Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-16
MISS POLLARD TALKS
The Claimant in the Suit Against
Representative Breckenridge
INTERVIEWED BY A STAR REPORTER.
She is Living a Quiet and Retired
Life.
DON'T LIKE UBL1CITY.

Perhaps the most talked Of woman Of the
day Ia Miss Pollard. the young woman who
has brought the breach Of promise suit
against Representative Breckinridse She
has been described as all sorts Of q young
woman and as having done all sorts Of
things. including a very considerable
amount Of newspaper work. Much Of the
latter. however. she has definitely die
claimed ever having done. though she has
admitted that at one time she did enter
tain hopes of making some name for her
self in the literary field.
Curiously enough. Miss Pollard has kept
very much in the background. Others have
told all about her. and in so many different
ways that it Is hard to make the stories
dovetail at all. Through 1t all she has kept
very quiet. She has not had anything to
say since the suit was commenced. This
Is. Of course. by the advice of her counsel.
Living a Retired Life.
In reality she has been living retired life
in this city and here she expects to stay
for some time at least. She is living IN a
quiet little house in a quiet out-of-the-way
neighborhood and has seen comparatively
few people A Star reporter found out her
stopping place and called at the house this
afternoon. The lady with whom Miss Pol
lard is making her home came to the door
In person and took the reporters carl
MISS TOudTQ came INTO Ine pdTlOT IN a
few minutes. and was more than pleasant
In her manner and bearing. Without being
exactly beautiful girl, there is still some
thing extremely attractive and winning
about her. But 1t is not until she begins
to speak that one realizes the charm. She
has clear, musical voice and talks earn
estly and with the best use OF language
She shows education and breeding in her
talk as well as in her manner. She Is the
last person one would ever take for an ad-
venturess. She does not even look the part
well enough to play it in amateur the
atricals.
How She Looked.
Miss Pollard is rather tall for a woman
and slender. without being thin. She was
dressed this afternoon in a stylish ecru-
coiored street gown. Her black hair was
parted in the middle and brushed plainly
back behind her ears and coiled in a knot
at the neck. There was not 4 sign of a
bang. and her hair is straight and with
out wave. She looked tired and worried,
but her face is that of young girl.
Miss Pollard was very averse to an in
of her lawyers. and she had nothing to
add to what was In the paper they fled in
the suit She would not even deny for
that are so Numerically opposed.
Believes She Has n Good Case.
81 would much rather you would not say
anything at all about me. My position is
public enough without making 1t any
worse. am not by any means all the
sorts Of a woman 1 have been described.
When go on the stand think that many
people will change their views about me
and my position in this whole affair.
Anyone can see from the character OF
the lawyers who have undertaken my case
that have a good case. They would not
have taken 1t If IT had not been such. But
at the same time do not care to make any
statement now. What could / say that
would not be open to misinterpretation
The publicity / have already had thrust
upon me has not been pleasant or welcome.
and the less you say about me In the Star
the more l shall like it,"
Mr.. Breckinridge'a Friends.
In this city and the reason for their COM
Ing is not difficult to understand when one
knows that they are all intimate friends
Of Representative Breckinridge. This trio
consisted of ex-Representa,ive I'hil Thomp-
son, Mr.. VIM. S. McChesney, IL. and Mr.
John T. Shelby Of Lexington.
For several years past Mr.. Shelby has
been the law partner of Mr.. Breckinridge
and the two were closeted for some time
yesterday. Mr.. Thompson is well known in
washington. where he has spent much Of
his time in the practice Of law. II the suit
instituted by Miss Pollard against Mr.
breckenridge comes to trial. IT is more than
likely that Mr.. Thompson will be one Of the
attorneys for the defense.
Not = Native Kentuckian.
1t has been very generally supposed that
Mr. Breckin ridge was a native born Ken
tuckytan, but the fact has developed that
he was born In Philadelphia, and was two
or three years old before he was taken to
Kentucky by his parents. 1t is said that
he has always been extremely anxious for
some reason to conceal this fact in the
Congressional Directory, where in the BIZ
og-aphy written by himself he fails to
msreS Of sS Srsh Of He
ton was born August %, 1887; gradual ted at