St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-06

was penned in feminine, delicate hand
with the words: "PleaSe name my baby
'Dietz Downing and beneath it in red
ink, '.Died April IL. lsSS.'
A question from Mr.. Shelby as tC
whether any other child had died III
April of 1883 brought the reply:
"fhe die so fast and so rapidly that l
cannot keep track of them.''
The records. however, would show
the witness said. When Mir. Shelby
offered to place the record in evidence,
it was ruled out.
The defense attempted to put DIR.
Mary Parsons upon the stand, but
Judge Bradley Insisting that counsel
for Col. Breckenridge must understand
that she was their own witness. called
for eross-eNaaiinati1n, the plan was
abandoned and the witness dismissed.
William b. Moore, of the Cincinnati
health office. testified that no return of
a birth attended by DR.. Mary Parsons
in February of 1885 had been made.
He testified. he was not cross examined.
Here the defense abruptly rested its
case.
The first witness called by the plant
ifs attorney in rebuttal was Dir. Will
lam A. Cowan, young man who is
superintendent of the Western asylum,
the first
COUSIN OF MISS POLLARD,
on her mothers side. AS soon as Mr..
Carlisle asked whether the plaintiff had
been member of his family from 1876
to 1850, Mir. Shelby objected. arguing
that sucn testimony was not properly
rebuttal. lie was reminded by Mr.
Carlisle of the deposition of Mrs. Mil
Ter, nee ShingleboWef, woman admit
edly of i'll fame, who mad testified that
Miss Pollard had lived in Kentucky in
the years 1877 and 1878. and had COM
nitted certain imprUprieties in her
sight.
Mr.. Wilson also cast reflections upon
the character Of Mrs. Miller, declaring
her deposition to be all infamous lie.
In overruling the objection, Judge
Bradley remarged that ''the defendant
say infamous -advisedly, from her own
testimony" Continuing, the Judge re-.
ferred to the testimony of Mrs. Miller
as disgusting, referred to the fact that
Mrs. Miller had testified that she had
become woman of the town at the age
of fourteen. aud said the plaintiff
should be allowed to purge herself of
the contamination which would inevita-
bly, come from association with such a
woman. He also spoke of the conten-
tion of the defense that Miss Pollard
could not disprove the affidavit by the
suresl means by showing that she was
not at tue place where the specific acts
of immortality were said to have been
committed.
DIR. Cowan testified that Miss Pollard
had been member of his family con-
tinuOusly from August, 1876, to 1880,
Il ,efn nd cf,hn n ic CT
most of the time. The crOSS-eXamina-
tion showed that he had made "Trip
West in 1876, and another in 1878, but
he was certain that the plaintiff had not
been away from Pittsburg at those
times. 1 he testimony of MOllie Single
hover had been that Miss Pollard was
living in 1877 and 1878 five miles from
Lexington. KY. During the legal ar
gument which had preceded the testi-
mony, Miss Pollard, who had been en-.
gagged for hall All hour
TAKING NOTES.
left the court room. Another relative
OF the plaintiff, Charles Sawyer. testi-
fed that he had lived in the same house
(Aunt Keen's) near Lexington with
Miss Pollard from 1880 to 1883, and
that in all that time the plaintiff had not
been from home over night except for a
period of ten days i'll 1882, when she
was visiting at an uncle's in Guthen-
burg.
George Keen. another cousin, gave
evidence of like character. Mrs. Nc
Clelland Brown, wife of the former
principal of the Wesleyan seminary,
bearing large book, took the stand,
and was about to refer to this volume,
stating that it was the school record,
when the defense objected, but Judge
Bradley admitted the book but finally
Mrs. Browns examination was limited
to rebuttal of ROSsell, testimony. Mrs.
Brown then detailed the rules Of the
seminary as TO gentleman callers. She
had seen Rossell at the seminary. Mr..
Carlisle asked:
'Was it possible for young man to
hold young lady in his lap there for an
hour and half in the EVENING"
Mr.. Shelby shouted all objection. and
it was sustained. Mrs. Brown went on
to state that young ladies were not per-
and never to see them but once week.
I'VE had two young ladies that year
who were engaged, but they were not
allowed to receive callers but once
week. The young ladies received their
visitors in public rooms. When asked
to tell what manner of man Mr., Rhodes
was, she said impressiyely, as though
delivering an oration: 81
"a country gentleman of honest face,
s~ OF GREEN HABITS
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