Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-03-30
BRECKINRlDGES LIAlSON.
The Silver Torgusd Orator Tells his
Side Of The Story.
$50 Paid Miss Pollard Ten dollar
MA for thc risnsure OF Her
company on ~ hide.

/ took the stand In his own bchal. After
detailing the facts In his HE, Ia answer
TO questions, he testified that hc met
Miss Pollard fret IN the spnng oilssi
on train between Lexington aud
| frankfort.
Later he received letter from hor,
asking him to call at tho oslleso on
buaiuoss Of importance to hos lie ro.
plici that II was iuconvcnicut to call.
Later he received another letter,
and Bulterworth, handing up black
bordetcd cphte, asked II that was
u. He Identified u ~ the letter In
/ question.
a few days later he called nt the
college anu was received ~ Miss Pol.
] lnrd.
Here Buttorworih oaefed the icltsr
| ih evidence. After it had been read
/ Colonel Brookinriigo resumed aud de.
/ tcuurd what had become 0i the letter..
/ lie had Kept three flee, one at bic
/ house, one at bic 0liicu ami one part.
uorship iiir. 10 was his recollection
Tue two had boon placed on the iils la
| his otilcc.
Returning to the visit TO tho Wesley.
| an seminary the defendant explained
/ Il hal been made while on a business
/ trip 20 Covingioni on Friday, the Let
/ % August. There being ul hotel uu.
oOmmoIatious Ia Covington, he had
| gone ~ Cincinnati 10 stay over night.
After dinner, remembering the letter "
Miss Pollard, hu slrolled up 10 tie
college.
81 sent my name up" he said, "was
Invited inlOH room aud in TOW mo.
ments the plhinuu came down. We
/ shook hands. She saiI sue supposed
Bho had aat0niuhed me 10y the substance
! vi her letter. that II was wOrse than
!. divorce case. VIZ took seats, che on
a divau, / on chair, IN tue reading
/ room. Sue narrated thu circumstance
unuuf which Hho made the agreement
| with Sit. Rhodes. Uuul then 1 had
/ not known who her mother was.
had known nor father, but not
] who lao had married. A. soon
a. she toll nhc was living
with her aunt, Aifs. H0rL
kooue, l knew VINO her mother was
because uur uncle, YORK Krcnr, had
began "a tn bf0thut'a regiment BE.
cause her father had died Ia strait.
euyd circumstances and her life win
her aunt had not been pleasant, sht
wanted TO leave; Mf. Rhodes had iallon
la love with her, but she had respected
him,uH an older man, but had not loved
him. Suo wanted 10 know whether ho
could compel her 10 marry him.
! treated the matter with some levity;
snid there was no law by wnich sne
could bu compelled TO specinU perform.
auce, ~ she did not Ike, She looked ~
though thu !eiI like crying, took out her
handkerchief, put It T. her face aud
got up aud walked the room. asked
her % her mother was alive. 1 had not
ueun her mother. / never have, Ia inul;
but uho usid her mother mai not a..
proved oil the contract anu il had mAde
unplCssnntuess Ia the family. 1 spoke
Of uUr grandfather. i knew her grand.
father aud heE uuolos."
started 10 leave, alter some ex.
pruidiOns OF symInthy, but sue detained
me. She SAID: ''lps much wore than
that; It's much worse than that. lie
insisted On marrying me. | uid not
want 10 DO Ike Aunt Lou, with a
house full Oi Kids and unable ~ educate
them" She put her handkerchief to
her lace.
"sho said: Il gave him a higher
proof than that contract Then 1 rnlu
sho ought ~ marry him, any
She said: Il can'g | have grown away
from him. / know what otter men
are aud his very presence is Offensive
10 me-
"rhen the conversation drliIoi
away, There was nothing more 1
could say She urcmed 10 have said
al she cared Co..
"Asi stood there, with my hat In
my hand, she continued. Il nave cot
my heart on becoming au authufe,s.'
~ SAID, Il don't BOO why YOU can't
do that, but you must remember this
double life may come up against you
any time. He has you IN his power.
a young girl can't Afford sthat. You
should marry him M soon as you cam
"5he said, Il WON'T DO that now
anyway; no danger OF his giving mo
up Then she spoke OF nu entertain.
ment at Vine street. She said thOTo
was 10 be oorneust play. have
been going 10 Cincinnati over since /
was u boy, but / never know which
one Of the hills Vine street was on. She
said In an entirely proper way-prt.
footly pTopot--Colonol BreCkinridgu
seemed anxious 10 mako assurance
doubly sure on this poiut-that we
might ride. | asked n they would lot
her 40. She said she was summer
bOarder and she knew no rule against
1t.
"rhon young man came into the
roomiwhom recognized ms Mir. Brown,
We shook hands anu he fRiu IL would
bp perfectly proper lot US 10 90. Then
took dinner NJ the Barnett hUuso,und
after dinncr 1 walked up To a alablr
aud selected carriage, without any
particular thought about what kind IL
was. 10 was warm August evening
There wAs quite a little group on tue
pOrlicO. Nothing was eaid about u
closed carriage or about my having n
sore throat. No RllusiOn Whatever, no
excuse nor any reason for any ex.
| Cuse.n
ave started In an entirely proper
! way" he resumed. "Any excuse
would have been wholly out Of place,
nor was any reason nnktd."
For the hrst time the dow Of silver
depreciation was hagHhly torn by the
matter VI fact query Of Major Butter.
worth, "how long were you a. tho
college that AileInOOn2D
"Oh, about an hour, Ur an hour and
a half. There was light c1uvetsn,
ton which deeponod into "a tense,
| grave conversation and aiturward be-.
came light again"
"llow long were you driving that