The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-06
ALIBIS FOR POLLARD.
Evidence Against the Plaintiffs
Character Disoredited.
BRBUKINRIDGB's LOVE LETTERS.

BREUKINRIDGES LOVE LETTERS,
Mrs. Lowell Explains from Recollection
the Contents of the Nisslves to "My
Dear sister Louise" aud Colored Cook
Tells Of Love Scenes,
WASHINGTON. April 6.-Rebutting evil
denCe for Madeline Pollard was the order
of the day after sne case for the defense
had been closed There was first some
conflicting testimony regarding the birth,
death and name Of Miss Pollard's second
child, the plaintiff herself being called as
a witness for her opponents to relate how
it had been sent to foundliug asylum.
OF course the slender woman kept the OPP
posing attorneys on the anxious bench for
fear she would get away from them and
help her own case, as she had done under
cross-examination. The child she said,
had been taken when only two hours old
lin accordance with promise to Breckin-
ridge to the foundling asylum on Four
teenth streeA The next time she saw the
child it lay dead at an undertnker's estab-
lishment.
The rebuttal brought forth several peo-
pie from Kentucky, three of them cousins
OF Miss Pollard, 10 prove an alibi for her
in reply to the deposition Of Mrs. Miller,
nee Shinglebower, Hiram kaufman and
John Brandt, the witnesses for the defense
who had attempted to blacken her char
acter. Mrs Miller had sworn that in 1877
and 1878 the plaintiff was stopping with
an aunt five miles from Lexington and
acting improperly with men in the neigh
borhood, John Brandt among them, but
according to her witnesses she lived in
| Pitts burg from 1876 to 1880 with an aunt.
Mrs. Mcclellan Brown, wife Of the
| former principal of the Wesleyan institute,
disputed fatty the testimony of Rankin
Rosaell, and incidentally exhibited a pho
tograph Of Miss Pollard taken in 1854 the
year in which she first met the colonel
| The photograph corrObOrated the testi-
mony that Miss Pollard was at that time
a schoolgirl, her dress reaching to the
| top of her shoes. Mrs. Brown declared
that it was utterly impossible for young
man to hold a young lady in his lap for
an hour and half at a time. Young Ia
| dies were not permitted to see young men
alone at all, and never to see them but
once week. The young ladies received
| their visitors in public, in the public
rooms.
She last saw Rossell on the occasion of
the literary contest, when Miss Pollard
won the great victory for her society.
bright, but not deep, was the descrip-
tion she gave of Miss Pollard's mind on
cross-examination. "You would hardly
expect a schoolgirl of that age to be deep.
| The victory she won was notable" the
| witness continued, because of her youth.
| Her opponent was much older"
Judging her youth from her represent
ations," interposed Colonel Phil Thomp-
son.
"No, from her appearance" declared
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Louise Lowell was recalled and
/ over the objections of the defense per
] mitted to tell the substance of the letter
i to my Dear Sister Louise" (This is the
letter Miss Pollard claims to have received
while she was at the convent near Gin
cinuati under the name of Louise Wilson,
When pinned down to telling the sub
stance of the letters Mrs. Lowell related
"He spoke Of the great disparity betweeI
their ages, of his great love for her and
think used the expressions that he nevel
knew two OF such different ages VIII,
loved each other so we'll. That was tn,
, tenor of the whole letter and of othe
, similar ones which followed it, In one h,
spoke highly of some manuscript which
had been sent him for criticism and tolC
how proud he was of the person TO whom
the letter was addressed. He told how
inpatient he was to get away from tn
duties which kept him from her, and de
scribed in glowing terms the meeting the,
would have when he returned. He eau
toned her in one not to leave her letter
around, as people might look into bureau
drawers. Once he called her Little Spit
fire., or Dear Miss Sptfre, and told he
to stand before the looking glass and Civ
herself a scolding for him.
During her cross-eXamiuation Mrs. Low
ell said that she had told friends in gen
eral way that Congressman Breckinridg
had her write love letters for him, bu
could not imagine how Miss Pollard's at
torneys had got hold of the facts. Tn
letters had been handed to her written il
Colonel Breckinridge's hand, and sh
had copied them and returned to him tn
manuscript and copy.
Another witness was the colored COO
from the house on II street, where Mis-
Pollard had lived with Mrs Thomas, VIII
declared that Colonel Breckenridge hs
said TO her last April that he wanted he
to come and cook for them when he an
. Miss Pollard began housekeeping in tn
fall. The colonel had called at the hous
( two or three times a day during tn
months of April and May, taking Mis-
Pollard in his arms and kissing her, eve
I after his secret marriage TO Mrs. Wing
There were many love meetings, and Tia
: basket that belonged to Mr. Breckir
/ ridge former wife was frequently through
) out during these meetings,
Mrs Minear, the landlady of the Lt
I fayette square house, testified that Mis-
h Pollard was there Aug. 81, staying for
: few days. (This contradicts the statemeu
of breckenridge that the plaintiff was nc
{ in town that mOnth)