The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-01
Mrs. Glover Put Through a
MercilesS CrOsS-examinatiOn
IN THE LIE BLANC TRIAL
Attorney for Young Girl Endeavors to
Shift the Responsibility for Clar-
ence Glover's Death--Attor-
neys in a Clash.

Boston. Dec. Mrs. Lillian NJ. GLOW
er, widow Of the murdered Clarence r.
Glover, was recalled to the stand at
the opening Of to.day's session Of the
dramatic trial OF Hattie Leblanc, who
is formally charged with the murder,
following a recess last night after attor-
ney Melvin johnson for Hattie had
charged that Mrs. Glover had the means,
the motive and the mind to kill her
husband The Glover woman testified
regarding the finding Of Hattie in the
Glover home.
The prosecution completed the direct
examination Of Mrs. Glover, asking her
regarding her use Of firearms. She an
swered that she had used gun and pis-
tol occasionally while hunting, although
she declared that she was poor shot,
The witness was clad in black and wore
a veil. She did not show any emotion
Attorney johnson began mercless
cross examination, but the woman an
swered quietly and easily the yolley Of
questions
Mrs. Glover denied that she ever went
under any other name than Glover or
Leblanc, which was her maiden name,
though she claims that she is not re-
lated to Hattie. However, she admitted
that she had received mail addressed to
Minnie Clark, but she denied she had
used the name Lillian Walker. She said
she married Glover when she was six,
teen. the date of the marriage being
January 20, 1890. She showed the Ger.
tIiicate Of her marriage. She declared
that she left Cape Breton when bat
twelve and had returned there for visits.
She lived in several cities in Boston
with cousins OF her family.
Attorneys clashed.
On the continuance of the cross-exam.
ination, Mrs Glover declared that she
had known Hattie long. She admitted
that she practiced with firearms in Wal
tham She denied that she remarked
while sitting a moving picture show
that had she wanted to she could have
given Hattie to the police two days
before the girl was pulled from under
bed in the Glover home During the
oross-examination the attorneys fire.
quently elashed, and Judge Higgins re-
buked Prosecutor Higgins severely.
The direct examination Of the woman
had been concluded at the end OF yester-
day afternoons session During the di.
rect examination she told of her dis
eoyery Of the alleged relations between
her husband and the defendant She
explained her failure to see her hus
band at the hospital By saying that
she was faint and Was told that he
was about to be operated upon. Friends
stayed with her for the next three days,
and although officers searched her house
twice and she searched it once, it was
not until three days after the alleged
murder that Hattie Leblanc was found
under a bed in one of the rooms How
she came there she did not know She
Identified iewelry found near the laundry
where the shooting Is said 20 have oc-
CURED as belonging to Hattie Leblanc,
as well as a handkerchief found IN the
laundry, She identified the weapon
" hich the prosecution claims was used
as belonging TO her husband. She said
she had owned the laundry for thir-
teen years and bought 1t with her own
money.
Calls Mrs. Glover Vampire.
The prosecution had not gone far in
its evidence when it found that the de-
fvnse on REORGANIZATION of witness
was seeking 10 turn the attack from
Hattie Leblanc to Mrs Glover. The
district attorney protested strongly
against insinuation against the widow.
but Melvin Nj Johnson, the leading coun-
sci for the defense, declared that he pro-
posed to show not only by the cross
of this witness, but from
other witnesses, that Mrs Glover bad
the motive, and the inclination, the
mental and physical capacity and the
to murder her husband
q expect to prove this said Mr.. John.
son, "by the acts of declarations of
this woman before and after her hus-
bands murder | desire to show that
she was a vampire, and I use the word
idvisedly.p