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True Crime Historian

A French Maid's Dirty Laundry

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

True Crime, Performing Arts, Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture

4.5720 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

The Ordeal Of Hattie LeBlanc

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Episode 413 is the sordid little tale of a French Canadian girl who gets wrapped up in an ugly situation involving her employers, a womanizing laundry owner and his suffering wife. It only gets uglier when the husband ends up dead, the maid arrested, but it seems to be the wife who stands trial.

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Waltham, Massachusetts, November 20th, 1909.

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Mr. and Mrs. Clarence and Lillian Glover

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and the French-Canadian maid, Miss Hattie LeBlanc, went to Cambridge this afternoon

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in Mr. Glover's big automobile and witnessed the Harvard Yale football game, returning to the

0:31.4

Glover home at 478 Main Street at 5.30 o'clock. After dinner, Mr. Glover, 46 years old, left the house at 635 o'clock,

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and the LeBlanc girl, 16 years old, left at 8 o'clock, saying that she was going to Boston to visit

0:51.5

friends. It is known that Glover and the girl met about 8.15 o'clock, for shortly after that

1:00.2

hour they were seen riding in his automobile at Hall's Corner.

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The next heard of them was about 9.15 o'clock when Glover was found clutching at the door

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of Dr. Cousins'

1:11.7

hospital on Crescent Street. Thomas H. Connors helped him into the hospital.

1:18.8

Doctors' cousins, Dowd, and McDonald placed him on a cot. Glover begged them to

1:25.2

operate on him at once, saying, I have just been shot by a woman,

1:29.5

and I will surely die if something is not done for me immediately. He was shot with his own

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revolver, which is of a 38 caliber. The first bullet entered the right side of the back

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below the seventh rib and pierced the lung, the stomach, and the

1:46.4

liver, and was found loosely held by the skin of the abdomen. The second pierced the left

1:53.6

shoulder from the front and was found embedded in the flesh of the underside of the arm just

1:59.6

below the shoulder. Dr. Cousins notified the police

2:03.6

and patrolman Tully and Inspector McKenna called at the hospital with George F. Leslie,

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a Justice of the Peace, and they took the dying statement of Glover. The wounded man was told that he could live but a very few hours,

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