie Blanc's behalf.
The afternoon session opened with the
resumption Of the REORGANIZATION of
Mrs. Sampson. The witness told the dis
1rict attorney Of several talks she had
with Hattie. In one Of them the girl
denied the bathroom incident and at an
other time she showed the witness Il so
bill which Glover had given her for q
Christmas present. Mrs. Sampson said
that she had told her sister, AIeXinO
Sampson, and Nathaniel Tufts, one of
the counsel for the defence, of Mrs
Glover's threats to kill her husband.
Morris r. Heating. a district chief of
the New England Telephone & Telegraph
Co., in charge Of the Newton Naltham
Il NJ -
young women telephone operators, testi-
fed that they did not remember any 80
minute conversation on Line Waltham
81, the Glover telephone, on the night of
Nov. 20 1909 when Glover was killed.
This testimony was introduced BY the
defence 10 contradict the testimony OF
both Mrs Glover and Mrs. Freeman that
Inc TWO women had talked over the tele-
phone from $50 to $50 on the night OF
the murder. Under cross examination,
however, each o. these witnesses de-
clared that they did not remember any
thing that happened on that night and
could not recall any incidents connected
with their work ar the telephone cX-
change. One Of the operators, upon
whose switchboard the Glover line was
connected, said that she did not remem-
Der any half-hour conversation, but
would have noticed it if the line had been
busy that length Of time.
Mrs. Irene lie Blanc Langley Of
Gloucester, Hattie's sister who has
been married since iHattic was arrest
cd, was the last witness 10 take the
stand today. She testified about her
being met in Gloucester BY tic Glovers
wi, Ea Inr No
.Archat horc ana about her working
in Mayor Walkers home in Waltham
for three weeks. She said that some
one told her that Mrs. Glover had said
that Hattie stole $40 from her (Mrs.
Clover. on the Friday before The
murder Mrs. Langley said she asked
Mrs. Glover if she had ever said that
Hattie stole $40. and that Mrs. Glover
replied that she had never said any
thing Of the kind. She said that she
was going 70 tel Hattie what She had
heard, but did not because Mrs. Glover
told her not to. Mrs Langley stated
that Mrs. Glover wrote. read and an
SWorod all letters for the girls. She
said that ut one time she asked TO sec
some Of the letters but Ars. Glover told
her that size had destroyed them The
witness was asked il MIS-. Glover ever
sent any money TO the sisters while
they We're living in West -irichat Mrs.
Langley replied that only oncc and
that that time Mra. Glover sent Sc.
Mrs. Langley testified that on
Thursday previous to the time that
Glover was murdered, she was in the
Glover home in Waltham and that she
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plate Oh the dining room table. She
said that she asked Mrs. Glover what,
they were. and that Mrs. Glover rcad'
them to her. The first one that Mrs.
Glover read TO her was:
Il wish t. rid myself Of him (Glov-
er) / Will DO it. ! will send him to
hell" The second Mrs. Langley said
was: u want To get rid Of him but
don't know how to DO it," The wit
ness testified that the third note was
to The effect that Mrs. Glover didn't
want Glover TO come into the house
and eat, but didn't know how she was
going to keep him out.
Continuing the witness was asked II
she had ever talked with Mrs Glover
about Mrs. Glover's feelings towards
that one Sunday she heard Mrs. Glover
talking with some friends about her
husband, and that she didn't speak we'll
OF him. She said that she asked Mrs.
Glover why she talked so about her
husband, as he appeared to be a good
man. She said that Mrs. Glover re-
piled that he appeared to be good, but
that he was no good.
Asked il she didn't testify in the re-
cent Glover case that Mrs Glover had
not only said that she didn't love her
husband, but that she hated him, and
that he was only a nuisance Mrs.
Langley said that she did and that it
was true.
Mrs. Langley said that on another
Sunday she called at the Glover home
and found Tobie LIE Blanc, Mrs. Glow
er's brother, choking Hattie. Hattie
was crying, the witness said, and she
added that if she had not entered the
house when she did, Hattie would have
been killed.
The night before that of the murder.
SAID Mrs. Langley, Mrs Glover was
very angry at her husband and for
hade him to come into the house to
supper, declaring that if he did SO. il