Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-29
Tells Of Frequent QuarTeIs of
Laundryman and Wife.
Declares Glover Feared for His
Life and Was Very Nervous.
Portions Stricken from Records
Counsel Enter Many Exceptions.

Cambridge, Mass, April 2s.-The
read today to the jury in the supreme
court that is hearing the evidence in
the contest of the will of Clearance +.
Glover, the Waltham laundry proprie-
tor who was murdered a year ago last
November. Hattie LIE Blanc, was ac-
quilted of Glover's murder last De-
cember after sensational trial The
deposition was taken last week at st.
John, n. b.. counsel for the will ana
for the four brothers of Glover, VINO
are protesting against its allowance
being present at the examination of
the lie Blanc girl.
The deposition is a lengthy docu-
ment and it was anticipated that its
reading would consume practically all
of the day During it's reading, coun-
sci for both sides entered innumerable
exceptions to certain C the questions
and answers. The deposition was read
by Edward p. Barry of counsel for the
four Glover brothers, who contest the
will, which left all of the property to
lillian NJ. Glover, the widow, and
Seymour Glover, a brother of the tes-
tator.
During the early part of the fore
noon there We're frequent conferences
between Justice Hammond and the
counsel in the case. Later there was
conference between Justice Ham
mond and A. Farley Brewer, who was
Junior counsel for the lie Blanc girl
during the murder trial, and Miss
Alice Morrell, the stenographer who
took Hattie's deposition at St. John.
When court opened shortly before II
O'Clock, Attorney Jesse NJ. Cove. of
counsel for the contestants, asked that
the deposition be read and Mr.. Barry
Immediately began the reading of the
questions and answers.
In the deposition the LIE Blanc girl
told of her life in the Glover home at
Waltham. She said that she was on
friendly terms with both Clarence
Glover and his wife. The couple, she
said, quarreled frequently, when Mrs.
Glover would call her husband vile
names and he would reply in language
of similar character. She had never.
she said, seen any evidences of fond
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er of them. Mrs. Glover, she said. al
ways spoke to and of her husband as
Glover except when she quarreled
with him, when she would apply some
offensive epithet to him.
one time she testified. Glover and
MS wife did not speak to each other
for three weeks.
The lie Blanc girl said that she had
heard Mrs Glover make threats
against her husband before a third
person. Once the third person was
Harold Gardner. another time it was
Clarence Hill and on a third occasion
1t was Blanche Halliday, a niece of
Glover.
DID you ever overhear any CONVEX
sation between Mrs. Glover and an
otller person. was one of the uues-
tlons and in answer the deponent said
tnat in August, three months before
oloVers death. she heard a CONVEX
sation between Mrs. Glover and Tobv
lie Blanc. a brother of Mrs. Glover.
Mrs Glover, she said, asked Toby if
he would kill Glover if she would nav
him for it. Toby said that he would
not and that if she wanted any killing
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During the reading of the deposition.
certain portions were ordered striek-
en- from the records by Justice Ham
| nond, among the parts under the ban
being all reference to an alleged act of
misconduct on the part of Glover and
the lie Blanc girl in the bathroom of
the Glover home sometime previous tc
the murder.
Continuing with the deposition the
statement was made by Hattie J,e
Blanc that Mrs. Glover had told the de.
ponent that Glover had made a will an6
that she fMrs. Clover had made him
put Seymour in it," Glover was afraid
his wife would kill him, Hattie said
He was nervous and would pace the
! floor, shaking his head She said that
Glover said he did not know why hi,
| wife had made him put Seymour il
the will as beneficiary. Glover wa.
good natured and pleasant, Hattie said
and Mrs. Glover was always pleasan
to her. She had often seen Glover civ,
money to his wife. She did not know
now much money Glover had. but Mrs
| Glover had told her that he mad a To-
of it, She did not expect to go to Mas
| sachusetts to testify in the will case
she said
| At this point the cross-examinatio,
of Hattie lie Blanc by Attorney Sam
uel ID. Gilmore, the executor of the Will
began and this part of the depositio,
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