Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-11


.ourt to-day Of which the spectators
lid not receive the benefit Judge
Bradley hsld a letter 10 his hand when
the court met in which be seemed
ieeply Interested. He called up TO his
lesk three OF the cousel, Messrs. Car
isle, Wilson and Butterworth, eX-
hited the letter TO them and the four
put their heads together over the docn-
ment for ten minutes. Then one OF
the jurors was called up and ths con-
sultation was prolonged for ten minutes
before Mr.. Carlisle resumed his argu-
ment.
Dark skies were over head and drlz-
zliug rain made to-day one OF the most
uncomfortable OF the trial, so that
there were but few people in the court
room. A mOng the first was Madeline
Pollard, With the more becoming bon
net which she has worn Of late, and the
Kentucky Congressman, her antagOn-
iSt. somewhat paler than usual, his pale
ness noticeable because OF the usual
ruddy flesh in his cheeks.
Attorney Carlisle devoted himself for
the FIRST half hour particularly 70 a dis
cussiOn Of Mrs. Governor Blackburn's
testimony. He rehearSed how Col.
BreckinridEe had brought 20 the Ken
tucky lady the plaintiff, saying that she
was much 10 him, now, aud would be
more in the future, as he intended TO
MARE HER his WIFE.
Mr.. Carlisle passed on TO the time
when Miss Pollard took. Col. Breckin-
ridge from the side Of his lawful wife AZ
the house in Jefferson Place, with the
quotation from Miss Pollard's testi-
mony: II said come with me, Willie,
and be came" 90 the interview In the
Office of the chief Of police, 90 which
the Colonel had said he was taking the
Young woman 10 place her in the hands
OF the law and where be had sworn,
clasping her hand, 70 marry her OF the
Slst Of May.
The defendant asked the jury TO be-
lieve on his single word, unsupported
by q shred OF c0rrobOratiDg testimony,
that the engagement Of marriage had
been a concOcted subterfuge.
The exi igency now pressing the Colo
mel was great and The iuduCement for
him 10 he was greater than ever. Yet
he asked the jury 10 believe his uncor-
roborated word now, on the suppoSitiOn
thar he had always lied before when he
made statements cOnIoverting his pres
ent position.
"This young woman does rot come
before you stainless" the attorney be-
gan. Ia comparing the character Of his
cient with that Of the Congressman.
"What is left now Of her life?' he
asked. ''rhe opportunity has passed for
him 70 make that reparatiOn which he
owed her"
Reminding them OF the $50, 900, which
the declaration would allow them 20
award. Mr.. Carlisle closed aBd Miss
Pollard and her companion left the
room.
Then Col. Phil Thompson faced the
jury.
COLONEL THOMSON STARTED
of with the proposition that his client
was not responsible for dragging this
case into court, that it was not the pro-
vince of the jury 20 punish his client
FOR immortality, although be asked no
lepiency at the bar OF public opinion.
Who was it, he asked, who had brought
into court this mass OF hltn, spreading
it through the newspapers before the
daughters OF the family?
~ want you 70 Try this woman as a
hawd and 3 wantCn. as she acknowledge
ed herself" declared Mr.. Thompson.
"Do you want to encourage every
hayvd and wantOn 10 the country %
hiring their filthy suits into this court
.r--r,,s fhn nnm mUnNfNI"
he asserted that the suit had been
brought with revenge as It's prompting
motive. and told the jurymen that IL
they had lived With the woman as Col
opel Breckinridge bad, they would not
have taken her into their family among
their daughters and placed her az the
head or their table. Every decent man
would sustain the Colonel DO bis refusal
TO do that. Beginning with Madeline
Pollard's age, since, he said, she had
claimed 70 have been Seduced 6y the
Colonel &C the age OF seventeen, ne in
ouirsd why her mother aud the family
Bible had not been brought for
ward as the best proof Of her
age. Back az that time whea she
riaimed she was seventeen she had
hem associated with MOliie ShinCie-
blower. and be could not understand
vhv so much had been said about Mol
lie Shing gleblOWer, who was as good as
the strumpets she had associated with.
a good deal has been said about so many
Witnesses for the defense having been 10
houses OF prostitution, out Colonel
THOMPSON had no doubt that many a
rood fellow had been 10 such places and
eopld tell the truth about what hap
pened there as well as II it had
HAPPENED N A MEETING HOUSE,.
Ifpeopls wanted 20 End out what hap
pened q these places they must so after
the people who had been there.
Turning 10 the occasion Of the mock
marriage at Squire Tinsiey's, be said
that Miss Pollard had been IN q state OF
debauchery aud drunkenness, although
she claimed thar she was sick People
generally said that they we're sick
under such circumstances. Mr.. ThOmp-
sen had been there himself, he frankly
admitted.
Julian was q pretty good sors Of iel-
,ow. although be had shot out his eyes
4, one of bis drunken spifes. hs had