Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1894 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY . MORNING, APRIE, 4, 189 i TWELVE PAGES.

pose of coming to Washington?" Mr. Butterworth inquired. "In Lexington." replied the witness. "From whom?" "From t'ie plaintiff." "When was that?" "About the third or fourth week In 'August." "Up to this time had there been a resumption of your improper relations?" "None whatever," was the reply, and In answer to a question as to whether they met frequently, he said that he had Been her occasionally In the sense of meeting her on the street. Continuing, he said: "After my return to Lexington from Nlcholasville our relations were resumed nd I met her at the same house as before In the latter part of July. 1SS7.' It was after the accident in which she was thrown from her horse. Soon afterward she came to me and said she had made up her mind to leave Lexington because the could get no employment there and ehe was pursued by gossip about her relations with Rhodes. She said she had consulted Senator Beck about coming to Washington and that he had said it was rot a good plan for her to come to "Washington; that It was the worst place for a young woman to come. I protected against her coming. Rhe said on morning that it was absolutely necessary for me to see her and I met her that night, when she said she feared she was pregnant: that it wag not at all a matter of certainty, but that if she was fo there was nothing else left for her to do but go somewhere." The Conversation Unpleasant. 'Stop there." interrupted Mr. teutterwortb. "Did she say the pregnancy was by you?" "Of Cour?. The conversation was excessively unpleasant. I refused to furnish the money. It was a matter -of doubt. Only two nv-nths had passed since our relations had been resumed. I told her that fir her to come to Washington might be disastrous to herselfand to ino. Afterward I repaid the money which she borrowed to come to Washington. The conversations were excessively unpleasant. It was some time in the month of September. 1SS7. that she came. I reached here on the evening of Nov. K and ret u rued to Lexington the r.ext day. I saw the plaintiff on the etreet near Washington circle. She Informed me that she was In a catholic; Institution at that end of the town and said there was no doubt of her condition. I returned to Washington the first Sunday in December, but did not eee the plaintiff for three months. The plaintiff had moved to the Academy of the visitation on Massachiisetts-ave., but I saw her at th capitol." "Were these changes made in pursuance of your suggestions?" "They were not. I received several letters from the plaintiff saying that her health was very had. I sent her money et the general delivery, whatever she wanted. She controlled that." Didn't Promise MarrlnifC. "The plaintiff has said that on two occasions after protestations of love you said you would marry her if it was possible." "There is not a scintilla of truth in that statement not a shred. Under the circumstances, at no time was there rueh a statement. The plaintiff never alluded to the possibility of it. Before the death of my wife there was not a solitary word that could be distorted into euch a thinsr." The colonel was very deliberate and emphatic, and continuing, declared that she had never told him she gave birth to a living child, nor did he believe it until he heard the testimony of Dr. Parson's saying: "She said that that second time she had a miscarriage, resulting from her poor health. If she had told me she had borne a living child it would have given me an excuse to break off my relations with her for considering the time of those relations, it was impossible that the child could have teen my child." "In paying the ex;onses of the second confinement ol. Breckinridge said at first he had leen represented as -Miss pollard's guardian. When the physician, Ir. Parsons, sent an additional bill, he had said that she had bet ter come directly to him, for if she was a reputable physician a professional secret would be safe in her hands, and if she was attempting blackmail it would be best to face her at once. Miss Pollard had Informed him that at the academy of the Visitation she had arranged with the prood sisters to teach in return for her board, and she also would receive Instruction in some of the higher classics. That seemed an eminently desirable arrangement for it afforded her protection and quiet. The Relations Continue. "During the two years that she was there were there any improper relations between you and the plaintiff?" "There was." "The plaintiff has said that there was rver any suggestion on your part that your relations should be broken off?" "From November, 1SS5. to July. 1887. there were no improper relations between us. although I was supporting her. The entanglement between v.a really began when she came to Washington against my will. I frequently said to her. as earnestly as I knew how, that the relations between, us could only result In public scandal and perhaps destruction of us both; that her character, her lack of self-control, her temper were such that some day there must come an exposure, I urged her to go anywhere where she could study, offering to pay her expenses and saying the burden could be no greater on me than it was. Several timeg I thought she had agreed to go, once to Cambridge. She was there some time and left against my will. Then she told me she had arranged to go on the paper of the proprietor cf Dread Ixaf. Joseph Dattell. in Vermont. Some of our Interviews were more excessively unpleasant than any words can describe. She would come to me at the capitol in my committee room, declare that she was not going to leave; that she was going to have the support I owed her. I suppose at times I became excessively angry and said things that were hard and bitter. I knew that the only alternative was submission or the destruction of the lives of those who depended upon me and let it go on, hoping that tomorrow would bring a solution of the problem. I would tell her in every way, from gentle to the mose severe, that she w.-s becoming more and more disinclined and unable to care for herself. Her manner was oftentimes extremely disagreeable." Phc Didn't Advise Him. Col. Breckinridge testified that he had never gone to but one lecture with Miss Pollard; had never submitted manuscript of his speeches, lectures or magazine articles to her or advised with her on the tenor of them. "There was never any but one human being who ever advised with me in any way concerning my lectures from the time I began to speak and lecture down to eighteen months ago. and that person was not Miss Pollard." Col. Breckinridge was referring to his wife and his manner was most impressive. All the persons of the drama were back in their seats after the noon recess

when. Mr. Butterworth quoted the teati- ; - - J ' - ' ' " - - - - - . . . . L. . V Vl. 1 t Ii I 1 1 ridge was concealed In the room whn he broke her engagement with Rosse. Col. Breckinridge denied this, explaining that he had never been In Miss Hoyt's j house during the spring In question, nor had he Known of the existence of Bossell until he saw the Wessie Brown letter. Much of the testimony regarding the visit to Sarah Gess's house, he declared, was an absolute fabrication, and the person who had fabricated the conversation between Sarah Oess and witness in September last, trying to dissuade Sarah Gess from testifying in the case, was probably unaware that he was then In Washington In the discharge of his official duties. The applications of Miss Pollard for positions in the civil errice were identified by the defendant.

