The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-23

WASHINGTON. March 22.-The dreary
reading of documentary evidence, the
noting and arguing OF objections and
the taking OF exceptions made this the
most uninteresting day of the Pollard
Breckinridge trial since it began two
weeks ago. A number of dispositions
taken by the defense were read to the
jury, and great deal OF evidence in
them WIS objected to by the plaintiffs
counsel. So many were tpe objections
and the exceptions noted that, at the
request Of Mr.. Carlisle, Judge Bradley
set Saturday next for hearing of argu-
ment on their admissibi lity.
The dispositions read to-day were ali
taken In Cincinnati and kentucky and
they related to Miss Pollard's claim that
she had given birth to child in st.
Joseph's founding asylum, near Cincin-
natl in 1884; to her school life and the
first visit of Colonel Breckenridge 70
her; and to her age.
Two sisters and others connected with
st. Joseph's asylum made deposition
that they did not recognize Miss Pollard
as an inmate of the asylum at any time,
and several physicians who knew Miss
Pollard in childhood and girlhood tt sti-
fled that she was apparently in the
neighborhood OF 20 or % years In 1854,
when she met Colonel Breckenridge and
when she claims her age was IT
The physicians who attended her
mother at the birth of q daughter
named Rosalind in October or Novem-
Der, 1868, deposed that another daughter
called Matte" was then running about
the house and looked two or three years
old. The court will not be in session
on Good Friday.
Much to everybody's surprise Miss
Pollard came TO the court to day, though
there was nothing in prospect but the
reading of dispositions made by wit
nesses favorable to Colonel Breckin.
ridge. She and her companion, Miss
Ellis, remained only about fifteen min
utes and then left The courtroom.
Slater Augustine's Deposition.
II might as we'll go ahead with Sister
Augustine" said Mr.. Stoll, when the
court had been called to order Colonel
breckenridge nodded, and as the
plaintiffs counsel made no objection
Mr. Stoll went ahead"
Sister Augustine was connected with
St. Josephs Founding Asylum, near
Cincinnati, in 1884 at the time when
| Miss Pollard Claims she was confined
there. She testified that she knew of
| only one Louise Wilson who had been
an inmate at the asylum, and she was
| there when the deposition was taken.
She had never heard of Madeline Pol
lard as an inmate.
Mr.. Carlisle and Mr.. Johnson, OF the
plaintiffs counsel, had called at the
asylum in December, 1898, said the de-
| ponent, but she could not remember
! Miss Pollard. "Sister Agnes" said
Sister Augustine. told Miss Pollard
that she was bad woman she said IL
to her face. Miss Pollard said she had
been bad girl, but she was not bad
woman"
Part of the deposition was devoted to
the card found in the works of Washing.
ton Irving which Miss Pollard claims
she presented TO the asylum library
when she was there. Sister Augustine
said she did not know whether Miss
Pollard could have slipped the card
in the book as nobody was watching
her. The card was produced in court
and shown to each juryman.
Miss Pollard SAID in Identifying her
| self with the asylum that when she was
| there, she saw statue of st. Joseph
| with a cross-eye, or one bad eve, or q
| concealed eye, or something the matter
with his eye. Sister Augustine said
there was statute OF st. Joseph at the
asylum, but its eyes were all right.
Mr.. Stoll then read the deposition
! of Mrs. Lena Schmidt. nurse at the
| founding asylum. 1t was about tho
same in substance as the preceding
| deposition.
The Deposition of Orvin @. Brown
Orvin G. Brown, president of the
Quinn Valley College, the son Of Dr.
| w. K. Brown, president Of Wesleyan
| College in Cincinnati, where Miss Pol
lard was student deposed that he
| first knew Miss Pollard in the fall Of
| 1888, when she came to Wesleyan Col
| lege where he was then. Her board
and tuition S200-was to be paid by a
| Mr.. Rhodes, but all OF it had not been
| paid.
| Miss Pollard while at the college, had
said, according to the deposition, that
she was related to or knew nearly all
the prominent people in Kentucky
| Once when she returned from visit to
| some relative In Kentucky who was Ill,
| Miss Pollard had told her school fellows
that 30 many prominent people called
| on her that she did not know what to
| do. She mentioned among those who
called, Colonel Breckenridge and Sena-
tor Blackburn, and there was so many
| people named that it became quite
joke among the girls, who used to cal
culate how much time Miss Pollard had
TO spare to her sister after having re-
ceived all these people.
| Mr.. Brown said there was always
more or less kinship claimed by Miss
Pollard with these prominent men, and
out Of this the girls nicknamed her
MADELINE Vivian Will Breckenridge
Joe Blackburn Pollard" Mr.. Brown