The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-03

mousse occupied by Sarah GOSS; mad
known the character of the place for
twenty years. He also admitted that
he had visited the house before he went
there with Miss Pollard.
BY further questioning, Mr.. Wilson
ELECTED the information that the colonel
last June had delivered a speech to a
womans society in Nashville and had
been presented with basket of flowers.
He denied that he had said he had no
wife to present them to, and offered to
explain what he had said, but Mr..
Wilson would not permit.
Are you a member of the Masonic
fraternity"
Il am
you knew Miss Pollards father was
a Mason?"
Il did not. I knew he was an Odd
Fellow"
care there any obligations to the
widow or daughters of members grow
ing out Of membership with those ord
ers?''
Mr.. Thompson objected and was sus-
tanned.
Didn't Have ChiIIs.
The cross-examination then took a
turn on the various authors which Mr..
Breckenridge had read, and he was
asked what object Mr.. ButterwOrth
had when he asked the colonel about
george ElllOCt.
"Well, the plaintiff said that she con-
sidered the life of George Elliott with
Mr.. LeweS protest against mawkish
sentimentality concerning what were
improper relations, and said she had
rather live as George Elliott had than
sew on buttons, churn butter and live
the life of a woman in somewhat
straitened circumstances on a Ken
lucky farm"
You mentioned George Elliott, to
please the plaintiff, in the same cate
CORY with her, and to compare your
relations with her to those of LeWes
with George Elliott
"Oh no very cooly), my relations
with the plaintiff were much more i'm
proper with her than those of Elliott
and Lewes.'
In the course of this examination
Colonel Breckenridge continued:
From what 1 know of the plaintiff,
and of what I know of Burns, l do not
think it hurt the plaintiff to read
Burns
After Colonel Breckenridge had ad-
mitted that he was in good health on
the night of his first ride with Miss
Pollard, and had no throat trouble or
dhills. Mr. Wilson asked whether it
was not a rather unusual proceeding
to select a closed carriage for a drive
on hot summer evening, to which the
colonel replied that he did not think it
was.
when you put your arm around her,
had there been anything of a sugges-
tive nature?"
Has No Excuse.
''Well, I can not answer that defin-
lite. There was no particular word or
act that I could lay my hand on.
There was just something internally
that moved me to- If she had re-
proved me, [ could not have said You
have encouraged me- and yet 1 would
have been surprised if she had resent
ed it,
"Well, then you drew her to you,
and how long were you in that po-
sition?"
"Oh, 1 can not say
"And what was talked about?''
Nothing was said Laughter and
rebuke from the judged
Il want to know how long you held
her in your arms"
1.-THE transaction could not be stated
as to time. 1t was all one transaction
took her in my arms, drew her across
my lap drew her to me. 1t was all one
action
Did you give her any friendly adj
vice on that occasion?'
II did not"
You were a man of 48 and she a
girl of IL to 81
THAT is all true and much more. Nc
man in America had less excuse fol-
such an action than I, with the do
nestle surroundings I then had
have attempted to make no excuse fol
tit just happened So"
And the fact that she was a young
girl in school makes it all the worse ??
You can not frame words too strong
to characterize it. l have not attempt
ed to justify or even defend it, and al
the hell 1 have suffered since then,
have deserved
Then 1 understand you to say the
! enormity of the act can not be over
estimated?''
But One Punishment Not Deserved
There is but one punishment which
J have not deserved, and that is tt
marry the woman who was concerned
with me in the act
AS a lawyer, since you claim you
did not seduce her, will you tell u!
what you consider seduction?'
Il mean to say 1 did not seduce he
! by any protestations of love or reward
that she did not come to me as mai
den nor a virgin; that l did not seduct
her in the physical sense, that sh,
came to me a maiden and [ left he
otherwise. Nor in the lower sense. tina
1 did not offer her money"
| When they met on the train to Lex
ington the next day, Colonel Breckin
ridge said he had not known Miss Pol
lard was to be on the train and sup
posed she could not know he was there
| Describing the interview on the train
the colonel said: 81 suggested to he
that if she stay over in Lexington
would she not meet me, andI asked i
there was any place she could go. Sh,
said she could go to Sarah Goss' hous,
and with some surprise I asked: VIVA
( do you know about Sarah Goss?'
''She said Mr.. Rhodes. had once triet
/ to get her to go there with him, ant
she had gone as far as the gate, blu
/ had refused to go in"
Nothing had been said about yoI
meeting the night before?"
| Nothing had been said, only whel
we met there was some sort of indie
| finite look, something more than for
NAL recognition
Miss Pollard had known the way t
the house, the colonel continued. AM
then in response to questions as to hi
going home to dinner and returning t
the designation house, he responded
continuously: II did, L did," witt
bowed head.
rah GoSs on Sunday, the lawyer asket
/ if Breckenridge had taken Miss Polar,
! to the house of Miss Rose in Cincin
natl and when they went there, he re
plying: Il want to be candid and
will say frankly that 1 did not TAX
her in the sense of going on the sam
train, but we had made the arrange
ments to go to Lexington"
Another 'sPePfectIy Proucrv Cnse