This might be a good time to pause from the main story and put all of this in historical context. Consider, for example, the reference to obtaining a “carriage” to transport Mrs. Glass to the hospital and, further, to obtain “teams” to track down Martin, the suspected murderer. For this was still a time without motor vehicles. There may have been a few in town, but the standard conveyances were still horse-drawn. Fortunately, in this case, available transportation was very close at hand. There were three livery stables within 500 feet of the Glass apartment: one owned by Charles H. Smith at the corner of Central Avenue and Kirkland, another owned by J.W. Spinney at 5-7 Kirkland (he lived in an apartment in the other half of the Glass property at #15), and a third, diagonally across the street at 10 Kirkland, owned by Charles F. Furbish. The Foster’s reporter doesn’t indicate which of these provided the actual transport.

The Hayes Hospital was located at 45-47 Summer Street. In 1902, it was Dover’s one and only medical facility; the Wentworth Hospital wasn’t in existence until 1906. Stephen Young, who was the attending physician, practiced in Dover for 13 years, where, in addition, he was also a tenor soloist at the First Parish Church. Dr. Young reported that Mrs. Glass’s injuries were severe and would require several weeks to completely recover.

Which brings us back to our story.

Martin Glass spent the night in a cell at the police station. On the 26th, he was transferred to the County jail, with a report that he “partially came to his senses before leaving”. He admitted to the shooting and expressed regret for striking his mother, but “expressed no regret for the killing of his brother.”

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On the third Tuesday of September 1902, Martin Glass was formally charged with the offense of murder in the first degree, alleging that with a loaded pistol “in his right hand then and there had and held… did strike, penetrate and wound the said George W. Glass in and upon the left side of the body near the heart… one mortal wound of the depth of twelve inches and of the breadth of one-half inch did inflict, of which said mortal wound, the said George W. Glass then and there instantly died.” (Horace L. Worcester, Foreman)

Two reports are filed with the Court following mental examinations of the Defendant. One is from C.P. Bancroft, identified as the Superintendent of the NH State Hospital. He made one visit to Martin while still at the County Jail in Dover, and a further exam during his stay at the Hospital. In Bancroft’s opinion, Glass was suffering from “organic brain degeneration that he has as the result of such disease hallucinations of the special senses, systematized delusions and impaired willpower and that he is consequently insane and irresponsible.”

A second report is from a physician at 69 Newbury St. in Boston. Again, there were two personal interviews, these requested by defense counsel, William F. Nason. Present for the first was co-counsel Dwight Hall, County Attorney Walter Scott, and another local Dover physician, Miah Sullivan. The handwritten report states, “I am clearly of the opinion that he has been somewhat peculiar since he received a severe injury to his head when six years of age.” He committed the homicide, “which he admits, while under the delusion of a conspiracy involving his brother and mother, with marked hallucinations of hearing… suffering from an organic degenerative disease of the brain that he will never recover.”

On September 26, a formal plea of insanity was entered and accepted. Sentence was imposed by John E. Young, then the Presiding Justice at the Superior Court. On October 4, Martin was transported back to the NH State Prison.

There is an entry in the Dover directories showing Martin to be a resident of his “home” at 15 Kirkland as of 1905, but it is unlikely that he would have been released from his sentence within that time. Mary Frances was there in 1905, but she passed away in 1908. Her maiden name was Waldron, and she was a descendant of John Waldron, who was brought to Dover from England in the 1600s as a “chore boy” for one of the early settlers. She was buried in a Waldron family lot in Pine Hill Cemetery, as was George W. (for Waldron) following his murder.

Albert Martin Glass was not buried with his family.