The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-03

TO those OF Loves with George Eliot"
"Oh M. My relations with tho plain.
til wore much moro improper thnn
th0'Ooi Eliot and lNwcs." Very coyIy.
Continuing no described how Miss
Pollard Ind talked during tho famous
carriage rido Of her aspirations to DO an
authorosS aud how ho had encouraged
her telling her that other women had
boon authors but 1t was q matter OF
work like any other vocation.
"Whon you putyour arm around hor,
Ind there boon anything OF u suggestive
nnturcY'
"WeI!, | cannot answer that definite.
ly. There was no particular word or
act thatl could lay my hand on. There
was Just something internally that
moved mo TO 1t. II she had rGproyod
mo, could not have sntd YOU have on
courngCd mo- and vet I would have
been surprised II she had resented it,"
on wcrc u man Of II aud sho d girl
OF II to 81"
THAT wac all trun and much more.
No man in America had less excuse for
such an action than | with the domeI.
tic surroundings | then had. | have nj.
tempted to make no excuse for it, 1t
just happened So"
And the fact that eho was n young
girl NJ school makes it all tho worse"
You caunOt frame words too strong
to characterize it. | have not attempted
to justify it or oven defend il, aud all
the he'll | have suffered since then |
have deserved"
HIS DEFINITION.
Then | understand you to say that
tho eno'intty OF the act cannot 10 over
estimated %
There is but ono punishment which
l have not deserved, aud that is to
marry the woman who wGa concerned
with mo In the act"
AS 4 lawyer, since you claim YOU did
not scducC her, will YOU tell us what YOU
consider seduction? ?"
"a mean to say that l did not scduce
her by any protG4tations OF love or re.
ward that she did not come TO me Il
maiden or a virgin; that | did not Sc.
ducc her in the physical sense that she
came to me 4 maiden and | loft hor
otherwise. Nor, in the lower sense that
! did not oller hGr money"
do you not know that n dumb man
can seduce n woman: that by taking her
in your arms and exciting her passion,
without opening your month or wink
ing your eye, you can seduccY"
81 am not prepared to attempt under
oath 10 give Il definition OF seduction.
| only know that what %happoned in
that carrlaGo that night was not soduc.
ton"
Nov, you went there as her attor-
ney". asked Judge Wilson. after going
over the giving OF the ten.doIlar bill to
Miss Pollard.
oh, no; there was no thought OF my
going in tho capacity Of attorney. There
is the letter. it speaks for itself"
Describing the interview on the train,
the colonel said:
81 suggested TO her that it she stayed
over i'll Lexington. wouldn't she meet
Inc and asked il there was auy place
she could 20. She said she could 20 to
Sarah Guess's liouseand with some sur
prise ! asked: What DO YOU know
about Sarah Guess She said that Mr..
Rhodes had nee tried to get her TO 20
there with him and she had gone as far
US the gate but refused TO 60 in."
Miss Pollard had known the wav to
the house, the Colonel continued and
then in response to questions as to his
going home to dinner and returning 10
the a~ssiguation house, no responded:
81 did, | did" with bowed head.
THE next morning did you 90 to
church," MIR. Wilson persisted.
NO"
ITO Sunday SCHOOL,"
mo"
"ro Bible class? ?"
" was not 4 member OF any Bible
%clans." responded the colonel, lifting his
head and tossing back his ~silvery name.
The lawyer asked il Mr.. Breckenridge
had taken Miss Pollard to the house OF
Mrs. Rose in Cincinnati when they
wen there. lie replied:
Il want to be candid, aud will say
frankly that | did not take her in the
n OF going on the same train, but
We had mado the arrangements to 20 in
Lexington"
Later in speaking OF the visits to
Sarah Guess, he said: "Thore were no
solicitations. We would meet, walk
along the street together and the mat
Ter would be arranged"
SENSATION.
DO you know q woman in Washing
ton by the lame OF Louise Lowell?"
Colonel B~reckinridgc looked puzzled
and declared that he knew no such per-
son.
Then to Mr.. Wilson's inquiry whether
he remembered n typewriter whose
machine was in the carridor OF the capt.
to!, no said that there had always been
Il typewriter and s;enographer, but no
could not remember her name. II she
was produced he might recognize her.
You have said you wrote no ~letters
to her in 1885," continued Mr., Wilson,
now did not you take to that lady in
February OF 1856 a manuscript letter
beginning My Dear Sister Louise and
ask her 10 render it into tvpewriting."
Il decline to answer that unless YOU
show me tho paper you arc asking the
question from. | have given you no.
tice TO produce all tho letters you have
IRON me and you have said you had
%none," tho colonel for the first time
getting somewhat excited.
let me see the letter." persisted
Colonel Breckenridge.
That will come out in duo time" 70.
marked Mr.. Wilson, coolIy.
Now, to refresh yonr memory, did
you NOT, in that communication, refer
to the disparity OF ayes between your.
self and your dear sister Louise
More protests that the letter should
be produced. to which Mr.. Wilson SAID:
For the comfort Of yourself and
vour attOrNevs | win SLY that Tho mnn-