The Portland daily press., 1894-03-15
renting the house jointly where they

| lived.
DR.. Buchanan said Miss Poll ard, or
Wilson. was about eighteen when she
was at her house. She had recognized
the plaintiff last February when Miss
Pollard called on her.
Are you positive. DR.. Buchanan, that
| this plaintiff here is the same person
who, as Louise Wilson, came to your
house in the spring of 1852" asked Mr..
| Calisle.
II am positive" said the witness.
Mr.. StoIl conducted the cross-examina-
aAre you married." he asked
/ II have been married." said DR..
| Buchanan, COMPRISING her lips.
"To whom were you married."
go James Schejer, from whom | was
| divorced"
Mr.. Stoll questioned the witness at
| length concerning her relations with DR..
| Mary Street (hIrs. Logan).
| He wanted to know how many times
a year Dr.. Buchanan saw DR.. Street, and
! he was so persistent in asking about the
exact num- Der of times that Judge Wilson
| thought Mr.. Stoll had gone far enough.
| This brought Mr.. Stoll to mis- feet with
/ the remark that the extent of the in
| timacy between the witness and DR..
/ Street would have all important material
bearing in the case.
| Mf,SC III.
| with asking minute questions concern
| ing the professional associations of DR..
Street and DIR. Buchanan-about the
| division of fees, the arrangement about
| their house, etc.
Judge Wilson asked for the protection
| of the witness from the questions, but
| Mr.. Stoll kept on, until Mr.. Carlisle OBJ
jected to a question whether the witness
| was the same DR.. Belle Buchanan who
/ was examined in Cincinnati early this
| month.
Judge Bradley directed Mr.. Stol to
confine himself to more material
| questions.
| Buchanan knew that Miss Pollard had
| given birth to child, and he asked
/ mum Der of other questions on that sub
| ject.
Miss Pollard became somewhat
| nervous during this testimony and left
the court room with Miss Ellis of the
| House of Mercy.
A School Friends Testimony.
The deposition of Mrs. Wesleyan Robin
son taken in Cincinnati was next read.
| She knew Miss Pollard, she said at
Wesleyan college, of which her father,
W.K. Brown, was president. and where
Miss Pollard was pupil. Miss Pollard
|
| the night of the witnesses graduation in
| June, 1885. She had last seen it just be-
| fore her husband, WE. Robinson, gave
| it to Col. Breck inridge with her consent
! The deponenG correspondent with Miss
| Pollard and remem bered writing her in
August, 1884. She addressed her as Miss
| Madeline Vivian Breckenridge Pollard.
| The address was written merely because
| lit was good long name and would
| create smlIen Miss Pollard told her
/ that her father admired VIC. P. Breckin-
ridge, o. John Breckenridge, or some
| Breckenridge, and had given her that
| name. Miss Pollard also said she adj
mired the defendant who wasN then, to
quote the witness, the star of Ken
| tucky.n In the letter the witness received
| to be opened at her graduation, Miss
| Pollard referred to her deep debt of
| gratitude to James G. Rhodes, and said,
| How can | ever marry the old wretch?"
| Miss Pollard also referred to her love for
Prof. Obinger A story called Destiny"
| was appended to the letter, Extracts
| from the document were read to the
| deponent, who told Of the various per-
sons mentioned. The deponent testified
/ that Miss Pollard had told her that she
met Col. breckenridge On the train. This
encounter with SO distinguished man
was talked over great deal in college
| 1t may have been through this talk,
| said the deponent, that the name
Breckenridge" was inserted in Miss
| Pollard's name by her school-mates
| Miss Pollard always seemed to the de-
| ponent to be an innocent, pure-minded
| girl.
| Mr.. Carlisle read the letter from Miss
| Pollard to the deponent in full. Most of
| it has been published 1t was an account
| of Miss Pollard's life. The letter told of
| Miss Pollard's meeting with the old man
Rhodes, her contract with him and her
| inability to pay him back. Reference
was made to My blind sweetheart or,
| in other words, my modern Barnabus."
| Miss Pollard said she had for him
"the strongest and most ardent senti-
! ments J. ever entertained for mortal
man, She also said: 81 don't love
| Rhodes at all. I feel God threw him
across my pathway" After ending with
her blind sweetheart, Miss Pollard said
she settled down in flame of pure
| love for Prof. Obinger.n Mr.. Stoll read
| the story by Miss Pollard, enclosed with
! the letter. 1t was romance of Cincln4
natl, such as would have been written
| by romantic young school girl, and
| like the letter was full of extravagant
| girlish expressions. The reading of the
| story created much excitement, particu-
| larly where the hero clasped the heroine
| to "his care-worn, yet never the less
| loving heart" When the story was con-
cluded the court adjourned until to-