The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-03-31

"\Nhile the case was technically n
for breach of PROMISE" he said, 1T IN
cludes a wider scope. l am authorized
by the defendant to say he SAID, ana
it will be corrotorated by his solemn
oath. that he did not seduce her: that II
never was made known to him that she
had any children by him until the filing
of this suit last August, nor did he ever
under any circumstances, make any prom
Use of marriage to her"
The defense did not intend, he said,
to condone whatever was wrong in the
relations of the two, and it was only by
the truth the defendant wanted to be
judged.
Outlining what would be the defense, he
stated that Miss Pollard had accosted
Col. Breckenridge on the train, before
which time he had never seen her. She
invited him to call at the seminary.
Having nothing else to do he went to the
college that day and saw her. He saw
rot an ignorant girl, unacquainted with
the ways of the world, for if there was one
fact that would be established, it was
that the plaintiff was at least twenty or
twenty-one years of age, and it would be
shown by the doctor who oficiated at
the birth Of her next youngest sister in
1865, when the plaintiff was then a
little girl of two or three years of age,
running about the house.
When the colonel arrived at the COL
lege she came into the college and saw
him, explained the contract with Mr..
Rhodes, which was that in consideration
of his paying for the schooling, she was
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compel her to marry him-a strange ques-
ton for a school girl-and also said that
she had submitted her person to Mr..
Rhodes. He told her that she was not
obliged to carry out the contract. She
then asked him to take her to an enter
tainment on Vine street, and he consent,
ed.
That Col. Breckenridge had called
a closed carriage that night was denied.
1t was declared that Miss Pollard had
made the proposition that they ride in
stead of going to the concert, and the
couns said that during the course of
that ride and without the use of seductive
means, but in that way which occurs
when a woman is not averse to such
things, an illicit relation was established
on the first night he had been with her.
The defense will be partly denial and
partly explanatory; denial that Col.
Breckenridge seduced Madeline Pollard
IL at she ave birth to a child at the Nor
wood convent; M explanation that she
trapped him into a promise to marry her
on the mutual understanding that the
promise was only a devise by which she
was to withdraw from his life and be
able to break off her relations with Mrs.
Blackburn. The long-continued illicit re-
lations between the two are admitted
without excus or palliation except a ref
erence to the inherent weakness of human
nature, but the orator, spokesman, rep
resents that he wa often anxious to
break them off, but was always inveigled
into a continuance by the young woman;
that she followed him, demanded money
from him and compelled his promise to
marry her under threats, several times re-
peated, and emphasized by a display of
pistols. Moreover, it is promised to be
shown that Miss Pollard's early life had
not been n of virtue before the silver
tongued orator crossed her path. This,
in substance, is the defense, but it has
many branches and side issues.