Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 31, 1894, Page 11

Itd WILLIE WAS NOT ABASHED Ho Oontinues the Story of His Intrigues with Miss Pollard, ALL OF HER ASSERTIONS ARE DENIED Shamefal Recltals of Incidents in the Un- holy Partnership that Has Brought Disgrace to an Honored Name — Plensed the Gallerion WASHINTON, March 30. audience awaiting the second Colonel Breckinridge on the There was an appearance of witness stand today, whose interest In him and what he would have to say was more intense than that of any of the audiences he had ever faced before. Foremost in it sat the plaintift and her elderly companion, Mrs, Bllls; back of them, In double rows, the lawyers in the case and also Desha Breckin- ridge, the son to whom the defendant had referred in affectionate terms while de- tafling the members of his family yester- day. Further beyond were two long rows o newspaper men and sketchers walting 1o transfer to paper the different attitudes of the congressman-witness and then the ranks of the spectators, most of them mem- bers of the bar. No time was lost in sending the witness to the stand, and then Mr. Butterworth handed up the work basket which had be- longed to his second wife und which Miss Pollard said he had glven her with affec tionate words. He recognized it. “My wife was a Miss Desha. She died in July, 1892," he sald. I saw last the basket in my room on H strect; I have no recollection when. The statement made by he plaintif was that when I left Washing- on, after the session of congress, I went with her in a herdic to the train, that I gave her the basket then with affectionate words. that night herdic to the devot. T did not give basket under any circumstances The voice of Colonel Breckinridge, made this denial, was soft, ured as carefully as it had been throughout fils testimony the day before. Miss Pollard was sitting very straight in ler chair, with her eyes fixed sharply upon him, but he di- rected his replies entirely to his questivner, who sat between Miss Pollard and the jury. Mr., Butterworth then asked: “When did you first learn that this basket was in the posession of the plaintiff?’ 1 did not go to Miss Pollard’s house 1 did not ride with her in the the her Colonel Breckinridge—I learned a day or two before the trial that a basket was in her possession. What basket it was [ did not know, nor did I have any knowledge Wwhere the basket was until it was produced at the trial. IGNORANCE ABOUT THE BASKET. “Have you any knowledge how this basket got into her possessior “I cannot say from personal knowledge how the basket came into her possession, nor did she receive It with my knowledge or consent or connivance on my part.” Mr Butterworth then loft the question of the basket and directed his questions to the detalls of the meeting between the witness and Mlss Pollard, and the circumstances of tho visit to the house of Sarah Guess. “I wish you would give an account, colonel,” said Mr. Butterworth, “of your trip to Lexington on the afternoon of August 2, of which you spoke yesterday, when the plaintift was in the train.” “I found the plaintiff in the car when I Bot Into it. The car was crowded and I found the plaintift sitting near the door at which T entered. I spoke to her and the conversation resulted in an arrangement by which we were to meet that evening In Lexington.” . In answer to a further question he stated: ‘An arrangement was made that we should meat at the house o Sarah Guess. The gement was carried o “’8 e e ut by going in tate what took place between y the plaintift, 5 g von o A.—The statement in the New York World was substantially correst. We knocked at the door several times. When no ome re- sponded a little talk took place between the plaintift and myself as to what to do. One guggestion was that she should go o the Aoor of a friend, where she expected to spend the night. ' Another suggestion that she should await a little while, It being Saturday night and it being the custom to do a little marketing that night. The con- cluslon was that she should wait and should go to my home and if Sarah Guess returned in a reasonable time I would find her there. I had supper with my famlily that night. There was a torch light proces- sion and some speeches, but I did not mako a speech myself. I walked back to Sarah G and found the plaintift there. Thero was to be an election the next Monday and thers was some feeling on both sides. SOME LIVELY QUESTIONINC Q.—Had you made an arrangement to go to Sarah Guess', as the plaintifft said? A.