The first one, for the examination taken in Cincinnati In 1RS7, did not bear his Indorsement, and he said it was a surprise to him. There was another application in December, 18SS and a third in November. 1890. both indorsed by him. The second indorsement said that he had been well acquainted with the applicant for seven years; that 6he wa of rood, moral character and reputation and that she had been a resident of Fayette county since he knew her. Her birth was given on the papers as I860, but Col. Breckinridge said that entry had made "no particular impression upon him." He continued: "My Judgment was that if she could pass the examination It would be cf great benefit to her. If she could not, as I apprehended, it would impress upon her her deficiency In certain tudimentary branches and spur her to study, as I had advised her to do." What Rhodes Said. Mr. Butterworth next referred to a conversation between the defendant and Mr. Rhodes in regard to the plaintiff, and asked the witness to relate the facts and circumstances of the conversation. "I met Mr. Rhodes at an election booth," said Mr. Breckinridge, "and Mr. Rhodes alluded to the plaintiff and said he would like to talk with me about her. and we walked to my office. I did not go to Sarah Gess's, where the plaintiff was. I did not notify the plaintiff that I had sen Rhodes. Mr. Rhodes had been to Cincinnati on the Saturday afternoon, going down on the train corresponding to the south-bound train on which we were going to Lexington, so that the trains passed each other. When he reached Cincinnati he was informed that the plaintiff had left Cincinnati and that I had left Cincinnati and that I had been to see her the day before. He said to me that he was interested in the plaintiff; that he was engaged to be married to her. and that he had gone down to Cincinnati to consult her in regard to whether she would remain in Cincinnati. Rhodes said he had had an agreement with her by which he was to educate her to support her during this time and then she was to marry him; that In accordance with that agreement he had spent a great deal of money on her more money than he could afford to spend but that he had become very anxious as to whether she Intended to marry him, and that he had to make some arrangement about taking her away from Cincinnati, because he was very much behind and was be!n verv much dunned. He said he was getting old and that if he was going to have a married life It was time for him to sea about it. I told him I had seen her and that she had told me substantially of the same agreement and that she had not expressed any particular desire to marry him. but had spoken of her gratitude for what he had done and of her respect for him. He said that he wanted to marry her, and intended to marry her, for he was very- much In love with her. During the course of the conversation, which was quite long, he said that he ought to marry her not only that he wanted to marry her, but that he ought to do so that things had happened which made it necessary for him to marry her, and that he Intended to do so, but that she seemed to have taken a dislike to him. He wanted me to tell him what he should do to bring about that marriage." In answer to a question frvm his counsel the witness denied that he had related this conversation to Miss Pollard at the time, but said that he subsequently did so. "Did Mr. Rhodes say what it was that made it neressary for him to marry h:r?" Mr. Wilson objected that it had not been shown that the conversation had been repeated, contending that if he could tell wiih such particularity what Rhodes said to him he must tell what he repeated to the plaintiff. The PlnintlfT Ilrmk In. Much of his former statement was repeated by the defendant, and before he had finished Miss Pollard broke forth, sobbing, and exclaimed: "That is not true. Whv can't he tell the truth about something?" Judge Bradley admonished her: "If you can't control yourself you will have to leave the room." No attention was paid by Col. Breckinridge to this interruption, but he continued: "I told her in the spring of 1893 that after what Rhodes had told me of the relations between them it would be Impossible that any other relation could ever exist between us." Then Col. Breckinridge passed on to the spring before the opening of the Columbian exposition, when he had declined to deliver the opening address, and when, at her request, he had sent her tickets to view the parade In New York. His attention being called to the statement of Miss Tollard that she had returned to Washington from New York at his request in August. 1893; that he had met her at the depot, taken her riding and proposed marriage, he said: "The plaintiff was not here In August s far as I know. I reached here on the 29th from Lexington, where I had opened the campaign with a speech. I did not se the plaintiff; she was not here. No such occurrence happened Going . to New York on the 20th of September, I saw her at the Hoffman h:use for the first time that summer. I did not meet her at the depot; did not put my arms around her and kiss her; did not say that I had a communication to make that I was vain enough to believe she would be pleased with." He did not recollect ever having seen the letter regarding her proposed trip to Germany until it was shown on the witness stand by the plaintiff, although he remembered others signed by a lady purporting to be the secretary of Miss WiTlard. There had been correspondence between himself and Miss Pollard regarding the trip. "We want the witness to produce these letters." said Mr. Wilson. "We have given notice to have them produced." "I received them and destroyed them," replied Col. Breckinridge. The Promise of Marriage. "She met me at the Hoffman house," he continued, "and told me she had an opportunity to go abroad to study with young ladies of good family and could go if I would represent that she was engaged'to be married to me in two years. This was the first time the subject of marriage had been broached. I said I had not enough money, but would not let that stand in