The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-08-22
Breckinridge Guarded by Detectives.
MRS. POLLARD IN KENIUChf.
Something About the Career Oh inc i'""S
Woman Who Is Suing Breckinrldse'

Lexington, Ky, August 15.-Ihe friends
of Colonel W. G. =. Breckinrldge mere
in talking of the filing OF the SUIT l0r Sc
duction by Miss Madallne Pollard, at W a7n
ington, generally believe him innocent oi
the charges. A gentleman well acdualnten
with Miss Poard's history stated 10 your
corresponding this morning.:
Il have known Miss Pollard ever since
she was a girl of about sixteen or SEVER
teen years. She was raised III TINS count!
on the Parker's mill road, her family pc
ing renters and people of humble clrcum-
stances. About this time she became nc
quainted with James Rodes, farmer ana
gardner at the Eastern Kentucky luhatlc
asylum and he was very greatly interested
in her by reason of her unusual brightness.
She besought him to educate her saying
if he would send her to school for year
she would then teach and support hlnl
She also promised to marry him, when ne
believed She would do and he enthusiastic
cally complied with her request. ..oo
'Rodes was drawing salary OF AOUo,
and most of this he spent on her. lie was
d very plain, uneducated and unattractVe
man personally, but honest. reliable ana
straigh-forward He seemed to be perfect
ly infatuated with the girl and talked
great deal about her. He first sent her to
a Catholic seminary near Cincinnati where
she remained seven or eight months and
was dismissed from the institution on ac-
count of violating some of the rules. She
then prevailed upon him to let her go to
| the Wesleyan Female college at the same
place, where she remained two years. ne
paying all the expenses, but she urged HIM
from time to time to continue her 1T
tie longer and he complied.
''Rodes lost his position at the asylum
and she having no means OF her own, was
forced to quit school and returned to Lex
ington. He paid her regular visits. treat
, ing her with the most fatherly affection.
"a bpV1n
tentiOn from other Old men whose reputa-
ton for gayety was noted. About this
time she secured Il position i'll the once of
The Kentucky Gazette. Seeing that Rodes
had no more money, she set about getting
rid of him. He became very indignant
because of her conduct, charging her with
obtaining his assistance without any in
tention Of fulfilling her promises. He
! begged her to pay back the money he had
expended her, about $1,000, but she ig-
nored his appeals. The old fellow finally
died, his friends and relatives claim, OF a
broken heart.
Miss Pollard went to Washington and
after her dismissal from public service
she claimed to- be engaged III literary pur-
suits She pushed herself into the best
society and made such a favorable impress
sion on Charles Dudley Warner that he
commended her to the social recognition of
prominent friends in New York. She told
her friends that she had various books in
press and that they would soon be issued
to an appreciative world. She told one
! of her lady friends that she had book in
press with the Harper Bros. This lady
happened to know one of the members Of
that firm and when she spoke to him some
days later about the promising young au-
thoress, Miss Pollard, having i book in
the Harper press the gentleman informed
her that they knew of no such person.
While in New York and i'll Washington she
used three styles of visiting cards These
were printed "Madalne Vinton Pollard"
Madeline Blackburn Pollard" and NADIA
line Breckenridge Pollard" The use of
these cards depended upon the popularity
of the assumed names in the company she
happened to be thrown with She had
become acquainted with Mrs Admiral
Dahlgren and ascertaned that some of
her ancestors were NintOns."