Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05

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ing that night. The conclusion was
that she should wait and | should go
to my home, and if Sarah Guest re-
turned in a reasonable time. [ would
find her there.
Il had supper with my family that
night. There was a torchlight process
sion and some speeches, but | did not
make a speech myself l walked back
to Sarah Guests, and found the plain
tiff there. There was to be an election
the next Monday and there was some
feeling on both Sides
Had you made an arrangement to
go to Sarah Guests, as the plaintiff
said?"
None whatever
WAS there any conversation about
her schooling and inducements of help
held out by your
None whatever"
WAS there any protestations or re-
sistance on her part against what was
done there!
None whatever. We merely carried
out the arrangements made on the
train. She preferred to remain in the
house and avoid any risk or questions
which might be inconvenient to an
swer. [ returned the neyt night. Sun
day, with some uncertainty whether ]
would find her there, as she had said
if she could slip away without risk, to
the house of her grandfather or uncle
she would do so. I found her there
however, as she said she had not dared
to take the risk of going away by day
light. [ remained until about 1C
o'clock that night
WAS there any reference to Rhodes ::
II cannot recall any. Possibly there
was in those two evenings"
did you see her Monday morning?'
81 did not
In asnwer to further questions Col
Breckenridge said there was nothing
in plaintiffs conduct or appearance to
indicate that she had previously been
innocent Of such escapades.
"Was anything ever said about her
being led astray by you, or as it has
been said here, that she said?'
CAS- to the first question" said Mr.
Breckenridge, smiling in an embar
raised way, Of course nothing was
said. Nor until the filing of this suit
was anything ever said to the effect"
The witness said that from that time
until he met her with other school girls
Of the Sayre institute in Lexington
the next October, he had not seen OIL
heard of Miss Pollard. ''The two OLD
ladies with whom she boarded there,
he added, "were perfectly proper, most
eStimable and respected persons. II
the plaintiff received anyone in hel
room there at night, as she has said,
knew nothing of it. It was not l."
While Miss Pollard was absent from
Lexington during the spring Of 1885
when she said her first child was born
witness declared that he had no knowl
edge of her whereabouts and no com
munication with her. If she had writ
ten him under the non de plume OF
Margaret Dillon, he had not received
the letter.
did you pay the plaintiff anything
y
GueStsW
Il cannot use the word pay" replied
the colonel, CONSIDERABLY. Il paid the
expenses at Sarah Guests, and pre-
sented her a sum, not very large, but
enough to pay her travelling expenses
Continuing he denied all knowledge
of the correspondence with Rhodes, al
legged to have been written, dated from
New Orleans and other places in the
south. by Miss Pollard, under his di-
rectiOn, nor had he ever written a let
ter purporting to be from her to her
mother or any other person. Their
handwritings were so dissimiliar that
it would have been out of the question.
The letters from Miss Pollard to
Rhodes which were read lie court he
had procured from the sister of Rhodes
through Attorney Tenny of LeXing-
ton. He had never seen Mary Street,
of Cincinnati, now Mrs. Logan, and,
referring to her description of him as
a small man, he said: Il was no more
Of pigmy then than | am now" He
described in a general way his move
mentS in the year 1885 until he met
Miss Pollard in August or September
asserting that he had no knowledge
Of where she had been or the reason
for her absence.
Instead of being in Cincinnati on
Saturday, August II, 1884. when Miss
Pollard had testified they met at the
public library, and afterwards visited
places of bad reputation, he had been
engaged in court at Winchester in the
trial Of Ollie Brown for murder The
next week, and all that month, he had
been greatly engaged.
did you meet Miss Pollard after
that first meeting, in the fall of 1884.
[ mean improperly" asked Mr.. Butter
worth.
"On October II, I met her in a house
in Cincinnati. She came from the west
part of the state and I from the east.
[ met her at the Grand Central depot
in the morning and went to Mrs.
Roses house, where we were for some
time [ went out on business. and re-
turning after supper remained several
iOei % 1OlllI hSu W LSAlIS JOu III Tie
and she went there by an
other train
Did you present her any money!
II paid the expenses, whatever they
were"
II saw the plaintiff occasionally but !
lot frequently" continued the colonel.
During the months of November
nd
saw her in both senses, on the street