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the time Miss Pollard said she was in the
Norwood founding asylum.

"A i M "A hJH OU. lOJf.
the time Miss Pollard said she was in the
Norwood founding asylum.
II knew she was away, but where she had
gone or when she went did not know. The
statement Of the plaintiff that she wrote to
me from st. Joseph's founding asylum and
addressed her letters to Margaret Dillon,
Box Az, Lexington, KY, may be true, but it
was entirely without my knowledge"
GAVE HER MONEY.
81 forgot, said Major Butterworth. "Did
you pay the plaintiff anything when she
was at Sarah Gess'sY
paid her expenses at Sarah Gess's and gave
her sufficient money to get her safely back
to Cincinnati 1t was not large sum-"
did you arrange with the plaintiff for
sending letters to Mr.. Rodes through her
mother while she was in Cincinnati, to de-
ceive Mr.. Rodesg"
81 never made any such arrangement.
never inserted any date in any of her letters
as she testified, nor wrote letter to her
mother. did not tell her what to WI ite in
blind letter to Rodes, dated New Orleans
| never was in New Orleans in my life"
How did you get these letters of the plain
tiff to RodesW
ner. Mr.. Shelby, who received them from
Mr.. @. 8. Kenny, member OF the Lexlng-
ton bar, who received them from Mrs.
Eagle, q sister of James G. Rodes."
NEVER LOOKED LIKE PIGMY.
"Did you ever see Mrs DR.. Street in Gin
cinnatip
81 never saw her to my knowledge. I did
not call at her house in Cincinnati as she,
says, to see her about the plaintiff, and |
will say that looked no more like pigmy
then than do now.
Dr. Street had testified that the man who
came to see her about Miss Pollard looked
like pigmy standing at the bottom of a
Colonel Breckenridge said he had known
James c. Rodes. With reference to his
whereabouts in August, 1884 Colonel Breck-
inridge said he had been enabled by legal
records to trace his Whereabouts on nearly
every day in that month He was engaged
principally in the case of Ollie Brown,
charged with murder and tried at Frank
fort
Miss Pollard testified that Colonel Breck-
inridge was in Cincinnati with her during
the week in August following their meeting
at Sarah Cess.
During the first two weeks in September
he was absent, he said, with his family on
trip as far north as Boston.
1T is my impression" said the witness,
ssthat ! met the plaintiff in Lexington next
in the first week in October"
AN IMPROPER MEETING.
"When did you meet her next-improp-
erly, meana,
can fix the date. ] remember that it was
in the month Of October, and on the occasion
of a. great Republican meeting
in Cincinnati which John A.
Logan addressed. Remembering this /
can fix the date as October II, 1884. / met
met her in the morning at the train In Gin
cinnati and we went to the assignation
~ u Cff
left her there and went out on business, re-
turning after supper and remaining several
hours. left her that night there and went
back to Lexington the next day. She did
not go back with me-"
'sWas that the first time you had ever
been to Mrs. Roses house with the plaintiff q
THAT was the first time"
Returning to Lexington from Cincinnati
Colonel Breckenridge said, he was engaged
until the election in November with making
speeches In the Presidential campaign and
on his own canvass for Congress, travelling
over Kentucky and part of Indiana.
He saw the plaintiff in the following Janu-
ary and February frequently -ea the streets
OF Lexington He was in Washington at
the Inauguration of Mr.. Cleveland on
March 4, 1885, and was obliged to remain
| here by some gentlemen in his district who
were anxious to serve their country, return-
ing to Kentucky at the death of a relative
on March "a
FIRST LEARNED OF HER CONDITION.
ssWhen did YOU first learn that she had
been pregnantg'
ssThe first time learned from her that she
had been pregnant was in the summer of
1857. and / never had any Information from
ANYBODY else about the matter. The first
| time that / learned that her pregnancy had
carried her to Cincinnati was in the winter
Of 1S92-y3 She asked me to help her obtain
q place in Washington for a lady, on the
ground that she was the sister of the man
who had been her physician during her
pregnancy
AZ Colonel Breckenridge said this he
looked souarelv at Miss Pollard and nodded
his head in her direction. as if to emphasize
Ills words
.sDid She. in 1887. when she told of her
nregnacy in 1885. tell you where she was
confinedm
aFrom what she told me understood that
II was legitimate miscarriagen
.Did she indicate where that miscarriage
took placer
took place i under TT the s care and Charge Of her
MOTHER VINO exercised secret care tnat no
scandal snould result.
THE PLAINTIFF EXCITED.
Miss Pollard became red and white by turns
when Colonel Breckinridge mentioned her
mnen =, +ss ..,,,,aat;o, Sba t,.a,h1ed vio-