The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-17


that Colonel Breckenridge had introduced
her to Mrs Blackburn with these words:
Il want TO place this young lady under
your protection, for | intend to make her
my wife. She is a great deal 70 me now
and will be a great deal more she re-
inridge's visit to Mrs Blackburn, when he
had explained TO her the engagement, and
spoke also of the instance when Colonel
Breckinridge had placed his arm around
and most kind" Continuing. Miss Pollard
said: Il asked Mr.. Breckinridge then, as
name the day when he would marry me-
/ think L knelt down beside him and put
one arm over his shoulder, but Mrs Black
burn objected" This was on Sunday. May
II. 1892 The preceding day she had visited
the Office of DIR. Lincoln with Colonel
the chief of police. Major Moore, visit
that official had described on the stand.
The second visit to Major Moore was on
May II.
THEY MET ON THE CARS.
Then going back almost ten years TO
the time of her first meeting. the defendant
in the case, Miss Pollard, testified: In
April of 1884 1 was calledsto see my sister
who was sick at Frankfort. Mr.. Rhodes
had put me on the car at Lexington. Be
fore the train had gone far a gentleman
came to me, saying:
Z" Your face seems very familiar; don't
/ know you"
81 replied, I think not, but I know
you. You are Colonel Breckenridge
HE asked me if he could come and see
me. said, My mother and my aunt VIII
be very glad to see you: After short
conversation he left me-"
Miss Pollard's version of her relations
with James c. Rhodes did not vary es-
lished, and which are familiar to newspa-
per readers. This brought her up TO the
point where she had sent for Colonel
Rhodes's threat to compel her to marry
him, and the manner in which the Con-
Of s relative % in the the sight Of the tn school prin-
cipal and others She also related the in
cidents of Colonel Breckinridge's early Wis
urged her to go elsewhere with him in or
der that they might be able 10 consult over
the Rhodes affair more unreservsdly- ,5,.n.s Inc
in a closed carriage, saying the night air
affected his throat She went to the 81
1885, by Colonel Breckinridges direction, TO
consult with female physicians. She was
enjUned not to say
with her condition at that time.
In reply to questions by MIR. Carlisle
Miss Pollard said that Colonel Breckenridge
furnished the money to defray her expenses
In Cincinnati and at the Founding Asylum
and that Colonel Breckinridge was the
father of the child to which she gave birth
May 20, 1885. She denied, with all the em-
phasis Of which she was capable, that she
had ever, since she met Colonel Breckin-
man.
Colonel Breckinridge had taken Miss Pol
lard to the ElSmere in 1887, where she
passed under the name Of Mrs. Foster:
Colonel Breckenridge representing himself
as Mr.. Foster. She left the Elsmere in a
few days because Col. Samuel Walter had
recognized Colonel Breckenridge and told
people in the house that his name was not
Foster.
Attorney Stoll asked If she still had GER
tain note from Colonel Breckinridge, which
was mentioned casually, and Miss Pollard
Breckinridge always told me to destroy all
his letters, and L obeyed until recently
LEFT HER WITH FALSE WORDS.
Miss Pollard testified that Colonel Breck-
inridge had taken her with him on several
occasions when he went out Of the city 30
address religious bodies He had given her
no reason for the several postpOnements OF
the dates fixed for their marriage, and she
had never demanded any until the scene
in the office of Colonel Moore. From
the night he took me TO Sarah's in 1854 -
said Miss Pollard, dramatically, there
never was a suggestion of discontinuance
of those miserable relations until he left me,
with all sorts of promises, pledges and low
| ing words, on the 18th of May, lS9S.' She
also testified concerning the birth OF her
second child, in 1888, and lecounted the nu-
| merouS fashionable boarding houses IN
| which she had been installed by Colonel
| Breckenridge.
Miss Pollard produced, on request of her
counsel, all the letters and kilograms from
| Colonel Breckinridge, that she had pre-
served. They abound in terms Of endear-
| ment and advice affecting her condition.
There was also a copy in Miss Pollard S
| handwriting of a note she had sent the de-
fendant, which began My dear Willie. .
| Ths work basket which had been identified
| by the sister of Colonel Breckinridge's late
| wife as that lady's property was next pro
| duced, and Of it Miss Pollard said: Col
| Breckenridge brought that to me as he
| was leaving Washington in the spring OF
| 1898, after the adjournment of Congress-
| saying: L want you 10 have this Made
| great deal of it, ="
In reply to questions Miss Pollard said
| her condition in the spring of 1893 was due
to her relations with Colonel Breckenridge
| and that the latter had admitted the fact
both to Chief of Police Moore and Dr
In the cross-examination, which was con-
/ Quoted by Mr.. Butterworth. the fencing
| between the skilled lawyer and the young
woman was so keen as to furnish unstinted
amusement to the court. When he in.
quiz 9uiree.d9; ed Did you understand q. star, my Dues
| was not an answer TO it."
In January of 1884 Miss Pollard mad beer
ee9nga,ged to Mr. Roselle, and when askec
| that time, she replied: 81 don't like L
phrase it that way. II = was loaning ms
| money for my schooling
| How long did that engagement last?'
| Mr.. Butterworth asked.
| Until the following December. Colone
! Breckinridge remembers it very well. H
| heard me break the engagement. | never
concealed a thing from Mr.. Breckinridgt
| during those years, and L am surprised tina
| he should sit here and let you ask me suci
| questions. L was then in a delicate condi
| ton, due to Colonel Breckinridge."
| The court adjourned until Monday, leav
| ing the cross-examinp ton unfinished. Mis-
! Pollards frame was shaking with sup
| pressed emotion wilen .she was led from
! the court room on the arm of the elderlS