The herald., 1894-03-15
Miss POllard's Opinion of Col.
Breckenridge.
She Greatly Admired and Loved
the Old Gentleman.
That Was Before He so Basely Tilted
and Deceived Her,
A sehOolmate Testifies to Her Good
Character when She Was at Col.
lege-Testimony OF Several
Other Witnesses.
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press
WASHINGTON, March 14.-The fifth day
in the Pollard. Breckinridge trial was
devoted by the plaintiffs attorneys to
celebrating the main points already
marked out in their case. No sensation.
al incidents nor display OF belligsrency
among the legal gentlemen occurred.
Miss Pollard was in court during the
morning but left when DR.. Belle Bu-
chsnsn of Cincinnati began to testify
concerning the birth OF her frat child.
Most of the day was occupied by the
reading of depositions from Cincinnati
phyeician and one of Miss Pollard'a
school friends.
The testimony of Sister Cecilia was
resumed this morning. The question ct
iesue was the competency of the witness
in the Identification OF Miss Pollard az
q woman VINO had been treated in an
asylum in Cincinnati. The court ruled
out various questions to bring out this
point, and the plaintiff took exception.
Sister Cecilia testified that two or three
ladies in that retreat veiled their faces
when they thought there was danger of
being recognized by visitors. The name
of Burgoyne, supposed to be that under
which Miss Pollard was in the asylum,
was unfamiliar to her. The cross-exam-
ination was brief and unimportant
The deposition by Kate Terry Kane,
Cincinnati physician, was read. She
remembered Miss Pollard was in house
in which Mrs. Kane and Mrs. DIR. Bu-
chanan practiced, es patient.
| DR.. Buchanan, under the name of
Louise Wilson, identified Miss Pollard
positively. Miss Pollard had had mis-
carriage. Mrs. Kane asked her why
che did not marry the author of her mis-
fortune Miss Pollard replied she could
not. He had ruined her and she loathed
him and would not marry him.
'Are you married or single?" asked
Mr.. Stoll, beginning the croaH. examina-
ton.
---'I have been married. :" responded the
witness, with the accent on the verb. II
married James s. Echersr in 1874. bat
afterwards secured q divorce and re-
sumed my maiden name"
When Mr.. Stoll went into the degree
of intimacy between DR.. Buchanan and
her partner, DR.. Street, between 1881
and 1885. Judge Bradley interposed that
he wae carrying that too far, whereat
Miss Pollard turned to flash upon the
Kentucky lawyer a eignihcaut smile
The cross-examination of DR.. Bu-
chanan WAS completed after the noon re-
cess, the doctor inclining toward sarcasm
in her replies.
An affidavit by Mrs. Wesleyan Robert
son, wife of William F. Robertson of
| Cincinnati and daughter of DIR. Brown,
president of the Wesleyan seminary in
1883 and 1884, was read by Mr.. Carlisle,
The deponent had been a student at the
seminary when Madeline Pollard was
there she had been given by Miss Pol
lard letter to be opened on the night
of her graduation, in June, 1885. She
| had last seen the letter when her hue.
without her consent.
Here Mr.. Stoll had said before the
notary that he had the letter and wanted
the court to protect him in the possess
| sion of it, and intended to offer it to
witness for Identification.
"But you did not get it honestly" the
witness replied.
The letter was identified by her.
| Miss Pollard had said her father was q
great admirer of Mr.. Breckinridge's
father; that she herself admired W. G.
P. Breckinridga greatly, as he was then
"the star OF Kentucky" statement
which even at second hand stirred a
laugh.
In the contested letter Miss Pollard
had spoken of her love for q professional
man. According to the witness Miss
Pollard was an exceptionally bright and
ladylike girl and smart in her studies,
although her education in early life had
been neglected.
81 thought Miss Pollard as pure
minded girl as ever met, with CON.
siderably less experience of the ways of
the world than the average young
woman who came to college. My first
impressions were that she had been
taken advantage OF and always re-
tanned them. She spoke of Mr.. BrecR-
inridge as a kind, fatherly old man."
The court adjourned after reading the
letter which refers to ]. G. Rhodes Of
fer of marriage and calls him an cold
wretch" 1t has already been widely
nuhHahad