St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-13
BEN AS 4 DEFENDER OF SIN.
6U7TsRW0RTH c0YcL UDES HiS JURY
02ATGRY
FOR HIS GUILTY CLIENT.

OhiOan Made the Best OF a Bad
Case-But 1t Was at the Ex.
pense OF Fairness and Refined
Manhood Judge Wilson for
the a'laintiff
WASHINGTON, April 12.--The defense
| Of Col. Breckenridge which Gen. Butter
worth made to-day is conceded even by
| his opponents to have been QUE of the
greatest speeches ever made in a Wash
lngtOn court. it was effective as "a
| masterpiece of Oratory, and was made
such largely by the winning person.
aiity of the orator. Mr.. Butterworth
was persuasive. dramatic; was friendly,
conciliatory and artfui. For nearly
nine hours Gen. Butterworth carried
the speaking part in the great case. He
conJured by the name of mother, the
hreSide and American womanhoOd most
effectively. making it appear that all of
these forces were enlisted on the side
OF his client. Through all the speaking
the white-haired member of congress
from Kentucky sat facing the jury,
| much OF the time with his face shaded
by his hand, occasionally nodding assent
To the points scored by the speaker.
The slender plaintiff has heard none
of the denunciatiouS Of herself, aud her
attorneys have sat smiling throughout
the onset of the opposition. Judge Jere
Wilson will commence tomorrow his ar
gument for the plaintiff, and will COIL
sumo the greater part OF two days.
MAI. BUTTERWORTH
today began with the consideration of
Miss Pollard's letters to James Rhodes,
which he said were the foundation of
the case. He did not care anything
about the top. he said, il there was no
foundation for it to rest upon. After
reading some of those letters at length,
lie came TO the ones which were dated
i'll New Orleans, and which She had said
were written in Cincinnati and sent to
her mother to mail to Rhodes. H. laid
great stress on these transactions, de-
claring that there was great mystery
surrounding the letters, and exclaimed:
''There is one human being alive and
we'll who could clear up the mystery of
those letterS-that is the mother who
gave birth to this woman-and she is
not called! That woman is a:iye and
we'll in Kentucky, and she is not called.
They may ask why we did not call her,
but we do not 20 into the enemy's camp
for soldiers and ammunition"
He dealt particularly OH Miss aPol-
lards demands for money from Rhodes,
and when he came To an alluSon in one
of the letters to her great enjoyment at
reading Washington Irving, Mr.. Wilson
said: Give me that Washington Irving
letter, please"
In addition to reading the letters
Mr.. ButterWOrth consumed much time
| threShing over the testimony of Miss
Pollard from the record and pointing
out few discrepancies Oh minor points.
He commented sharply upon the failure
of the sisters at Norwood convent to
discover that any such person as Louise
Wilson had ever been there, and the
information that Mrs. Burgoine had
been in The place years after Miss Pol
lard claimed to have been there. In
talking about the finding Of the Christ
mas card in the book there, he acquitted
Attorney Carlisle of the suspicion Of
having been implicated in any chica-
merry. He pointedout, however, to show
the fallbility of human testimony, that
Mr.. Carlisle had sworn that nothing had
been said about the card until lie found
it. while MIR. Johnson, his colleague,
had said that Miss Pollard suggested
that it was in the book before it was
found. There was
A LITTLE PASSAGE
between the speaker and MIR. Wilson
when the former expressed doubt
whether the books had ever belonged to
Miss Pollard. Wilson suggested that
since Mr.. Butterwurth would not have
a chance 10 reply 10 him, he might an
swer a question which would be asked,
why Miss Hoyt and Miss Ketcham had
not been given chance 10 Identify the
| books? This Mr.. Buiterworth an
| Swered after the Yankee fashion, by
! another question. namely. why Miss
Pollard Lad not described the books
| before they were unSealed, and why
Miss Pollard had not gone before the
sisters for identification when she was
within the tinkling of IA bell?
That shows all you know about it,"
| replied Mr.. Wilson. ''She was not there,
and neither was Breckenridge"
''Breckinridge did not claim to have
been confined there" was the reply.
and this sally drew laugh which pro-
voked Judge Bradley to threaten 10
clear the court room. The attorneys
! for the other side would claim, Mir.
| Butterworth resumed, that
THE WOMAN WAS DOMINATED
by a stronger mind. They would say
| that she was a moral potentially, "a
| pawn OnAmerican cheSSboaru.' Accord
ing TO Miss Lowell, the capital type
writer, and to Miss Pollard herself. Col.
Breckenridge had endeayored to conceal
his letters to her in 1885 by first writing
them in his own hanti. taking them to d,
woman to copy Oil hovse of representa-
tive paper and then signing his name
to them in lead pencil.
When noon came MIR. Butterworth
was just working up to the coming OF
Madeline Pollard to Washington. She
had testified that Col. Breckenridge in
sisted OH her coming.
"Uh, they will say, but he didn't
exclaimed the lawyer dramatically.
That Is cOwardly surrender of
womanly qualities. base betrayal of
womanly courage TO say that he did il"
Soon afterward, as the lawyer was
speaking of The child born in Washing
ton, Col. Breckinridge leaned forward
over the table and corrected him.
You are mistaken" the colonel said
IL did not know She had a living child
until Miss Pollard testified. l had
heard she had miscarriage
Then MIR. Butterworth portrayed the
opportunities to elevate herself here i'm
Washington which Miss Pollard had
before her. if She only had been minded
10 embrace them: how she should have
sirunk from continuing life of shame
with man with wife and family. Mr..
Butterworth argued that a verdict