The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-03-30
THE SILVERY T0NGUED
BRBoKINRIDGB GOES ON THE
WITNESS STAND.
Recounts Details of the First Inter
view and the Carriage Ride
Which Followed 1t,
BRADLEY VERY ABRUPTLY ADJoURNs
TIE DAYS SESSION.
Defendant and PlaianG raus Each othcr As
the Colonel Tells His story Both Faces
rluahed Sensational Sitting


untutored in the kings English dropped
into the circuit court this afternoon, he
might have received the Impression that
the benevolent. elderly-ooSing gentleman
with rudy face and waves OF snowy hair
and beard, who held the open mouthed
attention OF two hundred men while he
discoursed in slow, menlnous tones, was
preaching sermon from the Gospel of
peace. The mistake would have been a
natural one, but 1t would have been a
mistake, for the elderly gentleman with
thc Scriptural head was the sllver-tongued
orator OF Kentucky, Congressman w. C..
p. breckenridge. and he was telling 20
twelve of his poers--and incidentally 10
the world at large-the story OF his In
triSue with Madeline Polla4d.
The colonel sat In the little witness
box, hts left elbow resting on Judge Brad
ley's desk, with his lett hand pillow
for his head and his right thrust in his
trousers pocket He smiled occasional
~ as he spoke. AT first he was a littie
trhnulous tn his utter2acos, but he losi
that trace OF nervousness before he pro-
ceeded FAR with his story. Once he
glanced down at the slender young woman
IN the first row OF seats before him; that
was when he was assuring the court that
HcI IldilNtI NpWaEuS Nun ndu ntGn per-
ieutly respectable and very dcferential,
but for the mos. part he addressed him
self TO his attorney, Major Butterworth,
who did the questioning.
As for Madeline Pollard she never took
her eyes from his face Part OF the time
she rested her head on her hand ana for
nail an hour she ylgorously welded n
ran When Colonel breckenridge was
telling how he made her accept a $40 bill
apter the nrst interview, she shut her lips
tightly ami would have made a motion
a. "a Ia ~ ~
Attorney Carlisle, who sat beside her.
Elevated above the scene sat Judge
bradley with his chair turned away from
me delehoanL ms head Tilted back, his
eyes closed and his features east into an
utterly bored expression
Washington, March 2B-Thc attorneys
for Madeline Pollard begin the proceed
lngs In the trial today with request that
the regular order OF procedure might be
varied by permitting two witnesses for the
plnintin who had been waiting In the city
Tor u week and whose private business
demanded their attention ut home to tea
tiy at once The lawyers retired for n
conference and OF their return announced
that the request had been agreed To-
Ine nfSl OF THESE Witnesses was "a round
raced young man named John BelIclIiiarI
OF Licking ton. Attorney Farrell OF the
same city conducted tho examination 1T
developed that IN lAs2 the witness had lived
at The northeast Cornel OF Third and In
per htleetH IN rilat town, The witness de
5cibed IN detnll the houses on the D.ocis
fronting on Third and Upper streets ana
Identified diagram of Jhe locality. This
la me bi0ch on which Iona Singleton ~
said to have lived, but the witness testified
mat AT no time between April 1852, ana
1851 had such a person lived there
Attorney S,oli wanted to Know whnt
THIS mad 10 do with rue ease and Attorney
farreh reminded him OF The testimony
81 your friend Brandt"
he neignborhood was a rather snadg one
John termed "sportinsaa h6n H1Se' IN T" iGa
block Some OF them ne had never vlsited.
White to Lhe others he had been an oe-
,aHionai VISITOR.
-here?"
mo, sir"
you need not answer that question"
nterposed Judge llradIev
The deposition OF Mrs. william j. NH
he and NIX itprjj b waio aiei'u ig I'M
ngtOu uccuDIed me couI't ,intj after ~
ecess
Then Mr. Butterworth arose ana said:
tandY" ana the c7,mnotion v,i,iSh az
ned reauirod ail rho effoTts az Tx laiiilf. |
Gamma fire,.irinr,d,e d.ct,,.d No, IA,
,9s bnyn ,,oe'r is1ttI,aort IL, ~. a ~, |
atheT, John Z. Bseekinridgei soon after |
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"on ~ pat,lgi5 r,ny ig91
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"she di SidiN in AprgII. 1870 aiffer the birtb
( i her hrs t child ,a,o ,,o,qo
were you IN Lue lhle war;