—None whatever. Q—Was there any conversation about her schooling and inducements of help held out by you A~—Nono whatever. Q—Was there any resistance or protosta- tion on her part against what was done there! A—None whatever. We merely carried out the arrangements made on the train Sho preferred to remain In the house and avold any risk or questions which it might be inconvenient to answer. 1 returned the next night, Sunday, with some uncertainty whether I would find her there, as she had sald It she could slip away without risk to the house of her grandfather or uncle she would do 0. I found her there, however, as she said she had not dared to take the risk of going away by daylight. I remained until about 10 o’clock that night. Q—Was there any reference to Rhodes? A—I cannot recall any. Possibly there was In those two evenings. Q—Did you see her Monday morning? A~I did not. Q.—What was there In her conduct or ap- pearance to- indicate that she was not a ma- tured young woman? A.—Nothing whatever. She was a fully developed young woman, with nothing to in- dicate that she was not experienced in the relation of the sexes. Q.—Was anything ever said being seduced by you, or, as It sald here, that she seduced you? This question stirred a laugh, at which ~Judge Bradley looked up from his writing and rapped sharply. “As to the first,” sald Colonel Breck ridge, smiling in an embarrassed way, ° course nothing was said. Nor until the filing of this suit was anything ever said to the effect that I had seduced her physically or dtherwise." The witness said that from that time until %We met her with other school girls of the Sayre institute In Lexington the next Oecto- bor ho had not seon nor heard o Miss Pol- lard. about her has been of “The two old ladies with whom she boarded there,” he added, ‘“wera perfectly proper, most estimable and respected per- song. It the plaintift recelved any one in her room there at night, as she has said, I know nothing of it. It was not L" DIDN'T KNOW HER WHEREABOUTS. While Miss Pollard was absent from Lex- Ington during the spring of 1885, when she said that her first child was born, witness declared that he had no knowledge of her whereabouts und no communication with her. If she had written under the nom de plume of Margaret Dillon he had not re- ceived the letters. “Did you pay the plaintiff anything when you parted from her at Sarah Guess'?" “I cannot use the word pay,” replied the colonel, considerately. “I paid the ex- penses at Sarah Guess' and p ited her a sum, not very large, but enough to pay her traveling expenses.” Continuing he denied all knowledge of the correspondence to Rhodes alleged to have been written, dated from New Orleans and other places 'in the south, by Miss Pollard under his dircction, nor had he over written a letter purporting to be from her to her mother or any other person. Their hand writings wero so dissimilar that it would have been out of the question. The letters from Miss Pollard to Rhodes which were read in court he had procured from the sis tor of Rhodes, through Attorney Tenney of Lexington. ~ Ho had never ~seen Mary Street of Cinclunati, now Mrs. Logan, and referring to her description of him s a small man, he sajd: "I was no more of & pigmy then than I am now He described in a general way his move- ments In the year 1885 until he met Miss Pollard In August or September, aserting that ho had o knowledge of where she had been or the reason for her absence In his boyhood he had been acquainted with Rhiodes, Instead of being in Cin cinnati on Saturday, August 17, 1884, when Miss Pollard had testified they met at the public library and afterwards visited an assignation house, he had been engaged in court at Winchester in the trial of Ollle Brown for murder. The next week and all that month he had been greatly en gaged “Did you meet Miss Pollard after that first meeting, in the fall of 1884, I mean properly, in assignation?’ asked Mr. But- terworth, “On the 11th of October I met her in a house in Cincinnati, She came from the western part of the state and I from the, east. I met her at the Grand Central depot and went to Mrs. Rose’s house, where we were some time. 1 went out on busi ness and returned after supper. I re- mained several hours. I returned to Lex- ington in the morning and she went there by another train.” “Did you present her any money?" “I pald the expenses, whate they were. How HE FIXED THE DNE The congressman was able to fix the date because there was a great republican meet ing that night, at which John A. Logan spolke You did not have the advantage of at- tending the republican meeting sald Mr. Butterworth “It might have been an advantage to at- tend a republican meeting. I saw the plaintifft occasionally, but not frequently,” During the months 1884, and Janu- continued the colone November and December ary, 1885, 1 saw her in both