The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-04-07

tive 40 distinct as could be in emphasis.
"Dio you tell the defendant that you
had been once to the gate of Sarah
Guests house with Rhodes, as stated BY
the defendant?"
mo, did not, l never knew Sarah
Guest, nor went to her house, nor saw
her gate, until went with my arm in
his through that gate-let me say
that" she cried, raising ner hand as
Major Shelby tried to interrupt.
The defendant says your improper
intimacy with him commenced on
August l, the day he came to see you at
the college,"
cit did not-and it was not until Sat-
urday night when he took me to Sarah
Guests, and he knows 1t as we'll as L."
said Miss Pollard, fairly kissing the
last words.
'hte says that during the carriage
ride on August 1st he took you on his
lap?"
Indeed he did not, ;" was the emphat tic
answer.
The defendant says he put $40 bill
into your hand at the conclusion Of the
carriage ride?"
That's as false statement as ever
he made" said Miss Pollard, with em.
pbasis on the false" "at no time could
any man put $40 bill in my hand"
After recess question by Mr.. Carlisle
whether when Colonel Breckenridge
was away from Lexington and Miss
Pollard in Lexington in 1886 CORE
spondence passed between them, was
answered by Miss Pollard.
"He wrote me all the time. He did
call me MY Dear Sister Louise" He
did call me My Dear Spithre," and he
did use terms that were loving, kind
and tender"
~ he defendant says he did not have
any relations with you in 1887, while he
had room at Miss Hoyts while you
were stopping there"
That's not true, spent every night
of those three weeks with him in mis-
room at Miss Hoyt's."
Mr.. Carlisle asked il there was any
agreement with them to pretend they
were engaged to deceive Mrs. Blackburn,
and Miss Pollard answered.:
No, indeed. That was made 10
solemn good faith and l believed him,
and"
I'VE object" said Major Shelby, and
Miss Pollard did not answer.
Then as to the defendants statement
that she had gone with him to Ma Tor
Moore's tlice under an agreement to
have herself set right with Mai or
Moore, she said
mo, no, no. There never was such
an agreement, and | never heard Of it
before the defendant told of it on the
stand. There could not hsve been such
an agreement No, no, no." leach neg
alive more emphatic than tho preceding
one) there never was"
Miss Pollard insisted that the little
work basket that had belonged to the
late Mrs. Breckenridge had been given
her by the defendant and that despite
his denial he had seen it her hands
many time, land he was glad to see
me have it," she added.
Cross examined by Major Shelby she
denied any knowledge OF the alleged
mock marriage at Squire Tinsley's. She
proceed TO explain at such length that
Major Shelby interrupted with
art Is long but time Is ileeting;
please confine yourself to the question"
"But must 60 on" and Miss Pollard
tried to resume, ard for a few seconds
there was u kconstant interchange bo-
tween Major Shelby and herself, Miss
Pollard talking very rapidly.
You must let mo tell about these
dreadful things" she cried, almost on
the verge of tears. Don't interrupt
me"-but she was interrupted.
This concluded Miss Pollard's testi-
IL
honor please, the plaintiff submits her
rebuttal."
The defense Immediately called Mrs.
Susan Lidie. the exmatron of tho
Washington Founding Asylum, who
testified yesterday about the child
brought to the asylum with the name
"DielZ Downing pinned to its dress.
Mrs. Lido said she had seen old "Aunt
Mary" on the stand this morning and
that she was not the woman who had
brought tho child to the asylum; but to
the next question she SAID she had not
seen the woman at the time The woman
who brought the child said her name
was Charlotte Thomas.
Cross examined, Mrs. Lidie said that
tho woman who brought the child was
very black, SO she had bsen told, and
TO the best of her knowledge sho would
swear that old Aunt Mary was not the
woman.
Then Colonel Breckenridge was re-
called and proceeded TO deny state
mcnts of Miss Pollard and witnesses in
her behalf. He said he bad not given
Miss Pollard the ribbon with which to
tie the little work basket. as Miss Pol
lard had said, but WAS not allowed to
toll whether he had over told Mary
Yancey the cook at IS II street, that
no and Miss Pollard were going to
housekeeping in the fall" Judge viii
son Directing on the ground that Colo
mel Breckenridge had already denied
that statement.
lie denied that Miss Pollard was ever
in his room at Miss lloyt's TO his
knowledge and also that Miss Louise
Lowell, the Capitol typewriter, had
written letter for him in which he