Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1894, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. H »eeasions no trouble further than a loss| of time. The ten-inch gun was fired ut and a twelve-inch Harveyized ex- perimental plate was penetrated to the depth of six inches and sustained but a slight fracture, It was a good ehowing for the plate. The test of the 13-mch gun was made | later, according to program. The velocity of the projectile has not as yet been given. ge ee NO HEARING TODAY. Bat a Petition Agal a Georgetown Road Presented. The failure of the members of the House District committee to produce themstives prevented a hearing this morning on the bill to authorize the Washington and Georgetown Terminal Company con- struct @ system of connecting railway tracks along Water street and the river front between the Long bridge and the Pennsylvania tracks in South Washington, and the construction cf docks and trans- fer slips on Water street, ‘This was the day set for the hearing, but aot @ member of the committee uppeur- ed. A number of persons upposed to the bul were present, inciuding 1. A. Lambert, Preston Williamson, J. und Ff. Hail, B. Leonard, James lack, C. A. Brandenperg, Sam'l Maddox, Sun’l Polklinora, Jno. Grinder, J. H. Cockreil, H.C. Hawen, J. L. Levi and Geo. Kahlert. Those favoring the bill were L, G. Hine, Jam’) Ross and W, G. Wormsatt. ‘The opponents of the bili ieit a lengthy wo petition fur the comunittee, protesting agaimst the passage of the Lill, A Petition. ‘The petitioners are citizens owning prop- erty and doing business on Water street ~be- ‘ween the Long bridge and the intersec- don of Water and 1 strects. The rst ob- jection urged is th .t “the project contem- plates the concessiv. to a privaww corpora- liom of aimest the entire availibie river Wout of tne city without considerauivn and 4B derogation 4s Weil Of the propretary Tights of the United States, as of private ‘muividuals’” The further staiement is made that the bill would conter the right lo appropriate for strictly private uses tbe property im real estate upd easements of tne pubiic, no less than of individual own- ers. it is claimed that the purposes of the projected rajiway are being alreauy suii-| ciently subserved for the good of ine com- munity by exisling corporaiions whose op- erauons, it is submitted, should be resirict- ed to the lines and ampie fucilities of com- munication how established fur them. The petition is signed Ly the Gireat Falls Ice Company,the National Capita) lee Com- pany, the ln t lee Company, Cur- ter & Ciarke, Thos. W. Kiley, W. W. Rile; c. P. Anderson, C. F. Meunett und Ste- pienson & Lro. SE CALLED TO TASK. The Garbage Company Warned to Re- move Garbage. The question of getting rid of the city’s garbage during the coming hot weather ts a disturbing element in the affairs of the health office, and Dr. Hammett told a Star reporter that the terms of the con- tract will have to be complied with by the contractors or he will see that the securi- ties perform the required service. Thus far he has received no information concerning the intentions of the National Sanitary Company concerning the incinerating plant that was destroyed by fire. Recently it came to the knowledge of the doctor that garbage was piled on the wharf at the foot of G street, and on Monday he directed Inspector Shepherd to visit the place and make an inspection, which he did, with the following result, as reported by the in- spector: “TI have the honor to submit the following report of an inspection, made yesterday afternoon (Monday), of the garbage wharf at the foot of G street. An accumulation of garbage between fifty and sixty tons I found piled on the wharf, but from in- dications I am of the opinion that this is being sradually removed. The sanitary condition, considering the amount of garb- age daily deposited, is in a fair condition.” Following this, Health OMcer Hammett to the representative of the com- pany the following: “I find, by report of Inspector Shepherd, that there is an accumulation of garbage at G street wharf amounting to sixty tons, more or less, which must be taken out of the limits of the District of Columbia at once. “The contract requires the daily removal of garbage beyond the city limits from November 1 to April 1, and removal twice daily f-om April 1 to November 1. These requirements must be complied with Promptly.” ——__ DR. NAYLOR’S REMOVAL. Bishop Hurst Declines Saying Any- thing on the Sabject. There will be a mecting of representatives of all the Methodist churches in the Wash- ington district at Hamline Church tonight to take united action upon the removal of Rev. Dr. H. R. Naylor from the position of presiding elder and to request Bishop Hurst to secure from Bishop Fowler a re- versal of his recent action in the premises. Bishop Hurst has returned to the city from Harrisburg, where he has been pre- siding over a conference, and was at his| residence, No, 1701 Massachusetts avenue, this morning when a representative of The Star sent in his card. Bishop Hurst sent word from his study adjoining the recep- tion room that he was busily engaged. The reporter sent in a message to the ef- feet that there was a great deal of dis- cussion over Dr. Naylor’s removal in Meth- odist circles, and, in view of the exeit ment, would like very much to secure the bishop’s views upon the subject, and asked Bishop Hurst to designate some hour when he would be at leisure. The answer was returned that the bishop was very much obliged for the call, but could not see the visitor. ———. DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. Wants Recompense. R. G. D. Havens of 21 N street north- west writes to the Commissioners today calling attention to an error on the part of the District which has involved an expendi- ture of $90 on his part, for which he asks to be recompensed. His statement is that when his lot was graded for building, he obtained the grades from the District sur- veyor, and laid walks accordingly. Lately the alley has been graded at a different grade, causing a rebuilding of his fence, which was greatly distorted, and the filling in of his yard, which was left below grade. Street Sweeping. Hereafter the citizens of Washington will not be troubled by the sweeping of the streets tn the daytime. The superintendent of street cleaning has issued an order, at the instance of the Commissioners, direct- ing that hereafter all sweeping of streets be done at night. Say It is a Nuisance. Several business men of 7th street have combined in a petition to the Commis- sioners to close what is known as Daley's Hall, 1337 7th street. They say the place is @ nuisance in every sense of the word. —_—.