senses—on the | street and in the house [ have spoken of. After the 4th of March 1 was in Washington on saveral days to introduce to the president somo gentlemen who were willing to serve thelr country. My wife and mother were in poor health and I returned on their account My wife died on the 24th of March.' “The firat time 1 ever had any informa- tion from the plaintifl that she was pregnant was in the summer of 1887, The first time I cver heard that her pregnancy had carried her to Clncinnattl wa in the fall of 1892, when she desired me to obtain an office for a lady, on the ground that her brother had been her physician on that occasion,” “When did you learn that she was preg- nant on that occasion by you?" “That was in the summer of she first told me of her pregnancy. “Did she tell you the result of it?" “Her_information to me was that it had been a legitimate miscarriage, not an im- proper n arriage; that it had occurred with her mother's knowledge, under her mother’ supervision; that it was through her mother that loss of character had been avoided and secrecy secured.’” During this passage Miss lad great trouble in_pre making an outery. Mr. tinued “How often did you see the plaintiff in the fall of 18857 Occasion cannot su Describing his movements in 1885, Colonel Breckinridge spol of his counection with the Morrison bill in congress at a barbecue glven by his constituents and his attendance upon confederate reunions. IT WAS A NICE, QUIET PLAC “I am unable to recall a single instance when [ scw the plaintiff in the year of 1886, he continued; and then, telling how he lappened to stop at Miss Hoyt's in Lex- ington, where Miss Pollard boarded, he said that the noise at the Phoenix hotel kept him awake at night and that a friend had recom- mended the boarding house to him as a quiet place. The fact that Miss Pollard was stop- ing there had ‘“nothing whatever” to do with the change. He was receiving a large mail of daily papers with some hooks, a part of which was turned over to the estimable old ladies, to Miss Pollard and to another young lady there. He: did not advise her concerning her reading. “During that time was there any improper relations between you?" “None whatever. We met just as I met the other Indies. There was no suggestion by word or syllable that improper relations lad ever existed between us.'” 1887, when ollard’s friend iting her from Butterworth con- , but not often. How often I “The plaint! has said that it was on account of your importunities she came to Washington. How was that? “I did everything I could to prevent her,” said the colonel impressively, “‘and to pre- vent an open breach and scandal “Where did you first learn of her purpose of coming to Washington?" Mr. Butterworth *inquired. 4 “In Lexington,” replied the witness. “From whom?" “rom the plaintiff. “When was that? “About the third or fourth gust.” “Up to this time had there been any re- sumption of your improper relations,” asked Mr. Butterworth. “None whatever,” was the reply, and in answer as to whether they met frequently he said that he had seen her occasionally, in the sensa of meeting her on the street. Continuing, the colonel said: “After my re- turn to Lexington from Nicholasville our relations were resumed, and [ met her at the same house as before in the latter part of July, 1887. It was after the accldent in which she was thrown from her horse. Soon afterward she came to me and said he had made up her mind to leave Lex ington, because she could get no employ ment there and because she was pursued by ssip about her relations with Rhodes. Sho sald she had consulted Senator Beck about coming to Washington and that he had said that it was not a good plan for her to come to Washington; that it was the worst place for a young woman to come. I protested against her coming. She said one morning that it was absolutely neccssary for me to seo her and T met her that night. She said she feared she was pregnant—that it was not at all a matter of certainty, but that if sho were there was nothing for her to do but to go somewhere—'" “Stop there,” interrupted Mr. Butterworth. “Did she say sho was pregnant by you?" HE HAD HIS DOUBTS. Ot course. The conversation was ex- cessively unpleasant. I refused to furnish the money. It was a matter of doubt. Only two months, had passed since our rela- tions had been resumed I told her that for her to come to Washington might be disastrous to herself and to me, After ward [ paid the money which she borrowed to come to Washington. The conversations were excessively unpleasant. It was some time in the month of September, 1887, that she came. I reached here on the evening of November 8 and returned to Lexington the next day. I