The morning news., 1894-04-12
BUTTERWORTH AN ACTOR,
His Plea Full Of Articles Intended to
Sway the Jury.

WanderinEs to Facts Pertinent
to the Case.
Washington, April 11.-Col. Phil
Thompson resumed his argument for Col
Breckenridge this morning, in the Pollard
Breckenridge breach of promise case, be-
fore very sparse attendance. Miss Pol
lard was not present. but the defendant
was on hand.
Col. Thompson took up the alleged
breach of promise and asked if it were
not remarkable thing that man who
had been living in adultery with a woman
for nine years, with the distinct under
standing, so she said, that he would
marry her if he were ever free, should
tell that woman that he had something
surprising to say to her, and then propose
Everything in the conduct of the plaintiff
last spring, he said,-her attempt on the
defendants life, her threats to disgrace
him, her promise to commit suicide and
leave written story Of their relations
for publicatiou-all these showed a char
acter the reverse of that claimed by the
plaintiff. This woman had laid her
plans to bring breach of promise suit =
had she not told Claude de la Roche Fran
els fthe pretended engagementanda asked
him 10 remember it, saying she might need
his help bye and bye
A COURTsHIP WITH PISTOLS,
ga courtship with pistols" cried Col.
Thompson. Talk about your Kentucky
colonels, and having them come into
court, throwing up their coat tails 10 see
whether they had pistols underneath
them. l suspect there was one coat tail
that was not turned up that had weapon
beneath it, Did you see the vicious look
on that woman's face that day this case
started3 was afraid, sitting there be-
side the colonel, that bullet would come
straight at US from that woman's pistol
Oh, what a courtship, with its only
memento pistOl.n
Col. Thompson concluded at 1880
o'clock. He was followed by Mai. Ben
Butterworth, also for the defense, an elo-
quent talker
Mai Butterworth began somewhat in
differently, but he soon warmed up to his
work, characterizing the suit as far
reaching pestilence that should never
have been brought to trial. Maj. Butter
worth said he had known Col Breckin-
ridge for many years-as lawyer, friend,
neighbor, colleague, brother, land, ," said
he, "you may speed it on the lightninRs.
Butterworth was a friend in his prosper
ity he does not turn his back on in his ad-
versity."
BRADLEY CLEARS THE COURT.
The popularity of the genial Ohioan,
and the belief in this sentiment, was
shown just here by handclapping from
the spectators.
Judge Bradley Indignantly resented this
breach of decorum Clear the court"
he cried. There ma We been enough dis
graceful scenes here" The bailiffs were
a little slow in clearing the room and
Judge Bradley ordered all who were not
lawyers to go. There are great many
here who are not members of the bar who
are sitting in the bar seats-they'n have
to 60" said the Judge, and they went in
droves. Fully three-fourths of the men
sitting inside the bar rail went out, but
their seats were filed again in two min
uteS.
1T was a most remarkable thing" said
Maj Butterworth, resuming, chow inuo-
cent this little school girl had been"
They did not rear girls like that on the
Miami when he was a boy. He offered
nothing in extenuation of the defendant;
his friend, Judge Wilson. could be more
severe on him than he had been on him
self. But as to the plaintiff, she had said:
II was only simple country girl, Mr..
girl know about men,"
DENOUNCED AS A sLANDER.
IF that be your theory" cried Mai
Butterworth, II denOunce il as a vile
slander on every country girl in the world.
A country girl knows the difference be-
tween right and wrong My mother was
a country girl playing with your mother,
her neighbor, my good friend turning to
Judge WILSON,. on the banks of the Miami.
My sister was country girl, so was
yours. They needed no one to tell them
the difference between right and wrong;
they needed no watchful duenna to pro
tect them from bad men. Don't you
know that ~ to Judge Wilson
Yes, and I'll speak Of it again" said
Judge Wilson.
But people say, could country girls
resist the silver tonguedl l am sick of
that, it. has been worked thread bare"
Maj. Butterworth went on to tell how
he had heard and read comments on the
defendants demeanOr in court-"If he
laughed. unfeeling wretch if he was
grave. All, he feels his shame; if he
smiled, he was trivial. But if the plain
tiff smiled-Ah, she was smiling through
veil Of tears"
CALLED DOWN BY THE COURT
''Now, Maj. Butterworth," SAID Judge
Bradley, please conhne yourself to the
case The matters of which you speak
have been picked up through the newspa-
pers, or rumor, or something else, and
have nothing TO do with the evidence.
You are losing time"
Maj. Butterworth, after little debate
with the court acquiesced in the sugges-
tion of Judge Bradley, and resumed his
argument.
Mai Butterworth picked Miss Pollard's
character to pieces, beginning with the
letters she wrote to Owen Robinson in
1880. "Even then," he said, "she
knew about love and marriage
and corresponded with young men-This
innocent girl, who says she never knew
a person, did not have single friend, not
even a bowing acquaintance. This in
nocent little school girl" He said he did
not believe her stories about her age, how
she did not know until she was
~ years old, about the year she was born,
and all that.
Taking up after a recess the Wessie
Brown letter, which he read, Mai But
terworth said that that writing told of
experience in love rather remarkable in
an innocent little girl who knew nobody.
This led Maj Butterworth to inquire
why it was that while other girls in