The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-11
old man who was furnishing money
for her education
The Judge Contradicts Him.


she did not say that"
Col. Thompson said he hoped the
jury would correct him if he made
any mistakes, as he had not tried
case for fifteen years, and did not pre-
tend to be up in law.
He told how Miss Pollard had gone
to the convent last year. not knowing
her child born several years ago was
dead
This first-born is a person that pre-
tends to be a human being" he said;
after eight or nine years when she
had. never raised her inhuman voice,
they tell you she went into mysteries.
Oh irhuman woman" he exclaimed,
'inhuman monster. In order to hide
her own conduct she lays it on this
man. We are appealed to by this wo-
man in stage play by the sacred name
of mother, trying to coin crocodile
tears over children whose deaths she
had forgotten; to coin money out of
the pockets of the man with whom she
had lived in equal disgrace"
He referred to the life of Miss Pollard
at Miss Hoyts house, in Lexington,
when she played the innocent school
girl on the landlady.
Then she came to Miss Lowell, the
| typeWritist at the capitol, and produced
her memorandum book to show that it
ran its entire contents from 1887 to
1888, so that if the transaction had oc-
CURED, it had not been in 1886. The
charges in the book might have been
| to Clifton Breckenridge. He CThomp-
| SOM found his own name in the book,
although he did not remember having
had any work done by Miss Lowell, to
whom he referred as 1.-The old lady"
In Picturesque Way.
picturesque way, that it Knocked the
stuff1ng out of the case. The plaintiff
swore the name of her last baby was
| "Deitz Carlisle" when the records of
| the asylum showed that the only baby
brought there at the time was named
"Deitz Downing"
The other side had raised a great
fuss about the colonel's signing her
examination papers for the civil SER
vice, certifying that she had a moral
character
There was not any fussing or sweat
ing or Kicking up dust along about
that time, he said, both We're pur-
suing a course of immortality agreea-
BILE TO each other, and were telling any
little lies that came along to help each
other out. Every man in the court had
told lies about these little domestic
matters. If there was any who had
not they had better go out for awhile
because they were too sanctimonious
for the place. But the attorneys on the
IKE that of the old Kentucky preacher
who was tried for adultery with one
of the sisters. The jury. all men, re-
turned verdict, finding the minister
guilty and acquitted The sister,
MISS Pollard's testimony, from which
he read, showed that both had lied
In one instance she had called him cut
scrape, and Billy always came,'' he
said.
Concerning Mrs. Blackburn, Colonel
Thompson said that she was n lovely
Old lady, but she was getting pretty
well along in years. She was not a
maiden gay. She would not tell any
thlng that was not so for the world. hut
the old lady thought she had been i'm
posed upon and wanted to put it to
Colonel Breckenridge as harC as she
could. That's only human nature. |
don't blame her. l admire her spirit.
Why, L was afraid she would lump
down my throat. frizzes and all. when
began to examine her.
| NO worse Than the Rest of Ts,
The jury was not to punish Colonel
breckenridge for immortality. All the
great men of the world had had their
troubles with women. When julius
caesar was not making laws, he was
making love to Cleopatra. David had
iput Uriah in the front of battles he
cause he had looked on the mans wife
land she was lovely.
If there had been great men who
were not fond of women, they were
great hypocrites, the colonel de-
clared
There was Bonaparte, Washington.
all Of them who had their affairs of
love, as well as of war, and he added
i don't see why this man, who is
no worse than the rest of us. only he
has been discovered and we have not
should be punished unless we are ia
be hypocrites'
If Colonel Breckenridge had been dis.
posed to lie, he might have kept many
things to his discredit out of the case
lonly because he would not play the
part of hypocrite and perjurer he was
condemned.
I'VE are looking at this man of the
world and men of common sense" he
said, going on to tell how the coIone1
had provided for her She had SAID
she preferred being Colonel BrecJ1in.
ridges mistress to Jim Rhodes wife
j and why? Because as his mistress she
: did not have to work; went in COCO
society and had intellectual companion.
ship.
! why, I had rather be the mistress
! of a man like Colonel Breckenridge
good looking and intellectual, thar
sleep all the days of my life beside ar
, omnibus"
THAT was her choice, and I think
! it was a good one said the defendant.
attorney.
Never Met Any Good Men.
Coming down to the death of Colone
Breckinridge's wife, the attorney said
+ Then and there a new ambition
sprung up in her She said, Here i.
the old man l have hung on to so long
he is free and now, I'll make him mar
/. ~ me-. Colonel Breckenridge hat
/ burn and the other ladies in whose
+ parlors she had left her slime, anC
yet it was demanded that he should
go there and admit his relations will
her. No man would have done it. H,
a would have looked pretty, assuming
the role Of the seraphim and cherubin
+ driving her out in the garden of Edel
when she had got there.
a This is a common going-on all tn
tine" said Colonel Thompson, takins
another text, "only he is exposed anC
most of them are not. 1t is a gooC
thing. But all of US have these rela
tions with women; that is, all men jus
to show that they are men. Their
may be some good fellows, only neve
a met them. They start in to have a lit
tie fun with a woman and the frs
q thing they know they have got int,
eternal hell with her
Here the court adjourned.
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