—__ Wants Reinstatement. Today Alva Udell filed a petition for a writ of mandamus against Secretary of the| Interior Hoke Smith, praying that the Sec- | retary be directed and commanded to re- Store the petitioner to his office as attorney- at-law for claimants before the Department of the Interior and the land bureau thereof. The petition sets out that September 6, 1892, the petitioner was debarred by Acting Secretary George Chandler, in compliance with the recommendation of the commis- sioner of the general land office, on the al- leced cround that the petitioner ha without authority in entering a: for one T. EB. Atkinson, February in the matter of the investiga | tain charges made by Atkinson against | ene W. H. Pratt, involving official mi: dct of said Pratt while acting as sv General for the district of Californ nee thal: nal Mention. tary of war, re-| ternoon after | Janesville, Gen. Dov turned to W ary 3 here ra visit New York and e of Rhode C. Jones, | - —r e+ Treasury Balances. National bank notes received for re- Joy, $248,671. Government re- | There was quite a discussion between him LATE NEWS BY WIRE. Sunshine Gives Way to a Bliz- zard. HEAVY SNOW IN THE FAR WEST The Rain * Ceases Texas. to Fall in PRECIPITATION AT MEMPHIS sepaeentinngitia Masia GLEN WOOD SPRINGS, Col., March 21. After two weeks of unbroken sunshine a heavy snow storm, accompanied by heavy winds, began here yesterday afternoon. DENVER, Col., March 21.—The storm which raged all day in Wyoming reached Denver about 10 o'clock lest night. It is snowing hard and there is a high wind. CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 21.—A bliz- zaril has prevailed throughout Wyoming the past fifteen Lours. It began storming here at 6 o'clock yesterday morning and continued until 9 o'clock last evening. A heavy wind accompanied the snow, causing it to drift badly. The sigral service re- ported fifteen inches of snow at Lander at noon. Last night the temperature was falling rapidly, but the trdications were that the worst was over. OMAHA, Neb., March 21.—Specials to the Bee from Chadron, McCcok and other ints in western Nebraska report the ‘dest snow storm of the seasor in pro- gress. Rain early in the day changed to snow about noon and at night fell from six to ten inches, covering the ground. There is a high wind and the snow ts drifting. DALLAS, Tex., March 1.—The great rain storm, with accompanying cyclones, did not cease until 4 o'clock yesterday morning. It was the heaviest known in several years. MEMPHIS, Tern., March 21.—Since Sun- day evening 7 1-4 inches of rain has fail- en in Memphis. The wind was strong, but not damaging. The creeks, bayous and the channels are swollen and all trains are more or less delayed. The weather is now clear and settled. —.—_—_ SUICIDE IN MIDOCEAN, A Crazy Steernage Passenger Jumps From the Anchoria. NEW YORK, March 21.—Steamer An- choria, which arrived last night from Glas- gow, reports that March 10, at 7 a. m., James Melville, aged thirty, a steerage passenger and an American citizen, in a moment of temporary insanity, stabbed Charles Mackleyson, also a steerage pas- senger, causing a slight flesh wound. As soon as the ship’s officers approached Mel- ville to arrest him he rushed to the rail and jumped overboard. The ship was instantly stopped and a boat lowered, but, after a search of an hour, the suicide could not be seen, and the steamer proceeded on her voyage. Melville had been suffering from the effects of a sunstrcke received last summer, but was regarded as harmless. Mackleyson’s wound is not supposed to be of a serious nature. He has been under | the attention of the shi, surgeon, ————— NORTH RIVER BRIDGE. ANOTHER A Bill in the Pe yivania’s Interest in the New York Assembly. ALBANY, N. Y., March 21.—A measure intended to give the Pennsylvania railroad | ah entrance into New York city was in-| troduced in the assembly by Mr. Judson Lawson of New York this morning. It pro- | vides for the construction of a bridge over | the North river at New York. The incor- Porators named in the bill are John Gra- | ham Hyatt, Charles H. Worman and George | W. McWaters. The measure provides that { one commissioner shall be named by the | Lager and one by the mayor of New | ork city, The name of the company is _ the Inter-State Hudson River Bridge Com- | pony The company is capitalized at $1, w0,000, The New York terminus of the | bridge is to be between 170th street and | {85th street. The measure provides for two spans which are to be 160 feet high. The bridge is expected to be a duplicate of the Gould bridge over the Mississippi river at St. Louis. —_—_—_. DISTRICT IN CONGRESS. Several Bills of Local Interest Passed by the Senate. The Senate got through its routine pust- ness soon after noon today, and taking up the calendar passed a score or more of bills before 2 o'clock, Among these were a tew District measures. Senator Proctor induced the Senate to go back to a bill takeu up the other day, which went over without preju- dice under objection by Senator Turpie— Senate bill 444, making the surveyor of the District a salaried officer and providing for @ more efficient service in the surveyor's office. There was no objection to the hill and it was passed without division. A few | moments later House bill 3244, for the ap- pointment of a sealer and assistant seaier of weights and measures in ihe Digtrict, was reached, but Mr. McMillan, in charge of the bill, stated that the Neaator trom Delaware desired that the bill snould go over, and to accommodate him he :nade that request. Senate bill 971, to open, wid- en and extend alleys in the District, was taken up and read, but Senator Cockrell | arose to ask what effect this ti] would have. He stated that in some alleys the houses are built up on the line of the alley, so that if the alley should be widened the houses, he apprehended, might have to be torn down, (wispy, log condemna- tion proceedings. ator Uaulkuer, in charge of the bill, stated that he did not expect that the bill would come up todsy, and he was therefore unprepared ic an-| swer the Senator's question. He did not | believe, however, that the bill ‘nvolved euch a contingency, and he