The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-03-25
SECRET SESSION HELD.
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JUDGES, LAWYERS AND BROCK
INR1DGB PRESENT
Argument on Dispositions to Which
the Plaintiff Objected the Only
Business Translated.
MISS PoLLARD's oHARAoTBR ATTACKED
IN TIE DISPOSITIONS.
Synopsis 81 the Testimony Which the Defence
Seeks to Introduce By Means Of Them,
Miss Pollard Has an 0ifer 10 Star.

Washington. March 24.-Iudge Bradley
executed bit OF strategy on the news
paper mon who had gathered today to
hear the arguments over the admlssi-
biity OF certain dispositions taken for the
defcnse In the Pollard Brecliinridge case,
Since nothing sensational WIS expected,
the general public had scarcely any rep
resentaton, only newspaper men and law
yers appearing IN the court room. just
before the hour for court TO open a whis-
per passed among the lawyers, and they
slipped, by ono. into the judges CONSUL
tauon room adjoining the court room.
uniformed baiiif standing at the door de-
MED admission to all, but the legal forces.
Colonel Breokinrldge and his son, Desha.
The party was closcted in the Judges
room two hours.
There are three dispositions TO which
Miss Pollards attorneys make their prin-
cipal objections. the point involved being
the relevancy of testimony bearing upon
Miss Poliard's character one OF these
dispositions was made By Alexander
Julian, the young blind man, TO whom
Aiiss Pollard alluded TO IN her letter 70
'tMeSsieH Brown as her 'l5afnnDnS, He
asserts In the atEiuaviL taken ia Kentucky
that a mock marriage Was performed
between Miss Pollard ana himself ut
Squire rinsley's IN Bridgeport on Christ
mas Day, 1885, that after drinking esgnokg
freely ne suggested mat married couples
usually Went TO bed and that thereupon
the two went up stairs and got into bed
together. Miss Pollard testified on cross
examination that her uncle accompanied
her to Squire Ttnsley's on that uay, and
denied the incident OF the mock mar
ria6e.
w. W. Roselle, TO whom Miss Pollard was
engaged TO be married In 1884, when she
WIS o student at Wesleyan seminary and
nj which time she was intimate win Col,
ons Hreclxinrdge. Rosele has deposed
that he took liberties with MISS Pollard
IN the library OF the Wesleyan seminary,
and that when he left that town tor , ~,
her with him. When asked about this
matter on cross-examination Miss Pollard
denied that Roselle had done more than ,
| him TO take her 10 Chicago.
IN one OF the most ciiaracteristteha ana
spicy Dialogues between 9s ir,tnt ml1p "a a.
| tnIialss motive In hploslnE her TO the fact
| that he II candidate for the position
| ~ COLLECTOR OF Internal revenue in Rep
| resentative Breckinridge's district.
The other deposition to which the plain
| tiff Is particularly opposed was maze by
1 that the late Colonel Swope once apr
/ preached him with q request that he per-
form criminal operation on r woman
! whom he called Miss Pollard
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