The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-04-11
IN HIS TRUE COLORS
Carlisle Paints BreCkinrldsa Black as
an Imp Of Satan.
THE WOMAN, TOO, AsSAlLED
Colonel Thompson Describes Miss
Pollard as a Heartless Ad-
venturess of Low Desires
and No Virtues.

WASHINGTON, April i0.--Durlng tho |
progress OF the trial Judge Bradley was |
engaged reading a letter and called At
torneys Carlisle, Wilson and Buiterworih |
into consultation aud finally one juror for |
further consultation. II WAS probably one |
of the anonymous letters that have been |
pouring in by the bushel since tho trial be- |
gan.
Miss Pollard appeared in most be- |
coming hat. Breckinrdge was palcr than |
usual. Attorney Carlisle took IN the re- |
view of the testimony and devoted himself
for the first half hour TO n discussion OF
Mrs. Blackburn's testimony. commenting |
on tho testimony OF Claude De Ia Roche
Frances, cousin of Ward McAlister and |
nephew OF tho Marquis DO LaRochc, |
chamberlain TO the pore.
Mr.. Carlisle laid stress on the fact that |
in response TO the demand for the proiuc-
ton of Miss Pollard's letters only those
advantageous to the defense were brought
forward. The lawyer brought forward
the workbasket which had belonged to
the late Mrs. Breckenridge and which the
colonel had denied having given 10 Miss
Pollard. lie reminded the jury of the
testimony OF Mary Iancey, the colorcd
cook, who had seen the pair sitting on
sofa together with the basket between
them.
Carlisle passed on 70 the time when
| Miss Pollard took ireckinridge from the
side of his lawful wife with quotation
from Miss Pollard's testimony: IL said,
'comc with me, will you"' and he came"
lie attended the interview in the oiiicc of
the chief of police, during which the coll
onel had sworn, clasping her hands, 10
marry her May 81.
| The defendant asked the jury 10 believe
his word unsupported by corrobori,ing
testimony or conduct that, in the engage
mcni. marriage had been n concerted sub
terlnge. The attorney continued;
II ask sou 10 judge him only Ivy what
he has told you here on the stand. The
father of family with eight children and
| a devoted wife, he tells you lie lived nine
years in calm and dclb crate adult cry
with this woman. Not giving away to
sudden passion. not led by misguided
love but lust ,uCt love was the bond between
them. During these years he was posing
before the world as a Christian statesman,
a man high in the counsels of the Presby-
terian church giving counsel 10 saints and
sinners while his lifc was a lie. and he
asks you TO believe him now on the ground
that during half dozen interviews with
Mrs. Blackburn, woman high in the
standing of her state, who must have won
tho admiration of every mothers son in
this box-he told 10 her and carried on n
complicated lie.'
After comparing the social position of
l -, Ia st. hot
would be but little recompense for the
Thompson faced the jury.
Col. Phil Thompson was formerly a
member Of congress from Kentucky. and
is one of the best known men in WASH
ington. lie entertained tho jury in the
Pollard case to-day with a pyrotechnc
speech such as rarely has been
heard in this section. The blue
grass orator once had great
reputation as n stump speaker and
Washington had n chance 10 see on what
his fame was founded. His speech was
sprinkled with anecdotes, some of them
too broad for reproduction. and his views
regarding tho stability of tho seventh
commandment will doubtless provoke
responses from the pulpit of New Ing
land. Madeline Pollard did not hear the
terms in which her fellow Kcntuckian re-
ferrcd to her as an adventures and
shameless woman. because she left tho
court rs soon as Mr.. Carlisle bad finished
his plea in her behalf. The speech of
: Colonel Thompson will he concluded to-
morrow and then Major Ben Buttcrworih,
another cX-congrcssuau, who Is a mild
spoken Quaker, will follow him.
Colonel Thompson stated his client was
not responsible for bringing filth into the
court. lie wanted Miss Pollard To be
tried rs the bawd and wanton she con.
fcssed herself. Then followed a terrific
arraIgnment of tho plaintiff painting the
revelations in the testimony ia the worst
possible color5, naming tho associates
and calling attention TO tho drunkenness
and licentiousucss of the woman. Hc
wanted TO know where the plaintiff got
the money to carry on this expensive suit.
lie characterized Miss Pollard as the most
' skiIlful adventures that ever made n
track through n court room. I'VE are ap.
pcaled to by this woman in stage play
! by tho sacred name of her mother, trying
5 TO coin crocodile tears over the children
D she had forgotten. in order to coin none,
: out of the pockets OF the man with whom
{ she had lived in disgrace"
D All great men had their trouble with
0 women. When julius Caesar was moi
D making law he was making love to Cleo
t patra. David had put Uriah in the from
of the battles because he had looked upor
mans wife and she was lovely. bona
partc and Washington had affairs in Low,
Z as well as in war. This man is 10 wors,
i than the rest of us. Only he has beer
5 discovered and we have not.'