The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-04-12

LudH, uhu hlS Al III bh0 SONhSiAo Va
the Presbyterian church circles, CIV
ing counsel to saints and sinners,
while his life itself was lie. he asks
you to believe him on the ground that
during those half dozen Interviews
with Mrs, Black burn, a woman high
in the standing of her state, who must
have won the admiration of every
mothers son in the box, he told her
and carried out complicated lie."
The exigency now pressing the col
onel was greater, far greater, Mr.. Car
Isle said, than any before, the induce
ment for him to lie was greater than
ever, yet he asked the jury to believe
his word now on the supposition that
he had always lied before when he
made statements cOntrovertlng his
present position. "Thts young woman
does not come before you stainless" !"
the attorney began in comparing The
character OF his client with the con
gressman. "Wnat is left now OF her
life?" he asked. The opportunity has
passed for him to make Incorporation
which he owed her and himself. When
you consider the character of the wit
nesses on both sides, when you think
Of this man with his power, socially,
politically and otherwise, and acqulr-
ed domination over this unfortunate
girl, who ruined her life, you can he.
lieve he promised to make
good to her the ruin of her
life, you cannot without thought OF
the mothers and daughters III the
land, refuse to make the only possible
reparation to this unfortunate plain
tiff" Reminding them of the S5O, 600
which tho declaration would allow
them TO award, Mr.. Carlisle closed his
plea.
Then Colonel Phil Thompson faced
| the Jury. Colonel Thompson started
off with the proposition that his client
was not responsible for dragging this
| case into court, that it was not the
province of the jury to punish his
client Tor immortality, although no
asked no lieneucy at the hands OF
public opinion. "Who was it," he
asked. "Vho had brought into court
this mass of filth, spreading 1T
through the newspapers before the
daughters of the land? L want you to
try this woman as a bawd and wan.
ton, as she acknowledged her
|
| Thompson. "Do you want to
encourage every bawd and wanton
in the country TO bring their filthy
suits into this court and corrupt the
community" He asserted that the
| suit had been brought with revenge
as its prompting motive, and told the
Iiurymen that if they had lived with
the woman as Colonel Breckinridge
they would not have taken her iUtC
their families, among their daughters
and put her at the head of theil
| tables.
| Beginning with Miss Pollard, since
he said she had claimed to have been
seduced by the colonel at the age OF
| II, he inquired why her mother and
family Bible had not been brought
forward as the best proof of her age
Back at that time when she claimed
she was II, she had been associatin9
with Mollie Shinglehower, and he
could not understand why so much
had been said about Mollie Shingle'
bower, who was as good as the strum
pets she associated with, but Colonel
Thompson had no doubt That many 9
fellow had been in such places and
l
pened there as we'll as if it had hap
pened at meeting house.
If people wanted to find out what
happened in these places they must &c
after the people who had been there
Turning to the occasion of the mock
marriage at Squire Tinsley's, he said
that Miss Pollard had been in state
of debauchery and drunkness, al
though she claimed she was sick
People generally said they were sick
under those circumstances; he haC
been there himself. Julian was
pretty good sort of a fellow, although
he had shot out his eyes in one of his
drunken sprees. He had not wanteC
to tell what he knew about the girl
but it had been gagged out of him anC
he had apologized TOR her, saying tina
she was as good as the other girls IL
that locality. Yet it was a fac
that he had taken her up stairs
when they were drunk and laid hel
down on the bed, anu was about pro
ceeding,U Colonel Thompson said, il
his kentucky dialect, "when he wal
scaled off, AS he was proceeding tt
the discussion of the subsequent
| events u6 u6luduuou W hhO" "hSh'
the plaintiff got so much money tt
prosecute this case with; all the nee
essary expenses TO hire these emiden
counsel, and he promised TO show
that the woman had always been
money seeker and q money-gettel
every step of the way and was trying
to get money now.
She seemed to be always dett abou
two things. She WAS alwas trying t
, get money and go TO school. The1
she had been wanting to get married
would have married old man Woods
sit he could have showed up thu
money to take her to Europe" Col
oneI Thompson did not believe tha
her mother had sold her to Ton
Rhodes as Chinaman sold his girl
He had been intimate with her ant
was sending her to school in g0oC
: faith, intending to marry her. Tn
counselor said some good words fl
: Kaufmann and Brandt, whose tes
mony mad not been impeached. WheI
: Miss Pollard said that she had no
= written the letter to Breckenridge sh
L had lied and lost her case.
? 1t had been said that timid llttl
girl would not approach such vi