Minoan: 2 “N High Prices for Hats (have een killed. Fine .. tiff Hats. Union Made. $1.00. ' MTAFT BROS. “Equal and Exact Justice to all Men of Whatever State or Persuasion, Religious or Politic ‘.”~-Jeferm' Vol.1V._-Whole No. 827. arrows is. He Gives His (hm Version of the Al'- fair With Miss Pollard. PLAINTIFF CONTRADIOTED. Main Points of the Defense's Case Given by ‘ ' the “Silver Tong-nod" Oratoro—Im- portant Variations From the Plaintifl’s Testimony. WASHINGTON. March 81.—-—There was an audience awaiting the second appearance of Colonel Breckinridge on the witness. stand today, whose interest in him and what he would have to say was more in- tense than that of any audience he had ever faced before. Foremost in it eat the plaintiff and her elderly companion, Mrs. Ellis, back of them in double rows the lawyers in the case, and also Desha Brock inridge, the, son to whom the defendant had refined in affectionate terms while detailing the members of his‘ family yes terday. Further beyond were two long rows of newspaper men and. sketchers waiting to transfer to paper the different attitudes of the congressman witness, and then the ranks of spectators, most of them members of the bar. No time was lost in sending the witness to the stand, and then Mr. Butterworth handed up the workbasket which had be longed to his second wife, and which Miss Pollard said he had given her, with affec tionate words. He recognized it. “My wife was a Miss Desha. She died in July, 1892,” he said. “I last saw the basket in my rooms on H street. I have no recollection when. The statement made by the plaintiff was that when I left \Vash- ington after the session of congress I went with her in a herdic to the train; that 1 gave her the basketvthen with affection ‘\ .-a W. C. P. BRECKINRIDGE. I did not go to Miss Pollard’i house that night. I did not ride with he! in the herdlc to the depot. I did not give her the basket under any circumstances.” The voice of Colonel Breckinridge as he made this denial was soft, cool and meas- ured as carefully as it had been through- out his testimony the. day before. Miss Pollard was sitting very straight in her chair, with her eyes fixed sharply upon him, but he directed his replies entirely to his questioner, who sat between Miss Pol- lard and the jury. Mr. Butterworth then asked: “When did you first learn that the bas- ket was in possession of the plaintiff?” “I learned a day or two before the trial that a basket was in her possession. What basket it was I did not know, nor did I have any knowledge where the basket was until it was produced at the trial.” ' “Have you any knowledge how this basket got into her possession?” “I cannot say from personal knowledge how the basket came into her possession, nor did she receive it with any knowledge or consent or connivance on my part.” Visit to the Guest House. / ate words. Mr. Butterworth then left the question 7 of the basket and directed his questions to the details of the meeting between the witness and Miss Pollard and the circum- stances of the visit to_ the house of Sarah Guest. “I wish you would give an account, colo- nel,” said Mr. Butterworth, “of your trip to Lexington on the afternoon of Aug. 2, of which you spoke yesterday, when the plaintiff was in the train.” ‘ “I found the plaintiff in the car when 1 got into it. I found the car was crowded, and I found the plaintiff sitting near the door at which I entered. I spoke to her, and 't-he conversation resulted ,in an ar- ran gement by which we were to meet that evening in Lenington.” In answer to a further question he stat ed: “An arrangement was made that we should meet at the house of Sarah Guest. The arrangement was'carried out by going in the street car.” "State what took place between you and the plaintiff there.” , “The statement in the New York World was substantially correct. \Ve knocked at the door several times. When no one responded, a. little talk took place between the plaintiff and myself as to what to do. One suggestion was that she should go to the house of a friend where she expected to spend the night. Another suggestion was that she should wait a little while, it being Saturday night and it being the custom to do a little marketing that night. The result was that she should wait and I should go to my home, and if Sarah Guest returned in a reasonable time I would find her there. . “I had supper with my family that night. Therepvcrc a torchlight procession and some speeches, but I did not make a speech myself. I walked back to Sarah Guest and found the plaintiff there. There was to be an' election the next Monday, and there was some feeling on both sides.” “Had you made an arrangement to go to’ Sarah G ucst, as the plaintiff said?” “N one whatever.” . “Was there any conversation about he! 9 scnooun’g an‘u‘ inducements or help held out by you?” “None whatever.” ~ “Was there any resistance or protests» tion on her part against what was done there?” “None whatever. “’e merely carried out the arrangement made on the train. She preferred to remain in the house and avoid any risk of questions which it might be inconvenient to answer. I returned the next ni ht, Sunday, with some uncertain- ty whet er I would find her there, as she had said if she could slip away without risk to the house of her grandfather or un- cle she would do so. 