Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-15
ND STATE JoUTNAW1L1NG THURSDAY, MARCH

of the court house shortly after the
days session had ended, was resultant
from the case on trial and committed
by an officer of tho court, which Mr..
Shelby is, us an attorney practicing at
its bar. That the Judge will fulfil his
promise TO sec that the responsible par
ties are punished in the morning no one
who knows him entertains any doubt.
Heis noted for the strict order which
he, enforoes in the court room.
NO PISTOLS IN THE COURT ROOM.
WAsHlNGToN, March 1S.-Such
gathering of lawyers as filled the circuit
court room, where the Pollard Brecliin.
ridge case is on trial, this morning, has
seldom been seen in Washington. Mem
bers of the local bar crowded the place
to see what sentence Judge Bradley
would impose upon the visiting Ken
tuckians who had made pugilistc as
sault upon Miss Pollard's attorney the
night before. Judge Bradley, however,
imposed no sentence, and after abiding
to the trouble, said:
Had the trouble referred to taken place
~ court it would have been the duty of
the court to take Judicial notice of it, and
no would have done so promptly.
There was a pause and a rustic of
surprise, after which Judge Bradley
proceeded;
There is another matter about which /
deem It my duty to speak. The court has
received Information that some of the
gentlemen representing the defendant have
come into the court room armed. There is
Law for the punishment OF the offence
OF CARRYING concealed weapons. not as
stringent as | wish it was. This is law
abiding community, the courts are ade-
quate TO protect citizens, and as such con-
duct Is uncalled for it is most reprehensi-
BILE II the court has information adequate
he Will prosecute in the police court OF the
District.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE testimony
of Sister Cecilia of Pueblo, COL, formerly
superior of the Norwood asylum, near
Cincinnati, was resumed when the Breck-
inrdge trial commenced this morning.
MISS Pollard was again i'll the courtroom,
sitting nearly in front of Colonel Breekin-
ridge, with only the austerc-faced sister
from the Refuge beside her, her other TN
known friend being the first time absent
Sister Cecilia, replying to Attorney Car
Isles questions, said that she had Il good
memory for names. but poor memory
Tor faces, She could not affirm positively
that Miss Pollard had been an inmate of
the Norwood Convent nor could she say
that she had not.
When Mr.. Carlisle inquired her belief ON
the fact, Attorney Butterwoth objected
that while any facts might be given, the
opinion of the witness was incompetent.
Judge Bradley said that if the question
was intended to elicit the opinion of the
witness as to the identity of the plaintiff
with q certain person who was at the
asylum at a certain time, it was competent;
II it was intended to show that the witness
from shings she had subsequently learned
had become convinced that the plaintiff
had at some time been an inmate of the
asylum it was incompetent.
There was some hesitation on the part
of Miss Pollard's counsel in framing a
question, it being apparent that the sister
was scrnpulouslv careful about the extent
TO which she would commit herself i'll
identifying Miss Pollard.
Plaintiffs counsel noted an exception to
the ruling of the court.
The cross-examination was very brief,
Sister Cecilia saying that she had held
several conversations with Miss Pollard
since her arrival in Washington.
After the two sisters had retired the
reading of deposition by another female
physician, Mrs. Kate Perry Kane of No.
w Front street. Cincinnati, who had been
in the spring of 1885 q member of the firm
Of Drs. Buchanan a. Perry, was begun by
MIR. Carlisle. Mrs. Kane remembered that
Miss Pollard had boarded in their house as
DR.. Buchanan's patient under the name of
Miss Louise Wilson, Identifying the plain
tiff positively.
Once after she had been to meet friend
at hotel about some financial matters,
DR.. Kane asked her why she did not
marry the friend, to which Miss Pollard
replied that she could not, that he had
ruined her and she loathed him, had
steeled her heart against him and would
not marry him although he had offered to
marry her.
The identity of the friend who sat beside
Miss Pollard throughout the trial was
divulged when Mr.. Carlisle called DR.. Belle
Buchanan, and that lady walked around
to the witness stand and took the oath.
DIR. Buchanan stated that she first made
Miss Pollard's acquaintance under the
name of LouiseWilson in June, 1885, when
Miss Pollard came from the founding
asylum at Norwood i'll carriage, her COM
ing having been arranged by DIR. Mary
Street, now Mrs. Logan. Their house was
at the corner of Fourth and John streets.
Miss Pollard had been given the medi-
cine she needed and had seemed very
weak, having evidently given birth to
child. She was positive as to Miss Pol
lard's identity.