Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — MISS MADELINE POLLARD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MISS MADELINE POLLARD.

fh* Young Udjr Who Says Congressman Breckinridge Promised to Marry Her. Mias Madeline Pollard, the young woman who brought suit against Congressman Breckinridge of Kentucky, is about twenty-five years of age. She was born near Frankfort, and is the daughter of a harnessmaker, now dead. She had an unusual amount of ambition, and although her father was in moderate circumstances she is said to have been provided liberally with money from some source. Her tastes were always literary. She attended Sayre Institute at Lexington, and, it is said, distibguished bersfelf as a scholar and vocalist. After performing reportorial work on the Lexington Gazette she obtained a clerkship in the Interior Department at Washington, but was dismissed by President Harrison for remarking when General Sheridan died that “now the devil will get his own.” She later went to New York City, where she Impressed Charles Dudley Warner so favorably that he introduced her into several prominent families of New York. Miss Pollard is tall and slender, with dark-blue eyes and dark hair. She is not a pretty woman, but possesses a personal magnetism. Dr. Brown, ex-President of the Wesleyan Female College at Cincinnati, says that when Miss Pollard was sixteen years of age she was placed in a convent at Beading, a

suburb of Cincinnati. She escaped from the convent, and her escapade was the subject of newspaper articles. She refused to return to the convent, and then entered Wesleyan College. That was in ]BB4. Miss Pollard was known at the school as Madeline Vivian Breckinridge Pollard. She said that she was a relative of Congressman Breckinridge, and that she had been named for him. The impression in the school was that Congressman Breckinridge war her guardian.

KISS MADELINE POLLARD.