The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-23

records to discover, were sustained and
exceptions taken. Miss Pollard, while at
the college, had said, according to the
deposition, that she was related or knew
nearly all the prominent people in Ken
lucky. Once, when she returned from a
visit to some relative in Kentucky. who
was i'll, Miss Pollard, said Mr.. Brown,
had told her school fellows that SO many
prominent people called on her that she
did not k low what to do. She men
toned among those who called Col.
breckenridge and Senator Blackburn.
Mr.. Brown said there was always more OF
less kinship claimed by Miss Pollard
found he had entered Miss POllard's
name on his books as m. V. B. Pollard" !"
in 1884, 1t was shortly after she met Col.
Breckenridge that the plaintiff, Miss Pol
lard began claiming kinship with these
prominent people.
Mr.. Brown was questioned concerning
the relations Of Miss Pollard and Prof.
Joseph f. Obermeyer of the college, and
answered that they sustained the rela-
tions of pupil and teacher. He had never
heard of anything between them and
had only recently seen Miss Pollard's
letter saying that she was consumed
with anss undylng love for the professor.
Concerning the first visit of Col. Breck-
inridge to the college, Mr.. Brown said}he
criticized at the time for allowing Miss
Pollard to go out alone with thepdefend-
ant. Mr.. Brown said
Miss Pollard Was a Popular Girl.
at the school. The bills for Miss
Pollard's tuition and board were not
paid, and when she lett the institution
to go to Lexington, she was not asked to
come back for that reason. Mr.. Brown
testified that he was absolutely certain
that Miss Pollard received no telegram
summoning her home August 8, 1884, for
he was in charge of the college at the
named Miss Pollard would have come
to him for permission. (Miss Pollard TEST
fed that Col. Breckinridge sent a bogus
telegram to her signed with her mothers
name, summoning her home on the date
made and, in order that she might go to
Lexington with hinl.) Mr.. Brown said
Miss Pollard was perfectly able to take
care of herself with men and resist inn
proper advances. She was taught how to
conduct herself in this way at college.
DR.. Hugh B. Williams. physician who
he attended Mrs. Pollard, mother of
Madeline. at the birth of daughter in
October or November 1885, Mrs. Pollard
then had two daughters. One was called
"Mattien and was then about two or
three years old. He couldnot say whether
Madeline Pollard was that little girl as
it was more than twenty years since he
had seen her The child born to Mrs.
Pollard in 1865 was called Rosalind.
The purpose of this deposition was to
prove that the "little totn Matte was
Madeline Pollard, ard that she was
twenty-o or twenty-five years osd in
stead of seventeen, when she met Col.
Breckenridge in 1884.
The next deposition offered was OF DR..
J.Owen Robinson of Bridgeport, KY,
physician who has practiced in Bridge
port, KY, the post six years. He said he
knew Madeline Pollard, niece of Mrs.
Stout. She was mot az beautiful girl" !"
but attractive for her intellectual attain
ments. Owen Robinson is the young
man who gave to the defence the letters
written him by Miss Pollard, when she
was school girl. The deponent said he
thought Miss Pollard was about sixteen
or seventeen years old in 1884. Questions
as to her ability to resist advances were
objected TO on the gronnd that it was
"expert" testimony. The rest of Mr..
Robinson's deposition was not read on
account of the exception taken.
VT. Schofield, blacksmith who lived
in Bridgeport from 1854 till 1888, deposed
that he knew Miss PolIard's father.
When Mr.. Pollard came TO Bridgeport in
1S66.he had three children, Ed, Mamie,
and the youngest, Madeline. Madeline,
he thought, was about five years of age.
She was able to run about.
Judge Bradley, at the request of Mr..
Carlisle, fixed Saturday morning to hear
the arguments on the exceptions taken
to the admission of matter in the deposit
tions to which objection was made.
Shortly after three, the court ad-
journed uni til Saturday, tomorrow being
Good Friday. 8a III