The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-14
THE BRECKINRIDGE SCANDAL.
aIiss PolInrd's Alleged son-Mrs. YounG''
Story of His Parentasc.

Story of His Parcn;ago.
NIcuoLAsvILLE, KY, Oct. l3.-Interest
in the Breckinridge-P Pollard case is still
intense, and the special in the CONNER.
ciul Gd:rtte of Sunday. from Paris, had
such an air of probability that it was
generally believed to be true, and the
papers were eagerly sought by enemies
and partisans OF the Ashland repre-
sentative. The story, however, does
not hold together, and your correspond.
ent is enabled to give such facts and
dates from the best source rs will show
that Master Stoddard Johnston Young
is not the son OF Colonel Breckenridge,
nor is Miss Madeline Pollard his mother.
Mrs. Mary Young, OF Mt Sterling, the
widow of the late Judge Van B. Young,
is in this place, visiting her sister, Mira.
E. r. Sparks, wife OF Senator L. K.
Sparks, and she was seen by your CORE.
spondent and made full statement OF
what she knew of her adopted son, as
she thought it would be. for the best,
since the erroneous report had gained
such wide publicity.
Her accounts asfollows: The mother
OF her adopted son went to Bath county
to the house of an old man named Car
penter, which is situated lew miles
from Owingsville, where she remained
in seClusion until some time after her
child was born, when 1t was taken to
the toll.gate and left by the mother and
parties who drove there in carriage.
MIR. Carpenter knew the mother only
by the name OF Miss Lantie, and she
went there for shelter on October 10,
1883, and the child was born January is,
1884 Two months later, or on March
Is, 1884, the child was left at the toll.
gate and the mother disappeared, so
that Miss Lantie was at tho home OF old
man Carpenter from October 10, 1883,
till March II, lSS4-fve months. The
news OF tho child being abandoned on
March IA reached the public the same
dav, and on the following day Mrs.
Young, in company with q lady friend,
drove in vehicle over TO the toll-gate
to see the child, and being childless, she
took it home With her, and her hus-
boz, Judge Young knew nothing of it
.ntil he came home and was informed
/ by his wife that she would care for the
waif. This pleased Judge Young very
much, ss he was very fond OF children,
having previously adopted n young
Irish boy, who was raised and educated
until he was twenty.one years OF age,
but who turned out badly, and they let
him shift for himself,
Mrs. Youngis positive that her late
husband knew nothing OF Stoddard' 5
parentage, aud they knew OF no reputed
father or mother. Here, however, We
have the facts and dates as given out by
Miss Madeline Pollard. which would OF
themselves explode the above story
from Paris il Mira. Young had not been
seen. In her petition suing Mr.. Breck-
| inridge for damages for breach OF pro-
mise she says she first met the defend
ant on July 80, 1881 or six months after
Stoddard Young was born, while her
first child was born in Cincinnati after
August, 1885. At that time Stoddard
Young was nineteen months old; so the
story falls topieces.
Mrs. Young is ths granddaughter OF
Chief Justice Robinson, and not Gov
ernor Robinson. She, of course, re-
grets the story of recent date on ac.
count OF the sensitiveness Of the boy,
whom she recently changed from cer-
tain school because it grieved him to be
tJl4 by some youngster that he was only
her adopted son. Stoddard is fine lit
tie man, well advanced in his books,
and quotes from the poets with dra-
matte power for his years. Mrs. Young
said she had full description of the
couple from old man Shelby Carpenter,
and that they in no way resembied Col.
onel Breckenridge or Miss Pollard, and
that she has not been put under ruling
to produce the boy in Washington.
The late DR.. John G. Welch, OF Mich
olasville, always claimed that the
mother OF this boy went from Blue
grass county to Bath county, and per-
haps he knew much more than he
would divulge, but certain it is that
stoddard Young will cut no figure in
the Washington courts when the cele-
brated case of Pollard vs.. Breckinridge
is called.