saw the plaintiff on the street near Washington Circle. — She informed mc that shp was in a Catholic institution at that end of the town and said there was no Qoubt of her condition. I returned to Wash- ington again the first Sunday in December, but did not see the plaintiff for three months, The plaintift had moved to the Academy of the Visitation on Massachusetts avenue, but [ saw her at the capitol. “Were the s made in pursuanc of your sug week in Au- “They were not. 1 recelved several let ters from the plaintiff saving that her health was very bad. 1 sent her money to the general delivery whenever she wanted it. _She controlled that.” “The plaintiff has sald that on two oc- caslons, after protestations of love, you said you would marry her if it was possible?" NEVER PROMISED TO WED HER. “Phera i not a scintilla of truth In that statoment. Under no circumstances, at no time,” he doclared, had she ever told him that she gave birth to a living child, nor did he belleve it until he heard the testimony of Dr. Parsons saying she had. The second time sho had a miscarrige, resulting from her po: health. “If she had told me sho had borne a living ehild it would have given me an ex cuso to break off my relations with her, for considering the time of these relations tt was impossible that the child could have been my child.” In paylug the expenses of the second con finement, the colonel sald, was the first time he had been represented as Miss Pollard's guardian. When the physician, Dr.. Par sons, sent an additional bill, he had sall that she had better come direct to him, for it she was in the bands of a reputable phys! clan, & professional secret would be safe {u his hands, and If she was attempting black mail it would bo best to face her at once. Miss Pollard bad informed him that at tho Academy of the Visitation she had ar runged with the good sisters to teach in THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY¥. MARCH M--~TWELVE PAGES. 1 she came to Washington against my will. I return for her board, and she al wonld recelve instructions in some of the higher classics. That seemed an eminontly desir able arrangement, for it afforded her pro tection and quiet “During the three years that she wa thpre, were there any improper reiations | between you and the plaintiff? There was. [ “The plaintift has sald that there was | never any suggestion on your part that your | relations should be broken off ? | “From November, 1855, to July, 1887, there were no Improper relations between us, | although I was supporting her. The en: | tanglement between us really began when | | frequently said to her as earnestly as I knew bow that the relations between us could only result in public scandal and perhaps de- struction of us both; that her character, her lack of self-control and her temper were such that some day there must come an exposure. I urged to go anywhere she could study, offering to pay her expenses, saying the burden could be than it was. Several times I had agreed to go, once to € was there some time and left agalnst my will. Then she told me she had arranged to go on the paper of the proprietor of Bread Loaf Inn, Joseph Battel', in Vermont.*” EXCESSIVELY UN SANT. me of our Interviews were more cessively unpleasaat 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 owlng to her. I suppose at times I became excessively angry and sald things that were hard and bitte I knew that the only alternative was submi slon or the destruction of the lives of those who depended on me and let it go on, hoping that tomorrow wonld bring a solution of the problem. I would tell her In eve way, from gentle to the most severs, that she was becoming more and mor disinclined and unable to take care of herself. Her manner was oftentimes extremely disagrecable.” ) greater on me thought she She ex- Colonel Breckinridge testified that he had never gone to but one lecture with Miss Pollard, had never submitted manuscript of his spoeches, lectures or magazine articles to her, or advised with her on the tenor of them “There was nevet but one human being who ever advised with me in any way con cerning my lectures from the time I began to speak and lecture down to elghteen months ago, and that p was not Mi Pollard.” Colonel B : was referring to his wife and his was most im- pressive. All of the persons to the drama were back In their seats after the noon recess, when Mr. Butterworth quoted the testimony of Miss Pollard that Colonel Breckinridge was con- cealed in the room when she broke her en- gagement with Roselle. Colonel Breckinridg, ing that he had never been in Miss Pollard's house during the spring in question, nor had he known of the existence of Roselle until he