The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-13
NOT QUITE A PIGMY
Congressman Breckenridge
Very Jolly at the
Trial Today.
MISS POLLARD NOT PRESENT
Counsel Rebuked for the Slapping
Incident Yesterday-Talk
of Firearms.

WASHINGTON, March IS, 1s94.-The crowd
that surged about the Circuit Court room
this morning for half an hour prior to the
| beginning of today's session of the Pollard
Breckenridge trial, was greater than at any
/ day since the trial began. The augmenta-
tion in spectators was due principally to
desire to ascertain the action of Judge Brad
ley on the face slapping episode of yesterday.
| There were other reasons, too, for the ex-
pectancy of sensational session. The re-
port that Colonel Breckinridge would make
the defense that he had been married to
Mrs. Wing previous to the date Miss Pollard
alleges he became engaged to her, and the
sensational exit of Miss Pollard yesterday
whetted the appetites of the public
and made the court room more attractive
| than the House of Congress.
| MANY LAWYERS PRESENT
| Under Judge Bradleys order. only MEM
! bers of the bar, witnesses, and working
newspaper men were admitted to the court
room, but the press of lawyers demanding
| admittance was so great that the chamber
was nearly filled before the case was called.
! Mr. Calderon, who was struck from
behind by Deshe Breckinridge during the
melee, was the earliest conner and he was
| soon followed by Judge Wilson. Just after
| ten o'clock Colonel Breckinridge entered the
room followed by Mr.. Shelby. who slapped
Mr.; Johnson's face; Mr.. stoll, Col
terworth and Deshe Breckinbridge.
| Mr.. Shelby was the centre of attraction. He
| is small man, slightly bald, apparently
about forty-five years old, and wears glasses
He looked serious but did not show any signs
| of nervousness.
D1II
court was called to order Mr. johnson came
! in few minutes after Judge Bradley took
| his seat.
| JUDGE BRADLEY's REMARKS.
| Immediately after the court was called to
order, Judge Bradley spoke as follows
order. Judge Bradley spoke regretfully OF
| the occurrence in court yesterday and said
| he had been informed defendants counsel
came to the court room armed. This accu-
sation was denounced by defendants counsel.
| The incident was ended by statement
from Judge Bradley at the request of Mr..
Carlisle, of plaintiffs counsel, that the in
| formation about counsel on the other side
| going armed had not come to him from
| counsel for the plaintiff.
! Mr. Carlisle asked that the deposition of
Mary E. Logan Of Cincinnati, formely DR..
Mary L. Sweet, be admitted, but Mr. But
terworth objected, and another legal con-
| troyersy began.
| After the arguments had progressed for
more than an hour Judge Bradley over
ruled the objections of the defence and ad-
mitted the deposition of Mrs. Logan as evil
] dence-
| THE DISPOSITIONS.
| Mr. Carlisle then read the deposition in
! which Mrs Logan said she attended young
woman who gave her name as Mrs. Monica
| Burgoyne in 1884. This was while Mrs. Lo-
gan was Dr. Sweet, a practicing physician of
| Cincinnati.
| Miss Pollard was present while the deposi
| ton was being taken, but Mrs. Logan said
that, while there we're some things about
| Miss Pollard that suggested Mrs. Burgoyne,
! she could not identify her.
| The young woman said she was pregnant
with her first child, saying her husband was
| dead, and acting as though there were some
family reasons why the matter should be
| kept secret
The young woman called twice at her
office and later the deponent called to see
her. There was snow on the ground at the
| time.
"Now as look at her, begin to re-
cognize her." said the deponent at this
point.
The deponent said:-sMrs. or Miss Bur-
| goyne had gone to lying-ln house kept by
| Catholic Sisters on the Reading road, near
| Cincinnati, to be confined. Mrs. Burgoyne
had told Mrs. Logan that she was fifteen
| years old; she did not look older
|
woman went to the house of Drs. Perry and
| Buchanan, where she took another name,
| which the witness did not remember. Mrs.
| Burgoyne was very reticent person and
told nothing about herself One day, while
| the deponent was calling on a patient, an
| elderly gentleman came to the patients
| house to see her, and asked about Mrs. Bur-
goyne. Mrs. Logan said she did not renem-
| ber what the man looked like, except that he
| was elderly.
MAY BE MISS POLLARD.
"Have you ever seen Mrs. Burgoyne
| sinceg' was asked the deponent.
'Never, except that may be this is the
| lady. Yet they seem very different; their
hair was different, and this lady is thinner. 1
| think the other lady wore glasses"
| Miss Pollard does not wear glasses. One
of Mrs Logan's statements was that when
| the elderly gentleman called on her he
! looked like pigny standing below her at
| the foot of staircase.
s.Do look like a pigmy!" asked Colonel
| Breckenridge, laughingly, of his counsel
| when this was read.
| Major Butterworth read the typewritten
| statement of the deponents cross examina-
| ton,
| The reading of the cross-examination,
which developed nothing new or important,
continued until 1880, when a recess was
| taken until Pm.
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