the way; that under no circumstances would I consent to any representations of a marriage engagement. She said that she could go abroad, study the modern languages and come back in two years fitted to be my wife. I said that could never be; that I was not open to negotiations of that sort." Witness and Miss Pollard had looked over his offers to deliver lectures. She had figured that the cost would be $100 a month, but he had expressed his willingness to give her $125 and her traveling expenses. The witness added: "Her final answer at our next meeting at the same horee was that she would never go except as my affianced; she would go back to Washington and be there when I arrived. We parted with considerable acerbity eventually. At our next meeting she said that she did not want to part' In that way; that I must think her a devil or a fiend. I put her Into a cab, saying: 'You know there can be no such thing as marriage between us. and this affair, if you persist, can only end in public scandal tlmt will destroy us both.' " - "When did yon first hear that the plaintiff claimed you had engaged yourself to marry her?" "In a communication to that effect In the Washington Post, which. I understcrd. was inspired by her. and thereafter I received several letters from her to the same effect." "Now." interposed Mr. Wilson, rising, "we want those letters." "I have destroyed them." retorted the defendant. "I have procured all the letters I have from her to my knowledge. There were replies to those that she may have." The testimony then drifted Into the circumstances aud conversations con

cerning the efforts of the defendant to induce the plaintiff to leave the-city to prevent the scandal which wculd certainly come sooner or later if Miss Pollard remained in the ctly. Then he related a conversation when liss Pollard had come to him in distress because Mrs. Fillette and another lady had been talking about her, the witness saying: "I told her that, this was what I had always expected; that such affairs always must" come to an end, and urged her to go away, as she had promised so many times and to let the scandal blow over. My name was not coupled with that, but I said it would be if the thing went on. . Mrs. Fillette had not mentioned my name; it was other parties. She said that she could not have such a scandal against her name; that she had a revolver with which she had intended to shoot herself if such stories ever came out. I made light of that. She told me afterward that she had gone to Mrs. Blackburn: that Mrs. Blackburn had talked wirh Mrs. Fillette and found that the charges did not affect the chastity of the plaintiff; that she was charged with being ar adventuress; that It was said she lived by her wits, had no means of support and did not pay her debts; she Insisted that I must go to Mrs. Blackburn and tell Mrs. Blackburn that the relations between us were such that Mrs. Blackburn must stand by her." Col. Breckinridge said she had refused at this time to do so. He denied also that he had ever sent a message to Mrs. Blackburn by the plaintiff and asserted that on this occasion he positively refused to have anything to say to Mrs. Blackburn in the matter. She Thrpotrnrd Salrtde. On several occasions, the witness said, the plaintiff had declared her intention to commit suicide, saying that she had destroyed all her manuscripts (including the manuscript of a novel she was writing), and that she had given away her clothes. She had once said to the witness that if he did not help her out in the matter she did not intend to ' let him live that she did not intend to bear the disgrace alone. He had told her there would be no difficulty about it if she would leave Washington, as she had so often promised, and that he would pay her expenses wherever she went. In one of these conversations, when she had apparently consented, she got up and went Into the library and came back shortly and pointed a pistol at him, threatening to kill him. By strategy he had been enabled to take it away from her before she could do any harm. He kept the pistol, and it was the same weapon she had taken from his traveling bag with which she attempted his life in New York City. That scene, he said, was followed by an almost immediate revulsion on the part of the plaintiff. She broke into a flood of hysterical tears and declared that she had not really meant to kill him. He Took i he Revolver. He had taken the revolver away from Miss Iollard and that night she had come to his house with a young man and left a note expressing her regret at what had occurred. When he next saw her, two or three days afterward, she had proposed again to leave the city, and he again offered to pay her expenses. Referring to his interview with Mrs. Blackburn regarding the scandal against Mies Pollard he said it differed from Mrs. Blackburn's. He thought she had opened the interview by saying she did not know what Miss Pollard had wanted to call for. He asked Mrs. Blackburn to urge her to go away, which that lady had promised to do, aud he had spoken kindly of the young woman. He supposed when he left Washington, March 13. 193. that their relations had ended; that Miss Pollard was going away to study and lead an honorable life while he provided for her. Later in March he had met her in Circinnati in response to a telegram from her. She then had told him that she had been obliged, under Mrs. Blackburn's cross-examination, to represent that she was engaged to him. He told her that he would go right back and say to Mrs. Blackburn that it was not true, but under her importunities, promised to keep Iiis mouth shut if she would leave the city. Returning to Washington March 31 he had received a tall from Miss Pollard before breakfast. He said: "l agreed then if she would go away I would put myself in the power of the plaintiff and Mrs. Blackburn and pretend there was an engagement." I said: "You have put me where there Is no alternative but to put myself In your power and trust you or to submit to a scene in the hotel office or street; perhaps, have an attempt made on my life on the