saw the Wessle Brown letter. Much of the testimony regarding the visit to Sarah Goss' house, he declared, was an absolute falsehood, and the person who had heard his alleged conversation in September last trying to dissuade Sarah Goss from testi- fying In the case was probably unaware that he was then in Washington in the discharge of his offictal duties. ENDORSED HER APPLICATIO The applications of Miss Pollard for posi- tions in the civil service were identified by the defendant. The first one, for the exam- ination taken In Cincinnati in 1887 did not bear his endorsement, and he said 1t was a surprise to him. There was another appli- cation in December, 1888, and a third in November, 1 Both endorsed by him, The second endorsement said that he had been well acquainted with the applicant for seven years; that she was of good 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 1866, but Colonel ~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 of great heneflt. to her. It she could not, as I apprehended, it would impress upon her ler deficiency in certain rudimentary branches, and spur her in study, as I had advised her to do.” Mr. Butterworth next referred to a con- versation between the defendant and Mr. Rhodes in regard to the plaintiff, and asked the witness to relate the facts and circum- stances of the conversation. “I met Mr. Hodges at an election booth,” said Mr. Breckinridge, “and Mr. Rhodes al- luded to the plaintiff and said he would like to talk to me about her, and we walked to my office. I did not go to Sarah Goss' where the plaintiff was. I did not notify the plaintiff that [ had seen Rhodes. Mr. Rhodes had been to Cincinnati on the Saturday afternoon, going on the morthbound train corresponding to the southbound train on which we were going to Lexington, so that the trains passed each other. When we reached Cincinnati he was informed that the plaintift 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 to Cincinnatl to con- sult her in regard to whether she should remain in Cincinnati. Rhodes sald that he 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 arrangements about taking her away from Cincinnati, be- cause he was very much behind and w being dunned. He said that he was getting old, and that it he was golng to have a mar- ried life it was time for him to see about it. BROKE IT GENTLY TO RHODES, “I told him I had seen her and that she had told me substantially of the same agre ment, and that she had not expressed any manne in- denied this, 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, for he was very much in love with he During their course of conversation, whic was quite long, he sald he ought to mar 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 50, but that she seemed to have taken a dislike to him. He wanted me to tell him what he should do to bring about the mar- riage.” In answer to a question from his counsel the witness denied that he had related this conversation to Miss Pollard at the time, but said that e subsequently did so. “DIdMr. Rhodes say what it was that made it necessary to marry her?” Mr. But- terworth asked. Mr. Wilson objected that it had not been shown that the conversation had been peated, contending that if he could with such particularity what Rhodes said him he must tell what he repeated to the plaintifr. Much of his former statement was re- peated by the defendant, and before he had finished Miss Pollard broke forth, sobbing, and exclaimed: “That 1s not true. Why n't he tell the truth about something? Judge Bradley admonished her: “If you can’t control yourseld you will have to leave the room., DID NOT DISTURB THE COLONEL. o attention was paid by Colonel Breckin- ridge to this luterruption, but he continued “I told her in the spring of 1893 that after what Rhodes had told me of the relations be- tween them it would be Impossible that any other relation could ever exist between us. Then Colonel Breckinridge passed on to the spring before the opening of the Columblan exposition, when he had declined to deliver the opening address, and when, at her re- quest, he had sent her tickets to view the parade in New York His attention being called to the state- ment of Miss Pollard that she had returned to Washingtom from New York in August 1893, and that he had met her at the depot taken her riding and proposed marriage, ho said: “The plaintiff was not lere In August, so far as 1 know of. I reached hore on the 29th from Lexington, where I had oponed the campalgn with a speech. I did not_see the plaintiff; she was not her:. No such occurrence happened. Going to New York on the 20th of September, I saw her at the Hoftman house for the first time that summer. 