The Washington times., 1894-04-11

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verdict would be to convict Mollie Shinglebauer,
John Brandt, Hiram kaufman, and the defend
ant of wiiful perjury. He referred to Miss Pol
lard's statement to Claude de Ia Roche Francis
that Col Breckinridge was q lovable and noble
man, and said the defendant had been the soul
OF generosity throughout his dealings with the
woman. Her letters to Rhodes, he said, were
blind, wooden letters to the man who had Sc
duced her. and she was demanding the money OF
the poor old man. as she would not have done II
she had been pregnant by Col Breckinridge
She went at Rhodes booted and spurred, and
1t was stand and deliver with her, telling him
that he could not come and see her unless he
put it up We're those the demands of a school
girl TO a generous old man, who was furnishing
the money for her educationY'
Col Thompson said that Miss Pollard re-
minded him OF one OF Proctor Knott's stories OF
an old negro in Kentucky who was called upon
to Judge dog. ''rha: amt no dog at all" said
the old negro, shes a bitch fore Gawd; she's
handy shanked, she's cat-haired, knocked kneed;
why I'd know that dog If heard her whine any
where"
There was much more 70 the story, all Of the
same strain. but 1t was noticeable that only two
Of the jurors smiled when il was related 10 them.
The story was intended to illustrate that the
sisters at Norwood would have known Miss
Pollard If she had never been there, and in the
some connection the attorney recalled the story
OF the Tichoorn claimant.
Col Thompson, continuing, said that Miss Pol
Hhu uetlDtfateIy eHlu tifht snc udu pIOugnt
the suit for revenge, whereupon Mr.. Wilson cor
rected him Judge Bradley said: There is no
evidence to that effect in the case, and Mr.. But
terworth said: Il think she did not say that"
Col Thompson said he hoped the jury would
correct him if he made any mistakes, as he had
not tried a case for fifteen years and did not
pretend to be up in the law.
Proceeding, he referred to the forgetting by
Miss Pollard of the name which she had borne in
the convent, told how she had gone with reti-
nue. Of her lawyers there, and he declared that
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who had dedidated their lives to helping the
poor, against the word OF the plaintiff, with
everything on this earth that false-hearted
woman, an adventures, a prostitute could have
melting her to feed her passion for revenge"
In referring to the testimony Of DR.. Bell
Buchanan, the colonel said Il never had much
OF an opinion of female doctors anyhow. The
first one l ever saw OF them was Doctor Mary
Walker" and he gave a humorous description
Of that person. Whenever there was an abor-
tion case or a concealed birth, female doctors
were sure to drift into it. Referring TO the
testimony Of DR.. Street that the man who came
to see Miss Pollard looked like little pigmy
in court who answered to that description was
John Shelby.
Il haven't seen any man get away with her
along the line of the case" he said little later,
sci here who cross-examined her didn't get
much the better Of her when he had whack at
her"
He told how Miss Pollard had gone to the con-
vent last year, not knowing that her child, born
several years before, was dead. "The first
born Of person that pretends TO be human
being he said AFTER eight or nine years,
when she had never raised her inhuman voice.
they tell you she went into Mysteries"
''Oh, inhurnan woman," he exclaimed; sin
human monster In order to hide her own con-
duct she lays ii on this man We are appealed
10 by this woman in stage play by the sacred
name of mother, trying TO coin crocodile tears
over children whose deaths she had forgotten, TO
coin money out of the pockets of the man she
had lived with in equal disgrace"
Producing the Christmas card found in the
volume of Irving at the convent, Col Thomp-
son said there was no doubt it had been put in
there By some chicanery and iDtimated that the
writing on it had been done by Miss Pollard.
He handed it to the jury with letters of the
plaintiffs 10 show the similarity of handwrit-
ing
lie had looked the name Pollard dp in the die
tionarv and found that it meant a counterfeit
genuine and is dishonest He referred to the
life of Miss Pollard at Miss Hoyt's in Lexington,
when she had played the innocent school girl TO
the old ladies. Then he came 10 Miss Lowell,
the Capitol typewriter, and produced her MEM
orandum book, to show that il ran in it's entries
from 1897 TO 1855, so that II the transaction had
occurred it had not been in 1886 The charges in
the book might have been to Clifton Breckin-
ridge He Cihompson) found his own name in
the book, although he did not remember having
any work done by Miss Lowell, to whom he re-
tinued in his picturesque way that lit knocked
the stuffin ont of the case. ="
1he plaintiU SwOre tnat the name OF ner last
baby was '.Distz Carlisle when the records of
the asylum showed that the only baby brought
there at the time was named "Diezt Downing
'If you are going TO concoct story record is
an awful thing 10 butt up against he said,
because it throws you down every time"
1.-The other side had raised a great fuss about
the coionels signing her examination papers for
the civil service, certifying that she had good
moral character. There wasn't any fussIng, or
stewing, or kicking up of dust along about that
time" he went on Both of them were pu-su-
r.s..
both and were telling any little lies that came
along to help each other out Every man in the
court room had told lies about these little do
mestic matters. IL there were any who had not
they had better go out for awhile because they
were TOO sanctimonious for the place. But the
attorneys on the other side seemed to think this
case was like that of the old preacher in KEN
lucky who was tried for adultery with one OF the
sisters. The jury, all men, returned verdict
finding the minister guilty and acquitting the
sister,
showed that she admitted they both lied. In one
instance she had called him out of Chamberlain's
TO help her lie out of scrape, land Billy always
came he said
When he came TO Mrs Blackburn Col Thomp-
son said that she vas lovely old lady, but she
was getting pretty well along in years. shes
no longer maiden gay" he said. She wouldn't
tell anything that wasn't so for the world. but
''the old lady was little riled. She thought
she had been imposed upon, and wanted to put
il to Col Breckenridge as hard as she could
admire her spirit.
why, was afraid she would Jump down my
throat, frizzes and all, when began to examine
her"
The Jury was not to punish Col Breckinridge
for immortality. All the great men OF the world
had had their foibles with women. When julius
Cesar was not making laws he was making love
to Cleopatra. David had put Uriah in the fore
front OF battle because he had looked on the
mans wife and she was lovely.
"If there have been any great men who were
net fond of women, they were great hypocrites,'
he colonel declared. There was Bonaparte,
Washington, all of them who had their affairs
IF love as well as war, and he added, Il don't
see why this man, who is no worse than the rest
II us. only he has been discovered and we have
iot. should be punished unless we are to be
lypocrites.'
II Col Breckinridge had been disposed to lie
ie might have kept many things to his discredit
he part Of the hypocrite and perturer he was
condemned We are looking at this thing as
men of the world and men of common sense, |
the colonel said, going on to tell how the
colonel had provided for her. She had said that
she preferred being Col Breckinridge's mistress
% Jim Rhodes wife. And why, because, as his
mistress she did not have to work, went into |
yocd society, and had intellectual companion |
hip"
why, had rather be the mistress Of a man |
ike Col Breckinridge, good looking and in |
ellectual, than to sleep all the days Of my life |