The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-04-05
BRECKENRIDGE POLLARD.
THE VENERABLE COLONEL SPENT
THE DAY TESTIFYING.
He Details In His Own Peculiar Way the
Relations Existing Between Himself
and Miss Pollard During the Long
Years Of Their Intimacy

the witness stand today when those
tere.trd ia him aud what he would
have to say was more intense than that
of any audience he had ever laced be
tore Foremost in il va. the plaintlif
and her elderly companion. Mrs. Eli
lis. back of them in double rows the
LAWYERS in the case aud also Desha
Rrackirridpe the son to whom the
defendant had referred IL. aitectionate
terms while detailing the memoirs OF
his family. yesterday. Further beyond
were two long rows of newspaper men
and sketchers. waiting to transfer to
paper the different attitudes oi the
ppressman-vitness and the ranks Of
spectators, most of them members OF
the bar.
No time was lost in sending the wit
ness TO the stand. any then
mfr. Bntterworth handed up
the work. basket which he
said belonged to his second wife
and which Miss Pollard said he had
given her with afTectionate words. He
recognized it. my wife was IA Miss
Dsshs. She died in July, 1889 He
sa,d. 81 last saw the basket in my
rooms on H street. | have no recol-
lection when. The statement made by
rho plaintiff was that when ! lett
washington | went with her TO the
train. that | gave her the basket with
aiTectionate words. ! did not ride with
her to the depot did not give her
the basket under any circumstances.
"The voice OF Colonel Breckenridge
az he made this denial was soft, cool
and measured rs carefully as 1t had
been throughout his testimony the day
before. Miss Pollard was sitting very
straight in her chair with her eyes
fixed sharply on him, but he directed
his ewes constantly to his questiCper
who sat between Miss Pollard and the
iury. Mr.. Butterworth then asked;
when dill you first learn that the
basket was in the possession Of the
PLAINTIFF
II learned a day or two before the
trial that "A basket was in her posses
nor did / have any knowledge where
the basket WAS until it was produced
at the trial. 40.
"Have you any knowledge how this
basket got into her possession
g. cannot say from personal knoWi,
edge how the basket came into her
possession, nor did she receive it with
any knowledge or consent OF comm
vance on my part
Mr.. Butterworth then left the ques
ton of the basket aud directed his
questions 10 the details of the meeting
between the witness and Miss Pollard,
apd the circumstances of the visit to
the house of Sarah Guess
IL wish YOU would give an account,
colonel" said Mr. Butterworth, of
vour trip 10 Lexington on the after
noon OF August ., of which you spoke
Yesterday. when the plaintiff was on
the train
II found the plaintiff in the car
when | got into il. found the car
was crowded, and found the plaintiff
sitting near the door at which ! en-
tered. spoke to her and the CONVEX
s4tion resulted IN arrangement by
which we were to meet that evening
in Lexington Answering further
question, he stated AN arrange
ment was made that we should meet
at the house Of Sarah Guess The
arrangement was carried out by going
in the street car.
state what took place between you
and the plaintiff
The statement in the New York
NN,,Il ,vn,y 40 pfio llNr pnrrgat Wn
knocked mt the door several times
When no one responded a little talk
took place between the plaintiff and
myself as to what % do One sugges-
ton was that she should go to the
door of friend where she expected to
spend the night. Another suggestion
was that she should wait Il little while,
it being Saturday night, and il being
the custom to DO a little marketing
that night The conclusion was that
she should wait and should 90 home,
and If Sarah Guess returned in rea~
sonable time | would find her there.
| had supper with my family that
night, There was torchlighl process
sion and some speeches, but | did not
make "A speech myself ] walked back
to Sarah Guess house and found the
plaintiff there. There was to be an
election the next Monday, and there
was some feeling on both Sides
Had you made arrangements to 90
to Sarah Guess'"
None whatever
WAS there any conversation about
her schooling and inducements OF help
held out by your"
None Whatever
WAS there any resistance on her
part against what was done there
None whatever We merely car
ried out the arrangement. She pre-
frered to remain in the house aud
avoid any questions. | returned the
next night, SUNDAY, with some nncer.
tainty as to whether would find her
there, as she had said if she could slip
away without risk TO the houoro of her
grandfather or uncle, she would do so.
/ found her there, however. as she
said she had not dared Co take the
risk of going away by daylight ! re-
NAMED unit, about TO o'clock that
night
'Was th.rs any reference to
Rhodes"
Il cannot recall auy. Possibly there
was in these Two evenings
Did YOU zee her Monday noruiugg"
81 did not
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