Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1894 — Page 2

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needed It to much; told him not to come unless he brought it ani said she could not understand the d"!ay, as pay-day "was two days jxust. This was Just before Miss Pollard was going amy for the birth of her first child. Amon? the letters were two dated at New Orleans and postmarked Toolesborough, Ky., In which tlu writer told Rhodos of her arrival In New Orleans; of the weather and other inconsequential things. Other letters, some dated at Cincinnati and others at Lexington, asked Rhodes for money. the sums varying from $10 to 340. Mr. Butterworth devoted his questioning principally to th New Orleans letter, and the plaintiff frankly admitted that she had never been in that city. "Mr. Breckinridge knows very well whre I was at that time." she added. "nut I was not asking Mr. Breckinrlde," Mr. Butterworth remonstrated. Her explanation, when again askd, was: "Always when there was the slightest suspicion or questioning I took the first opportunity to cover it up. Each one of these letters hears the- square mark of that. Mr. Breckinridge would have given me money if he had dared, hut I hnd to seem to be in need of money." "And you got money from Mr. Hhodes?" "There would be no use in seeming; to Tieed money and then not take it." "Did Mr. Rhodes pay you the 540 you demanded in the letter of March 2?" "I presume very likely he did, although I do not recollect." "Did he pay you the several sums you tked for in they letters?" "I have no recollection of it. He may have done so. Things were rretty well mixed up then because my one ida was not to have Mr. Rhodes ask any questions that I could not answer. Mr. Breckinridge planned it all." IJrrekinrlils- Wrote tUr- Leiter. "Did he dictate those letters?" "He did the ones dated at New Orleans. 1 was never in New Orleans and I did not know there was such a pla.-e as the fish market." "They were all written with a purpose? They are what you have spoken of as blind or wooden letters?" "Yes, they were, as weve all my letters written to Mr. Rhodes, because there was u prent deception behind them." "Did your mother know where you were when you wrote those letters?" "Mr. Breckinridge planned thrm all: dictated them to me. Some of them he wrote on the tpewriter when I was 111 at the asylum and not able to write. Baying in explanation that I was learning the typewriter. Some of them he wrote in advance and dated ahead. He would mail them on th? cars or wherever they would not be postmarked." This answer was attempted to be cut off by Mr. Butterworth. but Miss IMlard waved him aside with her hand, saying: calmly and imperiously: "Xo; 1 must answer this." with her broad, fashionable accent. The following question, in which Miss Pollard's mother was referred to as an agent In the deception upon Mr. Rhodes ejid "what she said in regard to carrying out the schome. " was objected to by the witness, who interrupted him again with the correction. "Do not speak of mamma as the agent in a deception or qualify it by saying unconscious agent." Tliis a'.so a.-oliy and with her customary broad accent upon the last syllable of "mamma." She had thought that Mr. Rhodes would certainly follow her up and endeavor to se her had he known she was near by. Miss Pollard said, after the scheme had been further explained. Again came forward the New York World article frcm Miss Pollard's pen to contradict h-r, according to Mr. Butterworth. She persisted in correcting Mr. Buiterwcrth's stat';n-:iTs, her attorneys endeavoring to dissuade her. and Col. Phil Thompson remarked. "Bet her argue the case." Mr. Butterworth insisted that MKs Pollard's str-ry that she had forwarded her letters front Cincinnati, to be mailed elsewhere unüVr headlines at ISYV Orleans and oth-r places, was absurd, which drew forth a reply from Mr. Carlisle, who objected to Mr. Butterworth's previous questions on the ground that they were hypotheti-.al and involved the proceedings in a legal tamrle, frm which the defense pulled out and sailed o:f on a. new tack, showing the witness another letter, which she identified as "mamma's" Leaving the contents of this letter unrevc-aled, the court took its noon recess. The explanation w.s resumed aftr the noon recess. Miss Pollard representing that she had deceived her mother regarding the cause of her absence from home when the ltter to Rhodes was written and her first child was born. Her counsel objected to questions