St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-11

ilims IF fsr the first half hour particu-
. larry TO discussion OF Mrs. Gov. Black
i burns testimony. He rehearsed in a
manner devoid of rhetorical attitudes,
and in colloquial tone, how Col.
breckenridge had brought 10 the Ken
lucky lady the plaintiff in this case,
slring that she was much to him now.
; and would be mnre in the future. as he
i intended to make her his wife.
In commenting OH the testimony of
I, Claud de la Roche Francis. cousin of
Ward McAlliSter and nephew OF Mar
| uuiS de la Roche. chamberlain to the
pope, Mr.. Carlisle evoked the suiile
which for some reason always fits
! across the court room al the mention of
| that young person. Mr.. Carlisle laid
stress upon the fact that. III response 10
! the production of Miss Pollard's letters,
! only those two which it would lie all
! vantagaous for the defense to read were
| brought forward. After recalling how
a murderer had once been convicted be-
cause in the furnace into which he had
thrust his victim lie had failed 10 con-
sumo the victims false teeth, the law
yer brought forward the work basket
which had belonged to the late Mrs.
! Breckenridge which the colonel had
denied having given to Miss Pollard,
and reminded the jury OF the testimony
of Mary Yancey, a caIored COOK. who
! had seen the pair sitting Oh the sofa to-
gcther with the basket between them.
FROM THE DRAMATIC PASSAGE
| In which he flashed the basket up0G the
jury, Mr.. Carlisle passed on to the time
wien Miss Pollard took Col. Breckin-
| ridge from The side OF his lawful wife,
at the house IN Jefferson place. with the
quotation from Miss Poilard's testimony,
II said, Come with me. WILLIE and he
CAME" to the interview in III. eff &c of
the chief Of police, to which the CO lionel
had said he was taking the young
woman to place her in the hands of The
law, and where he had sworn. clasping
her hand. to marry her on the 3lSt of
| May. The history of similar cases did
not show more complete chain of evil
dence, Mr.. Carlisle contended. The
defendant asked the jury to believe on
!; his single word, unsupported by a shred
I
on his part, that the engagement of
marriage had been concerted sa5ter-
| tuge, to disbelisve the testimony of MIS-.
Blackburn, of Maj. Moore, of Francis.
/ OF Mary fancey and many others. and
against all these take his own word for
| a story utterly ami altogether improba-
| bic, story which he had every possible
| lndueeuent to cOntrlye and stick to.
That defense stands wholly and solely
! upon his unsupported words, Continued
the speaker. Il ask you 10 judge OF him
only by what he has told you here on
| this stand, standard by which every
witness can he judged without COM
plant. a father of a family. with eight
children. and devoted wife, he tells you
HE LIVED FOR NINE YEARS
in calm, deliberate adultery with this
| woman, not giving way TO sudden pas
sion, not led by misguided love, but
| that lust and not love was the bond be-
tween them. During those years he
was posing before the world as Christ
| ian statesman, a man high in the coun.
ellis of the Presbyterian church. giving
counsel to saints and sinners. while his
lire itself was a lie. He asks you to
| believe him now On the ground that
during those half-dozen interviews with
! Mrs. Blackburn, q woman high In the
standing of her state, who must have
won the admiration Of every mothers
son in this box, he told her, and carried
on a complicated lie." The eXigeucy
now pressing the colonel was create +,
far greater. Mr.. Carlisle said, than any
which had hung over him before the
| INDICTMENT FOR HIM. TO LIE
was greater than ever; yet he asked he
Jury to believe his uncorro5orated wor d
I low on the supposltion that he had al
| ways lied before when he made state
| mentS controverting his present posi-
| lion. This young woman does not come
| before you Stainless" the lawyer be.
| gan in comparing the character of his
| client with that of the statesman II.
| What is left now Of her life? The
opportunity is past for him to make that
PREPARATION he owed 10 her and himself.
| When you compare the character of the
witnesses Oil both sides; when you think
of this man with power. socially, politi-
cally and otherwise, who acquired
domination of this unfortunate girl: who
ruined her life, you cannot believe tina
he promised to make good To her the
ruin of her life, you cannot. with the
| thought of the mothers and daughters
in the land, refuse to make the only
possible PREPARATION to this unfortunate
plaintiff"
Reminding them of the $4,000 which
the declaration would allow them to
award, Mr.. Carlisle closed his plea AM
| Miss Pollard and her companion left
the room. Then Col. Phil Thompson
faced the jury.
COL. THOMPSON
started off with the proposition that hi:
client was not responsible for dragging
this case into court; that it was not thu
province of the jury to punish his ellen
for immortality: although he asked ne
leniency at the bar or of public opinion
Who was it, he asked, who had trough
into court this mass of filth, spreadin:
1t through the newspapers before III,
daughters of the famlly?' | want you t
try This woman as bawd ana wan
ton, as she acknowledged herself" de
clared Mr.. Thompson.
| "Do you want to encourage ever
bawd and wanton in the country {
bring their filthy suits into this cour
and corrupt the community?'
He asserted that the suit had bee