streets." "May I Interpose at this point," suggested Mr. Wilson, and he went on to say that there had been no plea of coersion put in by the defense. The reply by Mr. Butterworth was that there had been no agreement, but only the semblance of one, to preserve what was of more value than life, under compulsion as effectual as a loaded pistol. He did not care what the duress or coerscion was called. The legal sparring became very wann, Mr. Wilson declaring that they might show if they could that an agreement was made under duress. "I said that there must be no misunderstanding between us." continued the colonel, when the lawyers had subsided, "reminding her that from the first I had said there could be no marriage, but anything short of that which I could do to save those who loved me I would do; that she could not trust me, because, knowing the relations I had had with her while I had such a he.ppy family she would always suspect me cf having similar relations with other women. I reminded her that she had not come to me a maiden; that I had not seduced her." The Visit to Mm. Blackburn. Col. Breckinridge gave his version of the visit to Mrs. Blackburn, which occurred on Good Friday, according to Mrs. Blackburn, and several days later according to the witness. With the plaintiff he had gone to Mrs. Blackburn's hotel (the Portland), but Mrs. Balekburn refused to see them. Leaving him in the public parlor Miss Pollard bad gone up to Mrs. Blackburn's apartments, and in a short time he received a message from the elevator boy, saying that Mrs. Blackburn had consented to see him. He found Miss Pollard waiting on the landing outside Mrs. Blackburn's room, and she said that Mrs. Blackburn wanted witness to confirm what she (Miss Pollard) had Just told her. Witness said to Mrs. Blackburn that the had been extremely kind and that so long as the plaintiff had her as a friend she needed nothing else, but in her distress he had offered the protection of his name, and that .with Mrs. Blackburn's friendship and the protection of his name the plaintiff could well afford to despise what Mrs. Fillette might do, and that he was grateful to Mrs. Blackburn for what she had done. Mrs. Blackburn said that what she had done had been done out of a spirit of friendship for an unprotected Kentucky girl. Mrs. Blackburn said that this had been a great surprise to her and she could scarcely credit it, and did not know whether she should congratulate him or not. To this he had responded nothing, simply acknowledging it with a bow, and In a few minutes he arose and he and the plaintiff had left the house together. He walked with her to her bouse without a word. "I put the key into the door and said: You must leave Washington before I do or I will notify Mrs. Blackburn of the relations between us.' "She sAid. 'I can't go as soon as that.' (I was going to Boston the next day to speak at a banquet.) She said. 'I will keep my promise and go as soon as I can.' On account of a misunderstanding regarding the banquet I did not : go. There was no misunderstanding between us the next ten days; we both knew the character of the representations to Mrs. Blackburn, and I left Washington on the 16th of April with the same confidence In her I had held when I left on the 18th of March. I had at least two more interviews with Mrs. . Blackburn before I left for Kentucky.- Several ladles were stopping with her, and she asked me to

arrange for Mrs. Cleveland to receive thern. I did call with them upon Mrs. Cleveland. In an interview I urged Mrs. Blackburn to unite with me in urging the plaintiff to leave town. She promised, to and agreed with. me,, and 6ald that unlesfrone or the other of us went there would-be a scandal and her friendship would cease. Afterward she. told me she had -spoken to the plaintiff and that the plaintiff said so also. Mrs. Blackburn said the plaintiff had spoken of going abroad; said she was going herself, and the conversation drifted toward the plaintiff going with Mrs. Blackburn. I told her the plaintiff's temper was such that she ought not to travel with people that she could not be controlled by; that she ought- to go away and study. Mrs. Blackburn said one or the other should leave or there would be a scandal. I said I knew that the plaintiff would come to my rooms when I was away; that It was perfectly proper; that there was nothing wrong about it. but there were Kentuckians armmd. and they would talk about it." The Lost Meeting. After speaking of visiting Philadelphia as the guest of George W. Childs, the secret marriage to Mrs. Wing In New Yo-k was skipped and Col. Breckinridge went on to tell of his meeting with Miss Pollard at the Hoffman house May 1. He was surprised on entering his room to find the door of the adjoining room open, and walking in. found Miss Pollard there, and but partly dressed. He said: "She demanded to know where I had been the past two days and said she had been looking all over New York for me. I responded, with a little more rudeness than I should, that it was nothing to her. "Then I went back to my room through the short entry between the two. I heard a noise, and when I turned around she stood In the door with a pistol pointed at me. I shut the door quickly, turned down the catch and touched the electric button. I said I bad sent for the police and was going to have her put In the Tombs. She said she was going to shoot through the door. "I said: 'Shoot away and you will only give me more justification for having you put In the Tombs.' She was rattling the door and begged me not to have her put in the Tombs. I said: "You put the pistol down, go in and fasten your door and I will see what I ought to do.' When the bell-boy knocked I opened the door. "Whether he saw that I was excited I don't know, but I said to him to bring a pitcher of ice water. 