designed to bring forth the details of the deception employed by Miss I'ollard. Deeelviiit; Her Mother. Judge Bradley said that it did not eem to be material, and en exception was noted. Her mother had not seen her in Cincinnati, but had known that she was not In Xew Orleans nor in Mississippi. Miss Pollard, continuing, said: "When It became necessary for me to go to the foundling asylum it became necessary also to invent some story to account for my absence from home. Just what this etory was Mr. Breckinridge could probably tell better than I, sines he wrote the letters." Questions as to her employment in "Washington brought replies that she had been In the agricultural department and census bureau, both of them having been secured by Col. Breckinridge. "Did you ever represent that you wrote for the newspapers?" Mr. Butterworth talked. "I had represented that I wrote for several. Mr. Breckinridge and I had to make up thse deceits to account for ourselves, because I was a young woman here under his protection, with no visible means of support. These things get to be almost a. ha.bit in after years." "Then these deceits or frauds were practiced by you and Col. Breckinridge to cover up your relations'?" "Yes. and there was a great deal more." "You visited houses of assignation together in Washington ?" "We did up to the 17th day of May, 1J93, after the secret marriage which Is -raid to have taken place on the 29th of April." "Was there any conversation between you regarding that marriage?" He Mlisiiel HI Wife. "I asked him If it was possible that he was paying attentions to Mrs. Wing as I had heard. I knew that she was a worthy woman and I knw that she had stopped with him twelve days and twelve nights, which I could not believe a worthy woman would do. Then ha maligned her; malign-d her in such terms that I could not believe he intended to marry her. He said he had been engaged to her wnen he was in the army and would never marry her. "Did you stop with Col. Breckinridge at the Hoffman house at Xew York, registering as his dauphter?" "I did on the 17th day of May" "Did you occupy a room next to hh" "I did." "Did you threaten to shoot him in that room?" Very firmly. "I did." For the first time during the case Judge Jere Wilson warmed up to the oldtime fire which he had been expected of him and eagerly anticipated. He faced Mr. Butterworth. putting to him categorically question after question de. Fi?ned to bring out the fact of Col. Breckinridge's secret marriage In Xew York. This marriage was admitted by Mr. Butterworth, who said it was not in question. "Do you admit the secret marriage?" Inquired Mr. Wilson, sternly. "We admit the, marriage leave out the

word secret by the Rev. Dr. Paxton on the 23th of April." ''You do not deny that it was secret?" "That is immaterial." "You do not deny that your client instructed Dr. Paxton tö keep It secret?" "That makes no difference, so far as this shooting is concerned." Judge Wilson triumphantly "Then it makes no difference if she had cut off his ears?" He proceeded to argue that since the secret marriage was admitted It made no difference about any threats his client might have made after that marriage or anything she had done sinoe that did not concern the case, as he had already broken his contract to marry her. and whatever happened after the contract had been broken was alien to the case. Judge Bradley overruled him since the matters had been brought in on direct examination. The story of the attempt to shoot Col. Breckinridge in New York was told by Miss Pollard as follows: (This was the day following his secret marriage to Mrs. Wing.) "On Sunday night he came to tell me with a great flush of triumph that a company had been formed to include Mr. Whitney and Mr. Fairchild and all the prominent capitalists with a capital of $30,000.000 for some sort of railroad scheme. He was to represent them and might have to go to Europe ripht away. He went out and ctme back next day near noon, saying: 'Madeline, how soon can you get ready to marry me? I may have to leave tomorrow for Europe, suddenly. "I paid: 'Will, I can marry you right away. "After he had gone again T found a revolver in hi3 traveling sack and it awakened my suspicions because he had told me so many lies. I had telephoned to Whitney and Fairchild. and found that they had not seen him and did not expect to; had found that there was no private car on the track where he said there was one waiting for him. He acted so queer, too." Mr. Butterworth "Did he act as