People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — BRECKINRIDGE SUED. [ARTICLE]

BRECKINRIDGE SUED.

Miss Pollard Seeks Heavy Damages for Alleged Breach of Promise. Washington, Aug. 14.—1 n the supreme court of the District of Columbia Saturday suit was filed for $50,000 for breach of promise against Representative W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, by Madeline V. Pollard. The plaintiff charges that in April, 1884, when she was 17 years old and a student at Wesleyan female seminary at Cincinnati, she was met on the train traveling from school to Frankfort, Ky., by W. C. P. Breckinridge, who made her acquaintance on the plea of his knowing her family, and that she was flattered by his attentions, knowing who he was and regarding him as a very prominent man, and that on August 3, 1884, he came to see her at the seminary and got pesmission of the president for her to dine with him, and by wiles and artifices and protestations of affection subsequently took advantage of her youth and inexperience. She avers that he got her completely under his control. The allegations filed go at great length into the relations existed between the plaintiff and Mr. Breckinridge, as she charges, until recently. The birth of two children (who died) and the premature birth of a third child are alleged as a result of this intimacy. She further alleges that after the deSth of the children she came to Washington, and that after the death of his wife she was again in a delicate condition, and with protestations of love and affection he induced her to continue their relations and promised to marry her as soon as it would be proper for him to do so in a sufficient time after the death of his wife. It is alleged that he solemnly promised that there should be a secret marriage on May 31, 1893, and that the marriage should take place in the city of New York; but after that, on the plea of 'her condition, the time appointed for the marriage was postponed until the following December or January. From time to time, she alleges, the date for the was postponed until the 18th"day of July she avers Mr. Breckinridge wrongfully and injuriously married another woman, Mrs. Louisa Wing, who was then a resident of the city of St. Louis. Col. Bieckinridge refuses to talk of the snit