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.” ' "lVas there any reference'to‘ Rhodes "1' cannot recall any. Possibly there was in those two evening's.” “Did you see her Monday morning?” “I did not.” ““’hat was there in her conduct or ap pcarance to indicate that she was not 2 matured young woman?” “Nothing whatever. She was a fully de -veloped young woman, with nothing to in dicate that she was not experienced in the relations of the sexes. ” . “Was anything ever said about her be ing seduced by you, or, as it has been said 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,” said Colonel Breckin- ridge, smiling in an embarrassed way, “01 course nothing was said, nor until the filing of this suit was anything ever said to the effect that I had seduced her phys' ica-lly or otherwise.” A Long Interval. The witness said that from that time un til he met her with other schoolgirls of the Sayre institute in Lexington the next Oc- tober he had not seen or heard of Miss. Pollard. “The two old ladies with whom she boarded there,” he added, “were perfectly proper, most estimable and respected per- sons. If the plaintiff received any one ii. her room there at nights, as she has said. I knew nothing of it. It was not I.” While Miss Pollard was absent from Lexington during the spring of 1885, when she said that her first child wasborn, wit ness declared that he had no knowledge 02 her whereabouts and no communistior with her. If she had written him undez the nom dc plume of Margaret Dillon, he had not received the letters nor any. box N0. 47. 1 ‘ - “Did you .pay the plaintiff when you parted from her Guest’s?” A, ' .7 2‘ “I cannot use thejword pay,” replied the f?” ' anything at Sarah 'coloncl considers-tely. " I paid the expense at Sarah Guest’s and presented her a sum not very large, but ;.'_._1011g‘h t9” pay ”he! traveling expenses.” . , Continuing, he denied all knowledge 01 the correspondencerto Rhodes alleged to have been written, dated from Now Or loans and other places in the south, by Miss Pollard under his direction, nor had he ever written a letter purporting to be from her to her mother or any other per- son. Their handwritings were so dissimi- lar that it would have been out of thc question. The letters from Miss Pollaro to Rhodes which were read in court he had procured from the sister of Rhodes through Attorney Tenny of Lexington He had never seen Dr. Mary Street of Cin cinnati, now Mrs. Logan, and referring It her description of him as a small man he said, “I was no more of a pygmy then than I am now.” He described in a general way his move ments in the year 1&5 until he met Miss. Pollard in August or September, asserting that he had no knowledge of where she had been or the reason for her absence. In his boyhood he had been acquainted with Mr. Rhodes. Instead of being in Cincin- nati on Saturday, Aug. 17, 1884, when Miss Pollard had testified they met in the Pub- lio library and afterward visited an assig. nation house, he had been engaged in court at Winchester in the trial of Ollie Brown for murder. The next week and all that month he had been greatly on gaged.’ “Did you meet Miss Pollard after that first meeting in the fall of 1884, I mean. improperly, an assignatiou?” asked Mr Butterworth. The Meeting In Cincinnati. “On the 11th of October I met her in a house in Cincinnati. She came from tin western part of the state and I from the east. 1 met her at the Grand Central de pot in the morning, and we went to Mrs Rose’s house, where we were some time. I went out on business, and returning after supper remained several hours. I re turned to Lexington in the morning, and she went there by anothe- train.” “Did yOu present her any money?” “I paid the expenses, whatever the) were.” . The congressman was able to fix that date, because there was a great Republican meeting that night at which John A. Lo gan spoke. “You did not have the advantage of at tending the Republican meeting?” said Mr. But-terworth. “It might have been an advantage to m. to attend a Republican meeting. I so.“ the plaintiff occasionally, but not fro quently,” continued the colonel, “during the months of November and December. 1S%, and January, 1885. I saw her in' both senses, on‘ the street. and in the house I have spoken of. After the 4th of March I was in \‘v'oshington several days to intro dues to the president some gentlemen “'1“ were willing to serve their country. My wife’s mother was in poor health, and I returned on her account. She died on the 24th of March. ' “The first time I ever had any informa tion from the plaintiff that she had been in a. delicate condition was in the summer of 1887. The first time I ever heard that her pregnancy had carried her to Cincin nati was in the fall of 1892, when she do sired 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 1887.” “Did she tell you theresult of it?” “Her information to me was that it hot been a legitimate miscarriage, not an im proper one; that it had occurred with r Norwalk, Comm, Saturday . Evening, March 31, 1894. ner'rtmtner's knovneoge, under finer moth- er’s supervision; that it was through ha mother‘ that loss of character had been avoided and secrecy secured.” Miss