The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-02


fnement, and she again submitted to him a
schedule Of things she needed He furnished
! her the money for these things, and, said the
witness, 1 offered her more than the sum she
wanted, but, as / remember it, she did not
want to get to New York with more
than some small change and ten
dollar bill for she was afraid she could
Washington if she had plenty Of
money" The witness was obliged to go
away about this time on speaking tour
through Virginia and Kentucky and he and
the plaintiff parted on the best Of terms, she
agreeing to leave Washington and remain
away and not trouble him any more.
CONSIDERED THE MATTER ENDED.
II considered the matter between the plain
tiff and myself said Colonel Breckinridge,
SO far as Washington was concerned,
$50 far as Mrs. Blackburn was concerned,
and SO far as our sexual relations were con-
cerned, as entirely ended. What was left
open was that il it was my child, which
only partially believed, would take care Of
her and see that 1t was taken care OF, and
in the interval she was TO have every
convenience and kindness that l had the
means to give. | said to her that wanted
the child to be born, and would accept it as
part of my punishment for what haGA oc-
CURED between us. l wanted to raise it
and take care of it, and would give it as
child born out of wedlock.n
The witness identified various kilograms
received from the plaintiff while he was on
that tour with reference to his whereabouts
Colonel Breckenridge identified letters he had
written to the plaintiff from Virginia and
Kentucky at this time about her proposal
that she should go to a sanitarium to be
confined.
Miss Pollard was in New York at this
time and several kilograms from him to her
telling her to wait for letters from him were
sent.
Colonel Breckinridge started to tell what
was in some of the letters he said he received
from the plaintiff, but Judge Wilson OBJ
jected if Colonel Breckinridge could not
produce the letters. Witness said he had
destroyed them. Major Butterworth op-
posed the objection and Judge Bradley
agreed with him. Continuing, Colonel
Breckinridge said the reference in his let
ters to Miss Pollard to sanitarium were
based on suggestion from her that she
should go to such an Institution
MISS POLLARD EXCITED.
Miss Pollard became very much excited
during Colonel Breckinridges recital. and
occasionally turned to Mr.. Carlisle as if ap-
pealing to him not to allow the statements of
the witness to go unchallenged. She was
very nervous all the morning and frequently
on the verge CT tears.
Miss Pollard had placed in evidence when
she was on the stand, Colonel Breckenridge
traced his route while on his stump
ing trip All of these letters and
kilograms from him to Miss Pollard have
been read before. None were of lover-like
character and all referred to arrangements
for sending Miss Pollard to some place
where she could be confined quietly Some
of the letters were written two months after
Colonel Breckenridge had been married to
Mrs. Wing and a month after the date set
for his marriage to Miss Pollard, in what he
termed this morning his careless remark to
quiet her opportunities.
Colonel Breckinridge said he read in a
Cincinnati paper. while in Lexington
in July, 1898, an announcement
of his engagement to Miss Pollard.
He denied the report and the the denial was
published in the Lexington Gazette. It was
on this statement in the Gazette that Miss
Pollard based her letter to Colonel Breckin-
ridge threatening that unless he sent her a
statement of their engagement over his own
signature he must take the consequences"
THREATENING LETTERS.
Colonel Breckfnidge said there were five
or six of these letters from the plaintiff
threatening him with the publication of
full account Of their relations
"In one of her letters" said the witness,
sshe threatened to go to Lexington and sub
NIT to the arbitrament of my unmarried
daughter as to what she should do in view of
the former relations between us.n
With reference to sending money to Miss
Pollard through Major Moore, witness said :;
81 never knew that the plaintiff had suf
fered miscarriage, and I always held that
whatever might occur there was nothing
relieved me from caring for her and for her
child For that reason sent my friends, P.
P johnson and w. A. McCheeney, to Major
Moore and put into his hands check to be
used for the benefit of the plaintiff. The
check was returned to me just before the
suit was fled"
The amount of the check named by Col.
Breckenridge was 500.
A POSITIVE DENIAL.
'sDid you have intimate relations with
the plaintiff after the 29th of April, 1898?
(the date of the marriage of Colonel Breck-
inridge and Mrs. Wing asked Major Butter
worth.
Colonel Breckenridge hesitated an instant
as if forming his words, and looking square
ly at Miss Pollard and nodding his head at
her to emphasize his words, he said
81 did not, after the 29th of April, 1893,
I did not have any such relations with the
plaintiff whatever after that date 1t is abb
solutely false"
did you have any such intercourse with
the plaintiff after you saw Mrs Black
burnw
81 had not any such relations with the
plaintiff after I returned to Washington on
the 31st of March," was Colonel Breckin-
ridges reply