'I don't know whether I was as cool as I might have been." The Secret Marriage. This was said so curiously that everybody laughed. In answer to a question as to the circumstances attending hi last marriage Col. Breckinridge said hi had been married at 711 W. Fcrty-flfth-&L about 7 o'clock In the evening of Saturday, April 29, by the Rev. John R. Paxton, and the marriage was witnessed by Mrs. Paxton and Mrs. Collier of Pittsburg. He had married, he said, his kinswoman, the daughter of R. W. Scott of Kentucky, widow of Chauncey AVing of Kentucky, who died abroad some time ago. The colonel then took up the Blackburn thread of the story. He went into a long story about some difficulty Mrs. Blackburn had with a tailor over some dresses, in which the tailor had been arrested, and threatened to sue her for false imprisonment. He had said the tailor was bluffing aud they had better call his bluff. Then Mrs. Blackburn had said that there was another matter of greater importance. He had told her that he was engaged to 'Miss Pollard, and asked her to keep the secrut and that witness and plaintiff had been together in a hotel in New York. He had refilled that he could not give her a full explanation then, but would later on in Washington. Mrs. Blackburn had said that unless he could reply satisfactorily their friendship must end. He had said that he supposed he must submit to her decision, whatever it was. llif Vlnit (n (lie ( hirf. Col. Breckinridge then related the circumstances attending the visit to Maj. Moore, the ?hief of police, giving the following narrative: "I and my wife (formerly Mrs. Wing) were in the dining-room of the house when the plaintiff walked in and said: 'Excuse me, Mrs. Wing. I want to see Mr. Breckinridge alone on a matter of great importance. I turned to my wifj and said that I thought I had better go with her. As I walked out by Lafayette park she said: 'I intend to end this matter; I intend to kill you.' "I said: 'All right,' and she went on: 'Mr. Breckinridge, this is your last chance.' The statement that I said anything derogatory to my wife Is an absolute fabrication, without a shadow of truth on which to; hang it. Not a word was said abovit my wife. She said she intended to end this thing by killing me, and as we walked along she said it would be a good thing to end it by that kind of a scandal, and she was going to kill herself too. She did must of the talking. There had been no effort on my part to calm her fears; no protestation of love; nothing about her being a nervous, excitable child. "When we got to Maj. Moore's office I asked if he was in, and being told he was, I went in and the plaintiff followed me, I said to Maj. Moore: I need the protection of the law. Thi3 lady threatens to kill me. I will tell you how I came to be In this position, but I want you to put her or me under arrest.' "He said he hoped it was not as bad a3 that. He went over to her and she held up her hands and said: 'I have no weapon but these;' and then I said to Maj. Moore that I wanted to relate all the circumstances so that he might decide whether to arrest her or me. Then she broke out into a flood of hysterical tears and said: 'Oh, don't tell him; Is it necessary?' I said I Intended to tell him everything, when she put her hand on my shoulder and begged me not to tell him. I took her hand off and turned to her and said: 'Will you do exactly what I demand if I do not tell him?' She said she would and I turned to Maj. Moore and said: 'I think we can settle this ourselves.' " Col. Breckinridge said of his side remark in the scene before Maj. Moore that he thought he had said It loud enought for Maj. Moore to hear, that he certainly intended him to hear it, but it appeared from the major's testimony that he had not heard what he (Breckinridge) had said. After leaving tho office with Miss Pollard he had told her that there could be no more terms between them; that she would'have to look to someone else for support, and that he did not intend to give her another dollar. They had talked together of the child that was to be born. He said she wanted . to get rid of the child, but I said no; "If it is my child I have the greatest Interest in' it, and when It Is born I can tell whether it is mine or whether it is not.' " Then the witness told of Miss Pollard's last attempt 'to shoot him. He had bee,n'to, see: -her vat th house of Mrs. Thomas in Lafayette square, a few days after the scene in the office of the chief of police. He had suspected her intentions and as h? stepped Into the room Tie threw both arms around her, clasping-her tightly around the shoulders. He slipped his arms t-own until he could grasp her hand9 and caught the weapon. This . episode the colonel narrated graphically; stopping to remark. Jocosely, 'and I have the pistol In my possession now; ona of the mementoes of my engagement to marry the plaintiff." When he loosened his arms, he continued, she had fainted or pretended to faint, so he laid her on a divan, put the pistol In his. pocket, close! the door and walked out. ; , : WASHINGTON. 'April 2. Great expectations have been focused upon the cross-examination of - Col. W. C, P. Breckinridge by ex-Congressman Jerre M. Wilson, particularly here In Washington where the abilities of both men are appreciated. The expectations began to be realised after the noon recess today when the colonel was delivered over Into the hands Of his opponents. He had continued his story of the intrigue with

