Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-23
aud tuition, 5000. was to be paid by Mr..
Rodes. but all of it had not been paid.

There was long controversy over ad-
mitting certain parts of Browns testimony
which was finally decided in favor of the
plaintiff whose counsel wanted this evidence
struck out. The exception was noted. All
objections of the plaintiff to evidence
about the absences of Miss Pollard from
the college which Mr.. Brown turned to the
records to discover were sustained and ex-
ceptions noted.
Miss Pollarj, while at the college, had
said, according to the deposition. that she
was related to O. knew nearly al the prom
inent people in Kentucky. Once when she
returned from visit to some relative in
Kentucky, who was i'll, Miss Pollard said
Mr.. Brown had told her schoolfellows that
so many prominent people called on hel
that she did not know what to do. She
mentioned among those who called Col
Breckinridge and Senator Blackburn.
Brown said there was always more or less
kinship claimed by Miss Pollard with those
prominent men.
Brown found he had entered Miss Pol.
lard's name on his books a. M. v. B. Pol
lard in 1884, shortly after she met Col.
Breckinridge. 1t was in June, 1884, just
subsequent to the meeting of Col. Bre ckin-
ridge and the plaintiff. that Miss Pollard
began claiming kinship with those promi-
nent people.
Mr.. Stoll read the deposition of Orvin G.
Brown, president of Quinn Valley College.
Mr.. Brown was questioned concerning the
relations of Miss Pollard and Prof. Joseph
F. ObeImeyer of the college, and answered
that they sustained the relations of pupil
and teacher. He had never heard of any
thing between them, and had only recently
seen Miss Pollard's letter to Wessie Brown,
saying that she was consumed with undying
love for the professor.
Concerning the first visit of Col. Breck.
inridge to the college, Mr.. Brown said he
remembered that he was very severely
criticized at the time for allowing Miss
Pollard to 60 out alone with the defendant
Mr.. Brown said that Miss Pollard was .
popular girl at the school. The bills fol
Miss Pollard's tuition and board were moi
paid, when she left the institution to 90 to
Lexington, but she was not asked to come
back for that reason.
Mr.. Brown testified that he was abso-
lutely certain that Miss Pollard received no
telegram summoning her home August 5,
1884, for he was in charge of the college at
the time and Miss Pollard would have
come to him for permission. (Miss Pol
lard testified that Col. Breckinridge sent q
bogus telegram to her, signed with her
mothers name, in order that she might 20
to Lexington with him..
Mr.. Brown said that Miss Pollard was
perfectly able to take care of herself with
men and resist improper advances-she
was taught how to conduct herself in this
way at college.
DR.. Hugh P. Williams, physician who
lived in Bridgeport, KY, deposed that he
attended Mrs. Pollard, mother of Madeline;
at the birth of daughter in October or
November, 1865. Mrs. Pollard then had
two daughters. One was called Matte,
''then about two or three years old" He
could not say whether Madeline Pollard
was that little girl, as it was more than 20
years since he had seen her. The child
born to Mrs. Pollard in 1866 was called
Rosalind. The purpose of this deposition
was to prove that the ''little tot" Matte was
Madeline Pollard, and she was 81 or
% years old, instead of II, when che met
Col. Breckinridge in 1884.
The next deposition offered was that of
DR.. J. Owen Robinson, q Bridgeport, KY,
physician, who has practiced in Bridge port,
Ky, for the past six years. He said he
knew Madeline Pollard, niece Of Mrs.
Strout. who was mot beautiful girl, but
attractive for her intellectual attainments. -
Owen Robinson is the young man who gave
to the defence letters written to him by
Miss Pollard when she was a school girl.
The deponent said he thought Miss Pollard
was about 16 or II years old in 1880. The
question as to her ability to resist advances
was objected to on the ground that it was
"expert" testimony. The rest of Mr.. Rob-
inson's deposition was not read on account
Of the exception taken.
F. M. Schofield, blacksmith, who lived
in Bridgeport from 1854 till 1888, deposed
that he had known Miss Pollard's father.
When Mr.. Pollard came to Bridgeport in
1865, he had three children, Ed, Mamie
and the youngest, Madeline. Madeline, he
thought was about 3 years Of age at the
time. She was able to run about.
Judge Bradley, at the request of Mr..
Carlisle, fixed Saturday morning to hear
the argument on the exceptions taken to the
admission of matter 10 the depotilions to
which objection was made. Shortly after
3 court adjourned till Saturday, tomorrow
being Good Friday.