The evening world., 1894-03-21
BRECKENRIDGE
THE VICTIM.
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Continued rom First Rn1e)
know her (harlng reached that time OF
life when, he was foygetful of faces.
was was great &C Ndmirer % OF JON John "E Z. hreekr @
inridge and had named her after him.
Several weeks afterwards the letter
Rhodes had been RECEIVED. Defendant
aspects OF the contract After that he
which Miss Pollard had denied, but which
would be fully proven. asking him to
come to The seminary. He had written
that he could not come. She had written
another letter urRus him to come to the
| WESLEYAN College to see her. which he
had declined to do
PIainun Not nm Innocent.
on Aug. 1, 1884 friday, he had been
In Cincinnati on business. 1t occurred
to him that he had received the request
nothing else to do he went to the college
that day and saw her. Saw not an ig
norant country girl. unacauainted with
the WAYS OF the world. for u there was
one fact that would be stabl.shed II was
that the plaintiff was then at least TWEEN
ty or twenty-one years OF age. This
cia;ed at the birth Of her next youngest
sister In 1866, when the plaintiff was a
little girl of two or three years OF age
| running about the house.
s,itution," continued the attorney. miss
Pollard came into the parlor and saw
Rhodes which was that in consideration
to marry him She asked il he could
@S%ps nason hF1 or ,S as h% .rsoo .t T"ns s
ilso told him of intimacles with Mr..
Rhodes. He told her that she was not
she asked him to take her to an enter
sented."
That Col. breckenridge had called In
'losed carriage that night was denied.
1t was declared that Miss Pollard had
made the proposition that they ride in
s,Tad OF going to IT., the concert ana and ths
that night, and without the use OF Sc
ductive rIeans. but In that way which
occurs when woman is not averse to
on the first Night he had been with
her. She did not make any protesta-
II ms The ride was not prolonged; he
c,nnau the next day"
The Colonel Led Astray.
! l, was denied that Col Breckinridge
had sent a telegram to Miss Pollard
= IN the name OF her mother to go to
lexington, but when he boarded the
train ;,so, that Friday he found her on 1t;
hls part a meeting had been arranged
= and she herself had proposed that they
, should go to the house Of Sarah Guess.
t she explaining that she knew the house.
II was a matter of mutual arrangement.
but instead of going there Friday. night
Col, Breckenridge had been in Cincinnati
Friday and had not met her there until
saturday night.
! 1t would be shown that Mr.. Rhodes
had fallen behind in paymen, OF her
4 the transfer from Wesleyan Institute to
Sayre Academy. at Lexington. had been
2 made by arrangement between herself
r inridge until he met her one day on the
Lexington continued, meetings being ar.
3 s Miss a. sfrHhs Po, .e era
r known to him. The statement that he
q had written letters from Cincinnati tc
n her mother would be denied.
4 birth of Child Denied.
e The statement that she had given brit
II to a child In the Founding Asylum
the testimony OF Dr: Mary Logan. "
y Her attempt to ident ~ herself at tn
Institution 1n;,ds to the Sisters had utterl!
e in the newspapers that he had aban
:" coned his offspring was withou
fonndaton on Isd nsx After her return to sxGGs
It had made no attempt to resume thel
% relations, but IN the, Fall OF that yea
e QSS5) he had been elected to Congress
1t a negro girl with a note from Miss Poi
lard. and the relations between then
were resumed for a short time. From
II | that December until the following Au
d gust he had been occupied in Washing
IT ton
a In the Spring OF 1887, after Congress
had adjourned. he returned TO Lexington
but his family was not there; He Sc
J. Pollard boarded, not taking his sra meal Il
n he did others. but there was no sugges
ton from either party that their rela
lions should be resumed. He saw plain
\ tin comparatively seldom and not In al
u improper way until the last half OF tn
1t Summer. Only because she came to hi
T. Office to see him were their relations re
-, sumed
~ shortly after Miss Pollard had come T.
s. She told him she had talked with sena
TO Beck is dead, and Mr.. Shelby said that
= OF course, he had not intended to init
=; mate anything against him.
e. Tried to Keep Her Away.
re- Col. Breckenridge had endeavored t
re mittances from Rhodes had been cut Of
n ployment here. There was a period O
Il twelve, months, ending in July, 1887, dur
~ ing which there was no intimacy be
l. child was born to him in February
= 1885, could not be true,
= When Col. Breckinridge returned I
Washington that Winter he had not OF
@. fered to resume their Intimate relat
,d but she had often come to him for helI
and on her representations he had a:
,r sisted her. She was making demands o
he him which he could III afford to NEE
IS but he knew she had y in her power I
er purchase his security his peace. unde
almost any price"
nd The Colonel in Her Power.
Under circumstances not to be col
: doned. but under which many q man ha
:. done wrong to himself and those near
him, the intimacy was resumed at Wasl
RS ington. She knew that she had him moi
or less In her power He attempted
Introduce her into no society here, but
n did not attempt to break her down wit
IL the aCquaintances she had formed. ST
made his life more or less a burden
rs the course she pursued
" Col. Brecknridge was not q man
means: he could not afford 10 give up Il
nd money she forced from him. but 10 sa,
re himself and his family he yielded to he
he She would follow him TO his door, to Il
ng House OF Representatives, He offert
TO her money II she would 20 away or
or start n life for herself. She had abili,
Of a certan sort; he offered time aft,
er time to defray her expenses II she wou
cs go away and 1T herself for work Tn
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