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It invigorates the whole system, restores the appetite and produces natural sleep. A book on la grippe, coughs, colds, catarrh, etc., will be sent free to any address by The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. Madeline Pollard through the morning, entering many and reiterated denials of various statements made by her and relating his own version of the Interviews with the Washington chief of police, and of the correspondence between himself and the plaintiff. He had been testifying for nearly two court days when hi.s direct testimony was finished, and although Mr. Wilson plied him with questions all the afternoon the cross-examination seemed to have but just begun. It had been expected that the colonel would be requested to reconcile his posi-1 tlon as a church man and a moralist with his course of conduct, and this expectation was not a misguided ope, for the examination took that direction from the start. The carriage rid of August, ;P2. when Mis. Pollard said Col. Breckinridge had made the first fcrmal proposal of marriage to her, was the first subject to which Col. Breckinridge addressed himself when he took the stand In the circuit court today. He denied with his customary reIteration that any such ride had taken place, or that he had made any proposal, that he had talked over family matters. Then continuing, he said: "I never asked the plaintiff to give up any child; I never knew plaintiff had any living child; I never at any time spoke of marriage to the plaintiff before the death of my late wife." Denying the conversation which Miss Pollard said took place at the Hoffman house to the effect that a company had been formed by Whitney and Fairchild, which he was to represent, he said that he had not seen the plaintiff on the 30th of April; that ho had not been absent for a moment from the side of his wife that day. as he had not been married forty-eight hours. He never had any business arrangements with the gentlemen mentioned; rover contemplated a visit to Europe; never spoke of intending marriage. Then Mr. Butterworth called his attention again to the interview in the office of Maj. Moore. "My recollection is that it was a much shorter visit than Maj. Moore has said. It was rapid and excited. The young woman did most cf the talking." . t n Long Conversation. This statement Mr. Breckinridge desired to make to correct an impression Maj. Moore had given that the conversation had lasted a much longer time. He went over the conversation heretofore given in this Interview and which included the statement to plaintiff that "I will marry you the last day of the month if (Jod doesn't interpose." The was no attempt, he said, to keep the matter of the interview secret from the newspapers. Mr. Butterworth asked the witness what interviews he had with Miss Pollard prior to the interview of the 17th with Maj. Moore. The witness then related in detail the interviews that occurred and the substance of the conversations as he remembered them. These included the interview with Mrs. Thomas the afternoon of the 13th of May, when he left Miss Pollard in a real or simulated fainting condition. On the next day, Sunday, while at the Rlggs house, in answer to a card sent to his room, he saw her in the ladies' parlor and had an amiable and friendly conversation with the plaintiff. At this time the latter expressed regret at what had occurred along the street and in Maj. Moore's office, riaintiff gave him a schedule of what she would want in the way of underwear and other clothes prior to the trip to New York. They parted with every evidence of good feeling and sincerity on the part of the plaintiff to carry out the agreement between them whereby she was to go to New York. The New York Trip. That evening a boy came to the hotel and said Miss Pollard wanted to see him with a message requesting that he take her to Mrs. Blackburn's, where she wanted to stay all night. He took her to Mrs. Blackburn's house. Monday she came again to the hotel and presented to him an additional schedule for clothing. She wanted a little more money to make preparations to go away. The next day she sent him a note and they took lunch at the Shoreham. They talked again of the trip to New York and she told him the name of the physician in whose care she was to put herself and witness told her that this doctor was a comrade in the war. The next day after this the plaintiff came to see him again and on the night of that day they saw Mrs. Blackburn, who, after hearing their explanation, said she would wash her hands of the whole matter. Mrs. Blackburn approved the agreement for the plah.tiff to go to New York. The following day plaintiff again came to the hotel and a conversation ensued between them as to a further conference, which it was proposed should be held with Maj. Moore prior to her going away. As he described how he had waived her off. Col. Breckinridge gesticulated very Impressively with both hands and explained the whole Interview in pantomime. There was a tragic Inflection to his tones as he closed the account of the visit to Mrs. Thomas, with a "then I left her." There was a constant reiteration of the defendant's denials. He would frame them In every possible form of negation of time, place and manner. "There was no further explanation to give. I could give no further explanation and Mrs. Blackburn said she would wach her hands of us. would wash her hands of people who weie engaged and acted in that way and could give no explanation of it," was one of the characteristic sentences. Ilefuavd to Acknowledge Seduction. Continuing the description of the second visit to the major, he said: "We agreed to say that she was going to New York to have a child; that I was the author of her pregnancy. We agreed on all but one point. She insisted, crying several times, that I should tell Maj. Moore I wan the only man who had ever been Intimate with her. I declined to do that. I said I had put myself in the power of her and Maj. Moore already and I would refuse .to say to any man that I had seduced her. Then she said she would not go. As she turned her jacket back I saw the gleam of a pistol in her bosom. I said, 'You are sitting