wag satisfied that when he came to examine the measure it would be found that there were no condemn- ation proceedings or destruction of bulldings contemplated. But he asked that the bill) might go over without prejudice, so that he j would have time to entirely satisfy the question of Mr. Cockrell. Relief of Potomac Steamboat Co, Senate bill 425, a bill for the relief of the Potomac Steamboat Company, was then taken up and passed. The bill originally appropriated $5,390 to be paid to the Poto- tao Steamboat Company in satisfaction of the judgment secured against the United States in the cireult court for the eastern district of Virginia, for damages to the steamer Bxcelsior when she was sunk by the United States tug Fortune in Hampton Roads on the 4th of December, 1992. The committees on claims reduced this amount to $5,000, and this amendment was adopted, together with an amendment declaring that this sum shall be full satisfaction for the damages. House bill 4013 was then passed. It turns over to Mary O. Augusta all interest of the United States in the west half of lot 3, in square 247. Senate bill 1205, relating to the incorpora- tion of certain corporations within the Dis- trict, in the form of an amendment of the act of October 3, 1890, was reached at thir point, and Senator Martin, who is tn charge of the bill, stated that a legal question has arisen over the bill, and, at his reque: it went over without prejudice. The Deeds of Conveyance. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the § sumed consideration of the bill to simphty the forms of deeds of conveyance, t end | releases of land in the District, and Senator | Allen took the floor on behalf of his amend- ment giving to grantors of trust Jeets one year for recommission of their property af- ter foreclosure and sale. He nointed out a number of places where, in his Judgment, the bill operated unjustly to the dehtor. and Senator Faulkner as to the real mean- ing of certain sections of the bill, and Mr. Allen called attention to the delinquent tax sts now being published in this city as an evidence, as he expressed it, of the burdens under which the humble homes of this city are now suffering. ————_-e-—____ Ex-Senator Dawes Recovered. Ex-Senztor Dawes has recovered and will soon join his colleagues on the Indian commission, of which he is chairman. He called on Commissioner of Indian Affairs Browning _yeste afternvon and an- nounced his inte ing for Indian territory within a few days. —— THE OTHER SIDE (Continued from First Page.) further, he never knew till ‘:c heard the testimony of Dr. Parsons in this vase that she had borne him a chiid. Further, he never entered into a contract of marriage with her, and the plaintiff never did be- lieve that he contemplated marriage with her. Whatever wrong there was in their relations it was not that Jn going over this history he wanted the jury to under- stand that he did not want to extenuate or condone whatever was wrong in the'r re- lations. Jt was the truth of the case that the defendant desired to e judygel by. It was necessary for him to state to the jury briefly the relations between hese par- ties. The First Meeting. In the spring of 1884 Col. Breckinridge, who was then engaged in law practice, had occasion to go to Frankfort. As he got near Frankfort and just before reach- ing the tunnel—he had been passing through the car to get his satchel and overcoat— this plaintiff! was sitting in one of the seats. He had never seen her before. She artly arose and said to him, “Good morn- ng, Col. Breckinridge.” He thought it some one he ought to know, and said, “I suppose I ought to know you, but do not.” She then introduced herself to him, saying that her father was a great admirer of John C. Breckinridge, and had named her after him by putting his name in hers. He left her after a talk and did not see her further. Several months passed and he recelved a letter from her from the Wesleyan Seminary, asking his advice re- specting some entanglement she was in regarding some engagement. He replied to that in writing, giving her some counsel. The Letter That She Denied. He then, some time after the 20th of July, received a letter from her—-the one she de- nied having written. Mr. Stoll here corrected Mr. Shelby to the effect that the first letter had not stated the case, but said she would like him to come to Cincinnati to confer with her. Mr. Shelby said that Col. Breckinrtige had written, stating that he could not come. She then wrote again, stating the general nature of the question she wanted to sub- mit to him, and again urged him to come to Wesleyan College to confer with her. No answer, Mr. Shelby said, was made | by Col. Breckinridge to that letter, but about August 1 he was required to go to Covington on business, and was compelled to remain over in Cincinnati on Saturday. He went to the Birney House, and while there it occurred to him that he had re- the Wesleyan College, and having nothing to do, he decided to go out to see ner, and he did so on Friday, the 1st day of August. As to Miss Pollard’s Age. It is claimed by the plaintiff that she was then a young school girl of seventeen years. It was claimed by her counsel that she was then an ignoraat and innocent country girl, If there was any fact that would be established beyond doubt it was that this plaintiff! was then twenty or twenty-one years of age. This would be established by the testimony of disinterested witnesses, for instance, the testimony of Dr. Wil liams, who offictat the next youngest sister. At that time this Plainti® was a little girl two or three years | old, running around the house. It would be | shown that she was born in 186% instead of 1886, and that when Col. Breckinridge call- ed on her she was in the netghborhood of twenty-one years of age. er Relations With Rodes. When he called there she came into the parlor, saw him and explained the nature of her agreement with Mr. Rodes. She also in the course of that conversation desired Mr. Breckinridge’s cpirton as to whether Mr, Rodes could compel her to that mar- riage—a strange question for a girl without experience to ask. She explained to him that there was something more than that, and told him that out of her relations with Mr. Rodes had grown another fact, and told him that she had submitted her person to Mr. Rodes. Col. Breckinridge advised her to carry out her arrangement with Mr. Rodes. In the course of the conversation