Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-01-05
HATTIE LEBLANC
ON breton ISLE
ACQUITTED OF MURDER, SHi
STILL HATES WEST AIuCHAT
The JAIL is A HAVEN
She May Never BE Permitted TO BE In
United States Agaln-What She
Il Doing

Is Doing
Cape Breton Isle, Jan 4.-West Art
chat-Hattie Leblanc hates West
Arichat--the village In which Mrs.
Glover was born-but hate it as she
does and hate It as she may IN the fu-
ture, il is West Arichat where she
may have to spend the rest of her
life,
Compared with West Arlchat Hat
tie found the jail a haven, the Glover
home a paradise and the home Of her
attorney a yeritable eylsium.
Drive up to the summit OF Babln's
Hill which separates the village Of
Arlchat from West Arichat, Drive
to the summit in the dead Of winter,
when the screaming wind whips the
poWdery snow among the boulders and
down the slope, and look upon West
Arichat and that which lies beyond
Upon the rock strewn fields which
slope back from the harbor are set
the tiny houses Of the natives-the
descendants Of the very Bretons who
first settled on the island shore.
Above everything stands the big
white church. Little houses, a
few Of them painted three perhaps
and the rest Of them stained by the
weather to an iron gray, straggle
away from the base Of Church HIN to
the barren fields beyond,
FIFTY yards from the church stands
the village store, owned by an Abra-
ham Leblanc, who is no relative OF
Hattie, 1t is the only store in West
Arichat. There was another, but now
II IS deserted.
Up beyond the church stands the
little brown schoolhouse, whore Hat
tie received what little schooling has
been hers Beyond the schoolhouse
and far out along the shores OF the
little cove stands the Leblanc cot
tage the tinlest among all the tiny
houses of West Arichat. Behind II
stands a dimlnutlve cowshed,
In this tiny cottage live nine per
sons-Abram and Mary Leblanc, the
father and mother; Hattie and Lillian
the two eldest, and then the young
sters running down from Eva, who Is
. years old through Mary and Kate
and Florence and Rose to the 2-year-
Old Wilfred
All through the day they live in tho
kitchen. Hattie wears the dresses
which were given her after the trial
the stylish little dresses which any
Boston girl Of her age may wear. She
IL fresh from the refinement of the
homes which sheltered her after the
trial. Lillian wears the dresses which
she wore in the corridors of the court
house. hut tho others wear gar.
ments which are like the garments
which the children of West Arichat
have worn since time immemoral.
For the most part these dresses are
colored n dirty gray or a dingy red
or an obscure brown, They arC
spotted and solled. They hang from
childish shoulders In shapeless folds
The kitchen is so small that a man
Of medium height may lay his flatten-
ed palms upon the ceiling without
stretching his arms. The walls un.
decorated except for two gaudy litho.
graphs. are painted dusky blush
green and are made OF boards. Three
steps will carry a fun grown mar
from wall to opposite vol,
But II Is in this kitchen that Tho
family lives and moves and has it'
being. At night they go upstairs
whore there are four indescrlhably
small rooms. with sloping ceilings and
with only two windows among AL
four rooms.
For the most part they eat rabbits
which are easily shared and which
may he bought very cheaply. To one
who has never lived on Cape Breton
Island, a rabbit pie has an odor Of un'
pleasant strangeness Before Haiti,
went away she was fond of rabbit pie
And Il was always easy to get
II Is unfortun'fc, say the thought.
tul one, who live over In Arichat. that
very day before Hattie returned, they
say. Mrs. Leblanc went begging from
door to door, having insufficient
supply Of the necessities Of life and
not knowing whether her daughter
had met her freedom or her fate,
And now, they say, Hattie ear
never go back to tho United states,
no matter how much she wants to got
but must stay IN the provinces and hC
content with her lot unless the immi.
grafton officials declared her free
20 SO.