The Washington times., 1894-04-10
whore their testimony began to differ. as they
said, the lawyer remarked:

whore their testimony began to differ. as the,
said, the lawyer remarked:
ale has told you that there was nothing i'm
/ proper then In her conduct, nothing TO alarm
him. Before we come to the next meeting lei
us consider who this defendant waa He was
from one Of the best families Of kentucky, his
| father prominent Presbyterian divine. he was
blessed with all the advantages which training
and education could give; he had great persons d
talents; he graduated from college at the early
/ age Of 49, In 1857 he was admitted to the bar; in
1859 he was married to a lady of one Of the best
families in Kentucky who died early; in 1851 he
was second time married to lady so estima-
bic that here on this witness stand, in the midst
Of this case he could not forbesr a tribute IN his
voice for that woman who had been the mother
| OF his seven children.
den Of local offices; had been q lawyer twenty
three years and experienced lawyer; had
been tried BY the fires Of war; had such an ex-
perience In what he had seen and known as
few men who have arrived at the age of a. As
he tells you. he had happy home, was beloved
by his wife and children He confesses that no
man ever had less excuse for what he did, that
no man had had greater advantages, that no
words could point the depth to which he fell
This was the gentleman who met the school girl
on that train"
From this point Mr.. Carlisle turned back to
James Rhodes, who was dead, he said and
who could not be called. The letters from
Madeline Pollard to him had been read, and
disclosed no hint Of the relations which Mr.
Breckinridge had attempted to charge existed
between them. Moreover, the description
given by Mrs. Brown of his character and OF
his defense toward the young girl had been
heard. 1t was not extraordinary that she
should feel alarmed If Rhodes attempted to
compel her to carry out one alternative Of her
contract and marry him. She knew Col
Breckenridge as most distinguished lawyer
OF that section, and having met him. having
been told by him that he knew her father, she
wrote to him for advice. There began the
second stage OF the controversy between them.
Col. Breckenridge had produced letter which
he said she had written him, and which she
pronounced a forgery.
Returning to the disputed letter after the
noon recess. Mr. Carlisle dealt with the testi-
mony OF Experts Hay and Schaeffer, con-
tending that theirs was not an exact science,
and that they only claimed to have opinions
upon penmanship worth more than the
opinions of other people. He displayed the
letter to the jury and with it the fac simile OF
the marriage certificate for Col. Breckinridges
secret marriage to Mrs. Wing. The authenti-
city OF the letter, he claimed rested wholly on
the defendants word. while the testimony OF
the experts should not weigh a feather He
thought that the value Of the letter to the de-
fendant was merely rs an opening wedge,
while the plaintiff would have no object in
denying 1t except the fact that she had not
written it. 1t would have been easy to con-
coct letter like that, because for the most
part it coincided with the statement of the
plaintiff and defendant. He laid stress on
the fact that Of all the hundreds of letters
written by Miss Pollard to the colonel this
was the only one which had been found. with
the exception of u little note written In 1899
While Mr.. Carlisle was reading the testimony
Of Col. Breckenridge regarding his first visit
to Miss Pollard the colonel spoke up in cor
rection of one of the statements concerning
,l.iF III
be Judge Breckinridge. and not Gen. Breck-
inridge."
The lawyer laid stress upon the selection OF
a closed carriage for the ride from the semi
nary, compared the story OF the colonel, that
without any preliminary encouragement he
become intimate with her, with her story Of
having repulsed his advances. of his fiattery.
1.-THE tongue which had been accustomed to
sway great audiences confined to an audi
ence Of one girl In Cincinnati hack" The
mere fact OF Colonel Breckinridge, the Con-
gresham. coming to take Madeline Pollard,
the daughter of Kentucky saddler, to ride
was compliment and fiattery to her The
statement of the colonel to Major Moore that
on the first night he hEd taken liberties with
her person, and the second night had slept
with her, concurred with his testimony and
not with hers. g -
From the testimony Of Mrs. Luke Black
burn, Mr.. Carlisle said, proceeding to that
aspect OF the case, there were but two ave-
nues of escape for Colonel Breekinridge, to
say that he had not told the truth or that she
had not. and as the lesser horn OF the di-
lemma he had said that he misrepresented
facts to her
To show that the testimony OF Colonel
Breckenridge was not worthy of credence. the
attorney referred to his statement that his re-
lations to Miss Pollard continued through
nine years, had been entirely without love or
fae ..u raIo L., a. I M
have thought he would have been afraid to
admit it on the stand. Taking bis own state
ment that this woman was merely the play
thing OF his passions. it does not, add to his
credibility that he should have taken such
woman as he claims this plaintiff to be to
such woman as Mrs. Blackburn has been
shown to be. woman OF such character,
such standing. such surroundings" Con-
sidering the colonei's own statement of how
he had deceived Mrs. Blackburn. a woman OF
the highest standing from his own state, the
attorney appealed to the jury to think
whether they could trust him under circum-
stances carrying such weighty indictments
for him to missrate the facts.
hIr. Carlisle called attention to the appear
ance of Miss Pollard on the witness stand,
when, after two hours of direct examination,
she had been subjected 10 two DAYS and half
of cross-examination without being shaken
on material point. II would be easy for the
cefense to talk OF her extraordinary cutenesS,
but only one oftwo conditions, mind trained
in the courts, experienced rs a witness. or an
absolute adherence to the truth could enable
a person to do this, and it was doubtful if the
former qualifications could avail in such an
ordeal if one was not telling the truth.
Canvassing the testimony Of Sarah Cess
and the after meeting of the pair while Miss
Pollard was at Sayre Institute. Mr. Carlisle
came down to the birth of the first child, con-
cerning which, he said. there was not
shadow OF proof even attempted to carry ont
the defendants insinuation that another man
than himself might have been its father.
After reviewing the life of Miss Pollard in
the attorney said that everything
in the case went to show that Col. Breckin-
ridge was right when he wrote in the civil
service papers that he would trust her in any
position. for had she been the sort of woman
he had attempted to prove her. and had their
relations been of the kind he stated, she
would long ago have revealed his secret
In discussing the probabilities of the nature
of the relations of Col. Breckinridge to Miss
Pollard, the attorney asked if it was probable
that he would have sent invitations to recep-
tons at Norwood, the fashionable female |
seminary OF Washington. to wonisn %ho |
was nothing to him but his mistress. ! =
Before Mr.. Carlisle had finished speaking
the hour for adjournment arrived
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