The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-04-07
THE POLLARD CASE.
THE SENSATIONAL SUIT AGAINST
BRECkINRIDGE.

THE SENSATIONAL SUIT AGAINST
BRECKENRIDGE.
Mass Pollard Takes the Stand and
Relates the Story of Her Shame
She Testifies That Breckenridge
Held Illicit Relations With Her
After His Marriage.
Washington, March 26.-The Pollard
Breckenridge trial was resumed to-day,
both the plaintiff and defendant being
present. The reading of dispositions wa
resumed. Saturday afternoon judge
Bradley executed a bit of strategy on ting
newspaper men who had gathered to hear
the arguments over the a~dmisability OF
certain dispositions taken for the defense;
A whisper passed among the lawyers and
they slipped one by one into the judges
consultation room adjoining the cour!
room. A uniformed bailiff standing al
the door denied admission to all but ting
legal forces, Col. Breckenridge and his
son, Desha. There are three dispositions
their principal objections, the point in:
volved being the relevancy of testimony
bearing upon Miss Pollard's character.
One of the dispositions was made by Alec
Julian and referred to n mock marriage
said to have been performed at SOUR,
Tinsley's house. Another was the 10,
seele deposition. the latter claiming thai
Chicago. The third was from Dr. Lewis
of Lexington, who afirms that Col.
Swope asked him to perform a crimina!
operation upon a woman whom he calle'l
Miss Pollard. He could not, however.
identify the plaintiff.
Washington, March p. There waa
great interest to-day to learn the decls7
ion of Judge Bradley upon the admls'
sibility of the dispositions impeaching tho
character of Madeline Pollard, which tho
Breckenridge forces had offered, and to
which the plaintiff opposed numerous OBJ
jections. Judge Bradley admitted some
but ruled out others. The deposition of
one Kaufman was admitted, but tho
judge spoke very sharply of the last two,
saying that they were utterly unfit to be
read before the courts; that he would
gladly exclude them if he could, and ex'
pressed the hope that the counsel would
see fit to omit the disgracefully obscene
matter in them. He sustained the OBJ
%jcctions which had been made to tho
dispositions of John O"Toole, DR.. Greene
and DR.. Lewis, that they were based on
hearsay. DR.. Lewis is the physician that
testified that Col. Swope, the late Re-
publican candidate for congress in tho
Lexington district, had asked him to per-
form a criminal operation upon a Miss
Pollard. The dispositions of a Mrs. Miller
and of Roselle, who had been engaged to-
Miss Pollard, while she was i'll Wesleyan
institute, were admitted, the judge COM
menting that the plaintiff had placed char
acter and her maturity in q measure i'll
question by that clause of the declaration
which averred that she had been seduced
by the defendant, and, that she was a
mere girl when Col. Breckenridge first met
her.
Each side filed objections to the rul-
irgs against it.
Then Judge Bradley made a few re-
marks in the interest of public morality.
He said:
THE COZ TT has been deluged with an
onymous letters in this case. 1t is said
that any one who would write an anony-
nous letter should not expect to have any
notice taken of it, and would do almost
anything mean. Some of these letters,
however, seem to come from females and
to be dictated by good motives
Many of them referred to the publica-
ton of the details of the trial, and, while
| the court could exercise no censorship
over the press, he suggested that the pa
pers should omit the improper details, as
he thought some of these details if pub
lished would subject the papers to ex-
clusion from the mails as Dissent matter
the city of Washington and the country
at large that such matter should be car
ried broadcast into its homes.
The reading of dispositions was then be-
gun. There were several relating to the
whereabouts Of Col. Breckenridge on days
when Miss Pollard claimed he was with
her. The we'll known deposition of
| Julian, the blind boy with whom it was
claimed Miss Pollard engaged in a mock
marriage was also read.
Washington, March 2S.-Attorney But
terworth, of Col. Breckinridge's counsel,
kept the circuit court waiting for a quar-
ter of an hour and then failed to appear
at the first session of the court to-day.
| Finally the defense called to the witness
stand the chief of police. Maj. Moore,
in whose office there had been two prom
| Uses made by Col. Breckenridge to marry
Miss Pollard, on May ID and II, 1888.
1t was proposed to contradict some of
Miss Pollard's statements regarding these
interviews. Maj. Moore denied that in
either of the two interviews Col. Breck-
inridge had said: This is one of life
tragedies" or that he had said anything
about Miss Pollard bearing two children
or being pregnant. In neither interview
had Col. Breckenridge said: "She knew
l was a married man when she took me"
nor had Miss Pollard said: Eyes, l gave
7 myself to him."
Answering further questions, the major
said that he had only made notes of what
impressed his mind after the interview
was concluded: that Miss Pollard and
Col. Breckenridge had talked all the
time. Miss Pollard seemed excited and
doing most of the talking, while Col.
Breckenridge seemed cool. He would not
| pretend that he recalled everything. Much
had been said which he could not re-
member, as that part of the conversation
Ii. had recorded in his notes would not
have occupied more han half a minute.
His attention had been called to the con-
versatlon, but not for three months after
ward.
The second interview, it was developed
under cross-examination, had lasted rear.
ly an" hour, and had been less excited
| than the first, Miss Pollard doing most of
the talking.
"This was the interview of the 18th of
May, when Miss Pollard narrated THAT
she lay on the sofa. Col. Breckinridgc
sat beside her, and afterward he took
her hand in his and your hand and prom