The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-03-15

WAsHlXGroN, D. G., March li.-The
testimony OF Sister Cecilia, Of Pueblo,
COL, formerly superior Of tho Norwood
asylum, near Cincinnati, was resumed
when tho Breckinridge trial commenced
this morning. Miss Pollard was again
in tho court room, sitting nearly in
front OF Colonel Brockinridge, with
only tho austcrc-iaCed sister frcm the
house OF refuge beside her. her other
unknown friend being for the first time
absent.
Sister Cecilia was on the witness
stand. Replying to Attorney CarlisIo's
question, sho said that she had good
memory for names, but poorer mem
ory for faces. She cou Id not affirm pos
itively that Mis, Pollard had bron an
inmate OF tho Norwood convent, nor
could she say that sho had not.
A dispute arose between counsel over
tho question OF admission as evidence
Of the witness, opinion as to the identity
Of the young woman. Judge Bradley
said that II the question as propounded
was intended to elicit the opinion OF tho
witness rs TO tho identity OF plaintiff
with certain person who was at tho
asylum at certain time it was COM
petent; ii it was intended to show that
the witness, from things she had subse-
Quently learned. had become convinced
that tho plaintiff had at some time been
an inmate OF the asylum, it was incom-
petont.
EXCEPTIONS TAKEN.
The plaintiffs counsel reserved au
exception to the courts ruling and then
framed different question asking:
What is your opinion as to the iden.
tity OF the plaintiff with 4 patient in
your asylum in May, Juno and July,
1852"
This was also overrulcd and another
exception was noted and followed by
the question: "What is your belief as
to whether the plaintiff was in your
asylum during those months2"
hat is question for the jury" said
Judge Bradley.
Mr.. Carlisle inquired whether any
patients in the asylum had been in the
habit OF yelling shemsclves, to which
tho sister replied:
"Thcre were two or three ladies who
veiled their faces when they thought
there was danger OF being recognized BY
visitors from Cincinnati"
Sister Cecilia remembered that three
~ ta,, lol hO1 T.
cinnati in the spring OF 1885 in car
riages, bnt when asked ii there had
been patien. by name OF Burgoyne
answered "Tne name is no. familiar 10
me-"
The cross examination was very brief,
Sister Cecilia saying in answer TO MIR.
Butterworth that she had several con-
versations with Miss Pollard aince hcr
arrival in Washington.
POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED.
After tho two sisters had retired the
reading OF deposition by DR.. Kate
Perry Kane, G2 Front street, Cincin-
natl, who had been in the spring OF 1885,
4 member OF the firm OF doctors Buch-
anan and Perry was begun by Mr.. Car
isle, Mrs. Kane remembered that Miss
Pollard had boarded in their house as
Dr.. Buchanan's patien. under the name
OF Miss Louise Wilson, identifying tho
| plaintiff positively.
From the CroIS-examination in tho
deposition it appeared that Miss Pollard
had child prematurely born; that she
was described by DR.. buchanan as IAN
unfortunate girl from kentucky"
The boarder was understood to be On
unmarried woman, and once after she
had been to see friend at a house
about some financial matters, DR.. Kane
asked why she did not marry the friend,
10 which question Miss Pollard replied
that she could not, that he had ruined
her and she loathed him, had stoeled
her heart against him, and would not
marry him, although no had offered to
marry her.
From Miss Pollards ways, general
actions and knowledge of things in
1885, the witness thought she must
have been about twenty-eight years old
| then. She was not at all frivolous or
girlish, kept her affairs to herself, and
time seemed to have dealt gently with
her.
MISS poLLARD'S FRIEND.
The identity OF the friend who sat be-
side Miss Pollard throughout tho trial
was divulged when Mr.. Carlisle called
DR.. Belle Buchanan, and that lady
walked around to the witnoss stand and
took the oath. As she was giving her
name, occupation and the usual pre-
liminary answers, Mr.. Thompson spoke
outiamliarly:
Speak up q little louder. please, doc
tor; we can't hear YOU"
DR.. Buchanan ha. an Intelligent face.
Sho stated that she frat made Miss
Pollard's acquaintance under the nam
OF Louise Wilson in June, 1885, when
Miss Pollard came from the founding
asylum at Norwood in carriage, her
coming having been arranged by DR..
Mary Street. now Mrs. Logan. Miss
Pollard had evidently given birth TO q
child.
Are you married or single?" asked
Mr.. Stoll, beginning the cross.examin-
alton.
~ hare been married." responded
the witness, with emphasis on the vorb.
81 married James S. Chorer in 1874. but
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 interposcd
that ho was carrying tha. too fur,
whereat Miss Pollard turned to flash
upon the Kentucky lawyer a signif.