though he was in his right mind?" "As much so as he has any day since then." (Lau erhtrr.) Continuing. "He acted so queerly my suspicions were aroused. I am not surprised now. considering the position he was in. I was pregnant then. I said: 'Are you going to keep your solemn promise to marry me? If not T am going to shoot you and myso'.f with the revolver I found la your bag.' "He said: 'My darling. I am going to marry you and that on the last uf this month. After that he wrote me a solemn letter renewing his promise to marry me." Mr. Butterworth, interrupting, "Have you that lett-r?" Miss Pollard raised h?r arm imprersively. while every man in court leaned forward to catch her reply. "He too it away from me," she si'.d. "on the 17th day of May with the viicst. vilest lie." After the letter was written and before the 17th of May. Miss Pollard continued. Col. Brecklnridsre had sent her flowers, had talked to her of their future married life toother. A Look of Pity. Speaking of this meeting she said, pointing her finger directly at the whitnheaded congressman sitting with his head bowed on his breast and the eyes of the room full of men fovussed upon him, "I think I saw something nearer a look of pity on his face that day than I had ever seen before. I think he had a conscience on that day and was really sorry for what he lnd done." "Did you and he ever have any scenes before these unfortunate occurrences'.'" Mr. Butterworth asked. "Life could not be altogether pleasant with anyone living with C d. Breckinridge. People had sent me anonymous letters telling of his relations with a negro woman." (Laughter.) Mr. Butterworth then veered around his cross-questioning to the visits of Miss Pollard and Col. Breckinridge to th" office of the Washington chief of police. Miss Pollard's story of these visits differed in a few minor details from th recital of Maj. Moore and was in great -:r elaboration. She had gone to the house in Jefferson-place where Mr. Breckinridge was stopping with Mrs. Wing. She strode into the room wV-ro they were and both of them cowered behind the door. Reproducing the imperative tone in which she had spoken. Miss I'ollard continued: "I said to him, 'Com" with me,' and he came." TMs recital evoked a shout of laughter although it did not seem to have been Intended f r that effc t, which the bailiffs had trout le in quieting. Col. Breckinridge had seated himself in a chair in Col. Moore's office. Removing his hit and mopping his brow, he broached th-ir business with the introduction: "Major, this is one of the trap-dies of life." Thon he had proceeded to announce: "There is a probability that this young woman will sho.it me. She threatens to take my life." Maj. Moo.e remonstrated that it could not be so bad as that, and Col. Breckinridge had told him that he had been intim tte with her and that she had borne him two children. She had remonstrated with him. saying: "Willie, why is it necessary to tell all these things?" He had stepped over to her to put his arm around her and quieted her. and had then repeated his remark to the chief: "Major, this is one of the tragedies of life." This characteristic remark, produced In something of the original manner, raised an irresistible laugh. In their second visit Col. Breckinridge had discovered the revolver she carried when he put his arm around her. He had suggested that the major pive It to her as a wedding present (rather a gruesome present she thought) rather than a Christmas er birthday present, as the majar had testified. She thought her recollection of these points should be

j hs f2. Sir. A. E. Lanier Bush's Mills, Ohio.

Strain ed Ne r yes Palpitation of the Heart and A General Dreak Down The Cood Effect of Hood's was Marked and Permanent. C. I. flood & Co., Lowell. Mass.: " Gentlemen: I was takpn down ick laut r.cmber, and beeam very weak with nervous troc.hle. paTpitation of the heart, and a general break down. I had a good physician, but lingered along, getting no better. I could sit up only about half a day, until the lth of March, he u I concluded I would give Hood's fcarsapaHood'sS3Pr Cures rilla a trial. 'When I had used it a short time, I could get up and go all about the hous all day. I have never enjoyed perfect health, but am now taking my fifth bottle of Hood'i Sarsap rilla, and know It has helped m wonderfully. I have used Hood's Pills, and think them exrellent." Mrs. A. E. Lamer, Bush's Mills, Ohio. Hood's Pills act easily, yet romptly and (Sclent!?, on the liver and bowels. 25c.

