Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-04-10

that time
An Illustrated Point.
Then Attorney Carlisle drew from his
| pocket a tintype, saying: Gentlemen, here
| is the picture brought here by Mrs. Brown
| of the plaintiff, taken with her daughter
in that summer of 1SS4-a girl with dresses
up to the tops of her Shoes a girl in mourn
ing for her sister That is the girl upon
whom the defendant would place more
| than half the blame for this affair."
The jury took the tintype and were eX-
/ amining it closely while Mr.. Carlisle con-
| tinued, Look at that girl, and then look
at the plaintiff, remembering how little
! the testimony says she has changed since
! then"
The white haired kentucky congressman
sat facing the jury, so they had no trouble
in seeing him as they lifted their faces as
though pulled by one string. Taking up
| that meeting in the train where first the
lives of the two came together, and where
their testimony began to differ, as they
said, the lawyer remarked: He has told
you that there was nothing improper then
in her cOnduct-nothing to alarm him.
He had borne, us he has phrased it, the
burden of local offices; had been lawyer
23 years, and an experienced lawyer; had
been tried by the fires of war; had such an
experience i'll what he had seen and known
as few men have who have arrived at the
age of Al. AS he tells you he had happy
home and was beloved by his wife and
children, he confesses that no man ever
had less excuse for what he did; that no
man has had greater advantages; that no
words could point the depth to which he
fell. This was the gentleman who met
the schoolgirl on the train"
From this point Mr.. Carlisle turned back
to James Rhodes, who was dead he said,
and who could not be called. The letters
from Madeline Pollard to him had been
read and disclosed no hint of the relations
which Mr.. Breckenridge had attempted to
charge existed between them. Moreover
the description given by Mrs. Brown of his
character and of his Difference toward the
young girl had been heard 1t was not
extraordinary that she should feel alarm
ed if Rhodes attempted to compel her to
carry out one alternative of her contract
and marry him.
The lawyer laid stress upon the selection
of closed carriage for the ride from the
seminary; compared the story of the colo
nel-that without any preliminary encour-
agement he had become intimate with her
with her story of having repulsed his adj
vances; spoke of his hattery and of the
tongue which had been accustomed to
sway large audiences, confined to an audi
ence of one girl i'll Cincinnati hack
Carlisle Scores the Colonel.
The mere fact of Colonel BRECKENRIDGE,
the congressman, coming to take Madeline
Pollard, the daughter of Kentucky sad
dler, to ride was compliment and flattery
to her. From the testimony of Mrs Black
burn, Mr.. Carlisle said, proceeding to that
aspect in the case, there were but two ave
nues of escape for Colonel Breckinridge-
to say that he had not told the truth or
that she had nOt-and as the lesser horn OF
the dilemma he had said that he misrepre-
scented facts to her. To show that the tes-
timony of Colonel breckenridge was not
worthy of credence the attorney referred
to his statement that his relations to Miss
Pollard continued through nine years; had
been entirely without love or fascination;
"a relation low that l would have
thought he would have been afraid to ad
init it on the stand
Taking his own statement that this
woman was merely the plaything of his
passions, it does not add to his credibility
that he should have taken such q woman,
as he claims this plaintiff to be, to such a
woman as Mrs. Blackburn had shown her
self to be-a woman of such character,
such standing, such surroundings.
Considering the colonels own statement
of how he had deceived Mrs. Black burn
"a woman or the highest standing from
his own state the attorney appealed to
the jury to think whether they could trust
him under circumstances carrying such
weighty inducements for him to misstate
the facts
Mr.. Carlisle called attention to the APP
pearance of Miss Pollard on the witness
stand when after two hours of direct ex-
animation she had been subjected to two
days and half of cross examination with
out being shaken on material point 1t
would - easy for the defense to talk of
her extraordinary acuteness, but only one
of two cOnditiOns-a mind trained in the
courts, experienced II witness, or an alb,
solute adherence to the truth-cOuld ena-
BILE person to do this. and it was doubt
full if the former qualifications could avail
in such, an ordeal if one was not telling
the trlfth.
Mr.. Carlisle had not finished at adjourn
ment.
Case Against O'Brien Settled.
CHATTANOOGA,Aprii1 0.-The case against