The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-21


and did go over to Cincinnati for that pur-
pose on August 1, 1884. Major Shelby then
referred to Miss Pollard's age at time COL
Breckenridge met her and he claimed that she
was then not seventeen, but between twenty
and twenty -one years old, and he said he
said he would show the jury by the testimony
of DR.. Williams that when her sister was
born in 1855, the plaintiff was little girl
running about the house. She was born, he
said, in 1865 instead of 1866.
Major Shelby told of the first conversation
between Miss Pollard and Colonel Breckin-
ridge about the Rodes case, and he con-
tended that Miss Pollard admitted that she
had been intimate with Mr.. Rodes. Colonel
Breckinridge advised carrying out the ar
rangement with Rodes and in the course of
the conversation, she, not he, suggested that
they go out in a closed carriage that night,
and he consented.
SHE SUGGESTED A CLOSED CARRIAGE.
81 am authorized to state,n said Major
Shelby, ''that there was no such remark by
the defendant about a weak throat, which
caused him to bring closed carriage. nor
about a headache, which compelled him to
forgo ) the concert and suggested that
they ride instead. 1t was she who
suggested that they ride instead of going
to the, concert, and during the course
of that ride illicit arrangements were estab-
lished between them without objection, but
with willingness on her part. They did not
drive. until twelve o'clock that night, but
were back at the college at ten o'clock.
There was no meeting at the Public Library
next day to arrange the Rodes case; no ar
rangement for going to Lexington; no bogus
telegram sent by the defendant as an excuse
for herrequest that she be allowed to go
home 49,
FOLLOWED HIM ON THE TRAIN.
'sWhen he took the train" continued
~ s1~1 -.lns.,
They travelled to Lexington together and
she, hot he, suggested that he take her to the
assignation house of Sarah Cess He was
surprised that she knew about such place,
and she said she knew where it was located.
They stayed there from that Saturday un-
til the following Monday, when she returned
to Cincinnati, their arrangements having
been completed.
Major Shelby said he was also authorized
to state that there was no suggestion made
by the defendant that the plaintiff go to
Lexington, but that she went there
and entered Sayre Institute without
his knowledge, and he did not even
know she was in Lexington until he met her
one day on the street. The illicit relations
were continued for several months there
after. The defendant had never visited her
at Miss Hoyt's, her boarding place, but every
meeting was at the house of Sarah Cess.
The defendant did not know when
she went to Cincinnati in, February,
1885, to give birth to child;
he did not know she was in Cincinnati; he
did not try to trace her up; and 81 am au-
thorized to deny absolutely counsel con-
tinued) and we will show that there were no
such arrangements made by the defendant
to conceal the plaintiffs condition, or that he
knew anything about her being in the city
of Cincinnati"
NOT PLAINTIFFS CHILD.
Major Shelby said the defence was pre-
pared to show, and would show, that the
claim of the plaintiff that she gave birth to
a child at the Norwood Founding Asylum in
1885 was false.
The attempt of Miss Pollard to have her.
self identified as Mrs Bergwynn or Mrs.
Burgoyne, who had been delivered of a child
at St. Josephs Founding Asylum, had
failed absolutely, said Major Shelby, and it
would be shown that there was not shadow
OF foundation for her claim.
Miss Pollard, he continued, returned to
Lexington in the fall of 1885, and there fell
in with the plaintiff again. He had just
been elected to Congress and was arranging
with the speaker, Major Shelly, to take
charge of all of his law business. just be-
fore he came to Washington he received a
note from the plaintiff asking him to come
to see her, and as consequence their rela-
tions were resumed in measure
MIjor Shelby claimrd that during the Wis
it's of Colonel Breckinridge to Lexington
during his first term in Congress he had
nothing to do with the plaintig. After the
session ended on March 4 1887, he returned
and not liking hotel life, he took board at
Miss Hoyt's where the plaintiff was
stopping, but there was no sug-
gestion that their relations be resumed,
and it was not until after she had horse
back accident in 1887, that there was a re-
sumption, and then only after she had been
to his Office several times to see him.
HIS VISIT TO WASHINGTON
That the defendant was responsible for
Miss Pollard's coming to Washington Major
Shelby denied, and said that on the contrary
the defendant advised her not to come. She
told him that she had talked with Senator
Breckenridge and that the Senator had ad-
vised her to come and get position.
81 do not suggest even that there was any
thing wrong between Beck and herself of
course" said Major Shelby.
Major Shelby asked the Judge to carefully
consider the statemedt he had made that the
no relations for eighteen months prior to
February 1888, when she claimed she had
given birth to child
Major Shelby claimed that during Miss
Pollard's residence in Washington she came
frequently to Col, Breckenridge for assist
aQc0, anu on H6T SUaGeHl0Ilu tudt Sl0 uetu UoSA
pregnant by him and had suffered a mis-
carriage, he acceded to her demands.
Major Shelby did not condone or excuse
the fault of the defendant, but said that
many men had done the same thing and been
forgiven. The plaintiff had it in her power
to do him injury; she knew she had him
more or less in her power and she used tina
in getting money from him Eand in contihu-
ing their relations.
SHE MADE HIS LIFE BURDEN.
Then Major Shelby went on to tell of the
continuances of the relations between Miss
Pollard and his client until the winter of
1S90-91 when, he continued, Miss Pollard
through her power over him tried to make
him introduce her into the house
Of people she wanted to know and
to give her money which he could
i'll afford to give. He did not introduce
her to private houses She made his life
burden for him and he tried to get her to go
away, to take advantage of opportunities
for the development of her talents, and he
offered to pay her expenses for such educa-
tion, as little as he could afford to So This
state of affairs continued until Mrs. Breckin-
ridge died in 1892 The plaintiff in the
fall of that year, met the defendant while he
was on business trip in New York and
proposed to him that she should go abroad
to Berlin with Mrs. Willard and stay two
wears at Mrs Wizards school on condition
that went as his affianced wife.
An Opera Managers Offer.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, March 81, 1s94.-A. l..
Wilbur, proprietor of the Opera Company,
this morning telegraphed Judge Wilson,
counsel for Madeline Pollard, Offering Made
line $500 per week for twenty weeks with his
compauy.