The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-20
MISS POLLARD UNDER FIRE.
ButterwOrth'S TOSS-EydmilatiOn Fails
to Shake Her.

to Him During Their Intimacy
She Demands Justice for Her Alleged
Wrongs.
Washington, March l9-Madeline Pol
lard was taken through the mazes of her
life to-day under the guidance of Maj.
Butterworth, who, in the absence through
illness of Mr.. Totten, has taken his place
as leading counsel for Col. Breckenridge.
Sometimes she broke away from where he
wanted her. and would make a telling re
mark against the silver-haired defendant.
She told how her alleged ruin was ac-
complished, how she gave herself up,
heart. soul, body and mind, to Col.
Rrecl1inridge; how she loved him, and
how she acted the deceiver at his instiga-
tion. never once allowing a hint of their
relations to fall from her lips during all
the years preceding his marriage to Mrs.
Wing. Miss Pollard made a good impress
sion She was fearful at times, but at
other periods her voice rose until it
sounded loud above the protests of the
attorneys.
One Of themost dramatic features of the
very dramatic day was when Miss Pol
lard detailed a conversation with Sister
Aeucs at the Founding asylum where
her first child was born She had gone
there last summer with her brother to
get evidence and the sister had asked her
why she wanted to ruin Col. BreCkin-
ridge in his Old age. He must bear his
share, she said, as I must bear mine.
He ruined my life and will have justice" "
TIE COURT ROOM CROWDED.
The court room was crowded through
out the day, and Miss Pollards answers
We're frequently the cause of laughter un-
ii. Judge Bradley administered a severe
rebuke TO the spectators.
There was one curious slipiu her letters
which she repeated in her oral testimony
without correction, and which indicated
that her literary studies had not made her
teNt-perfect in biblical matters. She re
ferred more than once to one Of her early
associates, of whom she said she was
euam0red, but who did not return her af-
fe.tfou as her "blind Barnabas," OBJ
vi0usly meaning the Blind Bartiemus
son of Iimeus," who sat by the wayside
begging. as recorded in St Mark.
She did not appear TO be nervous or con
Cerncd over the prospect when she ar
rived in the court room this morning a
few minutes before 10 o'clock. Her ex-
perieuce of Friday had evidently given
her confidence in her ability TO cope with
the Undetermined Mai. Ben. ButterWOrth
whose usually equable temper was some
what ruil.ed by the covert irony of Miss
Pollard in her meek and loWly answers to
the major pertinent questions.
Miss Pollard repartee on Friday
gave such promise of an interesting day
with the plaintiff on the stand that the
court room was crowded long before the
hour when the court convened. Judge
BradIeys instructions TO the bailiffs that
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and persons concerned in the trial would
be admitted to the court, had evidently
little effect
OPENING OF TIE PROCEEDINGS.
As soon as the court had been formally
called to order Miss Pollard took the
stand and Col Breckenridge laid down the
paper hc was reading. There was some
surprise when Mr. Carlisle, her own at
tomey, began to examine her instead of
Maj. ButterwOrth Mr.. Carlisle's ques-
tons brought from Miss Pollard state
mcnts that she had never been maWied 4:
that Col Breckinridge was the father of
her first child, born in Cincinnati: that he
also was the cause Of her pregnancy
ln May, 1898; that Col. Breckinridge had
taken her to an assignatiOn house in Gin
cmnau, and attempted her ruin there,
but that she had SUcce cesSfully resisted
anu that this was prior to her going with
COL Breckinridge to Lexington Ques-
TONED as to why she went with Col.
breckenridge to Lexington, after her ex-
Ieflence at the Cincinnati assignatiOn
house, she said: "l do not know can
oteEplain the mans wonderful power of
persuasion. | could not resist him ;
was completely in his power.
HeCsaid he wanted me TO go to
Lexington with him that evening, and
suggested that he send a telegram to the
principal of the college, signed by my
mother, and calling me home He sent
That telegram, and left for Lexington
on the afternoon train and met him. He
TOOK me to the house of sarah Guest"
Nhe also said that she continued her re-
Iatlons with Col. Breckinrdge up to May
il, N93, NEARLY a month after Col. Breck-
Mfuge's secret marriage to Mrs. Wing.
THE CROSS EXAMINATION.
Mr.. Butterworth then took Miss Pol
lard for cross-eXamiuation, and contin-
yea the questions he began on Friday,
lHguring minutely into her early life ;
what she did what she read what she
thought. She said. in answer to these
questions, that she was an Ipiscopalan,
she mad been brought up that way.
'Dnce an Episcopalian, always an Epis-
SopaHan,' she said. She had ambition to
DE teacher, she said. and had not given
UP mat ambition. She admitted, in re
Sponse to Mr. ButterwOrth, that she APP
PecIaLed the value of character and
reputation that a teacher must have only
100 well Indeed l do, Mr. Butter
worth, she said, in answer to another
questions indeed | do know what it
means 10 have a reputation and then have
III swept away at one biOw.n
ar ButterwOrth read from letter
written by Miss Pollard to her school
nate, Wcssie Brown, her account Of how
S"e met Mr. Rhodes, who paid for her ed
o."lon on condition that she should
larry him. Miss Pollard was not salts
-'u with Mr.. Butterworth's s emphasis
"" parts of this letter, and she asked him
w nave Mr.. Carlisle rCaG il. 81 do not
mean TO be rude, Mn Butterworth. " she
s"'a; But am terribly in earnest about
d.. TINS and l want it right"
30 DO ], said M. Butterworth
BurrERwoRTH READS THE LETTER.
Mr. Buttorworth read the Wessie
brown letter in segments, asking the wit
.l7S Ior an explanation on certain points,
I"o MISS Pollard explained them quietly,
p"- WlLh just suspicion Of a tremor in
.'' voice. There were tears in her eyes,
~ ana she was not nearly so bright and
1"ch as sac was on Friday. Her manner
Ms courteous in the extreme. When
.-I' butterworth read certain parts Of
,-e leJter, ,of an eXtravagaut school girl
i y4iefacler, Miss Pollard hung her head.
"t5 was The letter in which she referred