Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-04-19
WINS HER SUIT.
Madeline Pollard Given a Verdict
Against Col Breckenridge.
The Jury Says He Must Pay Her $4,000
He VIII Seek New Trial-Women
Want Him Expelled from
Congress.
MISS POLLARD WINS.

WASHINGTON. April 16.-The Pollard
Breckenridge trial is ended at last and
Madeline Pollard has a verdict for S15,-
600 against the silver-tongued congress
man from the blue grass region. The
jury rendered It's verdict Saturday after
having been out little over an hour.
Wants a New Trial
There was no expression of approval
or disappYoval from the crowd Col.
Breckenridge himself rose to make a
motion for a new trial and the court
adjourned There was nothing but ex-
pressions of approval and regrets that
the amount was not larger among the
few senators in the senate chamber
when the bulletin was announced to
them and rapidly passed around the
cham Der.
Action OF the Jury.
The jury took fifteen ballots before
reaching 8 conclusion. The difference
was mainly over the amount of damages
to be granted, and there was but one man
on the jury who favored the defendant
On the first ballot one juror voted for
the defense and hung out for time,
but his colleagues thought he did it
more for the sake of argument than be-
cause he was strongly in favor of Col
Breckenridge. A number of ballots
were required to reach a compromise
on the amount of damage 10 be award
ed. Two or three jurors wanted to
give the full amount of $1,000, while
the others thought that merely nomi-
nal damages would serve to express
their opinion that the congressman had
treated Miss Pollard stability
Miss Pollard In a Hospital
Col Breckinridge was very cool after
the verdict had been rendered. He de-
clined to speak at that time for publ
cation, as did his attorneys. Miss Pol
lard was somewhat excited, but not
hysterical, while awaiting the result
and broke into tears when she heard it.
She declined to be interviewed, and
her attorneys said that she was anxious
to effase herself from public sight as
far as possible, now that the case had
ended.
AS might have been expected with
woman of her temperament. the hong
strain of the trial eliminated in a nerv-
GUS collapse, and Miss Pollard is suf-
feriDg from nervous prostration. She
was taken Saturday night to Provi-
dence hospital. Catholic institution in
a quiet part of the city on Capitol hill,
where she is attended by the sisters of
charity. The attending physicians do
not anticipate any serious effects from
her illness
Women Want Him Expelled
Hardly had the verdict been rendered
when a meeting of prominent Wash
ingeon women WAS called to take ac-
ton regarding the case of Col. Breck-
inridge. Representa- tives of several
feminine organizations met at VIII
lard's hetsl Saturday night, and, after
an interesting conference, adopted res
olutions calling upon congress to con-
slider the qualifications of Representa-
tive Breckenridge for membership in
that body.
Some of the organizations whose rep
resentatives took part in the meeting
were the Womsp's Suffrage association,
the Woman's Christian Temperance
union and the Pro- Ra-Nata- Mrs. Sarah
La Fetre. the president of the local
Woman's Christian Temperance union,
and Mrs. Ellen S. Mussey, the widow
of the late Gen. Mussey, who is herself
a practieing lawyer and is prominent
in movements for the advancement of
women, were among the leading spirits
of the meeting.