Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-03
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"Then 1 understand that before you
met the plaintiff you had Tor years
known Sarah Cess, known the character
OF the house, known the location OF the
house, and had been there before you
went with the plaintiff"
Each OF those statements is true"
Turning to the letter produced by the
defense purporting to have come from
Miss Pollard, Mr.. Wilson asked where
the envelope was, and Mr.. Breckinridge
replied
THAT IT HAD BEEN LOST.
It was his general custom to preserve
all his letters, but the first letter from
the plaintiff he could not find.
you have received a great many let
tiers from her?"
~ have"
And you are only able to produce of
all OF them what is called this wooden
or dummy letter."
Il do not admit that it was dummy
letter. / had not said so. Alter the
relations which grew up between the
plaintiff and myself on the first OF Au-
gust, 81, did not want TO preserve the
letters because Of many references in
them"
"You have received many kilograms
from the PLAINTIFF"
II never was in the habit OF preserv-
ing kilograms"
so that of all your correspondence
with the plaintiff extending over nine
years you nave only this letter."
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raqnaafaH cnanfEp r.
count OF all Miss Pollard had said during
the first visit of Colonel Breckenridge to
the Wesleyan Seminary, and that in
terview was again dissected, the Col
onel denying that Miss Pollard had said
it was part OF her agreement with
! Rhoades TO repay the money he had ad-
! vanced for her schooling, If she did not
| marry him, but explained that she had
asked if it would not be all right II she
repaid the money. In
HIS MOST PATHETIC TONES
! the Colonel repeated all the details OF
! the interview, how she had insisted upon
! telling him ali, and he had remonstra-
/ ted that there were things probably she
! did not want to say 10 stranger, ad-
/ viSing her to 90 to her grandfather,
mother or uncles. There is an impress
/ sion on my memory, although 1 cannot
remember her language, after ten years,
that she said she had given him even q
higher proof of her intentions to marry
him. Then l told her that she could
not afford not to marry him."
"And that same rule would apply to
man, under the same circumstances. 4"
"Well, that is question OF casuistry
or sociology / would not care to answer.
| If you ask me whether | would advise
young woman who had sexual inter
course with q man TO marry him, l
would say yes, but with a man it would
be different, for the knowledge OF it by
the public would destroy the woman
and would only injure the man"
"Would not hurt the man."
"Oh, it would not injure him as much
as the woman. Society looks upon these
things differently. If a young man
should come to me under certain cir
cumstances, l would advise him 10
marry q woman; under other circum-
stances I would say 10 him
BETTER DEATH or HE'LL.
I am not talking Of the justice Of"
"Oh, no." interrupted Mr.. Wilson,
with contemptuous air, II was not
asking you about Justice"
Are you member of the Christian
EndeavOr Society"
mo, sir"
ibid you take the Christian Endeayor
pledge?"
Never. To be candid, l will say
that | was twice invited TO deliver an
address at the annual meetings in New
York and Montreal on the possibilities
of the present age. ! wanted very
much to deliver that, but was pre-
vented"
BY further questioning, Mr.. Wilson
elected the information that the Colonel
last June had delivered a speech to
wOman's society in Nashville and been
presented with basket Of flowers. He
denied that he had said that he had no
wife to present them to in his response
and was anxious to explain what he had
said, but Mr.. Wilson would not permit.
Are you q member Of the Masonic
fraternity?'
II am"
'You knew that Miss Pollard's father
was a Mason?'
II did not. knew. that he was an
Odd Fellow"
Are there any obligations to the
widow or daughters Of members grow
ing out OF membership in these organ
izauOnS?'
Phil Thompson objected to this ques-
ston and the objection was sustained.
"You are n wide reader"
without vanity, l think l may say
yes"
you are familiar with the history of
Louis NIII. and NV, Henry VIII. and
George ""
In a general way, am as well &C
quainted with them as most men Of our
profession.
HE CONSIDERED GEORGE ELIOT
the greatest literary woman, with the
exception perhaps Of Mrs. Browning,
was not custodian OF the mails, but had
never heard that George Eliot'S works
were excluded from the mails.
Il assume" explained Mr.. Wilson,
that when Mr.. Butterworth asked you
about George Eliot he had some object
in view. I want 10 know what II was"
well, the plaintiff said" continued
Colonel Breckenridge, THAT she conSid-
cred the life Of George Eliot with Mr..
Lewes, a protest against mawkiSh SEN
timentalitv concerning what were often
considered improper rotations, and said
she would rather live as George Eliot
lived than 10 sew on buttons, churn but
ter and live the life of woman in some
what Strengthened circumstances on
Kentucky farm"
"You mentioned George Eliot 10
plaintiff ia the same category with her
and to compare your relations with her