Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-21
! THE DEFENSE BEGINS.
The Prosecution in the Pollard
Breckenridge Case Rests-Dam.
aging Statements Against
the Woman.

Washington, March 21.-When the Pol
lard-Breckenridge case opened this morn
ing Miss Pollard's face showed lines OF
worry and sleepless night. Mr.. Butter
worth asked if Miss Pollard had con.
tract with james Rhodes, to which she
replied the contract had beer. given to
Mr.. Rhodes. There never had been any
settlement, but in 1885 she had given a
note for three times the amount he ad-
vanced for her schooling. 81 have never
paid Mr.. Rhodes, because never had any
money to pay anybody anything she
said.
Back to the autobiography published in
the New York World came Mr.. Butter
worth. Objection was made by Mr.. Will
son that it had been threshed over to
weariness, and the same opinion was held
by the judge. Nevertheless, the plaintiff
continued to be mistress of the situation,
for when she had been asked about the
trunk she had in Cincinnati, during her
first confinement, and Mr.. Butterworth
read from his manuscript, she insisted
that he should give her his undivided at
tention before she would continue. Great
stress had been laid by the defense upon
the descrip ption of the trunks which she
had.
"That's all Miss Pollard" said Mr.. But
terworth to the surprise of the court.
plaintiff and Sister Ellis. Miss Pollard
through the side door, her
attorneys remarking they had no furthe.
use for her. "Then," said Mr.. Carlisle,
"the plaintiff rests her case here There
was a rustling in the Breckenridge camp
of conversation and documents, after
which Attorney Butterworth asked for a
few moments in which to consult with the
defendant. His son, Desha, and i've at
torneys tripped out through the door by
which Miss Pollard had made her exit.
The Breckenridge forces were in retire
ment twenty minutes, then Col Shelby,
tho Lexington lawyer, faced the jury to
outline the defense.
THE DEFENsE.
"While the case is technically one for
breach Of PROMISE" he said, "it includes
a wider scope. l am authorized by the
defendant to say, and will be corroborated
by his solemn oath, that he did not Sc.
duce her and that it never was made
known to him that she had ever had anv
children by him, until the filing of this
suit last August, nor did he ever, under
any circumstances, make any promise of
to her." The defense did not
intend, he said, to condone what ever was
wrong in the relations of the two and
only by the truth the defendant wanted
20 be judged. In outlining what would
oe the defense he said Miss Pollard ac-
,osted Col. Breckenridge on the train,
before which time he had never seen her
Several weeks afterward he received a |
etter from her asking his advice as to
Ter relations with Rhodes. He had an
'wered it telling hor of the legal aspects
If the contract. After that he received
| letter of authority which Miss Pollard |
lenied, but which would be fully proven,
skiing him to come to the seminary.
He had written her he could not come.
'he had written him another letter urg-
ng him to come to the Wesleyan college
o see her and which he declined to do.
WENT TO SEE HER.
On the lst of August, 1884, he had been
n Cincinnati on business and it occurred
o him that he had received a request to
% to the college. Not having anything
lse to do he went to the college that day
md saw her. He saw that she was not an
gnorant girl, unacquainted with the
Ways of the world, for if there was one
act to be established, it was that the
plaintiff was at least 81 or 22 years of age
shen Col. Breckenridge arrived at the in
titution. She came into the parlor, saw
i'm and explained her contract with
lhodes, which was that in consideration
+ his payment of her schooling, she was
o marry him. She asked if he could
ompel her to marry him and also told
i'm she had submitted her person to
.hodes. Col. Breckenridge told her that
he was not obliged to carry out the con.
ract. tHa
Then she asked him to take her to the
on Vine street and he con-
ented.
That Col. Breckenridge called closed
arriage that night is denied. 1t is de-
Jared that Miss Pollard made the pro-
osition that they ride instead of going
, the concert. In the course of the ride
lat night and without use of seductive
leans, but in way which occurs when a
oman is not averse to such things, an
licit intimacy was begun.
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