sh2 svuggestei—not he—that there was a musical entertainment scmewhere that night, and they might go. In consequence of this he called there that evening. Mr. Shelby said he was avthorized to state that there was no such conversation as she had detailed about the clesed carriage. Also that he practiced no deception upon the friend: that he was told no permission was recessary, as she was a summer boarder. It was by her suggestion that they did not go to the concert, but went for a drive in- | stead. That First Drive. In the course of the drive that night, and without the use of seductive means by him, and in a manner that might occur when a woman was not averse to such relations, illicit relations were established them. This was a matter in which she fully acceded, and no persuasion was needed. There were no protestations on het art. He denied that the drive was pro- racted till midnight; they returned home about 10 o'clock. He denied that any ar- rangement was made to meet her the lowing day in the public library, or tha took her to a disreputable house tn cinnati. He made no arrangement with between n- her egram as had been testified to. When he got upon the train he saw che plaintif? on the train, and in the course of that journey it was arranged that she would meet him in Lexington that night. As to Sarah Guest's House. He asked her where, and she herself sug- gested Sarah Guest's house. He asked her what she knew of the house, and she sald she knew the location of the piace. h Guest's testimony that he had on the pre- vious day arranged with her about the coming of this young woman would be em- Phatically denied. On that Friday ni. ht he | was tn Cincinnati, and it Was not till Sat- |urday night he went to her house with this |girl. Far from overcoming her will in the | matter, this was, as such matiers too often |are, the result of a mutual arranzement. After That Meeting. After that meeting at Sarah Guest's Col. Breckinridge never at any time at- tempted to induce her to come to Lexington. Mr. Rodes, it would appear, had become behindhand tn meeting her bills and wa being pressed to pay them. They would contend that when she left Cincinnati and came to Lexington it was in pursuance of an arrangement of her own or with Rodes | with which Col. Breckinridge had nothing | to do and of which he knew nothing. The intimate relations between the defendant and the plaintiff continued for several months at Lexington. The defendant never met her, as testified, at Miss Ho: Their s were at Sarah Guest's. She left xington in February, 18S. The di |ant did not know of her departure, he did not know she had gone to Cincinnati; nor did he fix up the letters sent to her mother and to Rodes; that y would contend was without th truth. Col. Breckinridge did not s« in un- til she reappeared in Lexington the follow- ing fall or summer. The Alleged First Child. The claim that this plaintiff was delt of a child in the foundling asylum :n Cin- |cinnati they would show was not true. The | jury had heard the testimony of one of the | 3 on whom they expected to re! s Dr. Street, now Mrs. Logan. Iby then revic briefly Mrs. Lo- gan’s to s' thaw when the testimony, Sister Agnes of the hospital that when D A Mine Inspector Appointed. President has appointed John W. M., mine in- vite John C. patient who was there in 1885 she had at tempted to get the sisters to recognize her as one who had been there under the same of Louise Wilson. The Sister Did Not Recognize Her. But no one could remember her or couk ceived this request from the young lady at | ed in 1845 at the birth of | principal of the college as to being an old | fol- | e to. go to Lexington, and sent no such tel- | plain empted to introduce nerself to | | Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Le did not recognize jher as a 1 at- jtended. When she went to the room whe | Mrs. Logan was she had introduced hersel: | not ynn_or Mi | but om. They would jhis life; | any record be found of her being there. But om the books was found the name of Miss Bergwynn or Miss Burgoyne, who bad been there, and the plaintiff then said that was the name she had borne. But the sis- ters declared in positive terms she was not Miss Bergwynn. At that time she made inquiries for the child born to Miss Fer- ynn, and upon bei fesa dled oa as immedately into a fit of hysterics. The defendant did not know | where she was or what occurred if she were in Cincinnati; but they would shrw that her statement that she went there ‘n pur- | suance of an arransement with him was | absolutely without any foundation what- | ever, | An Interraption of Relations. | She returned to Lexington in July or August. The relations of the defendant | with her were not then resumed. He did | not seek her out or communicate with her. In the latter part of the fall he received a communication from her. In the meaatime he had been elected to Congress, and he Was arranging to come to Washington to attend the long session. One day, as he was going to his office, he was met by a negro | girl who brought him a note from this girl, |asking him to meet her. In response to | this he met her, and their relatioas were resumed for a very short while. He came to Washington, and remained here until the following August. He was in Lexington only for a short time in the fall, but had no |sort of relations with the plaintiff. In the | spring of 1887 he came back to Lexington. | His family was not there. He had some |law business, which would keep him there | two or three weeks. He secured rooms at | Miss Hoyt’s. The plaintiff was chere, and he met her, as he did other persons in the | house, but there was no suggestion on his part of a renewal of thetr tmproper rela- tons, and no such suggestion on her part. He was busy during these two or three weeks. It was not until after the injury the plaintiff testified to, late in the summer of 1887,that there was any resumption of the |improper relations, and that resumption grew out of the fact that she on several oc- casions came to his office to see him. Did Not Bring Her Here. He was authorized to state that the claim that she came to Washington at his | instance was absolutely without founda- tion, She came to his office to ask him about coming to Washington, saying that | and she expected the assistance of Senator { Beck tn securing employment for her. Mr. Shelby said there was no tntimation what- ever of any improper relations with