Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-20
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approval. .Yes have never done any
thiog . ! free ~ fndepeptsnt aeset since
you paced under his cestrcl! ssked M
- don'r believe ever haye.r sail Miss
Pollard Nth . Sigh, shshias hss nese sos'
..Are ron mot Of vesy strong viils'
Jadas Bradley Snled out this question.
..What smldiion hsd Jon for the future
vhen Won were carrying on these relations,
| Miss Pollardg"
IL kneg Was always TO be 10 Mr.. beeck-
inrides's life, for the night before went to
Norwood asylum, where my baby vas born,
Sc said should have to give my baby up
He told me that l should always be In his
life, that he loved me and would do any
thing for me and if he was ever in posi-
|fion to marry me he would do 90. ~
"What did you intend to do atterwardss
Did you intend to write to support your
self"
Yes
Ibid You have any woman for an ideal,
hoping to make yourself like herr 81
object said Judge Wilson.
II didn't said Miss Pollard, quickly.
Judge Bradley ruled the question out and
Judge Wilson remarked dryly that Mr..
Butterworth had been reading books lately
Miss Pollard sxid she came to Washing
ton because Col. Breckenridge said so.
Coucealment of their relations, he said,
would be safe here "a anywhere. During
her stay in Washington at the convent of the
Holy Cross and elsewhere. Col. Breckin-
ridge paid her bills. Soon after coming to
Washington, her second child was born
February 3, 1888. 1t died the following
April.
t.Did yop claim while at Bread Loaf inn
that you were the author of poem called
Loves Power:'
mo, sir. did not do those things told
in that article.''
what article:' Wked Major Butter
worth, apparently surprised.
..That article in the Brooklyn Standard
Union which you are leading up to, and
which you have been studying SO assilu-
ously all the morning"
"Haye you read that article?"
az have"
Msior ButterwOrth Rad this article,
purportipg to be an interview with Brook
Ign woman who knew Miss Pollard, but
Miss Pollard interrupted him to say that
she had never bes sn opium eater, had not
claimed to be Josephine Pollard. the au-
thoress. She knew Miss Josephine Pollard
she said, but had not claimed to be that
lady nor to have written her poems.
Neither had she claimed to know
James Russell Lowell 50 intimately that
"she walked hsna in hand through the
streets of Cambridge with him. She did
know Mrs. Howe, sister of Mr.. Lowell'-
first wife, but had never met Lowell. She
knew Charles Dudley Warner, she said, and
William D. Howells had been kind in an
swering her letters about becoming writer.
but she did not know him nor any of the
other literary men whom the writer in the
Standard Uni9n claimed that, Miss Pollard
said she was on intimate terms With. Miss
Pollard said she knew the woman who
wrote the article in the Standard Union.
Judge Bradley said this line Of questioning
was improper and stopped it.
Major Butterworth gradually leaup to the
alleg d offer of marriage which Miss Pol
lard swore Col Breckenridge made to her
in August, 1892, the day of her arrival
from the North. Miss Pollard said Col.
Breckinridgs took her to an assign
alton house, aud finally said, mad
cline, this is not proper place
to tell you What l have to say" They
walked from pennsylvania avenue, till they
met cab in which they were driven into
the country. While on the drive, said Miss
Pollard, the offer of marriage was made.
At Til, point, court adjourned until tc-
morrow.