The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-31


Resell. - never even heard OF Alr.
Resell, he said, until ] saw his name ia
the Wessie Brown letter. was never in
Miss Hoyt's house until ! went there to
look at vacant room for rent IN March
lSs5.'
With reference to the testimony OF
Sarah Guest that he had arranged with
her to bring Miss Pollard to her assicna-
tiOn house, Col. Breckinridge said: mo
such conversation took place We went
TO Sarah Guests without any arrange
ment.'
( Col breckenridge said he had endorsed
/ three civil service applications for Miss
Pollard. bat she had failed on eXamina-
ton. He detailed what took place at an
! interview between himself and Rhodes a
4 few days after the first visit TO Sarah
I Guest S house. Rhodes had been to Cincin-
/ natl, learned of Col. Breckinridges visit
/ 10 the girl and that she mad gone to Lex
lngtOn. Rhodes was very earnest in his
( expression of an intention and desire to
marry the plaintiff.
ANOTHER DRAMATIC SCENE.
/ At this stage there was another
/ dramatic scene, despite Mr.. Wilson'S OBJ
1 lection. Col. Breckenridge said Rhodes
4 had told him events had occurred to make
it necessary for him To marry Miss Pol
/ lard
Il told the plaintiG frequently" said
/ Col. breckenridge, that she certainly
/ was bound in gratitude and by a nearer
/ tie TO marry Mr. Rhodes and that she
/ ought to marry him"
/ Miss Pollard rose in her chair and tried
/ 10 shake CT Mr.. Carlisle when he at
tempted to pull her down. Her eyes We're
! full Of tears, and in a broken voice she
( said not very loud, but loud enough to be
! heard throughout the courtroom; Il say
/ he never did, " she cried He's not telling
| the truth about anything"
"Sh-h-h ,' said Mr. Carlisle.
| keep quiet, Miss POLAND y said Judge
| Bradley, or III have to send you out
| Col. BrecAinridge watched the little
! scene coolly and calmly and when Miss
/ Pollard had settled down he repeated
/ what he testified what he had said to
! Rhodes
DIDN'T PROPOSE MARRIAGE.
Col. Breckenridge said he had not met
! the plaintitf in August, 1892 and conse-
| quentlv had not proposed marriage to her
| then as she asserted
Where did you first hear Of the exis-
! tencc OF an engagement between the
! plaintiff and YOURSELF"
In the Washington papers in May last
| by reading notice, which she put in
! received several letters from her at the
time threatening mewith exposure unless
! married her. ~
Judge Wilson made a demand for the
production of these letters, but Col
Breckenridge said he had des 5royed them
as they were received.
Col Breckinridge described a stormy
scene that occurred in the room of the
House committee on appropriations in
February, 1893, and another at her board
ing house, in the latter of which
Miss Pollard made a number Of
impossible demands upon him, talked Of
suicide, and wound up by presenting a
pistol at him with threat of death but
he was too quick for her and took the
pistol from her. This was the same
pistol with waich she attempted to take
my life in the city of New York. which
she says she took out of my travelling bag
in the Holman house. | have that pistol
now"
THE BLACKBURN EPISODE.
Coming to Mrs Blackburn's episode
Breckenridge said Miss Pollard first told
Mrs. Blackburn they were engaged. but
he told Miss Pollard he would not sane
ton any such statement, and endeavored
TO induce her to withdraw it. But under
her persuasionS and upon her promise to
| leave the city and the break up their
relations, he finally agreed to go to
Mrs. Blackburn with her and acknowl-
edge the engagement. He said: II will
not give the language. but the subs lance
Of the conversation with Mrs. Blackburn.
| said to Mrs. Blackburn that she had
been extremely kind to the plaintiff and
that she need feel no distress over
the stories about the plaintin, for
had offered her the protec-
tion of my name, and with the
protection of my name and Mrs. Black
| burns friendship, no one would paw
attention to what Mrs. Fillette had said
| Mrs. Blackburn said she was interested
| in the plaintiff as a young Kentucky girl
and was glad 10 know everything had
turned out so well. -
After telling some minor details of the
talk with Mrs. Blackburn, Col. Breckin-
ridge said he and the plaintiff walked
home together without saying anything
! When they came to her door, he said !:
'''NOu must leave Washington before
| DO 1t you do not [ shall tell Mrs. Black
! burn of the relations between US. She
said: i can't get ready in that time, but
| you can trust me. VIII go. "
THE SCENE IN THE HOFFMAN HOUSE.
Finally the defendant reached that
/ point in his narration where Miss Pollard
/ met him at the Hoffman house in New
! York, two days following his private
/ marriage to Mrs Wing He arrived in
/ New York, he said, on April % the day
/ OF his marriage, and on going to the Ho +
/ man house. two days la,et, MAY !, to
/ get his clothes, which he hal left
there, he found the door tetween
/ the adjoining room and his room ar. In
/ the next room he saw Miss Pol ard only
half dressed and looking apparently as if
she had Just Weakened "She demanded
of me, somewhat imperiously," he said.
where J had been for two days She
had been waiting for me since Saturday,
April 30. ] replied somewhat more
/ rudely than ] should, perhaps, that
it was not her concern where / had been
| She said she intended to know. Mean.
time, / had walked back towards my
| room, and as turned she had a pistol lev
| elled at me, about the dis
tance of the room and she was
rushing towards me. l pulled the door
to and turned the catch, SO that it would
be impossible for her to get at me with
her pistol
After some parley with her through the
closed door Miss Pollard laid the pisto
down near the door and walked away
Col. Breckenridge opened the door
secured the pis oil and he persuaded hel
to leave the hotel
I MS RECENT MARRIAGE.
81 married my kinswoman. the daugh
ter Of Robert Scott. of Kentucky. and the
widow of Mr. Cumsey Wing, a young Ken
lucky gentleman who died abroad, said
Col. Breckenridge, in acknowledging his
secret marriage in April 20 in New York
Describing what happened after his re
turn 10 Washington, Col Breckinridge