Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-21
In ITS COFFIN
Madeline Laid Her Baby Be
cause Its Father Feared
IT WOULD Be TRACED
10 Him---Miss Pollard Over
come With Grief
When tho Subject OF Her Dead Rabies
is Again Touched On, and Court
Adjourned - BreckInrldgo's
Duplicity Further shown.


by Associated Press.
Washington. March 2O.-When tho
shriil voice of the baillf cried adjourn.
men' in the old circuit court this after.
noon the yelled face Of Madeline Pol.
iard was buried in her arms upon the
rough board top of the witness box be-
hind which she had sat for three days.
lhe on4y sound which had broken such a
silence as seldom falls on court room
was a sobbing that seemed TO come from
the inmost heart.
Three jurors were fnnbinr in an un.
certain way with their handkerchlefs
the judge was staring towards the cell
lng abstractedly. Even the lawyer whose
eross-eNnminati0n had led up to this pas.
sage wore a look OF unwoutcd gravity
on his fatherly benevolent face. with
something remarkably like moisture about
ms eyes If there was a-man among the
curious hundreds in the court room un.
moved he WAS inconspicuous IN the ma.
JorlV OF sympathetic faces. Madeline
Pollard mad been telling the most tragic
episodes Of her unhappy life.
Tomorrow the cross.eNnnip,foin of tho
Maintih will be completed early and nul.
lie expectation which here In MANNHEIM,
~ raised to white heat turns 10 The f5rfb.
coming version of the orator-delendant.
Hiss lolard, when did you inst meet
Mfs' blhckoutnF was the Inst question
asked Oy eN-CongrAsinun BeuIumui Rut-
lerWorth today to the plainfih In Inc
Notwithstanding breach OF promise
suit.
a .etter was handed to the plaintiff
Which was said to have been written by
her 10 her protector, MIR. Rhodes. After
looking az II she inquired why the heud,
ing had been torn on. Mr.. HuitprVorth
replying thar be did not know and her
lawyers caulioning her chat II was not
her place 10 ask questions.
Mr. Bulierw0rth read the letter 10 tho
jury, II was dated Lexington. Ky. No
yember 20, 1891. and asked Mr.. Rhodes
for money.
Other letters were identified and read.
Among the letters were two dated at
New Orleans aud postmarked Tdolesbor.
uugh, Ky. IN which the writpr told
Rhodes Of her arrival in New Orleans.
Of the weather and other iuconsoquontial
things. Other .etters, some dated at Gin.
cinuau and others at Lexington. asked
Rhodes for money the sum varying from
$40 to $40
Nlr Butterworth devoted his question.
ing principally TO the New Orleans let
tiers aud the plaintiff admitted that she
had never been In that city,
Mr. brechlhnase KNOWS very Wen
But ! was not asking Mr.. Brcekin-
ridge" Mr. Butterworlh demonstrated.
Her explanation when again asked
was, sAlwevs when there was tho slight.
EST suspicion or questioning took the
first opportunity 10 cover Il np. Each
one Of these Letters beans the square mark
OF that. Mr. Breckinridge would hnve
fiyen ihe money II he had dared. Int
MA ia sne,n IA he IN need Of money"
"Bnt Won gnt money from Mr..
Rhodes ~
..,l,i,or, .vnrid have heen no use In
s,.n,in,. Ia need money aud thnn not tnke
4, F"
"Dd Mr.. Rhodes pay You the $40 you
d,,nnnded In Inc letter OF March 2Gf'
ue ~ ~ ~, l.iv be did although
ples,l l,ii.,I,'.,s d,
20 ~ r',V M, W., tho several sums Won
~ ne pg bsss lettersyi
81 have no recollection Of It lie may
nv u" 5TS,in,,s v,,.re nreffv wei.
hate uutu nv, t-,ca,,sl.. my oue idea wns
nliAeu " NJ Rho1es ash any cues
not 10 pn'u ~ nnnid not answer. Mr..
nohs ui5t .s.,,t h ,ii''
Breckmridgs plahnt ~ ' iiss,torsg'
Dlu W -, dated al New Or
Nc di1 Lne o,' IN Nsw Orleans and
leans. helr' 80, ,,',s sucb n Mace as
didnt know ,9si' ""' ''''
the iish market ,,,,,+on with a mr.
''rhey were an ,'nr hdya sn6ken
pose. They are , M,a lct Ge ~
OF as pima or No9lep ,,'.,,,. 20 all nv lot
Yes theY weiIss. n,.ii.s hocs,,se tbcre
ters written 70 NJ. is,,Yi i,,i,ind han I"
WI NM yotr mother know where you
were when you Nro'e 49, n,,,.5 ,bsm also.
Mr.. bff,s'IraRs p's sa,ne ~ tbem h.
dictated u.in " ~, whom I was
wrote on the tYptNri'r. .tin "a urite
III at the asylnln hnu ~ ~" ~ iearaing
Saving III - c,,,,s ~ fhem he wrote
the typewriter Sonls =, -, a. ,,a,,id
in advance and datel a,i 1.',,.r. 80 tbev
mail them o. me ..iIn ~
would not be postnarh'sl !, 4. ~. ,,,
This answer va h w. IN, AJiss pa.
OF by MI BuilerNgdtlu' I'M, pb ber band
lard waved hin as11s ,., NAN n' aSa