The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-29
CLARE SOBS AS son
BRANDS HIM SLAYER
Boy Testifies Against En-
Pugilist, Accused Of MUIR
dering Wife.
JURY GOES OUT TO-DAY

The Young son OF James ]. Glare. one
time lightweight pugilist and politician.
who Is accused Of numbering his wife in
their hotel on the Queens Boulevard,
Long Island City. On March II. told a
story Yesterday, the third day OF the
trial before Justice Van slclen in the
Queens County Supreme Court, that
drove Glare to tears and rage.
Papa beat mamma said the boy. who
Is like Glare In features. voice and man.
nerism. "He knocked her down n
kicked her. He was always calling her
names and cursing her. lie called her a
bum and said he would kill her.
Angered or Observation-Disclosures 1t was
Glare jumped from his chair and
swung his arms. sobs shaking his big
frame. His counsel pulled him back into
the chair, persuading him TO be calm.
Roy Describes Attack.
Papa got home about 8 o'cloc
Thursday morning." the boy went on In
a sort OF monotone. lie was speaking Of
the morning before the 18th OF March.
.'He came into the bedroom where | was
sleeping with mamma lie said TO mamma
give me back the money and he began
to beat mamma. Tie knocked her down
n kicked her. He chased her from one
room to another. He caught her by the
hair and pulled her around.
when my father got through beating
my m | helped her into bed and
father went to a room on the third floor
Of the hotel and went to sleep. When
I came home from school late in the
afternoon l found my mamma lying on
the ioor without n clothes on. My
father asked me to SEQ how she was.
telling me that he was afraid to see him
self because X he went up there he
would kill her. couldn't lit her into
bed because she was too heavy, and
was ashamed TO call for help because
she was undressed. Then n little later
4 knew she was lead
At the opening OF the case for the
defence Clare himself testified. saying
that he and his wife had had great
love for each other and that their only
differences came about when he tried
TO break her of the habit OF drinking.
He admitted having slapped her to
arouse her from alcoholic stupor but
no war sure that lie had never struck her
a hard blow or kicked her.
Like Two Kids,'' says Clare.
why" tie said. I'VE got along like
two Kids. She thought everything | did
was all right. She was better To me
than my own people. When ! found her
ly ing lead on the floor ! picked her IN
in my arms and cried like "A child. |
said. Ida, speak to me. speak to me !
kissed her again and again. I acted Ike
a crazy man. | do not know what all
I did say"
On croes-examiua;ion Clare denied
that he had forced his wife 90 leave home
three years ago n had pursued her
through the fields,
An important witness was Peter Kelly.
a porter In Clare's hotel. who testified
that he had heard sounds OF n quarrel In
the Clare aparteents N Thursday. and
that Mrs. Glare had screamed for help
He declared that lie had heard Clare
shoit. give me that money, YOU bum.
or | will kill YOU THE next afternoon
he entered the Glare apartment and
found Mrs. Glare dead upon the floor.
Mrs. Clare's mother. Mrs. barbara
Lucas 81 3tc Second svcuue, Manhattan.
testified that her daush,"r had often
come TO her with Complaints about Cares
brutality. and that she had seen q mass
OF bruises upon her daughters body.
Thu casc will go 10 the jury this after