Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-03-22

In the health department by Rev. DIR.
John II. Paxton shows that w. G. i.
breckenridge married Louisa Il. Swing,
April 20, 1893. This was secret mar.
rage, the public ceremony taking place
last July
1t Is thought this may play part
In the Pollard Breckinrldge trial. rs
going to show that when he promised
to marry Miss Pollard, in the presence
OF Col. Moore, chief Of police Of Wash
ington, last May, he was not in posi-
tion to redeem his promise being al
ready married.
II Is also learned that although Con
gresham Breckenridge was married to
Mrs Wing In this city on April 20,
1893, the marriage certificate was not
filed until today. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. DR.. Paxton ut
his residence.
Washington, March 17-What will
be the nature of Col. Brcckinridgc's
defense? The line OF CT oss-c Examination
pursued by counsel has thus fur af-
fordcd no distinct clue rs to what the
answer will be to the terribly distinct
and crcumstantiul evidence of the
plaintiff and her witnesses, some of
them of character impossible of i'm
parchment. No point In the defend
nnt's favor has yet been established
except the admission from Miss Pol
| lard that during her engagement tor
| contract, as she insists 1t shall be
called with James 9. Rhodes, and
while her lason with Col. breckenridge
was going ON, she was engaged to be
married to II young man named Resell,
ana was obliged to break the engage
mcnt In order to so away from the
Wesleyan seminary to make arrange
mcnts for the birth of her first child.
Each Of the distinct allegations In
the plaintiffs yOlumlnous petition has
been sustained by proof more or less
positive. Some of the witnesses fail
clearly to identify Miss Pollard rs the
person who presented herself to them
In her difficulties under various nS-
stunned names, but they testify that
there was such II person, and sustain
the facts IA set out In the petition.
The defendant, In his swCrn answer,
denies leading plaintiff astlay; denies
the paternity of the plaintiffs children,
and says the allegation that he
promised to marry plaintiff ut the tiluc
she alleges, 1t not true, for the reason
at thnt time "such marriage was I'M
possible"
The meaning of this last phrase in
the answer il now made clear by the
production OF the certificate of the prl-
vate marriage of Col Breckenridge and
Mrs. Wing I'm New York on April %,
1903, two months before his public
marriage to the same woman In Ken
lucky.
But lawyers still fail to see how
II marriage In April can be pleaded
against n promise of marriage made in
the preceding August. according to the
plaintiffs evidence, and repeated In the
presence of Mrs. Julia G. Blackburn,
on the following Good Friday, March
81 Tho secret marriage, II is held,
only affects the promises to marry
made In the presence of Mai. Moore,
chief of police, and DR.. Lincoln, both
Of which took place subsequent to
April 90, 1903. The almost general he
lief is that tho counsel for Col. Brock
inridgc will try to prove that Miss
Pollard had been led astray before Col.
Brcckinrldgc met her, an that she sus-
tanned improper relations with other
men. No evidence has yet appeared
tending to prove this assertion.
New York. March 1G-The register
OF vital statistics this afternoon sent
tho following letter to the Rev. John
Paxton,
Dear Sir: respectfully inform you
that II marriage certificate was re-
ceived ut this department in which 1t
stated that William l.. breckenridge
and Louise Wing were married by you
on April 20 1903. Tho certificate fails
to show tho age OF the bride, and the
official station and residence OF the
person by whom married, which IL re-
qulred by section COG, chapter 10, laws
OF 1880. The failure to report mar
rage to this department within ten
! days after tho marriage ceremony has
been performed il n violation of SEC
tion GOO. Have the kindness to supply
tho above commissions and explain the
reason OF the delay In forwarding the
certificate to this department"
Washington, March l0.Mndclme
Pollard continued the story of her no.
mantle History In the circuit court this
morning. MIR, Carlisle her attorney,
began To examine her instead OF Mai.
Ruttcrworth.
Miss Pollard. have you eIcr been
marrledt' asked Mr.. Carlisle
No. MIR. Carlisle"
who was the father OF your child
born in CINCINNATI"
MIR Rrccknridgc"
who was the cause OF your trouble
In May. 1882"
Mir RrcckinrldEc
Asked how She came To 80 to lex
inrtpn she said She could not pNplain