A SURGEON'S KNIFE rives you a feeling: of horror and dread. There is no longer necessity for its use in many diseases formerly regarded as incurable without cutting. Tha Triumph cf Gcnserratira Surgery is well illustrated by the fact that RIIPTIIRF or Ureach.ia now radtnui I Uiiry. cany curta without the knife and without pain. Quinsy, chafing trusses can bo thrown away 1 They never euro bu often induce infiamluation, strangulation and death. TlJJÜnpq Ovarian. Fibroid (Uterine) lUMUilvJ and many others, fare now removed without the periia of cutting operations. PILETUMOBS, ilTruTa other diseases of the lower bowel, arn permanently cured without pain or resort to the knife. CTflMC in the niadder, no matter Ol wUl. how large, is crushed, pulverized, washed out and perfectly removed without cutting. TRIfiTllRF of Crinary Passare üj Ol niWI Uflt also removed without cutting in hundreds of cases. For

patnphiet, reterences ana an particuP. Iura, pend 10 cents (in stamps) to Worlds IMspensary Medical Ae tioo, 063 Maiu bu, Buffalo, N. Y. more accurate than his, because the interviews had been of so much greater importance to her. Ya She n IJulldorer. From this line of testimony Mr. Butterworth turned his questions to a direction designed to show that Miss Pollard had held Col. Breckinridge under a reign of terror. "Did he not generally come when you called?" he asked, but she said that, on the contrary, she had always obeyed his slightest wish because she trusted and loved him darly through those nine years. Had not Col. Breckinridge often endeavored to break off the relations wirh hr, Mr. Butterworth asked, and had he not promised to give her $125 a month if she would go to Germany? All this she denied, declaring that he had importuned her to stay by protestations of his love, which she wished the court could have hearc. She told how he had talked to her that lat night be-f'-'re he left her last spring, telling her that she mu.-t not grieve at his short absence; that she must think of the futuie of the baby that was to be born. Mr. Butterworth asked if it had not always been in her power to ruin Col. Breckinridge, to which she replied with emphasis: "I had the power, but I never made a threat to him in my life. I never pressed a thumb-screw on him until he bad it in his power to keep his premise to me and brok? it." She Is Generous. When she was asked what were th things which Col. Breckinridge had said of Mr?. Wing MI?s Pollard refused to repeat them, saying she would not talk that way of another woman and would not be pressed. Again, when asked if he had not ruggcFted that they break their relations off, she struck the witness-box with her open hand, exclaiming: "No, never, never; there was never ?uch a word hinted at on his part." and she continued in ri voice choking with sobs, "I J cave np my babies fr him because h? i: 5ited on it. He said that if I kej t tl.em i hey would le surely traced to him. A woman can't do more than that; fh can't do m- re than give up her cl ildren. I laid my baby in its cojlln I because it re ded a mother's care, j which I had not been able to give it; b.--cvuse he made me put it away fr..m n.e. I never, never let him see me cry over it. I never " The sentence wis ma cni.-h -d. for MsdiTne Pollard's head was bowed on her s'tmr. on the witness-box. her slender frame was sakit g with great sobs and th. re was susph b us moisture in many eye?. "A Drntuatle See no. No man in the court-room broke the silence by si whisper until Mr. Wilson suggested that the court should adjourn. Mr. Butterworth. speaking la low toni-s, said that he had but a few more eii .'stions, but. ptrhaps they had better he asked in the morning. The harsh voice of the crier broke th? solemnity of the scene adjourning court. Col. Breckinridge turned around and rmibd what was prubibly a forc?d smile, for he walked from the court horse to the oflice of his lawyers with his head bent in a dejected way, his hat in his hand, letting the cool breeze strike his silvery locks, which caught the eyes of all i-assers, who turned to follow him with their glances as he strode ahead of his little party, speaking to no one. WASHINGTON. March 21. This was a Held clay for the colleagues of Representative Breckinridge of Kentucky. Congress had taken a reeess. ostensibly to sail down the Potomac on an excursion and witness the trial of some big guns at Ir.di n Head, but the trial progressing In the circuit court held greater charms for many than the junket on a government gunboat. Clray heads and bald heads were in a majority in Judge Bradley's court, but the spectators were disappointed by one of the least sensational days of the trial, although they hoard the defense of Col. Breckinridge outlined by his law partner and attorney. Col. John J. Shelby and the last words of Madeline Pollard's story. They then slumbered through the reading of a long deposition. The defense will be partly denial and pirtly explanation denial that Col. Breckinridge seduced Madeline Pollard; that she gave birth to a child at the Norwood convent; an explanation that she trapped him into a promise to marry her on the mutual understanding that the promise was only a device by which she was to withdraw from his life and be able to break off her relations with Mrs. Blackburn. The long-continued illicit relations between the two are admitted without excuse of palliation, except a