St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-12
BEN BUTTtRWORTH TALKS.
Gel. 8RE cKfHafCCE'S BOSWELL EX-
H6gSTsD skRLE


The Lawyer .iied in Trying to
Mislead the Jury-Butterworth
Talked TO the Galleries for Az.
plause - Flo dragged in the
Name Of Mary Understandable
Light Of Manly Honor.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE local
demand for oratory was largely salts
fled today by the finish OF Col.
Phil 'rhompSon'S speech in the Pollard
Breckenridge trial and the beginning
of plea by Maj. Butterworth. The in
stinct of virtu0us woman would have
ed her 10 say ~ It ou5. You leptr." MIR.
Butterwarih shouted, rushing down the
aisle towards his client, iiercely. But
no, she had arranged TO meet him the
next day. He pounded one of the
jurors on the knee, as he repudiated
with mixed metaphor the still small
voice crying loudly in the name of her
mother 10 shrink from this man. The
ali designation house.
Think of it," the lawyer shouted.
II have thought OF it" Judge Wilson
remarked to him.
Then Mr. Butterworth slapped three
jurors on tie knee in succession as he
rehearscd Miss Pollard's description OF
the cnlonel's tiattery.
You leper." he shouted to the col
onel. "hhy did she not fly away aud
leave you?"
He told how Miss Pollard, after re-
siSting the colonel in the carriage and
the Cincinnati designation house, had
felt ready to tackle him again at Sarah
Guess; 10 travel seventy miles with
him 10 resist him. She did not want to
marry him. She knew of his wife and
children. She knew that it would rum
her, and might ruin him and his daugh-
tiers.
Although Maj. Butterworth talked
more than half of the day,he progressed
no further than the first relations be-
tween his client and Madeline Pollard
back in 1884. His whole argument was
devoted to the point that the young
woman had not been the pure girl OF
seventeen wien the sllver-haired col
Onel met her tn; t she had represented
herself to be. 1t Was a strong display
OF oratory. There Was an interesting
incident during the morning when
Judge Bradley carried into execution
the threat he had made several times of
clearing the room of spectators. Mr..
Butterwurth had been painting glow
ingly the virtues of his client. whose
friendship he had enjoyed for many
years, and was declaring that no man
to whom Ben Butterworth had been a
friend in his prosperity would be de-
serted by him In adversely, when sew
eral men broke into applause. The
judge Immediately ordered all who were
not members of the bar to leave the
court room.
THOMPSON CONCLUDES.
Col. Phil Thompson resumed his
speech against Madeline Pollard when
the circuit court met today. He first
commented on the improbability of the
formal proposal of marriage from Col.
breckenridge to the plaintiff in the fall
of 1892, and declared her story was the
act or woman who felt that if she
could not marry him she could disgrace
him. In his vehement way the colonel
pictured what must have been the
agony of the congressman with the
plaintiff following him around and com.
polling him 10 tell Mrs. Blackburn that
they were 10 be married.
''She was walking arsenal" said
the lawyer again. Talk about Ken
tucky colonies, and turning up coat
tails here in this court house to see if
there were pistols! Did you see the
look on that wcInan'S face when she
came into this court house? Why. |
was afraid to sit beside the colonel, for
fear stray bullet might hit me-"
Col. Thompson closed with an appeal
to the jury to return a verdict accord
Ing TO the law and the testimony.
MAI. BUTTERWORTH,
whose manner is Ill great contrast with
his colleague, began his remarks by
expressing qualification that this pest.
lence must soon be brought to an end.
Upon those who were to blame for
bringing it before the public the burden
must rest. There was no wrong to be
righted by this suit Even to save the
lives of the two nominal principals, the
lncorruptihle Judiciary of the country
could not afford to deal with such a
mass of contagion. Nor should the
hearthstones of the country have been
invaded by it for any purpose. He
would not use harsh language to Miss
Pollard, but he would that some one
had whispered into her ear the words
the Master had said: $50, and sin no
more"
Some people had been solicitous for
fear his Butterworth's) friendship had
been misplaced. He had known the
defendant as statesman. soldier, father,
husband and friend. land you may
speed it on the lightning that to whom
Ben Butterwurth was friend in the