The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-14
HATED HER SEDUCER
Dr.. Katie Kane SWears Miss
Pollard Said This
in Cincinnati.
FURTHER, REFUSED TO MARRYHlM
Sister Cecilia Testifies to the Pres
ence of Yelled Patients at
the Hospital.
FURTHER, REFUSED TO MARRYHIM

WASHINGTON, March IA, 1894.-Court had
assembled and the clerk was calling the jury
in the Pollard Breckenridge breach of prom
Use suit this morning when door to the left
of the Judges bench opened and Miss Pollard
came in. It was her first appearance since
her sensational exit on Monday, when she
was borne from the chamber by Mrs.
Buchanan and Miss Ellis, and fell half faint
ing at the door, Miss Pollard was pale but
otherwise self possessed.
The court room was crowded this morning
when the crier raped for order. Colonel
Breckenridge and all his counsel were pres
ent. Mr.. Carlisle, of the plaintiffs counsel.
had come in a minute or two earlier, es-
corting sweetrfaced Sister Cecilia and COM
panion in holy orders, who is required, by the
rules of the order of Sisters of Charity, to
accompany sister called for duty in the
world Sister Cecilia saw Miss Pollard
enter, but they did not exchange greetings.
SISTER CECILIA EXAMINED.
Mr.. Calderon Carlisle began the proceed
ings by continuing his examination OF Sister
Cecilia, which was suspended yesterday.
''Sister Cecelia," he asked, shave you a
good memory for faces and namesW
"Not very good for faces, but for names,
yes," was the answer.
"Can you positively say that Miss Pollard
was a patient at the Norwood Founding
Asylum while you were in charges"
Il cannot, SIR"
''Can you positively say that she was not
patient at the asylum during that time?"
7'No, SIR"
ssNow, Sister Cecilia, state the grounds for
that belief?
81 object" said Mr.. Butterworth, and
then followed another legal tilt over the ad-
ion.
Judge Bradley held that if the question
were put to identify the plaintiff with some
person in the asylum at given time, it was
competent, but If it were put to have the
witness draw conclusions for the purpose of
making that Identification, the question was
not competent. The question was overruled
and the plaintiff noted an objection.
Then Mr.. Carlisle asked if Sister Cecilia
could state anything about the identity Of
the plaintiff with a patient in the asylum in
the months of May, June and July, 1885.
s'We object" said Mr.. Shelby and the
question was withdrawn.
PATIENTS YELLED.
'sNow, Sister Cecilia, do you know wheth-
er while while you were in charge of the
asylum there were any patients there who
went veiled?n was Mr.. Carlisle's next ques-
tion, and it was not objected to.
stThere were two ladies there who went
yelled because they feared being recognized
by visitors"
any patients back to Cincinnati in car
riagesp
Eyes, three or four" was the answer.
The spectators and iurynen became in
tensely interested at this point for
they understood that every point in the
description of the Asylum given to her coun-
sci by Miss Pollard was being put forward
for Identification by the witness.
In answer to other questions, Sister Cecilia
said the name OF Borgayne or Burgoyne was
on the record of the Norwood Asylum as a
patient there.
Major Butterworth asked Sister Cecilia a
question or two about when she left Gin
cinnati, and then said she might be needed in
day or two to answer more questions
Washington until the court was through
with her and she was then excused.
IDENTIFIED MISS POLLARD.
There was a sigh of disappointment
throughout the courtroom as Sister Cecilia
withdrew and Mr.. Carlisle took up a
voluminous mass Of typewriter manuscript
which was recognized as one of the prosy
Mrs. Kate Perry Kane, a physician of
Cincinnati, and q member of the firm
of which DIR. Belle Buchanan was the senior
partner. Mrs. Kane identified Miss Pollard
as young woman who came to the house of
Drs. Perry and Buchanan in 1885 as pa
tient She boarded there for while dur
ing the warm weather, and was knows as
Miss Louise Wilson.
sis the woman now before you Miss Pol
lard) the same person that was at your
house?"
'Yes, sir. do recognize her; recognized
her as soon as saw her this morning in this
room"
s'This testimony added another interesting
feature to the efforts the plaintiffs coun-
sci are making to identify Miss Pollard with
a young woman who was confined in Cincin-
natl in 1885, and left several questions of
identity to the jury for settlement.
Was Miss Pollard identical with Monica
Burgoyne, who was patient at the Nor
wood Founding Asylums Was Louise Will
son an alias of Madeline Pollarda
LoATHED HER sEDUCER.
Mr.. Stoll read the cross examination. DIR.
Buchanan had told the deponent that Miss
Wilson was an unfortunate girl from Ken
lucky Miss Wilson, she understood, was
recovering from confinement when she was
at the deponents house. At one time Miss
Wilson had gone out to meet her
seducer at hotel permission being
given by her physicians When she
that she had met the man, but that it was
impossible for her to marry him; she loath-
ed him, she said she had steeled her heart
against him, loathed him and would not
marry him. She disliked him SO; he had
ruined her Miss Wilson also said that the
man had offered to marry her to clear things
up, but she disliked him so that she refused.
This last testimony was important in view
of the effort tine defence is making to show
that Colonel Breckinridge did not seduce
Miss Pollard. Colonel Breckenridge was q
married man in 1885 while Miss Wilson,
whom the deponent said was Miss Pollard,
had said her seducer offered to marry her.