Pollard Affected. Durin this passage Miss .Pollard’s friends find great trouble in preventing her from making an outcry. Mr. Butterworth continued, “How often did you see the plaintiff in the fall of 1885?” ' “Occasionally, but not. often. How often I cannot say.” - Describing his movements in 1885, Colo ~ nel Breckinridge spoke of his connection «with the Morrison bill in congress, a bar. becue given him by his constituents and his attendance upon Confederate reunions. “I am unable to recall a single instance -when I saw the plaintiff in the year of 1886,” he continued, and then, telling how he happened to stop at Miss Hoyt’s in Lexington, where Miss Pollard boarded, he said that the noise at the Phoenix hotel kept him aWake at night, and that a friend had ' recommended the boarding house to him as a- quiet place. The fact that Miss Pollard was stopping there had “nothing whatever” to do with the change. He was receiving a large mail of daily papers, with some books, apart of which he 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 were there any im- proper relationsbetween you P” “None whatever. We met just as I met the other ladies. There was no suggestion by wind or syllablethat improper rela- tions had ever existed between us.” “The plaintiff. has said that it was on ac- count of your ‘importunities she came to Washington. How was that?” “I did everything I could to prevent her,” said the colonel impressively, “and to prevent an open breach and scandal.” “Where did you first learn of her pur— pose of coming to Washington?” Mr. But- terworth inquired. . “In Lexington,” replied the witness. “From whom?” “From the‘plainti'ff.” “When was that?” “About the third or fourth week in Au- gust.” “Up to this time had More lbeen a re- sumption 'of your improper relations?” asked Mr. Butterworth. \Vhen Relations “’ere Renamed. “None. whatever,” was the reply, and in answer to a. question as to whether they met frequently be said that he had seen her occasionally in the sense of meeting her On the street. Continuing, Breckin- ridge said: “i‘éter my return to Lexington from Nicholasville correlations were re smiled, and I met her at the same house as before in the latter part of July, 1887. It was :zi’tcr the accident in which she was thrown from her horse. Soon afterward she comet-o me and gaidgshe had, made up. her inland to leave Lexington because she could get no employment there and be- cause she was pursued by gossip about her relations with Rhodes. “She said she had consulted Senator Beck about coming to Washington; and that he had said that it was not a good plan for her to come to Vt’ashington; that it was the worst place for a young woman to come. I protested against her coming. She said one morning that it was abso- lutely necessary for me to see her, and I met her that night, when she said tube feared she was pregnant; that it was not at all a matter of certainty, but that it she was so there was nothing else left f01 her to do but go elsewhere.” “Stop there,” interrupted Mr. Butter- worth. “Did she say the pregnancy was by you r” “Of course the conversation was excess- ively unpleasant. I refused to furnish the money. It was a matter of doubt. Only two months had passed since our re- lations had been resumed. I told her that for her to come to Washington might be disastrous to herself and to me. After- ward I repaid the money which she bor- rowed to come to Washington. The con- versations were excessively unpleasant. It was some time in the month of September, 1887, that she came. I reached here on the evening of Nov. 8 and returned to Lexing- ton the next day. “I saw the plaintiff on the street new Washington circle. She informed me that she was in a Catholic institution at that end of the town and said there was no doubt of her condition. I returned to \Vashington again the first Sunday in De camber, but did not see the plaintiff for three months. The plaintiff had moved to the Academy of the Visitation, on Massa- chusetts avenue, but I saw her at the capi- tol.” . "Were these changes made in pursuance of your suggestions?” “They were not. I received several let- ters from the plaintifl saying that hei health was very bad. I sent her money at the general delivery, whatever she want- ed. She controlled that.” , Did Not I’ronniso Marriage. “The plaintilf has said that on two occa lions after protestations of love you said ‘ you would marry her if it was possible.” “There is not a scintiila of truth in that statement, not a shred. Under no circum stances, at not time was there such a state- ment. The plaintiff never alluded to the possibility of it. Before the death of my wife there was not a solitary word that could be distorted into such a thing.” The colonel was very deliberate and em- phatic, and, continuing, declared ihat she had never told him she gave birth to a liv- ing child, nor did he believe it until he heard the testimony of Dr. Parsons, say- ing: “She said that the second time she had a miscarriage. It resulted from her poor health. . If she had told me she had borne a living child, it would, have given me an excuse to break off my relations with her, for, considering the time of those relations, it was impossible that the child could have been my child.” In paying the