Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-29


about the rings he gave her. He had de
stroyed the reply.
After the noon recess Mr. Shelby in
quired whether III 1884 Miss Pollard was 8
mature person physically and mentally
Objection was made and the question eX
Guided. 1t was asked also whether he1
conduct was that of a mature person, and
this was also excluded, but Il question was
framed to which Mr.. Rossell could answer
that she was woman.
He had seen Principal Brown but once
and there had been no unpleaSantneSs be
tween them. Last April he had made APP
plicatiOn for the position of gauger in the
internal revenue service, but when his
friends persuaded him to run for superin,
tendent of schools he withdrew his appli,
cation. He did not know Colonel Breck,
inridge when he applied for the revenue
position. His application had been with
drawn before he made a deposition in this
case.
Catechised by Wilson.
Mr.. Wilson jumped into the cross exami-
nation enthusiastically.
You withdrew your application before
you made that deposition?' he asked.
Yes, sir.
GLOW long before?"
"Well, about
'Was it not the same day you made youl
deposition-th morning of the same day.
"Yes, it was"
And didn't you have your application
in your pocket when you made the depOsi-
tom"
Yes, sir: that's a fact.
There was a brief tilt between lawyers
over questions regarding the standing OF
Wesleyan institute, Mr.. Wilson desiring
to show that Mrs Rutherford b. Hayes,
Mrs. Springer and other prominent women
had graduated there and Mr.. Butterw wort Ii
saying that all that was admitted. Then
Mr.. Wilson catechised the witness about
the location of reception rooms in the
school; whether or not the door between
parlor and reception room was not always
open. When Boswell's memory failed on
details, Mr.. Wilson prodded him with,
but you were there two or three times a
week"
Asked if he did not know it to be fact
that visitors We're permitted at Wesleyan
only one night a week, Rossell said he only
knew he had told the truth, and Mr.. Will
son returned sarcastically: 1--WE don care
for protestations about your testimony.
We only want answers.
ROSSell reiterated that Miss Pollard had
sat on his lap for two hours at Il time there.
He had first told of his acquaintance with
Miss Pollard last fall to DR.. O Mahoney of
Lexington. VINO had come as messenger
from Colonel Breckenridge. Rossell was
positive Miss Pollard had told him that
she WAS married to Julian i'll Il mock mar
riage and said he had never heard of Owen
Tinsley Ro-scll had loaned a picture of
Miss Pollard to a mail carrier, who gave
it to IL pOstmistress who was related to
Colonel Breckinridge and who sent it to
4 I,n dot hol with IrnN lies
ton for office of his own motion.
How long was Miss Pollard up stairs
when she said she would go to Chicago
with you?" asked Mr.. Wilson.
"Fifteen or 20 minutes
Game down and was all ready had her
trunk packed?'
Yes, sir"
Had packed her trunk and got ready i'll
Is or 20 minutes?'
she said So
What time was this;
Nine or 10 o'clock at night"
who was about there:'
Il didn't see anybody. We were alone"
This ended the testimony of Mr.. Rossell,
and the deposition of Hiram kaufman,
butcher of Lexington, Ky, was taken W
by Attorney Stoll.
An Erotic Deposition.
Mr.. Kaufman had known Miss Pollard
when she lived in Lexington in 1888. There
were some words not custOmarily heard in
the best society in this statement, but with
the consent of Judge Bradley the lawye.
substituted milder term. Once he had
visited an designation house with Jim
Rhodes. Jim had said. 81 want you to
my girl Miss Pollard was there and had
sat on Rhodes lap, and Rhodes had Rugged
and kissed her On another occasion Miss
Pollard had retired to a room i'll that house
with one j ohm Brandt and had remained
there three-uuarters of an hour, and when
they came out she had returned there with
another fellow. Miss Pollard had once
asked him to go into the room with her,
but he had refused because he was friend
of Rhodes Rhodes had borrowed money
from him for his girl, and he had insisted
upon seeing the girl. Rhodes had intro
duced him, saying; Jim, let me introduce
you to my girl, Miss Pollard"
Rhodes had taken liberties with Miss
Pollard in the presence of other people,
"Miss Pollard had on some of this gauze
stuff, kinder Mother Iiubbard,' was the
lucid description of her attire by the de
pOnent. The witness was pretty full
that evening. He had visited the house
two or three times week after the first
call and always found Miss Pollard there;
thought she remained there six weeks in
May and June of 1888
The witness had INDUCED in some pro-
family and obscenity, part of which he
credited to Miss Pollard as quotations of
her remarks; had seen her ''drunk the
devil" and had been obliged to put her to
bed.
A School Janitor Called.
The deposition of John A Brandt,
school jantor of Lexington. followed,
Brandt said he had first met Miss Pollard
in 1883 at house kept by Lena Singleton,
who was reputed to be the mistress OF
Jsmes Rhodes. The plaintiff had seemed
then about y years old. Brandt had often
taken Miss Pollard riding, according to
his story; had often picked her up and
dropped her somewhere in the street, as he
was married man.
Mr.. Brandt also had employed language
which would not bear repetition. He de-
scribed Miss Pollard as "a spare made
woman" with dark hair, and said she was
then going to school.
Brandt's testimony was somewhat con-
tp,dictory as to when he first met Miss
P(llard, saying once that he had met her
first in 1881 and again in 1888. He was in
trl duced to Miss Pollard in Lena Single
toA's house by a woman he had met at
house of i'll fame in Cincinnati, but could
not remember the name of the woman or
the location of the house. In explaining
one of his lapses of memory the witness
said, THAT time l must have been pretty
drunk as | generally was" He could not
remembe whether he was drunk on the
occasion of the alleged meeting with Made