Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-03-22
THE DEFENSE OUTLINED
BRECKINRIDGE WAS LED IN
TO EVIL.
MISS Pollard Was The Guilty Per
son, According To Breckin.
ridges COuuseI-I
That Suggested Tn, o'"''
sarah Guesvs.

WASHINGTON, March 22.--Mr. Shelby,
III continuing to outline Breckinridge' S
defense yesterday, referred to Miss Pol
lard's age at the time Colonel Breckin-
ridge met her: and he claimed that she
was then not II, but between 20 and 21
years old He contended that Miss Pol
lard had admitted that she had submit
ted to Rhodes.
1t was she who suggested that they
ride instead OF going to the concert, and
during the course of that ride unduIy
| intimatg relations wete established with
Willingness on her part. There was no
meeting at the public library next day
to arrange the Rhodes case; no arrange.
nent tor going to Lexington; no bogus
telegram sent by the defendant as an
excuse for her request that she be al
lowed to go home.
"When he took the train" continued
Maj Shelby, "he found the plaintiff on
it. They travelled to Lexington to-
gether, and She, not he, suggested that
he take her to the house of Sarah Guest.
He was surprised that she knew about
such place and she said that she knew
where it was located. They stayed there
from that Sunday until Monday, when
she returned to Cincinnati, their ar.
rangement having been completed"
81 want to say here" said Major
Shelby, that the intimation that Col.
Breckinridge sustained improper rcla-
tions with the plaintiff after the time ne
became engaged to Mrs. Wing is abso-
lutely false and is a piece of barbarty |
that should not b. introduced here. 1t |
is an unnecessary attack on a pure and
deienseless lady"
The day opened without an indication |
OF interesting proceedings in the Pollard |
breckenridge trial, for the spectators
who have attended the trial have found |
that documentary testimony, no matter
how sensational, does not compare in |
dramatic effect with evidence given on
the stand. Miss Pollard was an eatly
conner and seemed in very good spirits,
She remained about 10 minutes and hen
left the court ROOM The deposition Of
Sister Augustine who was connected
with st. Joseph's founding near Cincu.
natl in 1885, the time W hen Miss Pollard
CLAIMS she was confined there, was read
She knew OF only one Louise Wilson who
had been an inmate of the asvlum and
she was there W hen the deposition was
given; had never heard Of Miss Pollard
as an inmate. The evidence OF Sister
Augustine corroborated that of Sister
Agnes read yesterday.
Stoll read the deposition OF Mrs. Lena
Schmidt, nurse at the founding hos.
pltal. She testified that she did not re
member any one named Louise Wilson
at the asylum and could not rec )gnzc
Miss Pollard in December Cross exam
ined, Mis-. Schmidt did not remember any
Mrs. Burgoync or Burgoun, nor any
thing about her. The deposition of DR..
W. l. Decourcy, a physician at the found
ling asylum, was objected to by Carlisle
on the ground OF immateriality, but
was admitted by Judge Bradley. He
testified that he did not know Madeline
Pollard or Louise Wilson, but that there
had been a girl in the convent named
Wilson in 1854 and 1885, whose first
name he did rot remember and whose
lace he would not recognize. He had
looked over the books of the asylum and
found no record of Louise wilson. AT
times special physician attended pa
tents at the llospitalif they so requested
Once girl there had her face veled be
cause she claimed Dr. Dccourey knew her
The deposition Of Orvin G. Brown, pres
ldent of the Quinn Valley college, the son
OF DR.. W. X, Brown, pesdent OF the
WESLEYAN college in Cincinnati where
Miss Pollard was student, was read
Carlisle objected to the conversations be-
tween Brown and Rhodes concerning the
relations of Rhodes and Miss Pollard
and was ruled out. All objections of the
plaintiff to evidence about the absence
Of Miss Pollard from the college
were sustained and exceptions taken.
Miss Pollard. according TO the deposit
tion, said while at college that she was
related to nearly all the prominent peo-
pie in Kentucky. Brown said there was
always more or less kinship claimed by
Miss Pollard with those people and the
girls named her Madeline Vivian Bill
Breckinridge Joe Blackburn Pollard"
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