Sen- ator Beck. Col. Breckinridge endeavored to dissuade her from coming to Washing- to settle her business relations with Mr. ‘odes. He endeavored to dissuade her from coming to Washington and it was contrary to his advice that she did come. It was in the month of July, 1887, then that their improper relations were re- sumed. He asked the jury to note that date well in view of her testimony that in February, 1888, she bore a child to him. A Victim of Enforced Contribution: When Col. Breckinridge came to Washing- ton, in December, 1887, to attend the ses- sion of Congress she was here. He made no effort to seek her out. She came fre- quently to see him. She claimed to him that in consequence of her relations with him she had suffered a miscarriage, and he allowed himself to be made the victim of enforced contributions from him. He as- sisted her. That state of affairs ran along for some time without any attempt on the art of either to renew their improper re- tions. For months after that, for nearly two years after July, 1887, there was no re- sumption of their relations. She was mak- ing demands upon him which he could illy afford to mect. He knew she had it tn her | power to do him injury and a man will | purchase his peace at almost any price. | Then relations were resumed under circum- stances—they would be described in the testimony — circumstances under which many a man_ before has committed the same fault. During the months he was speaking about she knew she had him more or less in her power. He introduced her tn- to no society; he did not attempt to break her down among such acquaintances she le. | His Life Unbearable, | His life was made an Intoleradle buréen | by the course she pursued. He Was not a |man of means and could not afford the contributions exacted from him. But he allowed himself to be taxed In this way to avoid a scandal ‘hat would injure more than himself. She would come to the door | of his house; follow him to the House of | Representatives; follow him to his rooms. | She made all sorts of demands upon him, and he attempted to ‘neet them. He sought to Induce her to go away and to try to make something of herself. Illy as he could afford it, he offered to defray her ex- | penses wherever she would go, to fit her- | self for work, as she possessed some nat- ural gifts. That unfortunate condition of affairs continued until after the summer of *1svz—until after the death of his wife. In the summer of 18 the plaintiff was a in Vermont. oT niant did not her. The late rs. Dre inridge died in July, 1802, The Pall of 1892, It was not a fact that in August, defendant met her here at the station, hi ed her, took her a carriage ride, or in any 1s promised to marry her. She did not return here at that time at all, in the fall . Breckinridge met ber im New | York and she approached him there and told him she had an with Miss Wilson to would be $1,549 ault- ed at the her, ately refused wile i end of tw That pr by Col. Breckinridge, but he did ofte she would yo abroad and stay, he pay her §1Z5, a sum he could litle sire to break the connection sue shed with him induced him to offer. He des proper life. er, or to BO, UF state to Miss Wilson that she atlianced wife. Whatever e inridge, under the stress of circumstance was willing to do, that was a step he would had estat make th self for some fused this not take. She came back to Washington, and during the course of that winter—the winter of 18% —their improper relations were resumed. Mr. Shelby referred to Mrs. Minear’s testimony, that on several occa- sions, when Miss Pollard and Col. Breck- inridge returned to her house, Miss Pollard told her she had been to Col. Breckinridge’s house to dinner. At that time Col. Breck- inridge’s family was not here, and he had no house to take her to. at any time did he take her to h yuse. From that time the pressure brought by Miss Pol- lard on the defendant was enormous. She had become acquainted with Mrs. Black, burn. She had been introduced to Mrs. Blackburn by Mrs. Filette. She had of- ficiated at one of Mrs. Blackburn's recep- tions. The Reported Engagement. There was some telk, owing to the plain- tiff's imprudent conduct, which led Mrs. | Blackburn to question why she was seen 80 | |much with Col. Brechinridge. At that \time, during the month of March, she told Col. Breckinridge that she had informed | Mrs. Blackburn that she was engaged to! him. Col. Breck | his purpose of x. to Mrs. Blackburn and denouncing thi sa ehood and let whatever scandal there was in the matter ‘come out. She implored him not that; to give her a chance to make some- thing of herself; to give her one more chance. She proposed to him that he should himself admit to Mrs. Blackburn the ex- isterce of an engagement; that If he would *|do so she would leave him and go to New York; that she would gradually die out of that withcut any exposure she would make something of herre!f; that the engagement could gradually be broken; that she could by degrees draw away from | Mrs. Blackburn; that in this way she could out of his life, out of Mrs. Rlackburn’s life and out of the elty of Washington. He at first refused, It weuld seem that almost told that the chtid | | Senator Beck had spoken to her about it | ton. She explained at length her desire | idge thereupon declared | any man would have the situation. He hes't | the suggestion. He told her he would think | |about it. Finally, eerly tn March, she said to bim that Mrs. Blackburn desired to see | him. He said to her that Miss Pollard de- | sired him to see her. In the course of the | (conversation Miss Pollard vas discussed. | | Col. Breckinridge told her that Miss Pol- lard was an impruéent girl, ond talked so as to shield the plalr tiff. | Attempted to Take His Life. | It was in this period that Miss Pollard at- | tempted to take his life, in a room in Mrs. Thomas’ house. She attempted to shoot | him with a pistol, and it was by the merest | accident he was able to disarm her. Col. Breckinridge went to Kentucky in March, | after the adjournment of Congress, without | Ing to her proposal. He ‘returned | here on the 81st of March, and the plaintif | was here. The interview between Miss Pol- | lard, Mrs. Blackburn and the defendant | occurred, according to the defendant's state- | ment, the 8d or 4th of April, and not on the Bist of March, The Admission to Mrs. Blackburn. By such a pressure as a designing wo- man can use, Miss Pollard did induce