close to met' and she said, 'I will use that on myself if I do on anybody. " Then describing the scene at the office of the chief of police, where they sat on the sofa, he said: "She seemed to be dissatisfied with the form in which I made the statement. She took out the ristol and looked at it I said: 'You had better let Maj. Moor take that and make me a Christmas present of it.' "Then I said that nobody could say that I had seduced her because the first night I saw her I took liberties with her and the second night I slept with her. I made this statement about not seducing her with considerable force, even temper." The account of this interview in Maj. Moore's office differed from the version of it given by that officer and the plaintiff. Continuing his recital regarding the arrangements for Miss Pollard's visit to New York for confinement. Col. Breckinridge said she only wanted to arrive there with $10 in her pocket because she was afraid if she had more she would come back to Washington. She was to stop at 7 Thirty-first-?!. . where she would have good care, she was to study painting on china or in water colors when her strength would enable her to and to continue her studies in English literature. He said: "I considered the problem settled so far as Washington was concerned, so far as Mrs. Blackburn was concerned, so far as our sexual relations were concerned. Th? only thing left open was regarding the child. 1 said to her that if it wa.s my child, as I only partially believed it was, I wanted to educate It. to take care of It. to give it every chance possible for a child born out of wedlock, and in the meantime she was to have every care and tenderness. We parted without anger and on this understanding." Why lie I.ef Vt eh InRton. Speaking of the reasons for leaving Washington the last of May. Col. Breckinridge said thy were not connected with the case, but were the most urgent possible reasons, relating to his younger son, who attended Yrashinston and Lee university and was in great difficulties. He took tho dispatches which he had sent Miss Pollard during th trip and read them with grat elocutionary effect. The substance of niostt of which have been published, was that sh should make herself comfortable. "That was just what I meant." he commented, "that she should mnke herself as comfortable a.s possible. Nothing more. Nothing less." Two dispatches received in Covington signed by a Mrs. Thomas and inquiring If he was in Covington, he said he suspected were from the plaintiff, with the name of her landlady as a blind. Miss Pollard had pone to New York on the l:h of May and returned the 19rh. After arriving in Lexington lie received a telegram to the effect that Miss Pollard was coming there. lie returned a message, the principal part of which was. "wait. It will com-?," referring, he declared, to money. This correspondence was reviewed at length. An objection was offered by Mr. "Wilson that if Mr. Breckinridge bad destroyed the letters from Mis r llard to which these telegrams were answered he could not testify residing their contents. Destroyed tbe Letters. "It was my custom," explainted Col. Breckinridge, "to destroy my letters from the plaintiff as soon as received." Judge Bradley overruled th objection. Referring to one telegram, which said. "Wholly uncertain; possibly by any train. Wholly certain June the 10th." dated May 27. he said that he could not recollect to what this was a reply, but apprehended that it was sent in reply to one cf many letters inquiring when he would return to Washington. His name. William C. P. Breckinridge, at the end of the telepram, he read with an impressive inflection. These dispatches had all been put in evidence by Miss Pollard's attorneys, and Col. Breckinridsr was giving explanations of them, although several were read without comment. He seemed to be amused when lie spoke of a. Cincinnati paier sent by his son containing "an announcement of the engagement between the plaintiff and myself." "Meeting some lady on the street in Lexington we spoke of it." he went on, "and I denied that such a marriage was possible. This ws printed in the Gazette and, being seen by the plaintiff she wrote me two or three letters inquiring if I had made the denial and threatening to publish our relations entirely in the papers and to publish them at Lexington." "Did you," asked Mr. Butterworth. "have any sexual relations with the plaintiff after the 2?th of April, 1S3?" This is the date on which the defendant was secretly married to Mrs. Wing. Mr. Breckinridge "I did not after the 29th of April, 1S93 I did not have any sexual relations with the plaintiff whatever. It is absolutely false. I never had sexual intercourse with plaintiff after I returned to Washington on the 31st day of March, at any time or any place. I returned on the 31st of March and had the conversation with Mrs. Blackburn. Plaintiff and I had no sexual relations on that day nor ever after that day. The arrangement made prior to my g -lng to Mrs. Blackburn's as a condition to my going to Mrs. Blackburn's, and as the only reason I would go to Mrs. Blackburn's, was that our relations should terminate, that she leave the city of Washington and that the relations between herself and Mrs. Blackburn should be allowed to die out gradually and I should support her until she would find some honorable vocation." Speaking of the plaintiff's employment in the census office. Col. Breckinridge said that sne had lost It during his absence. Miss Pollard made a remark expressing gratification at the death of Gen. Sherman, as was published at the time, although Mr. .Breckinridge did not mention it. He had done everything in his power to assist her to obtain reading matter, but had never advised her about her studies except to endeavor to make her take up rudimentary studies in which she was peculiarly deficient for a woman of her -reading. He had assisted her in getting books from the congressional library, sending a list by the page. He never furnished her with a translation of the Odyssey. It was 11:.'0 when Mr. Butterworth announced that the direct examination had finished, although there might be a few more questions, and asked for a recess to enable him to look over his notes, so the recess was announced earlier than usual, until 12:40. The C'ross-Bxanilnntlon. "Take the witness." said Mr. Butterworth at the begipning of the afternoon session, and Mr. Wilson, reminding Col. Breckinridge of his early educational advantages, asked him what preparatory schools he had attended, and then asked: "You had unusual educational advantages?" "Very unusual." was the reply. "And unusual social advantages?" "Yes, sir." "You began to practloe law when?" "In 1S57." "Your practice was interrupted by tbe war?" "Yes, sir, and I returned In 1S65." "Was your professional career interrupted by difficulties with your clients?" "It was not." "Were your friends not obliged to raise money to help you out of your trouble?" "I became greatly involved in trying to save some friends from bankruptcy, but did not have trouble with clients." "Your friends were not obliged to return mony you had misapproprated?" "They were not." In relating his connection with educational institutions Col, Breckinridge said that he had been a lecturer for several years, had been nominally a trustee of Sayre Institute, the female seminary attended by the plaintiff. "Your father was a minister of the gospel and president of a college of what denomination?" "The presbyterian." "Are you a member of tht church?" "In the sense that I am borue un its

