The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-16

WASHINGTON, March l6.-Miss Pollard
| entered the circuit court room this morn
ing just as the crier raped for order
She was accompanied by Miss Ellis, the
elderly lady from the Episcopal house
| OF mercy. All the attorneys in the case
were present when Miss Pollard entered.
Colonel Breckenridge had come in a
minute before and took his usual seat
behind the plaintiff.
As usual the courtroom was we'll
filled. Sarah Guest, colored woman
from Lexington, Ky, dressed in deep
mourning, was tho first witness. She
is the woman whose deposition W as OBJ
| jected to by the defense a few DAYS ago
| and not admitted To evidence by Judge
| Bradley.
the substance OF her testimony was
| to the feet That sho kept an assign -
ton hous,: that Breckenridge brought
Miss Pollard to her house the first time
| about ten years ago, to remain from
Friday until Monday; that Mrs. Guest
objected to so long stay; that Breckin-
ridge overrode her objection and the
girl remained; that Breckenridge visited
her each day and evening.
She had heard Breckenridge tell Miss
Madeline that she must get breakfast
early and "get down there" to meet Mr..
Rhodes on Monday morning.
! The witness said Colonel Breckin-
ridge and Miss Pollard had come back
TO her house year later. Colonel
breckenridge had come to the witness
| year ago last summer and asked her to
take Miss Pollard, but she had refused,
saying 'she did not keep company
now" Colonel Breckenridge had como
TO her again last fall, after tho suit was
filed and asked her not to testify against
him and also to keep Mary Scott and
Mary Wilson twho lived at her housed
out of the way, "because he did not
want them to get them"
Ibid he ever mention tho name of
any man in connection with Miss Pol
lard?" asked Mr.. Farrell
AYES, sir; he asked me If Miss Pollard
had ever como 10 my house with Colonel
Swope. told him she had never been
there with Colonel Swope." Colonel
Swope was killed by Col. Cassys Good
loe, in Lexington some years ago. and a
story was circulated few months since
connecting his name with that of Miss
Pollard. Tho story was Indignantly de.
MED by Colonel Swope's relatives and
no evidence TO support it was ever
brought to Light.
"How many times was Colonel
Brsckinridge in your house with Miss
Pollard?" asked Mr.. Farrell
about fifty times"
"Over how many years did these
| visits extend?"
"Over about three or four years"
When MIR. Claude de la Roche Francis
was on the stand q few days ago he
stated that he had met Miss Pollard at
No. 25 Lafayette Square in this city,
where she boarded. Mrs. Lucretia Marie
Minera, who leases No. 25, and keeps
boarders there, was tho next witness,
and she gave testimony concerning Miss
Pollard's residence with her, but thero
was nothing in the testimony that was
significant.
a lady who gave her name as Mrs.
Kate w. Burt, L clerk in the govern.
ment land office, was the next witness,
and said she had boarded in house at
the corner of Thirteenth and l. streets
in this city, and while there had sec n
Miss Pollard. She had lived at the
Thirteenth street house. about 1887, for
about ten days. She was there under
tho name of Mrs Foster Mrs Burt
had seen Colonel Breckenridge at tho
house once, but merely at tho door.
On cross-eXamination she said that
Colonel Breckenridge had gone up
stairs to Mira. Fosters" room, but she
did not know how long he remained
there.
The opening of q deposition, which
Mr.. Carlisle began TO read, was the sig
nal for an exodus from the courtroom.
The deposition was that OF Mrs. A.
ketcham, of Lexington, who knew Miss
Pollard during 1884 Sc, when she
boarded ut Mrs. Kershaw's house while
attending Sayre Institute in that town.
James G. Rhodes called regularly every
three weekf at Mrs Kershaw's house TO
see Miss Pollard and her mother came
once or twice while she was thore.
The reading OF Mrs. Ketcham's depo.
sition was continued after the recess.
1t was shown by the deposition that an
attempt had been made through ques.
tions asked the deponent during her ex-
animation to implicate Col. Swopo and
other citizens Of Lexington with Miss
Pollard. but Mrs. Ketchams answers
were all to the effect that Miss Pollard
had acted as chaste and good girl.
Mrs. Ketcham also testified that Colonel
Breckinridge had q room at her house
for short time while Miss Pollard was
there.
Mas Pollard had left the Sayre In
stitute because Of humiliation over the
action of Mr.. Rhodes in telling tho
principal that he was paying for Miss
Pollard's tuition on condition that she
would marry him. The deposition OF
Major Ii. B. Mcclellan, principal Of the
Sayre Female Institute, where Miss
Pollard was a pupil, was next road
The major produced tho school records,
which showed that Miss Pollard was
absent a great deal during her first year
at the school, sometimes for week at
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