reference to the inherent weakness of human nature, but the orator's spokesman represents that he was often anxious to break them off. but ivas always inveigled into continuance by the young woman; that she followed him, demanded money from him and compelled his promise to marry her under threats, several times repeated, and emphasized by a display of pistols. Moreover, It is promised to be shown that Miss Pollard's early life had not been one of virtue before the silvertongued crater crossed her path. This, in substance, 13 the defense, but it has many branches and side issues. Col. llrcckinrldne Lute. Col. Breckinridge and his right hand man. Attorney Ben Butterworth, were late in arriving in the circuit court, not appealing until after the roll-call of jurors and until after Miss Pollard, with face very pale, but apparently composed, had waited several minutes In her seat. The two gray heads uf the defendant and his leading lawyer were bent together in a brief consultation as Miss I'ollxrd walked around to the witness stand. Hr face showed lines of worry and a sleepless night as she faced j - - . ". A'-, ..-.Lilt, in. lurii f Jlr. Butterworth began by inquiring If Miss I'ollard had the contract with James Rhodes, to which she replied that the contract had been given to Rhodes. There never had been a settlement, but In 18S3 fh? had given him a note for three times the amount he had advanced for her schooling. "I had never paid Mr. Rhodes, because I r.ver had any money to pay anybody anything," she said. The correspondence had continued after she came to Washington. Mrs. Dr. Mary Logan had not recognized her when they first met in Cincinnati, but had before they had parted. Miss Pollard was going on to explain aboxit that meeting when Mr. Butter-

I worth cautioned her that she must not

wander from the subject, protesting that he was anxious to treat her with perfect fairness. "I beg your pardon. Mr. Butterworth," ahe replied. "I know you treat me fairly and I am very grateful. I am so full of things I want to tell you I can't keep them back." There waa a short little tilt between Lawyers Butterworth and Wilson over the answering of questions after this which Judge Bradley answered by declaring that the witness vas net obliged to answer a question just in the form desired by the examiner. Back to the autobiography in the New Tork World came Mr. Butterworth. Objection was made by Mr. Wilson that it had been threshed over to weariness and the same opinion was held by the judge. "What was the fact -about your adopting the name of Breckinridge?" asked Mr. Tiutterworth. "When I first used the name Mr. Breckinridge and I talked it over. He said I might use the name and I had my card plate made with it in 1SS9 or '9V was the answer in explanation of the statement in the newspaper article. "I am very weary this morning and hardly able to go on." Mlntrenft of the Situation. Nevertheless, the plaintiff continued to be mistress of the situation, for when she had been asked about the trunk she had at Dr. Street's in Cincinnati during her first confinement and Mr. Butterworth read from his manuscript she insisted that he should give her his undivided attention before she would continue. Great stress has been laid by the defense upon the description of this trunk, which feems to be important to their case. "That's all. Miss Pollard," said Mr. Butterworth, to the surprise of the court. The plaintiff, in black, and Sister Ellis disappeared through the side door, her attorneys remarking that they had no questions for her. Then Mr. Carlisle said: "The plaintiff rests her case here." The plaintiff had been vnder cross fire for two days and over, during which every phase of her case had been reviewed from every light, but her attorneys did not consider It necessary to strengthen or explain any of her statements by redirect examination. They had in reserve other witnesses and affidavits, but the?e they did not us?. There was a rustling in the Breckinridge camp of conversation and documents, after which Mr. Butterworth asked for a few moments for his side to hold a consultation, and the defendant, his son Desha and five attorneys trooped out through the door by which Miss Tollard had made her exit. "The delegation from Kentusky retires for conference." remarked a gentleman who had attended political conventions. The TDefenne Open. The Breckinridge forces were In retirement twenty minutes. Then Col. John T. Shelby, the Bexington lawyer ard partner of Col. Breckinridge, a short, pale man with li.ght mustache, partly bald head and spectacles, faced the jury to outline the defense. While the case was technically one for breach of promise, he said, it included a wider scope. "I am authorized by the defendant to say," he said, "and it will be corroborated by bis solemn oath, that he did not seduce her; that it never was nude known to him thit she had ever had any children by him until the filing of this suit lat August, nor did he ever, undr any circumstances, make any premise of marriage to her." The defense did not Intend, he said, to condone whatever was wrong in the relitions of the two, and it was only by the truth the defendant wanted to b3 judged. Outlining what would be the defense he related tint Miss Pollard had accosted Col. Breekinrldge on the train before which time he had never seeii her; that ha had supposed he ought t know her (having