bim | to fall in with her plan and to go to Mrs. | Blackburn and say to her they were en- | | gaged and he intended to make her his| | wife. Up to that time she had made one | attempt on his life; msre, she held over him | that which was incomparably worse—the power to destfoy the happiness of his fam- seen the danger of | ated; he dallied with | | ‘out of his life, he consented to a pretense | with this woman of a relationship that did | | mot exist, and which she knew could not by any possibility actually exist. The jury would be asked to judge of this transaction in view of the relations of the parties at that time. | It was sald all a man has he will give for his life; that was not true, but a man will /give all that he has for that which ts_ |dearer to him than life. On the 12th of! April Col. Breckinridge left Washington | again for Kentucky. During the period | between the interview with Mrs. Blackburn Col. Breckinridge saw Mrs. Blackburn twice. On both occasions it was on busi- ness for Mrs. Blackburn—to arrange to take Mrs. Blackburn and some friends to the | White House for an introduction to Mrs. | Cleveland. There may have been at those interviews some mention of Miss Pollard. But he went there on Mrs. Blackburn’s busine: and had not himself sought out Mrs. Blackburn. Col. Breckinridge return- ed to Washington from Kentucky April 27. In the meantime Col. Breckinridge had be- come engaged to marry his cousin, Mrs. Wing, the marriage to take place at some Indefinite time in the future. No Relatio: After Hi Engagement ‘With Mrs. Wing. At no time and under no circumstances after Col. Breckinridge’s engagement to his present wife was there any improper relations between Col. Breckinridge and the plaintiff. Such a statement was not only absolutely false, but its injection into this case was a most wanton, cruel and bar- barous act upon a pure and defenseless woman. It was not necessary to support the contention of the plaintiff that such a statement should be inade. Mrs. Wing’s health had been bad. He expected to go east; she to go west. She was to be his wife, and he urged her before they were separted for the summer to marry him. She desired and he desired that before their marriage became known e would have cpportunity to win the affection of his |chlldren, Mr, Shelby thought it a mistake that there was any apparent secrecy about this rratter. The First Marringe to Mrs. Wing. Col. Breckinridge and Mrs. Wing went to New York on the 29th of April. She went to the Fifth Avenue Hotcl and he went to the Hoffman House. He had prev- |fously telegraphed to Dr. Lyman Abbott | to meet him, but at the hotel found a reply | that he could not be there. Thereupon he | Went to Dr. John R. Paxton and made an arrangement by which he and Mrs. Wing | Were married on that 20th of April. They | returned to Washington, and the fact of their marriage was communicated to three of Mrs. Breckinridge’s frineds and Hkewise fo Dr. Johnston, who had been attending er. | At this point, as the hour of 12:30 had’ arrived, a recess was taken, Mr. Shelby | Stating that he would conclude his address after the recess. The Afternoon Session. When the court reassembled at 1:20 o'clock Mr. Shelby resumed his address. He said he desired to go back, first to some matters he had failed to refer to before re- cess. They would remember Miss Pollard's statement that about a year after the time it was claimed she had given birth to a child Col. Breckinridge paid the balance of a bill due to Mrs. Dr. Parsons. This, he said, was about the time the plaintiff ‘was getting money from the defendant, but there been no resumption of their im- proper relations, The plaintiff had then stated to the defendant that she owed this bill and asked the defendant to give her the money. He declined to do so, but told her to send Mrs. Dr. Parsons to him. She came and Col. Breckinridge told her tf Miss | Pollard did not pay the bill he would at the | end of the month. But there was no inti- mation to him that the plaintiff had been delivered of a child. During the time the defendant was persecuted by this woman she used to come to his room and even go through his papers. At that time the basket produced here, which had belonged to the jate Mrs. Lreckinridge, was missing from his room. He had not given it to her. | The Pistol at the Hoffman House. “raking up the ccurse of bis remarks where he left off before recess, Mr. Shelby | said that Col. Breckinridge and his wife | (Mrs. Wing) after the marriage did not go to the Hoffman House. He did not go to the Hoffman House on the 0th of April. He did not see the plaintiff there. He did | |not go to the Hoffman House until noon of | | Monday, the Ixt day of May. He then as- | eertained that this woman, the piaintify, | had been there; had registered as his | daughter, and secured a room communtecat- ing with his. He went to his reom, and as he entered she advanced into the room from the comraunicating room, with a pis- tol, and attempted to shoot him, He slam- med the door in ner face, locked it and rang the tell. He threatened to have her arrested. She told him she would shoot through the door, In response to his threats to have her ar- rested, she consented to put the pistol down | on the floor and go into her own room, She did this, and he w in and got the pistol. It was the me pistol he had taken from r occasion, and which he din his traveling bag. She hed o his room and taken it from his the beil boy came, he was dis- Mest to get a pitcher of mething of that sort. Then Mr, inridge had an interview with in which she made many prot nd they finally agreed to carry out | arrangement they had entered into. | Mrs. bi vurn was then in New York, and Mr. Breckinridge saw her there in relation to a suit at law, about which Mrs. Black- burn wanted advice. Then it was that Mrs. Blackburn spoke to him about following Miss Poliard to New York, and he told her that he would at a future time explain it to her. The Pollard, Interviews With Maj. Moore. Mr. Shelby then gave an account of an interview Miss Pollard sought with Col. Breckinridge on the 13th of May, when she forced her way into the presence of Col. Breckinridge and his wife. He took her then upon the street and talked with her. He made up his mind there and then to put an end to the matter. It was then he took her to Maj. Moore's office. It was his intention, and he started to tell Maj. Moore the whole story, but in response