The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-16
RHODES" NOT BREcK1NRIDoE.
The Gray-Bearde ed Man who Paid Miss
P5llard's School Expenses.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug 13.-Miss Made
| line V. Pollard, who figures in the Brock
4 inridre-Pollard suit In Washington. at
! tended the Wesleyan Female college of
( this city in 1855. She was one of its most
( brilliant pupils She was frequently
| visited by an old, gray-bearded man, who
! gave his name as Rhodes He paid all
/ her expenses. and she declared that he
was her guardian.
| She also had several other elderly ad-
mires, but always insisted that Rhodes
| was TO marry her when she graduated.
| She gave a schOol-mate q sealed envelope
under pledge not 10 open it until one year
afterward. This was found to be "a sketch
of her life and loves She first told about
awakening the jealously Of her aunt by
captivating an itinerant phrenologlst.
She met the old man Rhodes, who pro-
posed TO educate and then marry her.
She accepted but with the intention Of
returning him the money when her ac-
I complishmets had enabled her TO earn it.
/ Then she proposed TO dismiss him with
the assurance that she was not as big a
fool as he was. This man was not Con-
gresham Breckenridge
When Miss Pollard first came to Gin
cinnati she entered the Notre Dame con-
vent school in Reading, a suburb. There
Miss Pollard says in her sketch, the sis
befS OpeuGu ubE lCJbGIS anu lOuuQ tudb
Rhodes was not her guardian, and this
caused her to run away one night.
A prominent witness who will be called
on behalf of Miss Pollard is Mrs. Black
burn, the widow of Gov Blackburn, and
now residing in Virginia. 1t is claimed
that Breckenridge took Miss Pollard to
Mrs. Blackburn house some time ago
and left her, saying to Mrs. Blackburn,
Il want you to take care of this young
lady for couple of weeks. l intend TO
marry her" a.
Just before the cOngressman's recent
marriagesto Mrs. Wing, it is said, he sent
a message from New York to Washing
ton to make overtures to Miss Pollard for
a settlement.
ABOUT MISS POLLARD.
Miss Pollard is a brunette of medium
size, very slender and has rather heavy
features. Her hair is very beautiful,
being most abundant and of dark chest
nut color Her eyes are dark brown
She has never been considered a beauty,
but her face lights up wonderfully when
in conversation, wherein she exc els.
Her figure is very slender and her
movements were rather awkward. When
she first came to Washington, says the
philadelphia Times correspond dent at
Washington, she seemed a school girl, al
most countrified, wearing quite short
DIRE sses. Those who knew her best at
tbat time remember that she complained
c,ns family of suffering from insomnia,
and at times a desperate look came on
hen face, which was attributed to the
effe ct of sleeplessness. Miss Pollard has
always been very friendly with the mem
bers of the Breckenridge family, and was
often at their home.
1t was popularity supposed at that time,
and indeed, until she filed her bill, that
the rel preventative was her guardian, an
impress sion which seems to have been en-
courage d on both sides. Miss Pollard is
now in ~ dreadful state mentally, and it is
feared b Y her friends that her mind is
permane ntly unbalanced.