The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-04-05

inridge smiling lii al elnDhrrdsseCi
way. "of course nothing was said. Nor
until the filing of this suit was any
thing said TO the effect that l had Sc
duced her, physically or otherwise,
The witness from that time until ne
met her with other school girls OF the
Syre Institute in Lexington, the next
October. be had not seen or heard OIL
Miss Pollard.
The two old ladies with WHOM she
boarded there were perfectly proper
most estimable and respected persons
II the plaintiff received any one IN neT
room there at night, as she has said, l
know nothing of it. 1t was not l:
While Miss Pollard was absent from
the Lexington school during the spring
of 1885, when she said that her nrst
child was born, witness declared tnat
he had no knowledge OF her where-
abouts. If she had written him under
the nom de plume Margaret Dlllon ne
had not received the letter nor any DoX
on Nov. Z. ~ 49,,
Did you pay the plaintiff anything
when YOU parted from her at sarah
Guess'Y
II can not use the word pay, re-
nlied the colonel, considerably. Il
Maid the expenses at Sarah Guess and
presented her with a sum, not very
large, but enough to pay her travelling
expenses.
Continuing, he denied al knowledge
of the correspondence which had been
alleged to have been written, dated
New Orleans and other places in the
South by Miss Pollard under his d.
rectiou, nor had he ever written
letter purporting to be from her
TO her mother or any person. Inelr
handwritingg were so different that it
would have been out of the question
The letters from Miss Pollard to
Rhodes, which were read in court, he
had procured from the sister OF
Rhodes, through Attorney Tenuy OF
Lexington.
lie had never seen DR.. Mary Street
of Cincinnati, nor Mrs. Logan; he re-
ferriug to her description of him as a
small man, he said 81 was no more OF a
pigmy than | am now He described
in a general way his movements in the
wear of 1888, when he left Miss Pollard
Ia August or September, asserting
that he had no knowledge Of
where she had been or of
her absence. In his boyhood,
he said he had been acquainted
with Rhodes. Instead Of being in
Cincinnati on Saturday Aug. II, 1884,
when Miss Pollard had testified they
met at the public library and after
wards visited an designation house, he
had been engaged in court at Winches.
ter, in the trial Of Ollie Brown for
nd oil
month he had been greatly engaged.
Did you meet Miss Pollard after
that first meeting in the fall Of 1884,
| mean improperly, at the assignation
house, asked Mr.. ButterwOrth.
On the 1lth of October | met her in
a house in Cincinnati. She
came from the western part of
the state and ] from the east
| met her at the Grand Central depot
in the morning and we went to Mrs
Ross house, where we We're some time
| went out on bushes, and returning
after supper remained several hours.
returned to Lexington in the morn
ing and she went there by another
train
Did YOU present her any money!"
Il paid the expenses, whatever they
were"
The congressman was unable to fix
on that date because there was a great
Republican meeting that night, at
which John A. Logan spoke.
you did not have the advantage of
attending the Republican meeting?'
said MIR ButterwOrth.
1T might have been an advantage
4 .,t...l 4, pnanIIi,nr ,nnati,,,r |
saw the plaintiff occasionally but not
frequently continued the colonel.
During the months of November
and December, 1884, and January,
1885, saw her in the house | have
spoken of. After March | was in
Washington several days to introduce
to the president some gentlemen who
were willing to serve their country.
Ny wife's mother was in poor health
and returned on her account. She
died on the gath of March. The first
time / ever heard that her pregnancy
had carried her to Cincinnati was in
the fall of 1892, when she desired me to
obtain an Office for u lady on the
ground that her brother had been her
physician on the OCCASION
when did you learn that she was
pregnant on that occasion by you
THAT was in the summer of 1899,
when she first told ,ue of her preg
nancy"
did she tell the result of it?'
Her information TO ne was that it
had been legitimate miscarriage, not
an improper miscarriage that it had
occurred with her mothers knowledge
under her mothers supervision; that
it was through her mother that loss of
character had been avoided and sec
recy secured.
Daring this passage Miss Pollard's
friends had great trouble IN prevents
ing her from making an cutlery. Mr..
Butterworth continued:
How often did you see the plaintiff
in the fall of 1857"
occasionally, but not often, how
often | cannot say.
Describing his movements in 1885,
Colonel Breckenridge spoke of his con-
nection with the Morrison bill in con-
gress. A barbecue given him by his
constituents and bis attendance upon
Confederate reunions. Il am unable
to recall a single instance when 1 saw
the plaintiff in the year of 1885," he
continued, and then telling how he
happened to stop at Miss Hoyt's ia
Lexington where Miss Pollard boarded,
no said that the noise at TN. Phppniy