to entreaties he again made a mistake went away without telling Maj. Moore 1 the ts. Then, at a later interview in Mrs. Thomas’ house, she went upstairs and returned with a pistol, and again at- tempted his life, but he succeeded in dis- arming her. It is strange, but he still thought it might be possible to induce her to carry out her agreement and go to New | York, so he still lid not let the rupture j come. Then it was that they had the other | Interview with Maj. Moore and Mrs. Black- burn. Then under her renewed promises to leave him he was induced to admit to Maj. Moore the pretense of an engagement. She claimed at that time to be in a delicate |condition, and she went to Dr. Lincoln. ‘ol. Breckinridge left Washington on the h of May. He tried to make what ar- rangements he could for the plaintiff's comfort, under her claim that she was, on his account, about to be confined. It was his purpose to provide for her. He at- tempted and in good faith to carry out his part of the arrangement to provide for her. The plaintiff did go to New York as she had agreed to, but immediately returned. Announcement of the Engagemen) In view of his engagements elsewhere he was unable to be here, but he wrote and ntreated her, as the jury had heard, not to good. Miss Pollard then, in order to force a marriage with her, adopted herself the | course of announcing her engagement to him in the newspapers. Then, when a de- nial of this was published, she adopted the | last resource of threatening him to make the whole thing public. To this he made no response, but the public marriage with his present wife followed. Mr. Shelby said he attempted no conzeal- ment, and in the testimony there would be no concealment. To Attack Miss Pollard’s Character. In an action of this sort the plaintif necessarily puts her character in it—not only by implication, but In this case she expressly does that by alleging that she was | not only seduced by Col, Breckinridge, but was without sexual fault or impurity ex- cept in her relations with him. They de- sired therefore to go into the matter of the character of this plaintiff. He had al- ready indicated that when Col. Breckin- ridge met her first she was a mature wo- man of twenty or twenty-one. Testimony Would be introduced as to her character. There would be testimony as to the mock marriage talked about with Mr. Alex. Julian. Mr. Jullan’s deposition would be read, and also the deposition of Mr. Rosell as to his relations with her. There would be testimony also that the plaintiff? had been seen, before her meoting with Col. Breckinridge, at assignation houses. The lctter to Wessie Bro’ showed that she had some relations Mr. Rosell, Redes and Mr. Overman. Not an Innoeent Woman. The testimony they would offer, he said, would leave little room for doubt that at the time Col. Breckinridge met her she was a matured woman, and not innocent So far as concerned her relations with other men. The testimony they would offer would enable the jury to judge of her credibility In the latter part of 1s84, according to her own statement, she was connected with Rodes by this alternative contract of mar- riage, at the same time she was under a positive engagement of marriage to Rosell. In view of the contradictions that would appear in the testimony, he believed it Proper for him to cali attention to the Plaintiff's motive in bringing this sult—the | motive she announced—which was not to obtain money representation, but to wreak |her vengeance upon this defendant, of breaking him down, of ruining him and his family. of destroying his pow | cause of the faflure of her scheme to force jim into a marringe with her. The defense asked the jury in weiching her testimony to bear in mind this announced motive. No Contract of Marriage. There was, he said, no contract of mar- riage. It was necessary to making such a contract that there should be a mutual in- tention. Here Mr. Wilson objected, saying that Mr. singin was going off into an argument on the law and not making a statement of facts, and he thought wy bets making en error in stating the law. Mr. Shelby said he supposed he had a right to state not only the facts, but the udge ley said he could state claimed to be the law. seTE aie Mr. Shelby, going on, said that a mere form could not constitute a contract. Mere words did not constitute a contract of mar- riage when the parties themselves under- stood there was to be no marriage. It was the mere semblance of a contract. There never was, he asserted, in point of fact, a contract of marriage between these parties, but merely the semblance of an engage. ment to enable Miss Pollard to go away and enter upon a new life, and to relieve Mrs. Blackburn of her unfortunate impression. Upon that statement of facts they would present the case to the jury. Mr. Wilson for the Plaintiff. Mr. Wilson, rising, said he thought it proper here to state what the plaintiff would show in response to statements the defense had made. For instance, he said, as to the statement that the plaintiff had been seen in assignation houses— Mr. Butterworth here interrupted. Mr. Butterworth’s eyes were big with surprise. “Do you mean to make that statement now?” he said. “Certainly. I mean to state what we will show in rebuttal,” said Mr. Wilson. “I never knew such a thing to be done under any practice,” said Mr. Butter- worth, Judge Bradley said that the two state- ments already made were all that could be properly made. Thereupon Mr. Wilson sat down. Deposition of Sister Agnes. Mr. Stoll at once began the reading of the deposition of Sister Agnes Regina Brown, but he was stopped by the court, as no statement had been made of what he would read, and the plaintiff had no chance to object. Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Farrell consulted over the document for a few moments and then announced that there was no objection to the deposition as a whole. The deposition was taken at the found- 1 asylum, near Cincinnati, where Miss Pollard claims to have been when she gave birth to a child. Deponent stated that she was the principal officer of the institution, though the books were kept by Sister Augusta. She had been con- nected with ft since 1873. In the spring of charge of the first floor, attended the bell and saw strangers. She saw all the in- mates of the institution and there were none that she did not see. During the months of April-June, 1885, some of the inmates were veiled part of the time, but | not from her. There was a woman, who gave birth to a child, being veiled from the physician, but this was in 18st. Deponent saw Miss Pollard in December, 1893, at the asylum. Mr. Carlisle and Mr. | Johnson were with her. Miss Pollard asked her if she remembered her and deponent said she did not. In answer to a question | from deponent, Miss follard sald she could | not remember who was the sister superfor | um, but at the time of her stay in the asy thought {it was Sister Agnes. Deponent said to her, “no, and if you do not remem- ber me you were never here, for I have not changed the style of my hair or dress in twenty years.” Discrepancies in M ments. Miss Pollard said she had been known as Louise Wilson, but @eponent found no such name on the record..On the other hand, there was the name of a Miss Burgoyne, and when I mentioned that Miss Pollard sald, “Oh, yes, that was the name I went by when I was here. I had so many that I forgot which it was.” In talking about her stay here Miss Pollard said that she remembered the death of a girl in the asy- lum, but did not recollect :he death of a sister who died suddenly while she claimed to be here. This I thought was very strange. There were a number of other discrepancies Pollard’s State- ‘in her descriptions of her stay, and I told her that she could never have been in the house. I told Mr. Carlisle that I did not think she had ever been here, for she @id not know any more about the house than a person who would simply walk in and out of the place. (Continued on Third Page.) +o New York Cotton. Month. more Markets. BALTIMORE, Md., March 21.—Plour steady, vn. changed receipts, 2.986 barrels; shipments, 19,114 barrels; sales, 1,025 barrels, Wi SU%u6u; March, ‘59% a60; Ma; 62) bid; steamer No. 2 " 7 —recel 19,385 bushels; shipments, 16,000 bushels; stock, 62, bushels; “ales, “118,600 | babel —m t ft spot, iignsi'y: Joly, 42; March, 41% a. ed, steamer mix “ corn ple. s2tgats do. on grade, 41042. Oats inw at ‘steady prices—No. white western, BSa3S\4: No. 2 mixed western, 851ga36—recetpts, 4,000 bushels; stock, ‘58 bushels. Hay dull good to .huloe timothy, ‘$14.50a$15.00. Grain freights ensy, un- changed. Sugar dull and easy—granulated, 84.96 + 100 Ibs. Butter steady—tancy creamery, 20a : do. imitation, 17818; do. ladle, 15a16; "good 13al4; store packed, 19812 Eges week, inoralized—fresh, 12',a18%y. Cheese unchanged. —— Approved by the Presiden ‘The President has approved the joint reso- lution to reappoint Andrew D. White of by sam- tive, lo what would make it impossible to do what he had agreed to do. He warned her that If she came to Lexington %t would re- sult in precipitating a scandal and prevent his carrying out plans intended for her New York as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, the act to remove the charge of decertion agaitist John W. Wacker and the act granting an increase of pension to An- drew Franklin. Mr. 1885, deponent had | — FINANCE AND TRADE Wall Street Confident of the Bland Bill's Veto, ‘BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR THE RAILROADS | Prices Marked Up Traders. -_—._—_ GENERAL MARKET REPORTS by the Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. | NEW YORK, March 21.—I1n view of the recognized narrowness of speculation, the Stubborn resistance displayed in today's ‘Market was decidedly encouraging. Uef in a veto of the Bland bill is again pre- dominant, and for this reason traders felt justified in marking up prices. The convic- nouncement of that ther demonstration graphic dispatch dent to the members of tea | Washington, cy signing Fi ; 8 ie faye if feet dee ftsteee 5 i fl . 5 +o) 8 4 | tt [ t aE ‘eeping and that neither confidences im, contracts ‘will be tm the slightest aay tr not cana Dabiabed uring the tinue to talk in @ most confideat ton ‘and assure their friends that the cutiosk is Shorts have nor im; i and gained 1 1-4 per cent to84 on covering and rumors of an outlook. The gains in the remainder of the regular list were not conspicuous and need no analysis. Sugar again was the center of attraction, and was extremely erratic in its move- ments. The market continued dull and strong throughout the hour on continued more that yo ey! DM would be vetoed, other for the present ing disregarded. — > _ FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The f are the the tne lowest and the closes prices af the New Yona Stock market ae Coron & Macartney, momen Sew Torts exchange. Correspondents Messrs. Moore & Schiey, No. 30 Broadway: gehges Eee psggBaze Esousiiziegsess! gz! g Et we rcentral = New Je Cent ey Yort Cen hes Ua. and Pullman P. Car Co. | *Richmond Terminal, | Southern Pacific. eateries Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—reguiar cali—i2 o'clock m. People's Tnsurauce, 10) at Big; 10) at Bhs 100 af Ba: 10d at Su; Wy at 5 510 i, 1a asked. United States ant 113% bid, ih asked. United States District of Columbia Bonds.— 20-year 108 vid. 80-year te, golds 116 id. Wotee stock currency 1s, 1901, 117 bid Water stock currency. is, (1903, 120 ind. 3.1 cur. rency, 110% bid. Sigs, Teg, 210s, 00 bid. Miscel Bonds. —Wi and George b Chicago Grain and Prov Markets. _ Reported by Silsby & Co., bunkers and b “ 1 Saettapallinin nek buliding: ee 1068 CHIc yg 21, = ey = Open. Low, Che 5 g Bole 53 | Lo nk wi Infantry ist Gs. 108 = id asked. Washington Light Infantry 2a 7, | National Tar ; of Washington, 210 ‘itan, . ‘armers’ and Mechanics’, bid. Recond. 140 |. Citizens’, 130 bid. lumibia, 130 bid. Cay. }tal, 115 bid. West 106 bid, 110 weked. Traders, 104 bid. Lincoln, 90 bid Ohio, 100 ced. te bid, sor ecked, Metropolitan we "Sn- Potomac, 78 wid Arline, German ican, 165 bid ESR Re ssked. . i 9 plerdaplpedmeneges 5 Title ite Tithe, 112 2d, 130 asteed, Ones Title, Gis bid, Ti anked. st “Yeraesiranin 47 asked. Chena- en a al ~ scellanegns — Washington Market, 2S asked. Great Falls Loe, 42) bid that Rua 8 bid. Lincoln Hall, 80 bid, 100 norama, 1 Inter-Ocean Building, 100 asked. *Ex. Dividend. Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: § a.m., 46; 2 p.m. 54; maximum, 54; min. imum, 45. Sutherland on the Bahamas, Justice Sutherland, the fugitive from Gravesend, L. I, has been hearl from at Nassau, New Providence, Bahama Islands. One of his friends at Paterson, N. J. received a cablegram apprising him of the fugitive’s safe arrival. He is alleged to have sailed in the Ward line steamer Cien- fuegos on Thursday last.