reached that time of life when he was forgetful of faces). She introduced herself: said her father was a great admirer of John C. Breckinridge and had named her after him. Several weeks afterward th letter asking advice as to her relation with Rhodes bad been received. He had answered it, telling h-r the .tsp-cts of th3 contract to which siie had replied fully. After thot he received the btter, the auth nticity of which Miss Pollard had denied, but which would be fully proven, asking him t com to the seminary. He had written lli;U he could not com". She had written anoiher letter urging him to come to the Weslyan college to set her whim he had declined to do. On the 1st of August. lt-M. (Friday), he had been in Cincinnati on business. It occurred to him that he had received the reeii'ost to go to the We-sleyan college. Having nothing else to do he went to the college that day and saw her: saw not an Ignrrant girl, unacquainted with the ways of the world, for if there was one fact that would be established it was that the plaintiff was at least twenty or twenty-one years of age jf.d it would le shown by the doctor who officiated at the birth of her next younger sister in lc, when the plaintiff was then a little girl of two or three years of age running alnout the house. I'oor, Wenk Man. "When the colonel arrived at the Institution," continued the attorney, "she came into the parlor and saw him, explained the contract with Mr. Ilhodes, which was that in consideration of his paying for her schooling she was to marry him. She asked if he could compel her to marry him a strange question for an Innocent school girl, and also tld him that she had submitted her pton to Mr. Rhodes. He told her that she was not obliged to carry out the contract. Then she asked him to take her to an entertainment on Vinest. and he consented." That Col. Breckinridge had called in a closed carriage that night was denied. It was declared that Miss I'ollard had made the proposition that they ride instead of going to the concert and the lawyer said: "In the course of the ride that night and without the use of seductive means, but in that way which occurs when a woman is not averse to such things, an illicit relation was established on the first night he had been with her. He did not take her to any assignation houso in Cincinnati thfe next day." It was denied that Col. Breckinridge had sent a telegram to Miss I'ollard in the name of her mother to go to Lexington, but when lie boarded the train that Friday he found h?r on it; without any artifices being exercised on his part, a meeting had been arranged and she herself had proposed that they should go to the house of Sarah ("Jess, she explaining that she knew the house.

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It was a matter of mutual agreement. But instead of going there Friday night. Col. Breckinridge had been in Cincinnati Friday and he had not met her there until Saturday night. It could be shown that Mr. Rhodes had fallen behind in the payment of her bills, being a man of small means, and the transfer from Wesleyan institute to Sayre academy, at Lexington, had been made by arrangement between herself and Mr. Rhodes. The illicit relation at Lexington continued, meetings being arranged irregularly at Sarah's and in February of 1S8.", Miss Pollard had left unknown to him. The statement that he had written letters from Cincinnati to her mother would be denied and the statement that she had given birth to a child In the Foundling asylum, near Cincinnati, would be disproved by the testimony of Dr. Mary Logan. She Followed Ulm. Mr. Shelby said there had been no renewal cf illicit relations during the eighteen months ending in June. 1SSS, though Miss Pollard had followed him to Washington and persecuted him with her attentions. This interruption of relations, Mr. Shelby said, constituted a refutation ot Miss Pollard's allegation that in February. lSSS, she was delivered of a child by Col. Breckinridge.

The latter had been compelled, under iear ana tnreats or exposure, to give Miss I'ollard more money than he could spare from his means, but still he offered her money if she would go away from the city and fit herself for work. Denial was made of the allegation that in August. 1S92. or at any other time the defendant had promised to marry Mlss Pollard; he absolutely refused her suggestion in 1892 that she go to Miss Willard's school in Berlin and upon her return that he should marry her. In March of 1S93 the pressure brought to bear upon Col. Breckinridge by Miss Pollard was enormous. She was known intimately to Mrs. Blackburn as a young and agreeable woman from the same state. There was talk as to why Miss Pollard was seen so much with Col. Breckinridge. She told him this and that she had explained to Mrs. Blackburn that they were engaged. He told her that it was his purpose to tell Mrs. Blackburn frankly the relations which had existed between them. She implored him not to make known their relations, not to expose her then, but to give her one more chance to make a. place for herself in the world; protect he-r so far as to admit the engagement to Mrs. Rlaekburn. then she would go to NewYork and gradually die out of his life. By the aid of his admission in that way she could get out of his life, out of Mrs. Blackburn's life and cut of Washington. It seems as though any man might have seen the danger of such an arrangement, the lawyer said. In the latter part of March she had told him that Mrs. Blackburn wanted to see him. He had gDne and they had talked her over, he telling Mrs. Blackburn of his desire to shield her, that she was an Imprudent girl. During this time at Mrs. Thomas's house. 