The herald., 1894-04-11


made improper advances and she ha,
repulsed him.
Alter the noon recess Colonel Thomp
son resumed his speech, characterizinI
Miss Pollard as ''the most skillful adven
turess who ever made q track through
a court room."
He argued by dates that Colone
Breckinridge could not have been th.
father OF her fret child. To give th,
plaintiff verdict would be to convict
John Brandt, Hiram kaufman, Mollis
Shingelbower and the defendant of will
iul perjury. He referred TO Miss Pol
lard's statement to Claude de la Roche
Francis that Colonel BreokinridRe was q
lovable and noble man. and said the de.
iendant had been the soul of generosity
throughout his dealings with the woman.
Her letters to Rhodes were blind.
wooden letters to the man who had &C.
duced her, and she was demanding
money OF poor old man. She went at
Rhodes. booted and spurred. and it was
stand and deliver, telling him ne could
not come and eee her unless he put M.
We're these the demands OF q school girl
to the generous old man who was furn-
ishing money for her education?
Colonel Thompson, continuing, said
Miss Pollard had deliberately stated
that she had brought this suit for 70
venge, whereUpon Mr.. Wilson corrected
him.
Judge Bradley said "There is no
evidence to that effect in the case," and
Mr.. Butterworth said: II think she
did not say that"
Colonel Thompson said he hoped the
Jury would correct him if he made anv
mistakes, 30 he had not tried a case for
10 years and did not pretend to be up in
talk.
He told how Miss Pollard had gone to
the convent last year, not knowing her
child. born several years before, was
dead. "Che mother of this frst-born is
person that pretends to be human
being" he said latter eight or nine
years, when she had never raised her
inhuman voice, they tell you she went
into Mysteries. Oh, inhuman woman:
inhuman monstert In order to hide
her own conduct ehe lays it ON this
man. We are appealed to by this
woman, in stage play, by the sacred
name OF mother, trying to coin crocodile
tears over children whose deaths she
had forgotten, TO coin money out of the
pockets of the man with whom she had
lived in equal disgrace"
He referred to the life of Miss Pollard
at Miss Hoyt's house in Lexington,
when she played the innocent school
girl on the landl adv. Then he came to
Mics Lowell, the typewriter at the cap
itol, and produced her memorandum
book to show that it ran its entire con-
tents from 1887 to 1888, SO that if the
transaction had occurred it had not
been in 1888. The charges in the book
might have been to Clifton Breckenridge,
He (Thompson) found his own name in
the book, although he did not remem-
Der having had any work done by Miss
Lowell. to whom he referred as 'bhe old |
lady,"
Colonel Thompson contended, in his
picturesque way, that it knocked the |
stutting out OF the case. The plaintiff |
swore the name of her last baby was
Dietz Carlisle, when the records Of the
asylum showed. the only baby brought
there at the time was named Dietz
The other side had raised great fuss
about the colonel's signing her examina.
ton papers fox the civil service, earthly
ing that she had q moral character.
There was not any fnssing or swearing
or kicking up dust along about that
other, and wasfs telling any iittfei fies
that came along to help each other out.
Every man in the court has told lies
about these little domestic matters. II
there were any VINO had not they had
better go out for a while, because they
were too sanctimonious for the place.
But the sttorneys on the other side |
seemed to think that this case was like
that OF the old Kentucky preacher who |
was tried for adultery with one OF the |
sisters. The jury, all men, returned a
verdict finding the minister guilty and
RcquittiDg the sister,"
Miss Pollard's testimony, he said
from which he read, showed that both
had lied. In one instance she had
called him out of Chamberlain's to help
her out OF . scrape, "aud Billy always
came" he said.
Concerning Mrs. Blackburn, Colonel
Thompson said that she was lovely
old lady, but she was getting pretty we'll
along IN years. She would not tell any
thing that was not 80 for the world, but
the old lady thought she had been i'm.
posed upon and wanted to put 1t to Col
onel Breckiuridge as hard as she could.
That's entirely human nature; don't
blame her. l admire her spirit. Why,
was afraid she would Jump down my
throat, frizzes and all, when | began to
examine her."
The Jury was not to punish Colonel
Breckenridge for immortality. All the
great men OF the world had had their
troubles with women. When Julius
Cesar was not making laws he was
making love to Cleopatra. David had
pnt Uriah in the front Of battle, because
he had looked on the mans wife and che
was lovely. II there had been great men
who were not fcnd of women. they were
great hypocrites, the colonel declared:
There was Bonaparte, Washington, all
of them who had their affairs OF love as
we'll as of war, ''and," he added, II
don't see why this man, who is no worse
than the rest of US, only he has be- en-
discovered and We have not, should be
punished unless we are to be hypocrites.
II Rsckinridge had been disposed TO lie
he might have kept many things to his
discredit out of the case only because
he would not play the part of hypo-
critic and periurer he was condemned"
"We are looking at this man OF the
world and man OF common senee," he
said going on to to tell how the colonel
had provided for her. 'She had said
she had preferred being Colonel BrecE-
inridre's mist ese to Jim Rhodes wife,
bscause, az his mistress, she did not
have to work; went in good society, and
had intellectual compcnionship. Why,
I had rather bs the mistress OF man
like Colonel Breckinridge, good looking
and intellectual, than sleep ali the days