Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — THE BRECKINRIDGE CASE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE BRECKINRIDGE CASE.

Sensational Testimony Given by Miss Pol lard, the Plaintiff. According to a Washington dispatch the bailiffs have the utmost difficulty in re puking the crowds who seek ad-

mittance to the court* room where the PollardBreckinridge trial is in progress. Miss Pollard on the stand under direct .examination related in great detail the attempts of Breckinridge to gain ■her confidence. He told her she had wonderful

intellect and had a brilliant future. t “I i-eemed to be completely under the influence of his wonderful power of persuasion,” she said. He promised to oversee her education and repay money paid by Rhodes for her schooling. “He did not accomplish his purpose the first day,” she continued, “and it was only late in the second day, when we were in a house in Cincinnati.” The relations then established, she averred, continued until May 17, 1893, the last time she saw Breckinridge. She remembered this date as it was subsequent to Breckinridge’s marriage to Mrs. Wing, which occurred secretly oa the 29th of April, 1893. Madeline Pollard faced her opponents on the witness stand under a continuous fire of cross-questions, and the trial was like a play in which one actor is starred to the'exclusion and belittlement of all accessories. Major Ben Butterworth, the ex-Congresaman from Ohio, played a minor part as the questioner, all the interest centxring about the slender, black-robed plaintiff in the case. Tuesday was the moat interesting day of the sensational trial, and it was made more so by the masterful rapidity of intellectual resources, of quick perception and of telling replies which flashed forth at

every turn of the plot, as the lawyers followed every possible trail which might lead to admissions casting any sort of shadow on the life of the woman apart from those passages which had been identified with the career of

the Kentucky Congressman. Seldom does a witness manage to give replies so telling in support of her own case and keep within the limits of courtroom regulations, and several times the plaintiff s attorneys admonished her to confine her statements to answers to the grestigns which were put. Jfß.'.!' J- Mar Su' fee Divorce. - It has been intimated that the wife of Col. Breckinridge intends instituting divorce proceedings against her husband, the defendant in Miss Pollard’s breach of promise suit, but if such is the case, a Louisville dispatch sAys the fact is unknown to her relatives in that city. Inquiries have elicited the information that tho family of Dr. Scott, Mrs. Breckinridge's brother, knew nothing of Mrs. Breckinridge's alleged intention to sue for a.divorce. The Scotts are seemingly greatly harassed by the various rumors afloat concerning the former Mrs. Wing’s actions.

COL. BRECKINRIDGE.

MISS POLLARD.