expenses of the second con. fluement Colonel Breckinridge said at first he had been represented as Miss Pollard’s guardian. When the physician, Dr. Pat-- sons, sent an additional bill, be had said that she had better come directly to him,- for if she was a reputable physician 0. pro icesional secret would be safe in her hands, and if she, was attempting blaékmail it would be best to face her at once. Miss-Pollard had informed him that at the Academy of the Visitation she had ar- ranged with the good sisters to teaph' .in‘ i return run our board, and- She also would receive instruction in some of the higher classics. That seemed an - eminently de- sirable arrangement, for it afforded he: protection and quiet. : - “During the two years that she was there were there any improper relations between you and the plaintiff ?” “There were.” - , “The plaintiff has said that there was never any suggestion On your part that your relations should be broken off?" “From November, 1885, to July, 1887, there were no improper relations between us, although I was supporting her. 'The entanglement between us really began when she came to W'ashington against my will. I frequently said to her as earnestly as I knew how that the relations between us could only insult in public scandal and perhaps destruction to us both; that her character, her lack of self control, her temper was such that some day there must- come an exposure. j ‘Breckinridge’s A ‘vice. . ’ “I urged her to go anywhere where 311 could study, offering to pay her expenses and saying the burden could be no greater on me than it was. Several times Ithought she had agreed to go, once to Cambridge. She was there some time and . left against my will. Then she told 111?. she had ar- ranged to go on the paper or the proprie~ tor of Bread Loaf Inn, Mr. Joseph Batten, in Vermont. Some of our interviews were more excessively unpleasant than any words can describe. She would come to me at the capitol, in my committee room, declare that she was not going toleave; that she was going to have the support I owed her. -» - . “I suppose at times I became excessively angry and said things that were hard and bitter. i knew that the only alternative was submission or the destruction of the lives of those who depended upon me and let it go on, hoping that tomorrow would. bring a solution of the problem. I would tell her in every way from gentle to the most severe that she was becoming more and more disinclined and unable to care for herself.” Colonel Breckinridge testified that he had never gone to but one lecture with Miss Pollard, had never subinittedmanu- scripts of his speeches, lectures or maga- zine articles to her or advised with her on the tenor of them. “There was never but one human being who advised with me in any way concern- ing my lectures from the time I began to speak and lecture down to 18 months ago, and that person was not Miss Pollard.” Colonel Breckinridge was referring to his wife, and his manner was most im- pressive. After the noon recess LMr. Butterworth quoted the testimony of Miss Pollard that Colonel Breckinridge was concealed in the room when she broke her engagement with Rossell. Colonel mecggnfldwieaieithygex . " laifiiifg‘I-liat he had never been in Miss oyt’s house during the spring in ques- tion. The applications of Miss Pollard for p0< sition’s in the civil service were identified by the defendant. The second one was in- dorsed by him and said that he ‘1ad been well acquainted with the applicant fox seven years, and that she was of good moral character and reputation. Her birth was given on the papers as 1866". CHEEBFUL COXEY MEN. They Get a Picturesque Breakfast In an Abandoned Foundry. COLUMBIANA, 0., March 31.——Songs were heard all over the commonweal camp soon after dawn today. There was a promise of plenty to eat, warm quarters and a bril- liant morning. The foundry, where the camp was established, was at one time the experimental laboratory of the notorious Johnston, the patentee of a process of gas manufacture from crude oil. Deserted for years, the sudden heat of the many open campfires inside had a curious effect. The frozen floor thawed out before 10 o’clock, and the common- weal was wallowing in the liquid mud six inches deep. Thirty-four of the soldiers broke through the picket line out of camp and spent the night comfortably in the lockup. Despite the quantity of meat donated yesterday by the people here, many of the older and more respectable soldiers got nothing but potatoes and bread for breakfast. Others had several chops, coffee, preserves and other delicacies. The scene in the old foundry was very picturesque, and especially so since the men have begun to cook their own rations. Each one built a little stick fire. The at mosphere was dense with smoke, but the good natured hubbub all around showed that there was some enjoyment in rough- ing it. Many Columbiana people were down early to visit the camp, but by Browne’s orders no person was admitted. Seven Hundred Hands Out of tVox-k. ASHLAND, Pa., March 31.--The breaker at Park colliery, No. 2, situated at Park Place and operated by Lentz, Lilly 8'6 00., was destroyed by fire today. The origin of the fire is unknown. 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