The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-23
DID MADELINE LIE
Testimony for the Defence Which
Tends to Show that She Did.
SISTERS OF MERCY SAY THAT SHE
WAS NOT MISS BERGWYNNE.

Years Older Than She Represents Her
self To Be-Some of the Testimony
Concerning Her Early Life Withheld
on the. Objection of Her Counsel.
Washington, March %. miss Madeline
Pollard came early to court today and
spent the minutes preceding the appear
ance of Judge Bradley in chatting
earnestly with her counsel.
She smiled occasionally and seemed in
good spirits. Miss Pollard and her
companion Miss Ellis, remained only
about fifteen minutes and then left the
court room. The day opened without
indication of interesting proceedings; for
the spectators who have attended the
trial have found that documentary
testimony, no matter how sensational,
does not compare in dramatic effect with
evidence given on the stand.
The deposition of Sister Augustine was
read first. Sister Augustine was con-
nected with ST. Joseph's Founding
asylum near Cincinnati in 1885 at the
time when Miss Pollard claims she was
confined there. She testified she knew
only of one Louise Wilson who had been
an inmate of the asylum, and she was
there when the deposition was given;
she had never heard of Madeline Pollard
as an inmate. She did not remember
having seen any girl who was at the
asylum in May and June, 1885, who re-
NAMED yelled and who gave birth to a
child except one, and that woman was
not Madeline Pollard. This woman,
Sister Augustine said, had lived in Ken
lucky for while, but was from the far
North and had family of children.
Mr.. Carlisle and Mr.. johnson of the
plaintiffs council, had called at the
asylum in December, 1893, with Miss
Pollard, said the deponent but she
could not remember Miss Pollard. Sister
Agnes said Sister Augustine told Miss
Pollard that she was bad woman. She
said SO to her face Miss Pollard said she
had been a bad girl, but she was not
bad woman. Sister Agnes, continued
Sister Augustine, was very sharp and
very shrewd and would certainly have
known Miss Pollard had she been an
inmate of the salyum.
incidents connected with the visit of
Miss Pollard, which were narrated by
Sister Agnes in the deposition read yes
terday, wele t)ld by Sister Augustine.
Miss Polla d, or her lawyers, had stold
the deponenJ that Miss Pollard had been
in the asylum
Under the Name of Louise Wilson,
but there was no such name in the
books. She found the name of Miss Bur-
gwynne as having been confined on May
90, 1885, the day Miss Pollard claims to
have given birth to child.
Miss Burgwynne or Burgoyne, is one
of the names Miss Pollard says she
assumed while pregnant in Cincinnati.
The entry on the asylum books showed
that Miss Burgwynne had left the
asylum June 80, while Miss Pollard
claims she left the asylum two weeks
after her child was born. Wher Sister
Augustine read the name Of Miss
Burgwynne during the visit of Miss
Pollard in December, 1873, Miss Pollard
said: "Oh, yes! that is the name, l had
so MANY names ! cannot rememb Der them
all.n Miss Pollard called the name
Borgoyne, added s. ter Augustine.
"Do you believe tha6 Miss Madeline
Pollard is Miss Burgwynne?" was asked
of this deponent.
"No sir, I believe she is not. Miss
Burgwynne was mueh smaller than Miss
Pollard. During the visit of Miss Pol
lard to the asylum, she asked where the
child of Miss Burgwynne was and was
told it died in July. 1855.
The said Sister Augustine. "She put
her hands to her face and ran out of the
room, suppose grieving over the death
of her child"
Part of the deposition was devoted to
the finding of Christmas card in one of
the volumes of Irving, which Miss Pol
lard claimed to have presented to the
asylum library when she was there.
Sister Augustine said she did not know
whether Miss Pollard could have slipped
the card in the book. Nobody was
watching her. The card was produced in
court and shown to each juryman. This
card, Miss Pollard claims was given her
by Lexington man and that she placed
it in one of the Irving volumes while
confined at the aylum. When the trial
began, counsel for Miss Pollard insisted
on the production of the four volumes of
Irving which Sister Augustine had given
to Mr. Stoll of the defense to take to
Washington and there was legal con-
troversy before the matter was SETTLED
10y an order from Judge Bradley for the
production of the books.
Judge Wilson, Miss ~Pollard's attorney,
said with some heat at the time, when
called on to more fully identity the
volumes mentioned, that they were the
books from which Mr.. Stoll had taken
Christmas card which would have a
great bearing in the case. The four
books and the Christmas card are be-
ginning to play an important part in the
trial MISS Pollard said, in identifying
herself with the asylum, that when she
was there she saw statue oil
st. Joseph With a Gross Eye.
SISTER Augustine said there was a
statue of st. Joseph at the asylum. but
it's eyes were all right.
Mr.Stoll then read the deposition of
Mrs. Lena Schmidt, nurse at the
fouadling asylum, who testified that she
did not remem ber any one named Louise
Wilson at the asylum and could not
recognize Miss Pollard when she saw her
in Decemb ber, 1898, as one she had seen
before.
Mr. Stoll read the deposition of Dr. W
E. DeCource. There was nothing of i'm
portance in this deposition.
Orvin G. Brown, president of Quinn
Valley college, son OF DIR. W. K. Brown,
president of Wesleyan college in Cincin-
natl, where Miss Pollard was a student,
deposed that he first knew Miss Pollard
in the fall of 1888, when she came to
Wesleyan college, where he was then.
Her board and tuition, 5000, was to be
paid by Mr. Rodes, but all of it had not
been paid. There was long controversy
over admitting certain parts of Browns