St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-11

brought with revenge as its prompting
motive. and told the jurymen that if
they had lived with the woman, as Col
Breckenridge had, they would not have
taken her into their family, among
their daughters and placed her at the
head of their table. Every decent man
woul Sustain the colonel in his refusal
to do that. Beginning with Madeline
Pollards aye. since. he said, she had
claimed to have been seduced by the
colonel at the age of seventeen. he in
quired why her mother and the family
Bible had not been brought forward as
the best proof of her age. Back at that
time when she claimed she was seven
teen. she had been associated with
Mollie Shingiebewer. and he could not
I'LL derstand WHY so much had been said
about MOliie Sh ngl e bower, who was as
good as the Strulnpets she had aSSoci-
ated with. A good deal had been said
about SO many witneS ses for the defense
having been i'll houses of prostitution,
but Col. Thompson had no doubt that
many good fellow had been in such
places, and could tell the truth about
what happened there as well aS if it had
happened III d meeting house. Ii peo-
pie wanted to find out at happened
III these places, they must go after the
people who had been there. Turning
20 the occasion of
THE MOCK MARRIAGE
at Squire Tinsley's, lie SAID that Miss
Pollard had been in state of drbauch-
cry and drunkenness, although she
claimed that she was sick. People geD-
orally said that they were sick un1er
such circumstances. Mr.. Thompson
had been there himself, he frankly ad-
United.
Julian was a pretty good sort of a
fellow, although he had shot ont his
| eyes III one OF his drunken spreps. He
had not wanted to tell what he knew
about tie girl, but it had been dragged
out of him. and he had half apoiogized
for her, saying that she was as good aS
the other girls In the locality. Yet it
was fact that lie had taken her up
stairs when they were drunk, and laid
her down on the bed. As lie WAS pro-
ceedlng TO the discussion OF SGbSe QueHt
events, he demanded to know where the
|
| this case with. all the necessary eX-
perSes 10 hire these eminent counsel.
/ ami lie promised 10 show that the wUinaa
had BEEN money seeker aud a money
getter every step Ut the way, and WAS
| trying 10 get money now. the counsel
OF had some good words for Hiram kauf-
mann and John Brandt, whose character
| he said had not been iinpeached. When
| Miss Pollard denied that she wrote that
| letter TO Breckenridge she lied anu had
| lost the cast. The letter showed tliat
lie had come to the school OH her invita-
| ton. Ii had been said that iniS tinrid
| little girl would no. approach such big
man rs Breckinrdgt. but she lad told
how size Introduced herself in the
same way to Rossell, telling him that
size had heard OF him from Nellie
| oliver aud asked him to take her to the
| school. Mrs. Brown had come forward
| to purify the atmosphere of the school
anu neDudy could blame her. because
the plaintiff had left a trail of ilnpuri.y
behllrl her wherever She went. Speak
ing of The plaintiffs being under con-
tract to Rhodes engaged 10 one man,
and another mans mistress, and blk
Ing another ont of his money!" Col.
Thompson exclaimed, "ana a school
| girl at that. My God, if she ever gets
out of her short dresses what robber
| and a piuudprer size Will be."
JUDGE BRADLEY INTERRUPTED
the speech with rt.nonStraGce.. Now,
| Mr.. thompson. please take care Hot to
use such expressions as that he said.
What have slsed, your honor"
You said my God"
81 beg pardon, that was all lnadyert-
| ence"
He then continued and discussed The
/ lnprOHabiIly of die young w0maI. ac-
comparing Gel. Breckenridge to ALI as
SignaIiun house in Cincinnati, as she
claimed, the day after a drive when he
had made improper advances and she
had repulsed him. After The noon re-
cess Col. Thompson resumed his speech,
| calling Miss Pollard 1.-The most skillful
| adventures who ever made track
through court room" He argued
from dates that Col. Breckenridge could
| not have been the father of her first
child. TO give the plaintiff a
verdict would be to convict Mol
lie Sl!lnglebower, John Brandt,
! Hiram Kaufman and the defendant
of willful perjury. He referred TO Miss
| PollaruS statement to Claude de la
Roche Francis that Col. BrecF inridge
was lovable ami noble man ami said
| that the defendent had been the soEl of
generosity Throughout his dealings with
| the WumaD. Her letters TO Rhodes, he
said, were blind, wooden letters, To the
man VINO had Seduced her, and she was
| demanding the money of the poor old
man. She went at Rhodes booted and
| Spurred, and 1t was stand and deliver
with her, telling him that he could not
come and see her unless he put it up.
Were those the demands of a school girl
to generous old man, who was fur
| riShing the money for her education?
Col. Thompson, continuing. said thai
Miss Pollard had deliberately said thai
she had brought the suit for revenge
whereupon
MIR. WILSON CORRECTED HIM.
Judge Bradley said: "rhere is no ev-
ldence to that effect in the case" and
Mr.. ButterwOrth said: 81 think she die
not say that"
Col. Thompson said he hoped thu
jury would correct him il he made any
mistakes, as he had not tried case for
fifteen years and did not pretend to b,
up in law.
He told how Miss Pollard had gone tt
the convent last year not knowing thai
the child bonn several years ago wa
dead.
The first born of a person that pre-
tends to be human being" he said
latter eight or nine years when she hat
raised her inhdman voice they tell yoi
she went into Mysteries.
"Oh, inhuman woman, "he exclaimed
''lnhuman monster. In order to mid,
her own conduct she LAYS it on this man
We are appealed to by this woman II
stage play by the sacred name o
mother, trying to coin crocodile tear