25 Lafayette-square, she had attempted to shoot him and only by the merest of accidents he had been able to disarm her. He went to Kentucky without acceding to her demands. According to his best recollection the interview between himself, Mrs. Blackburn and Miss Pollard occurred the 3d or 4th of April. Then she indre'd him to fall into her hands. She had made an attack on his life and held fiver him what was worse than death th happiness of his family. In a moment of weakness, in order to give this woman a chance to begin life for herself, he permitted this wem in to assume a relation which never did exist a -id could not have been tolerated bv ! him. l.esuming his statement, after the no-n r cess. Col. Shelby deel tred V at Mi s Pi Hard had claimed that her first confinement had resulted In a miscarriage and tat she never intimat d to 1 im that she had a child by him. The basket, which had belonged to the c 1rrd"s first wife, had never been given tn Miss I'ollard. but had been taken by hei from his room. The AtteniptPfl Shooting. Returning to the events In N-w York following Col. Breckinridge's miniag. Mr. Shelby asserted that Miss Pollard bad com to the Hoffman house, found tint h" was stopping there, secured a ro m next to his and registered ai h;s de tighter. When Col. Bre kinridg entered at noon on Monday, May 1. ihy attempted to shoot him. standing in the passageway between the two rooms. He had slammed the door. H- had threatem d to have her arrested, ringing for a bell-boy. but on her entrance lud told h.r to place the revolver aga.n-t h s dcor. close to her doer a d he wo. li l ae the boy take the revolv r. II ? took the revolver after he heard her ly it down fn l in the interview whieh f o -lowed she had made all torts, of pr -t stiti ns ar.d promises t leave him. The next day th-y left the Hoffman house. Mrs. Blackburn arrived in New Tori:, sent for biiu for eon?ul:ation ab ut a lawsuit she was interests d it and ir cidentally Mrs. Bla ki urn a-ked an explanation of the presenee of himself ard Miss Pollard in New York, to wMc'i he replied that he could not give an explanation then. The circumstances of Miss pollard's vi-it to the Jefferson-place ho i?e. whe:e Col. Breckinridge's wife wa with him. vas exp'ained. It was ded.red that Mr. ar.d Mrs. Breckinridge were leaving the room because she was in h r wrapper, when Miss Pollard told him tint she Wein ted to see him on impor'a't Mi -i-ncss. They wont out together. Ml-s Pollard again threatened his life on the str et. The visit to Muj. M ore followed. Coi. Breckinridge, said the attorney, was then alout to reveal all the circumstances of their co.nectioa, but sh? aeain dissuaded him. Agiin. at the h.ous- on Lafayette-square, Miss P 1l ird attempted to shoot him, l ut wai foüed, and. strange though it mi-ht se-m. even then Col. Breckinridge had 1 ecu again induced, under her renewed promises to go to New York to visit Mrs. Blackburn, and Maj. Moore with her. On the visit to Dr. Lincoln he had told the doctor to do what he could to mak? her comfortable, assuming, as she had told him, that Dr. Lincoln knew of her condition. Because the day after that interview Miss Bollard did do as she had agreed and did go to New York Col. Breckinridge began to carry out his agreement to do what he could for her; had written her letters imploring her not to do what would make it impossible for him to do what was best for her. To further force him she had given an announcement of the alleged engagement to the papers and had written him that he must renew his promise In a letter, to which he had, of course, paid no attention. Then followed his public marriage to Mrs. Wing in July. The rinlntlflr'a Clin meter. In such a case the character of the plaintiff was necessarily an issue, and particularly where she claimed that the defendant had seduced her. No man was liable morally or legally for not doing a thing which was morally impossible. When Miss Pollard met Col. Breckinridge she was a matured woman at least twenty-one years of age. She had denied the fact of a mock marriage with Alec Julian; had explained the nature of her relations with Mr. Roselle. but affidavits from these men would be read with evidence that before sh? mft Col. Breckinridge she had been seen at tin assignation house. The "Wessie" Brown letter showed that she had been in some sort of relations with Roselle and others. At this point In the statement objection was offered by Mr. Wilson and sustained by the court that the statement was drifting Into an argument. Col. Shelby, resuming, said that the motive of the plaintiff in bringing the suit must be considered: that, as seated by the plaintiff, it had not been for money nor to vindicate her own character, which was necessarily destroyed by

