St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-27

HlOT6 successful III dllTdctiuS u llSSii
miscellaneous aggregation of celebri-
ties than was the Notwithstanding
trial today. In front row opposite the
jury sat the governor of Indiana and
several members of his staff, who had
come to Washington to see the sights,
and gaZed ecstatically upon the siiyery
beard of the Kentucky orator, newly
cropped over Sunday, with expressions
which betokened that they had not
journeyed here i'll vain. Behind them
was Capt. Philip King, of the Princeton
university base ball team, supported by
his warriors, athletes whose names are
known throughout the land.
Further in the background was the
usual mixed audience, with select
sprinklIng of congressman. who come
and 90 with every day Of the trial
There we're no ladies. because the sex is
outlawed from the court room; but after
the court had adjourned two fashiOnably
attired women slipped i'll at side door
under the guidance of bailiff, end
stood for five minutes staring at Col.
Breckenridge, where he sat in cOnsulta-
ton with his lawyers, as children are
accustomed to stare at animals in
menagerie. In the objections to the
dispositions for the defense both sides
were even. Judge Bradley excluded
several, and expressed regret that he
had not power to quash them all be-
cause of their
NEEDLESS oBsCENITY.
Being staunch Presbyterian. more
over, he suggested that the newspaper
correspondents should expurgate their
reports i'll the interest of public moral
ity.
There was great interest today to
learn the decision of Judge Bradley
upon the admissibility of dispositions
impeaching the character of Madeline
Pollard. which the Breckenridge forces
had offered, and to which the plaintiff
opposed numerous objections. Regard
ing the sweeping denial of the right TO
take any dispositions de bene esse, under
the act of congress creating the court.
the Judge said that the judiciary act of
1879 conferred the right in broad terms
upon any party TO any civil action in
any court of the United States. 1t
could not be disputed that this court
was court of the United States, asd
the fact that the court had always main
tanned that right would justify him III
continuing to enforce it until higher
court overruled the practice. There
were ether grounds upon which he sus-
tanned the regularity of the depositions
as whole.
These prel iminaries having been fin
iShed. Attorney StOll proceeded to read
the deposition of Josie Bailey, clerk of
the Woodford county circuit court at
Versailles, KY. From the records of
the courts the clerk had testihed that in
1884 there were indictments for murder
against Ollie and 4. 2. Brown. and that
Col. Breckenridge had been one of the
defending attorneys. 1t appeared that
the trial was in Drogresse on August B,
the day upon which Miss Pollard had,
testified that the colonel took her to the
house of Sarah Guess, in Lexington,
also August II. 13 and l6. The cross
examination of the clerk, read by At
torney Farrell, of Lexington, developed
the further information that during this
trial Col. Breckenridge had frequently
driven over from Lexington. returning at
night. and sometimes. bringing his wife
He had attended the whole trial of Ollie
Brown, although some of the lawyers
had not. One of the Lexington lawyers,
Edward NJ. Wallace, who mad been as
Sociated with Col. Breckenridge i'll the
defense of Ollie Brown, had deposed
that the colonel was present throughout
the trial. arguing the case and eXamin-
ing the witnesses, and his statement was
read.
Next came the deposition of Judge
Rodney Hagart, who had been aSso-
ciated with Col. Breckinridge as coun-
sci for the Chesapeake q Ohio railroad,
in cases tried inAugust, 1884. The dep
osition of Judge Jerry K. Morton. To
prove that the defendant was i'll Jessa-
mine coulsty, KY. from August ~ to
August 80, 1854, was read and the cross
examination showed that the town was
an hour and quarter by railroad from
Lexington.
Judge Joseph D. Hunts affidavit co.,
roborated that of Mr.. Hagart. Theo
Dawes, clerk of the court. deposed tina.
Col. Breckenridge had voted in Lpxing-
ton Aug. 4, 1884. and w. s. Marsh cor
ruborated his testimony.
Nat L. Bronangh, a lawyer, addei
his testimony that Col. Brechinridge
had been engaged in the JeSsamin5s
county court from Aug. "a to 80, 1SS- Z
but could not say where he (Col. Breck-
inridge) had passed his nights during
that time
Joseph Skain, proprietor of the ClaF-
endon hotel in Lexington. depoSed that
Col. Breckinridge anu members OF ms
family had stopped at the Phoenix hotel,
as it was tilen called. in 1887 In.
cidentaily the hotel man recalled an ar
nf1 WIN Ini III "A
made the accusation that he was being
gOuged out of four dollars, and the rec
objection of the controversy caused the
congressman's shoulders to shake with
laughter.
After the noon recess. deposition by
James A. Ely, once clerk of the circuit
court Of Fayette county. was read. He
remembered that Col. Breckenridge had
been engaged on case Nov. %, % and
26, 1887. and at the unwilling of
statue of John q. Breckenridge at Lex
ington Sept. 10. 1887.
The deposition of Sister Marie Hya-
cinthe. VINO was seyenty-four years old,
and said that her memory was very bad,
showed that she could not remember
that Madeline Pollard had attended the
Notre Dame convent at Reading, O., of
which the sister had been superior in
1883.
The deposition of William G. Wood, a
carpenter of Lexington, was read. Wood
was engaged to Miss Pollard in 1882, but
when he told her he could not take her.
upon trip to Europe she broke the en-
gagement aud threw at him the ring he
had given her. He did not know her
age then, but considered her young
woman.
Tie reading of Alec Julian's depesi-
tion and cfoss-examination closed the
DAYS proceedings, Julian is the blina.
nan whose adventure with Miss Pollard
at country frolic on Christmas even
lag lSs mas osen the ans subject Of M
up of this scandal