Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-31
POOR OLD MAN.
The Colonel Tells How Made
line Led Him Astray.
He Was Tempted ard Fell, But Still
Lectured on "sociaI Purity"
The Kentucky Politician ani Lecturer In
Character Of IN lbused Wan.

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WASHINGTON, March s0.-Congressman
Breckinridge CO ltinued bis testimony in
the court today, telling an entirely different
story from that Id b. Madeline Pollard OF
their nine years of illicit relationship.
"Now, colonel" eaid Butterworth, estate
what took place on the second of August,
1884, the day after the carriage ride with
the plaintiff"
81 entered the car for Lexington, and
found the plaintiff sitting in it. She was
not there by any pre-arrangement with me.
l spoke to her and our conversation re.
suited in an arrangement to meet that
evening in Lexington. We agreed to meet
at the house of colored woman named
Sarah Cess. l asked her if there was any
place in Lexington she would like to 60.
She said she could 60 to Sarah Cess.
He said he left Miss Pollard 1t the door
of the aseignation house, promising to come
back sitter going to his home. He went
home. took supper with his family and re-
turned to the house of Sarah Cess in less
than an hour. He had made no such ar
rangement with Sarah Cess as Miss Pollard
md Sarah testified, in effect. that he had
gone to see Sarah Cess the night before
going to her house.
He remained with the plaintiff until
bout 1880 and the plaintiff elected to
spend the night there instead of going to q
more respectable place. There were no
protestations of love and affection on his
oart, and no talk with the plaintiff about
helping her 81 cure an education. "Shs
elected to remain where she was" said the
sitness, after detailing q conversation be-
tween Miss Pollard and himself as to
whether she should 60 to the house of o
ady she knew as less liable to detection"
"What was there in her conversation
hat made her appear an immature young
woman?"
"She appeared to he young woman
fully grown and matured and understood
matters pertaining to the sexes that a young
girl would not have known"
"Did she ever say before you or to you
prior to the bringing of this suit, that SHE
was girl of II or IS years or under 20?'
"Never, in any conversation. l had ex-
smined the papers in which endorsed her
application for position under the civil
service, in which she put, herself down as
having been born Nov. 80, 1866. 1 never
had any reason to doubt she was matured
woman, and nothing occurred to make me
hink otherwise"
"When did you first learn she had come
to Lexington to enter Sayre Institute?"
at was in the following October"
As to Miss Hoyt and Mrs. Ketcham, the
witness said he never knew two women
more highly estimable. He denied the
state ment of Miss Pollard that she re-
ceived him at night in her room at Miss
Hoyts. "If she received any one in her
room" )" he said, "it was not l."
"Did you know that she was away from
Lexington in the spring of 1852" GThi,
wae the time Miss Pollard said she was in
the Norwood Founding Asylum.
81 knew she was away, but where she
had gone or when she went did not know.
The statement of the plaintiff. that she
wrote to me from St. Joseph's Founding
Asylum and Addressed her letters to Mar
garet Dillon, box AZ, Lexington, n.y., may
ne true, but it was entirely without my
knowledge"
The witness said he never made any ar.
rangement with the plaintiff for sendiDp
letters to Mr.. Rodes through her mother
while she was in Cincinnati to deceive Me.
Rodes.
81 never inserted any date in any of her
letters as she testified, nor wrote tier
to her mother. did not tell her what to
write in q blind letter to Rodes, dated
New Orleans. l never was in New Orleans
in my life
"Ifow did You get those letters, of the
plaintiff to Rodes?"
"They came to me directly from my
partner, Mr.. Shelby, who received them
from o. S. Kenny, member of the Lex
ington bar, who received them from Mrs.
Eagle, q sister of James c. Rodes."
"Did you ever see Mrs. DR.. Street in
CINCINNATI"
81 never saw her to my knowledge. !
did not call at her house in Cincinnati, as
she says, to see her about the plaintiff
when did you meet her next, improp-
erly, / mean?"
~ went with her to a house in Cincin
natl. l cannot fix the date but remember
it was in the month Of October and on the
occasion of great Republican meeting in
Cincinnati which John A. Logan addressed.
Remembering this, l can fix the date As
Oct. IL, 1884. / met her in the morning
at the train in Cincinnati and We went to
the assignation house of Mrs. Rose"
That was the first time the witness had
ever been to Mrs. Roses house with the
plaintiff. Returning to Lexington from
Cincinnati, Col. Breckinridge said he was
engaged until the election in November
with making speeches in the Presi lential
campaign and ON his own canvass for Con-
gress, travelling over Kentucky and part
of Indiana.
The first time the witness learned from
the plaintiff that she had been pregnant
was in the summer Of 1887 and he never
had any information from anybody else
about the matter.
1.-THE first time learned that her prsg
nancy had carried her to Cincinnati wss in
the winter Of 1929. She asked me to
help her obtain place in Washington for .
lady, on the ground that she was the sitter
of the man who had been her physician dur
ing her pregnancy
A. Col. BrechnYidge said this he looked
squarely at Miss Pollard and nodded his
head in her direction, ~ il 70 emphasize
his words.
.From what she told me understood
that it was legitimate miscarrisge."
ssDn she indicate where that miscarriage
took placer"
From what she said l understood that