The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-17
ROANOKE, VA. sA URDAY MORNING. MARCH H. 1891

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wanted to get an education first He
said II she would marry him hc would
pay for her ed ucation.
Miss Pollard was then asked as to her
meeting with Colonel Brec xinridge
while at the Wesleyan Seminary and
related her "trip to the house of Sarah
Guests where she' remained for the
most Of the time with him from Friday
night until Monday morning.
Miss Pollard told of going TO see fe.
male physician. DR.. Mary Street, in
Cincinnati in 1885, at the directiNp of
Mr.. Breckenridge, to make arrange
ments for the birth Of her first child.
She gave DR.. Street the mama of Mrs.
asylum at Norwood, where she regis.
tered as MRS. Burgoyne Her baby
was born on May 90, 1885, and two
weeks later she went to the house of
Drs. Perry and Buchanan TO recuperate.
Miss Pollard had given her testimony
without any noticeable marks of nerv.
BUSINESS, except in a rising tendency of
her voice at times and an inclination to
talk too fast. She speaks with little
lisp, and what might be called fash
ionable accent Her story WAS told
with infinite details, as If sine had
rehearsed it time and time again. She
looked Colonel Breckenridge s4uarely
in the eyes while giving her testimony,
without appearing to do So
The Paternity of the Child.
Miss Pollard, was the xtquestion.
''whO was the IA Their of the child born
on the 29sh OF May, 1852"
MIR. Breckinridge" was the answer,
long drawn out for the sake of en-
phasis
After several changes of residences
in Washington, Breckenridge took her
TO little house in South Washington
occupied by an old woman called Aunt
Mary" and she remained there until
her second baby was born in February,
1888.
After recess letter was read from
Miss Pollard to Colonel Breckenridge,
acknowledging that she had published
the announeemen5 of their engagement
and that she was sorry for it. This was
evidently in answer to d letter from
Colonel Brecinridge taking her to task
for the publication.
The last question asked by Mr.. Car.
Isle was as to how long the Illicit rela-
tionship existed between Colonel Breck-
lnridge and the plaintiff, and Miss Pol
lard answered, loudly and distinctly,
emphasizing every syllable: From that
night when he took me to Sarah Guests
In 1851, there never was any suggestion
OF the discontinuance Of that miserable
sin until Colonel Breckenridge, with ell
his protestations and promises and vows
of affection, left me on the 18th of Nav,
1893"
This concluded the direct examina-
tion and Major Butterworth began the
cross. discrimination. Major Butterworth
began by an examination into Miss
Pollard's age and she told him, as she
had told Mr.. Carlisle, that she had be-
loved until this suit was filed that she
was born in 1864, but she had since
then learned from her mother and
sister that she was born on November
80, 1866.
Miss Pollard's answers were bright
and sometimes witty and kept pace
with the keen minded Major Butter
worth
There was one sally that created a
roar. Mr.. Butterworth asked Miss Pol.
lard If Colonel Breckenridge had recog-
nlZed her on the train at their first
meeting, and Miss Pollard said: He
crossed the aisle and asked II he did not
recognize me-and by the way that is a
common trick of his. recognizing people
he does not know"
Miss Pollard in answer to other ques-
tions SAID she had seen many things in
breckenridge during their nine years
association that she did NOT like, includ-
ing this trick of recogniton, but she had
not found him out then.
At BIS the court adjourned until to-
morrow.