1 did not meet her at the depot § did not put my arms around hép.and kiss ber; I did not say that I hud & communica gon to make; that I was vain enough to be tieve she would be pleased,” He did not recollect ever having seen a letter regarding her proposcd trip to Germany until it was shown on the witnesy!stand by the plaintiff, although he remembered others signed by Washington before 1 do or Blackburn of the relations You must leave 1 will notify Mrs lady purporting to be the secretary of Miss | between us.' She sald: ‘I can't go as soon Willard, There had been correspondence be- | as that.! (I was going to Boston the next tween himself and Miss Pollard regarding | day to speak at a banquet.”) the trip | She sald, ‘I will keep my promise and go We want the witness to produce those | as soon as I can.’ On account of a misun letters,”" sald Mr. Wilson. “Wa have given | derstanding regarding the banquet I did not notice to have them produced,” go. There was ;no misunderstanding be received and destroyed them,” replied | tween us during the next ten days. We Colonel Brockinridge. | both knew the character of the representa. She met me at the Hofftman house,” ho | tlons to Mrs. Hlackburn, and [ left Wash continued, “and toMl me she had an oppor- | ington on April 1, with the same confidence tunity to go abromd to study with young | in her that I had held when 1 left on the ladies of good family, and could go if 1 would | 18th of March. 1 had at least two more tepresent that she g | Interviews with Mrs. Rlackburn before I ried to me In two yeAts. This was the first { left for Kentucky. Several ladies were stop tmo the suboct '9f marriago lad been | ping with her, and she asked mo 1o arrange roached. 1 sald I had not enough money, | for Mrs. Cleveland to receive thom. I called but would not let that stand in the way; but = with them upon Mrs. Cleveland. In an in that under no elreumstances would 1 consent | terview I urged Mrs. Blackburn to unite to any representations of a marriage or en- | With me in urging the plaintift to leave Bagement She said that she could | town. SR abroad, study the modern languages, and HOFFMAN HOUSE INCIDEN come back In the two years to be my wife. Atter speaking of visiting Philadelphia as I said thit that could never be; that I was secrot mar a guest of George W, Chills, th not open to negotlations of that sort..” | rlage to Mrs. Wing was skipped and Colonel WOULD ONLY GO AS HIS BETROTHED. | Breckinridge went on to tell of his meeting Witness and Miss Pollard had looked over | Miss Pollard at the Hoffman house on May 1 his offers to dellver lecturcs, She had | 1® was surprised on entering his room to figured that the cost would be $100 a month, | find the door to the adjoining room open, but he had expressed his willingness to give | And. walking in, found Miss Pollard therc her $125 and her traveling expenses. The | and but partially dressed. He sald She witness added Her final answer at our | demanded to know wh 1 had been for the next meeting at the same house was that | POSL two days: said she had been looking ol she would never go except as my aManced: | OYer New York for me. 1 responded, proba she would go back to Washington and be | PI¥ With a little more rudeness than I should, there when T arrived. We parted with con. | that It was nothing to her. Then I went slderable acorbity eventually. At our mext | L0 Ner room through the short entey between meeting she sald she did not want to part | the u;n I heard a noise ‘.!.r-n I turned in that way; that I must not think her a | around: she stood in the doorway, with devil or a flend. I put her into a cab, say- { & Pistol palnted at me. T shit the 1g: ‘Yoil know there can be no suc o | door quickly, turned down o Ing: ‘You know there can be no such thing | cyon and touched the electric button. I as marriage between and this affair, if and was going you persist, can only ed in publicscandal e o e ke e that will destroy us both.’ " . : N IR tlissdoarss =1 ‘When did you first hear the plaintift | WAs EOINg fo shoot throukh the Ll s her? She was g tho door and “In a communication to that effect In-the [ the Tombs.' She was rattling the door and Washington Post, which I understood was o "7 (TGt Uyl (e pistol down, inspired by her, and thereafter I received ' go"in g fasten your door and T will see several letters from her to the same effect.” { {0 ¢ /0L RS G0N NOAR " the bell boy “Now," interposed Mr. Wilson, arising, | gnocked I opened the door. Whether he “we want thoso letters.”” | saw that T was excited, T don't know. but I “I have destroyed them,™ retorted the des | o4 pim to bring a piteher of fce water. 