The morning call., 1894-03-17
HOW SHE MET THE COLONEL.
Breckinridge Always Determined
to Marry Her.
AT LEAST HE OFTEN SAID so.
But He Left Her With All Sorts of
Promises, Pieadings and Low
ing Words.

WASHINGTON. March 16.-At the OPEN
ing of the Pollard -Breckinridge trial this
morning plant If herself took the witness
chair. She testified that her father was a
saddler by trade, dying in 1876, when she
was 10 years old. He left no estate. He
was an Odd Fellow and a Mason and
members of the grand lodges OF the State
of those orders attended the funeral. Two
of her sisters were taken by Odd Fellows
home to live.
Then the testimony jumped to her lie
in Washington, omit ing the earlier stages
of her acquaintance with the defendant.
He indorsed all her papers for a position
in the Civil Service Bureau. In the last
days of August, 1892. he met her at the
Baltimore and Ohio depot, Washington,
put his arms around her and kissed her
and took her to carriage. He told her he
was determined 10 marry her and she
promised to marry him. He said he mar
ried his second wife fourteen months after
the death of the first, and in a year after
the death of the second he would marry
plaint IF. She wanted him to wait two
years, and proposed to go to Europe with
Miss Willard on her school trip for young
ladies. He strenuOusly opposed heing left
alone, saying such desertion would be
selfish, and she gave it up.
A letter from Miss Catherine Willard,
dated Gray Gables, Buzzards Bay. Mass.
in October, 1892, referring 10 the proposed
European trip. was read. Witness de-
tailed at length the constant attention
paid her by Breckinridge, saying he Wis
tied her daily. sometimes twice day and
as often 10 the evening; that he paid her
expenses on a visit 10 New York. and she
accompanied him on a lecturing tour to
New England.
Witness then went back to her first
meeting with Breckenridge in April, 1884.
when he approached her on a car between
Lexington and Frankfort. processing TO
have met her befure. Then came the story
of her relations TO James c. Rhodes, who
undertook to educate her If she would
marry him; If her sending for Breckin-
ridge for counsel as attorney; OF the means
which he took TO be alone with her with
out chance of interruption; OF their sub
s.Quent intimacy and Of the birth of chill
dren In 1885 10 1883. She produced letters
and kilograms from him cODtaiDiDg words
of endearment. and closed her testimony
by declaring that never since she knew
him had she been intimate with any other
man. Her frame was shaking with sup
pressed emotion as sne passed out of the
courtroom, leaning on The arm of an at
tendant
Before Miss Pollard left the stand she
testified that Breckenridge had taken her
with him on several occasions when he
went out of the city TO address religious
bodies. He had given her no reason Tor the
postponements of dates fixed for the mar
riage, and she never asked for any until
the scene in the Office of Colonel Moore.
From the night he took me to Sarah's in
1884," said Miss Pollard. dramatically,
There never was suggestion Of the dis
continuance Of those miserable relations
until he left me with all sorts of promises,
pieadings and loving words on the 18th of
| May, 1893"
In the cross-exsminatiou, which was
conducted by Mr.. Butterworth, The fenc-
ing between the skilled lawyer and the
young woman was so keen as to furnish
unstinted amusement to the court. In
January of 1884 Miss Pollard had been en-
gagged to Mr.. Rhodes, and when asked II
Mr.. Rhodes was paying her board, she
said:
"He was loaning me money for school
ing"
"How long did that engagement last?'
Until the following December. Mr.
Breckinridge remembers ii WELL He was
concealed in the silting-room, and heard
me break the engagement. / never con.
cealed thing from Mr.. Breckinridge dur.
ing those years, and l am surprised thai
he should sit here and let you ask me such
questions"
The court adjourned until Monday, leav-
ing the cross-examination unfinished.