The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-04-17
MISS POLLARD ILL.
Where the Money Came from With
Which to Fight Her
Case.

I
Which to Fight Her
Case.
Telegraphic news from Washing
ton, yesterday, announces that
Madeline Pollard, the victorious
plaintiff in the great Pollard-Breck-
inridge suit, and the most talked Of
woman at the Capital city, lies at
her room, in that city, seriously i'll,
from the effects of nervous prostra-
ton, the natural result, it is said,
of the terrible mental strain she
has undergone during thelate trial.
On Saturday evening after the jury
had declared a verdict in favor of
the plaintiff, in Judge Bradley's
court, thus ending the long and bit
terly contested trial. Miss Pollard
was taken to the Providence Hos
pital, Catholic institution, in a
quiet part of the city on Capitol
Hill, where she is attended by the
Sisters of Charity. The attending
physicians do not anticipate any
serious effects from her illness.
The most interesting comment
made from any source on either of
the parties to the great trial, since
its close, on Saturday, comes in the
shape of a dispatch, sent out from
the city of CINCINNATI, Ohio, on
yesterday, which reads as fol-
lows;
"You may say positively that
Miss Pollard will not go on the
stage" said Mrs. Mcclellan Brown,
while Miss Pollard was a pupil
Mrs. Brown was, with her husband,
in charge of the Wesleyan Womans
College. She has just returned
from Washington where she testi-
fed in the Northumberland
case. She said Miss Pollard had
theatrical offers from $500 to 5000
per week. She was tempeted only
by the large offers, but would not
accept them, because they all wish
ed her to give the story Of her life,
and that she will not do
"She has young brother in
Washington, a reporter, and it is
her wish to live moderately in fiat
or little house with her brother
and write, and her offers in this line
have been as good, accordingly, as
the others,
81 would tell you just what that
line Of writing is, but am not at lib
erty to tell you, She will carry out
her own life ambition, the ambition
which lay so close to her heart at
the time she first met Breckenridge.
The Washington women have been
quietly holding indignation meetings
and after the trial they will be
heard. The notorious conduct Of
Congressman and public men at
Washington is national disgrace
and the women are now thoroughly
awakened on the subject and are
determined to demand a better or
der Of things.
'"It is an open secret in Washing
ton that there are women, beautiful,
brilliant and fascinating, whose re-
lations with Congressman or public
men high in the councils of the ma
ton are either perfectly understood
or suspected who are met at every
turn at the most fashionable func-
tions, often in the receiving line,
elegantly dressed, as usual, presid-
ing in the tea room, or acting as as
sistant hostess, Society knows all
this, but so powerful has been the
influence Of the names back of
them that no one has had courage
to drop the women or rebuke the
men,
Gas to Miss Pellard's money to
carry on the suit, there is no doubt
that Mrs, Luke Blackburn obtained
it from the society women of Wash
ington. I am Madeline Pollards
friend and | am a friend to every
poor girl led astray 1t is high
time for the women of the country
to rise up and demand an equal
standard of virtue for both men
and women and to punish lapse
from that standard alike in both,
C0XEY AND HIS LITTLE ARMY,