rolls. I became a member in 1S53 ar.3 have never withdrawn." "You have taken an interest in the church?". "In the sense of contributing so far as my means would allow and giving legal advice when it was wanted. I have no recollection of ever addressing a presbytery or synod. I was never an officer of the church. In at the centennial meeting in Philadelphia I addressed the meeting on Calvinism and religious freedom." "Have yoi taken an active Interest In Sunday-school work?" "I have never been a teacher since I left the confederate army. It depends on what you mean by an active interest." "Have you lectured before young ladles' seminaries?" asked Mr. Wilson. "I have addressed schools, lectured and delivered diplomas at times." "You were given a public reception at th Norwood institution in this city?" "Oh. yes." An Invitation in !! Pollard. Thereupon Mr. "Wilson handed up t the colonel and requested him to road an invitation which he had sent to Miss Pollard in February, 1893, requesting the pleasure of her company at a reception to tho- Hon. W. C. P. Breckinridge ,t Norwood institute, which be read. By questions concerning the colonel's residence in I,cXinpton in J5S4. Mr. Wilson elicited information that his home was on the name street with the house cf Sarah Gcss, four blocks away. Then he asked: "How long had you known Sarah Gess?" to which Col. Breckinridge answered: "Oh. 1 can't tell, perhaps twenty years." "Did you know the character of her house?"" "I did." "Had you ever been there before you went with the plaintiff?" "I had." "Then I understand that before you met the plaintiff you had for years known Sarih Oess. known the character of the houfee, known the location of the house and had been thre before you wont with th plaintiff?" "Each of th"-e statements is tru." Turning to the letter produced by th defense and purporting to have coma from Miss roilard, Mr. Wilson asked where the envelope was and Mr. Breckinridge replied that it had been lost. Ii was his general custom to preserve sll his letters, but the first letter from the plaintiff he could not find. "You have received a great many letters from her?" I have." "And you are oaly aW to produce of all of thm what is called this wooden or dummy I tter?" "1 do not a lmlt that it was a dummy letter. I hav not said so. After tha relations which grew up between the plaintiff and myself on the first of August. ISfcl. I did not want to preserve the letters, because of many references ia them." "You have received many telegrams from the plaintiff?" "I never was in the habit of preserving t-elcgrams." "So that cf all your correspondence with the plaintiff, extending over nineyears, you have only this letter?" "It seems si." If it would not be all rifr'it if she repall the money. In his mt pathetic tones the colonel repeated all the details of the interview, how she had insisted upon telMng him all and he had remonstrated that there were things she probably did not. want to say to a stranger, advising her to go to her grandfather, mother or uncles. "There is an impression on my memory, although I cannot remember her language after ten years, that she said she had given him even a higrher proof of her intention to marry him. Then I told her that she could not afford not to marry him." "And thnt same rule would apply to man under the same circumstance's?" "Well, that is a question of casuistry or sociology I would not care to answer. If you ask me whether I would advise a young woman who had sexual intercourse with a man to marry him I would say yes, but with a man it would be different, for the knowledge of it by th public would destroy the woman and would only injure- the man." "Would it not hurt the man?" "Oh. it would not injure him so much as the woman. Society looks rpon these things differently. If a young man should come to me under certain circumstances I would advise him to marry a woman; under other circumstances I would say to him better death or hell. I am not talking of the Justice cf " "Oh. no," interrupted Mr. Wilson, with a contemptuous air, "I was not asking you about justice." "Are you a member of the Christian endeavor pociety?" "No. sir." "Did you take the Christian endeavo pledge?" "Never. To be candid I will say that I was twice invited to deliver an address at the annual meetings In New York and Montreal on the possibilities of the present age. I wanted very much to deliver that, but was prevented." By further questioning Mr. Wilson ellcted the information that th colonel last Juna had delivered a speech to a, woman's society In Nashville, and had. been presented with a basket of flowers, lie denied that he had said that he had no wife to present them to in his response, and was anxious to explain what he had said, but Mr. Wilson would not permit it. "Are you a member of the mason!i fraternity?" "I am." "You knew that Miss Pollard'3 father was a mason?" "I did not. I knew that he was an odd fellow." "Are there any obligations to the widow or daughters of members growing out of membership in those organizations?" Phil Thompson objected to this ques tlon and the objection was sustained. . Eloprd TritH Ilia Inpll. HELENA, Ark., April 2- Prof. T3. E. Beordon, a married man and school teacher, eloped last night with Miss Pearl Pointer, his pupil. A party of indignant citizens gave pursuit. 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