1 fendant. don't know whether I was as cool as I “I have procured all the letters I have Yivat Yoet THIE: Was' said.i- %o from her to my knowledge, These were | ously that everybody Iaughe replies to those that she may have. | “In answer to a question as (o the circun The testimony thene drifted into the cir- < attending his last ma Colonel cumstances and conversation concerning the | frociinridge sald he had be arried at offorts of the defendant to Induce the | 711 West Forty-fifth street, New York, about plaintift to leave the city to prevent the | 7' giiiock in the evening of Saturday, April scandal which would certainly come sooner BYLR Ve foRnE B Baston: dnAttie HaF or later if Miss Pollard remained in the | {iioo” wao ‘witnessed by Mrs. Paxton and city. Then he related a conversation in | zpg Collier of Pittsburg. He had mar- which Miss Pollard had come to him in dis- b piaq” 1 S0 s kinswoman {ross because Mrs. Fillete and another 1ady R W, Scott of Kentucky, w been talking about lier, the witness say- Wine' of Kentucky, wio died “I told her that this was what I had | ¢jme” g0, ¥ Lo ! Colonel Breckinridge then related the cir- ie daughter of »w of Chauncey broad some must a away, as she had promised so many times, andlet the scandal blow over. My name | cumstances attending the visit to Major o l.ulu“.‘.t.u.. od with that, but I said it | Moore, the chief of police, giving the follow- would be if the thing went on. Mrs. Fillete | ing narrative: v‘.\l,\' wife and myself had not mentioned my nam it was other | (formerly Mrs. Wing) were in the dining parties. Sho said that she could not have | room of the house when the plaintift ‘walked Dol seandnl against her name; that she had | in and said: ‘Excuse me, Mrs. Wing, I want W Tevolver withh which she intended to shoot | to see Mr. Breckinridge on a matter of great Bersel? if such stories ever came out. I | importance’ I turned to my wife and said 1o light of that. She told me afterward | I thought I had better go with her. As I that she had gone Mrs. Blackburn, had | walked out by Lafayette p‘trh_. she said »'I talked with her and found the charges did | intend to end this matter; I intend to kill ot affect the chastity of the plaintiff; that | you!' I said: ‘All right,’ and she went on: 4ho was charged with being an adventuress; | *Mr. Breckinridge, this is your last chan that it was said she lived by her wits, had | When we got to Major Moore's office I no known means of support and did not pay | if he was in, and, being told he w: 1 went her debts. She insisted that I must go to Mrs. | in and the aintiff followed me. 1 Blackburn and tell her the relations be- | said to Major Moore, ‘I need the protection tween us were such that Mrs. Blackburn [ of the law. This lady (hreatens to kill me. I will tell you how I came to be in this posi- tion, and T want you to put either her or I under arrest.’ “He said he hoped it was not as bad as that. He went over to her and she held up her hands and said, ‘I have no weapons but these,' and then I said to Major Moore that I wanted to relate all the circumstances, so must stand by her. THREATENED SUICIDE. Colonel Breckinridge sald he had refused at this time to do so. On several occasions, tho witness sald, the plaintift had declared her intention to commit suiclde, saying she had destroyed all her manuscripts (including the manuseript of a novel she was writing) i ecide to arrest he . Then a aihiad given away her clothes. | he might decide to arrest her or me. T and that She Do el 1o the witness that it | she broke into a flood of hysterical tears he did not help her-out in the matter she | and said, ‘Oh! don’t tell him; is it neces 12 not intend to allow him to live—that she | sary?’ I said I intended to tell him, when Qid not intend to bear the disgrace alone, | she put her haud 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 it I do not tell him?' "~ She said she would, and I turned to Major Moore and said, ‘I think we can set- tle this ourselves.’ Colonel Breckinridge said of his side re- mark in the scene before Major Moore that he thought he had made it loud enough for He had told her thére would be no difficulty about it, it she would leave Washington as she had often promised, and that he would pay her expenses whe one of er she went. In these conversations, when she had apparently consented, she got up and went into the il and came back shortly and pointed a pistok at him, threatening to kill led to fm. By strategy Le had been end B s from hur before she could do [ Major Moore; that he certaiuly fntended ke N e Hept the pistol, and it was | him to hear 'it; but it appeared from the the e had taken from his | major's testimony that he had not heard the same weapon valise when she had attempted his life in scene, he