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the suit, but for revens:? and to destroy the power of the defendant. Again Mr. Wilson renewed bis objection that the attorney was not only attempting to state the law instead of facf,s. but stating the law incorrectly. Mere form did not constitute a contract. Mr. Phelby continuod. when the parties both under stood that the semblance of a contract was created for some other purpose. There was merely the semblance of a contract that Miss Follard misht be able to terminate relations with the defendant, and with this the statement closed. Mr. Wilson attempted to reply to the statement that it would be shown that Miss Pollard hail visited a house of assignation with men other than the defendant, but was not permitted to do so. Sister Relnn' Story. Thereupon Attorney Stoll, who had been compared to Bill Nye In facial contour, started to read the deposition of Sister Agnes Regina Brown, when the plaintiff's attorneys interrupted him. insisting upon the exercise of their right to examine the deposition before it was read. They had no object on on a casual glance. The deposition had been taken at the Norwood convent asylum near Cincinnati, where the sister had been In 1SS5. She had seen all the inmates. Some cf them were veiled when they went on the street, but none were veiled from her. There was one who had been veiled from the physician who attended her, but this was in 1SS4. Deponent did not know Madeline Follard, but had for ;he first time seen her in lSf2 in the libraiy next to the office with Messrs. Carlisle and Johnson, her attorneys, when Miss Pollard had asked If the sister knew her, but the sister did not remember. Deponent o.uestioned her, but she did not remember the sister, nor who had been the mother superior. Miss Pollard had said that she went under the name of l.oi ise Wilson. but when the sister had said that no Louise Wilson had been there, but that a girl named Uurgoyno had a child there at that time. Mirs I'ollard had replied: "Oh, that was the name I went by. There wen1 so many of them I did not remember." Then Miss Pollard had asked what had become of the child and had been told that it died last July and had then gone into hysterics. Miss Pollard remembered the death of a girl while she. was there, but had forgotten the death of a sister who had died in a rom n--ar by. The sister said Miss I'ollard had never been there and did not know much about the house. Miss Pollard had spoken of giving the volumes of Washington Irving to the convent. The sistor had said she thought the books were given by a girl who had been there and who thought she had not compensated them sufficiently for the board. They found them In the library. Miss I'ollard remembered having left a Christmas card from a man named Davis in ne of the books, which she found. From the question propounded by the attorneys for the defendant at that time it seemed they had tried to throw suspicion upon Attorney Carlisle of havi.g slipped the card into the book. The sister said the card had not the appearance of having been in a book nine years, but looked as though it had been rolled up. Miss I'ollard had said when the sister suggested compromise that Mr. Breckinridge had no money and that she was suing to disgrace him. The sister had said that Mr. Breckinridge would still be Mr. Breckinridge after the trial; that his friends would still receive him. while the woman would be ruined. Attorney Johnson had said: 'But he will not be called upon to address young ladles' seminaries and open meetings," to which the sister hnd replied that she presumed there were others at prayer meetings as bad as Mr. Breckinridge was accused of being. Miss I'ollard remembered having spoken to the priest at the convent, and that he was deaf. The sister superior hid reproved her for speaking to him. The sister denied that Mrs. Dr. Street had ever called there to see a patient. Mr. Carlisle had brought a letter of introduction to the sister from Archbishop Elder, who wrote that they had been recommended to him by Bishop Keane 'f Washington. Attorney Overmeyer f Cincinnati had called at the convent, looking for the evidence in the case of Miss Pollard, but had said that he must send some startling message to Miss Pollard's attorneys that they had been able to find no trace of her. A servant named Bliza had not been a hie to recollect Miss Pollard at first, but afterward, when the sister cautioned her to l careful, acted as though she might remember her. Sister Agnes had said to Miss Pollard: "What a bad girl you have been to go with a man who had a wife." to which Mis.s Follard had replied: "I have been a bad jihl, but a better woman." No inquiries had been made by Miss Follard. so far as the sister knew, about the child she claimed to have given biith to there. As the sister rememtered Miss Burgovne. she had been shorter than Miss Follard and lighter; had seemed very fond of reading and spent most of her time in the library. Miss Burgoyn, was from an Ohio town and had been attended by Dr. DeCoureoy. The girl who gave the bonks had said when she was there that there was enough wrapped up with them to pay for her burial If she died, so that no one would ever know who she was. The cross-examination of this sister was read by Mr. Carlisle, the sister saying that the writing on the card looked like fresh writing as though it had been written about four weeks before. There had been an average number cf 100 Kirls a year in the asylum, most of whom were under assumed names. Some times when Dr. DeCourcey was away a midwife attended at births. After the deposition was finished the court adjourned. WASHINGTON. March 22. 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