The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-04-17

places in the south, and Miss Pollard says
they were written in Cincinnati during her
tation of the defendant, and sent to Isodes.
through her mother at ToWleSboro ny,
to divert suspicion Miss Pollard testified
that her mother knew nothing about her
trouble, and taking up this point, Major
ButterWorth said: .
There is only one person in the world
who can tell whether these letters are gen
uine not; there is but one person living
who can clear up this InyHtery; Ihat pes
She has not been called. Why has she not
been called? People may say, Why don't
you call her? and ] will say to that that
we are not going into the camp of the
enemy for our provisions or our powder
either
eXtenuate the sin of his client, But" he
said. the men who have framed your imam
VoTr laws, your great generals, strong as
they were, have trembled ana given
way to this temptation to which this man mar.
mans destiny in her hand. She could COM
mand not demand And yet, she never
contemplated Il better life. She Kept him
there crawling at her feet
The Visit to Mr~. Black burn.
Major Butterworth took up the calls on
Mrs. blackburn by the defendant and the
plaintiff to tell her they were enSasea
Mrs. Blackburns mind the statement of
Miss Pollard that Colonel Breckinridse had
promised to marry her. He took occasion
to picture Miss Pollard as the adventures,
laying her plans to entrap into marriage a
man whom she had in her power through
their guilty relations. The plaintiff came to
the defendant and said. rye told Mrs.
Blackburn that we are engaged. Now what
can / do to set myself right with herr
Aud then the two decided to go to Mrs.
Blackburn and he, to Keep this woman from
being condemned, agreed to say they We're
to be married. They We're obliged to lie
to get out of ii. There was no way to
light except by plungjng through the dark
ness" said Major Butterw,orth,. Colonel
breckenridge had done a noble act. He had
gone to Mrs. Blackburn to save, a woman's
honor; to keep her from being disgraced
an adventures and when she could not
force him into marriage through that means
she had spread this terrible peStiience
broadcast throughout the land
''Eun'; think, gentlemen, that verdict for
the defendant is a ratification Of his sin.
We ask not this eXaltation; we ask not
the exaltation Of any one who has violated
the commands of the decalogue. We ask
for only what is just. heartily join viva
for a verdict in defense of American woman
hood; but according to the standard up to
which our wives and mothers must be
Major Butterworth concluded at $40
. 'oek, having spoken eight hours and
half since II O'Clock yesterday morning.
ilson " ind> Up.
Washington y. G., April N.-[Special, =
The beginning of the end was marked
this morning when Judge jeremiah NJ.
Wilson began his closing arguments for the
:
D generating, and when it rose III accusation
against tie q elepG'an +; VINO sat unmo I'VE
particularly effective. lie held the close at
tention Of the jury, throughput the day.
plaintiff and defendaEt were IKE Miry
and the lamb. Wherever Madeline went,
70 Towa ards the close Of the day he Offset
the plaintiffs evidence against that OF the
defendant, and asked the Jury as :, ciim *
plaintiff or this man who acknowledge
lnat he had lived lie Tor ten years + %nq
knowledge, and who mad 1alsiled even MS
The plaintiff was not present, neither was
Major Butterworth ut the opening, but ne
came in with Desha Breckinrdge Just as
Judge Wilson was regretting his absence
That ne could not ask him what he would
do with a fallen woman and the man VINO
would Say, i would turn the woman out
and ia send the man to congress.
81 stand here for Wom2nhOOd, Sald Judge |
wilson. This defendant proclaimed from
the stand that while affairs Of this this KIM tna
woman. [ am here to insist that the social
law shall be equally distributed stand
to enter my parlor and your parlor, whiie |
the basement door and the gate IN the |
back alley are bol{ed a a eou 1he "1 nnId
see tina, the condemnaton would ring
around the world"
claim pyrotechnically that the Womanhood |
of the land was arrayed in behalf OF the |
defendant. No q thousand tines no. lie |
had said II at the country girls of the
country did not need chaperones and he |
(Wilson had expected to hear it said that |
erayhaired men of forty-seven needed |
boGyguards.
..bont Female Boct"rs.
Colonel Thompson's sheer about female |
doctors was made the occasion for the de- |
tense of the advancement of the higher edu-
cation of women. Colonel Thompson had
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