sald, was what he (Breckinridge) had said After leaving the office with Miss Pollard he had told her that there could be nothing further between them; that she would have to look to some one 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. She sald 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 not.' " HER LAST ATTEMPT TO SHOOT HIM. The witness told of Miss Pollard's last attempt to shoot him. He had been to see her at the house of Mrs. Thomas in Laluy- ette square a few days after the scene in the office of the chief of police. He had suspected her intentions, and as he stepped into the room he threw both arms around her, clasping her tightly around the shoul- New York City. That 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 had taken the revolver away from Miss Pollard, and that night she had come to his house with a young man and left a note ex- pressing her regret at what had occurred. When he.next saw her, two or three days afterwards, she had proposed again to leave the olty, and he again offered to pay her expenses. In March, 1803, he had met plaintifft in Cincinnatl in respouse 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. but under Blackburn that it was not true, her importunities promised to keep his | ders, slipping his arms down until he could mouth shut if she would leave the city. grasp her hands, and caught the weapon. HIS STORY TO MRS. BLACKBURN. This episode the colonel narrated graphic- ally, stopping to remark jocosely, “And I have the pistol in my possession now, one of the mementos of my engaging to marry Returning to Washington March 31, he had received o call from Miss Pollard before breakfast, He said: “I agreed then that if o she woulil go away T would Put myselt In | tREPRIBGIE. ) 1o ormg, ho continued LRkl idhes t M, Black- ien he loosened her arms, he cc ) the_power of the plaintiff and Mrs. Black- | . "Veinced, or pretended to faint, so he burn and pretend there was an engagement laid her on a divan, put the pistol in his pcket, closed the door and walked out. This seemed a good climax, and so the court adjourned until Monda I said: ‘You have put me where there is no alternative but to put myself in your power and trust you or submit to a scene in the street, perhaps have an life on the street.’ Muy I interpose at this point?” suggested Mr. Wilson, and he said there had becn no plea of coercion put in by the defense. hotel office or at- tempt made on m Dropped the Matter. LEXINGTON, Ky., March 30.—The move- ment which was on foot here among the women to get out a petition condemning The reply by Mr. Butterworth was that | W thero had been no agreement, but only the | Colonel Breckinridge has been stopped by semblance of one, to preserve that which :\hf. vrl::illl;;u:‘!"K:"g{d"n; noy. ment h':‘u:‘n-‘f. was of more value than life, under a com- | Was fully matured. Lerters Y RIEON pulsion as effectual as a loaded pistol. He did not care what the duress or coerclon was called, The legal sparring became warm, Mr. Wil- son declaring they might show if they could that an agreement was made under duress. “I gaid there must be no misunderstanding inued the reminded in Wa celved by hington and replies have be many persons saying that action should not be taken upon t dence of Miss Pollard, While there doubts of the intention of the ladie: deny they have signed a potition, but nounce Colonel Breckinridge, —— The greatest pain-anuihilator of the age 2 evle are between us," c they subsided colonel, when 1 her that from the first [ sald there could be no marriage, | is Salvation Oil. It always cures. but anything short of that which I could do —— to save those who loved me, I would do;) _ ~ Milled by a Falling Bridge. that she could not trust me, because, know- | ST. LOUIS, March 5).—A special to the ing the relations (hat [ had with her while [ Republic from Hristol, Tenn., says: At I had such a happy family, she would always | Radford, Va., this afternoon, while tearing suspect me of having similar relations with | away an old bridge the structure fell, car: other women. I reminded her that she had | ryini down elsht of the workmen, 'Three not co iden. That I had not | Soitvactor Frank O'Connel was among the sedue injured. o After the good Friday visit to Mrs. Black- y mR—— burn's, where Colongl Breckinridge was ex- Hung Himself. pected to confirm the engagement, but which | CHEYENNIE, Wyo., March 80.—Rey. J ho says he did not do, as claimed by Miss | ;. Simey committed sulclde here today by Pollard, he and the plaintiff had left Mrs. | hanging, He was for a number of years Blackburn's house tagether and walked away | un Episcopul ergyman. 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