Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-04
Men Who Heard The Glover
Evidence Are Discharged.
Further Steps In Cambridge's
Sensational Case Unsettled.
Next Session Of MIddIesex Court
In 0ctober-.History of Case.

Cambridge. Mass. May "a disa-
greement was reported in the supreme
court today by the jury that has been
hearing evidence in the contest over the
Will Of Clarence Glover. the murdered
Waltham laundryman.
The ease went 10 the jury at 252 p
N, yesterday. and u, midnight the
jurymen. by PERMISSION OF the court,
went To their homes. This morning they
met again and when court convened
later in the forenoon. the foreman re-
ported .Aat the jury 2yas divided and
could 10 agree upon verdict
Justice Hammond who has been pre-
si,aiHg over the trial made no com
nIent as he discharged the jury.
None OF the four brothers contesting
the win was in court when tile jury re-
ported and Mrs. Lillian NJ. Glover. the
widow OF the laundryman. also was
= ut. OF the persons directly inter
eSted in the will, Seymour Glover. the
brother to whom the bulk of the es-
tate vas hequeathed. was the only one
present.
Il is not known Yet what Will he the
next step in the case. There viii not
he another session of the supreme
court in Middlsex county until October
Tho Glover VIII case has been fol
loved with interest by the people o.
New England, principally On account
OF the fact that it comes as a sequel
to the famous trial of Hattie lie Blanc.
4 French-Cauadian servant III tie
Clover family, for Giover's murder.
Tie girl was acquitted last December
sensational criminal trials ever held
IN this state.
Clarence F. Glover was murdered in
November. 1909 A-few months before
has death. he made a will. naming his
aife, Lillian NJ. Glover, and one of
his five brothers. Seymour Glover. IS
Re beEeiiciaries. Four other brothers,
4.ho We're not remembered in the will.
protested its allowance in the probate
court OF the ground that Glover made
his viii under threats and undue in
fIuence exerted by lis wife. The hear
ing in the probate court was for a time
more in tho nature OF murder trial
than a probate proceeding. The pro-
bate court. at the conclusion of the
herring, allowed the will, and the four
contesting brothers appealed TO the
supreme court.
Between the time of the probate
court ruling and the opening of the
case in the supreme court. Hattie lie
Blanc was tried and acquitted Of the
murder. During the murder trial.
counsel for the defense tried to show
that Mrs. Glover had threatened her
husband and that he had made her
ana his brother Seymour his benefic-
iaries. and that the widow would profit
by his death. while the LIE Blanc girl
had no motive for Staying him.
one o. the features of the will con-
test in the supreme court was the pre-
sentatiorl of deposition from the lie
Blanc girl IN which she declared that
Mrs Glover had threatened her hus-
had made Mrs. Glover and Seymour
his beneficiaries under pressure, and
that he and his wife were not on
frien dly terms.
To ccntrovert the testimony in the
deposition. witnesses for the will tes-
tilted that the Glovers were n happy
and affectionate couple that Glover
had not been unduly influenced by his
wife, and that he had purposely failed
to provide for the four brothers who
contested the will
The estate it was stated in court,
is valued at between $4,000 and
S5O, 900.