Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-20

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red the girl Of his choice as she had
/ only talked with him that one evening,
/ To also INQUIRED "who is that George
/ Reddish that mamma eulogizes to the
| skies?" expressed sorrow that he had
/ not sent mis- picture, as she would rath-
/ er have it than anything else, Invited
| him 70 come Up and stay over Sunday;
I said she understood that when the gem
/ tie Zephyrs came he aud some one else
we're 70 tie the knot with their tongues
I they could not unite with their teeth,
with the poetical quotation: 'It is best
/ for me to know, love, best for you and
/ best for me-" Another letter TO Owen
/ Robinson began: "'Friend Owen, was
/ fowery with poetical quotations OF that
/ character patrOniZed by school girls,
and closed: "Your dearest friend, Mad
aline Vivian Pollard" The lock Of hair
was enclosed in this letter, but Butter
worth contended that it was of rather
/ light shade, inQuiring whether
/ HER HAIR BAD GROWN DARKER.
Miss Pollard said that it might have
been hers, that she probably wrote the
| letter, although she did not remember 1t.
"Was Owen Robinson a suitor Of
yours?" Mr.. ButterwOrth asked.
"What do you mean by, suitor?"
/ Miss Pollard inquired In return, ex-
/ planning, 'I liked him extremely well.
\ There was no love between us. no talk
/ Of marriage or anything Of that sort.
! We we're very good friends. Owen was
the son Of poor woman, but very am
I bilious. and his tuition was paid 0y
rich friend"
/ Mr. Butterworth again referred 20
\ the letter which Miss Pollard had aver
/ red on Friday was not written by her
/ self. She asked him to show 1t TO her
/ again, saying that while the express
sions of soome of them seemed familiar,
the handwriting did not, but she did
not wish TO disclaim any letter she had
ever written.
There was a silence while the plaintiff
read the letter.
81 did not write thas letter, I never
did. 7 pronounce it forged letter,
| she exclaimed with emphasis.
"Then you are sure you did not write
it?"
"I never wrote such things as ars in
| that and no one knows that better than
/ the man who sits beside you. An expert
might have done it, and did"
MIR. WILSON REPRovED HIS CLIENT
/ for her excitement, telling her that she
| must not forget herself.
81 know, but that; they must begin
/ thatr' she replied excitedly. Then she
asked 10 be shown the envelope it came
\ in, but there was none in court.
Returning to the circumstances Of
| Colonel Breckinridge's first visit to her
at the seminary, Mr.. ButterwOrth asked
I il ne had told her that be was in town
on some railroad business which the
plaintiff denied, asserting "he said be
/ had come TO see me and he overshad-
owed me with a glance"
She had known Of Colonel Breckin-
ridge; having often heard her uncle,
who had fought in BreCkinridge's brig
age speak of him and psrenthetically
/ she remarked after Mr.. ButterWorJh
/ had asked whether she knew much
/ about him, II don't think anybody
knew very much about Colonel Breckin-
ridge until lately"
/ Considerable time was spent 10 elicit
| ing from Miss Pollard the story OF the
| beginning of the alleged Illicit relations
| with Colonel Breckenridge. When Mr..
/ Butterworth asked her If when she first
went there she knew the character Of
| the house of Sarah Guess in Lexington,
I to which Colonel Breckenridge took her,
I Miss Pollard responded
ALMOST II A SHREK:
| "No, Sirl no, sir! no, sir"
Tne trip 20 Lexington had been made
under the pretence on the part Of Col
onel Breckinridge that be wished to
/ look over the school to which he pro-
/ posed sending her.
Regarding the deposition of Resell,
who is said 10 have been Miss PoIiard's
| lover while she was at school, Miss Pol
/ lard said significantly, that statement
would not have been made except for
/ internal revenue"
"What do you mean by that?" asked
/ Mr. ButterWoTth.
you know" was Miss Pollard's re-
sponss.
Mr.. Butterworth dsavowed any
| knowledge upon that point whereupon
/ Miss Pollard said; "Mr. Resell is a
candidate for a government Office in Mr.
! Breckinridge's district"
Recurring 70 the incidents in the
| house OF Sarah Guess, Miss Pollard
said: at was during that half hour
that I agreed to give myself soul and
body aud life to that man, and he
/ knows -"
Mr.. Butterworth-"Hoi on; that IS
argument" and continuing, he asked;
"You agreed then 10 give yourself 10
him?''
Miss Polard-"I did, promised, and
up to the 18th Of May, 1898, was faith
ful to him?'
"Up to that time
YOUR LIFE HAE BEEN PURE?"
"It had"
you knew Colonel Breckinridge was
a married manP
"He told me So"
'.You knew that he had a wife and
I children?"
"He told me so"
What relation did you propose to
/ sustain To him iu the future?'
"I thought nothing Of it. think un-
der the circumstances people ordinarily
DO not
You concluded to give yourself up
to him entirely?"
! Mr.. WUson-"That is a metaphysical
argument"
Mr.. Butterwortb-"You knew that
you we're losing your respectaoility and
standiug?'
81 did not then"
"How soon aid you realize it?"
| A.-(Weeping) Mot until it had
made me an outcast Until he had
made my life too hard to bear BE
ruined me. but loved him taen. his
| sNqhrast vvish was law to me then"