The record-union., 1894-04-07
POLLARD-BRECKINRIDGR.
The Testimony in the Litigation
Brought to a Close.
ARGUMENT OF COUNSEL WILL BEGIN
ON MONDAY.
Considerable Comment in Washington
Over Senator Morgan's Bill to Re-
organize the State Departmental
Californian Appointed by the Presi-
dent to Be Commissioner In and for


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Alaska.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
WASHINGTON, April 6. - To-day the
stream of testimony in the Pollard
Breckenridge litigation, which had grown
to be exceedingly wearisome, was
brought to its close, after five continuous
weeks of sensationalism. The final re-
buttal and sub-rebuttal to-day consisted
of more details by the plaintiff and de-
fendant, leaving the final status of the
case what it has been largely throughout
question of veracity between the man
and woman.
Madeline Pollard took the stand to-
day to purge herself from the stain of the
mock marriage with blind Alec Julian. as
we'll as to repeat, with dramatic emphasis,
peculiarly her own, the denial that the
agreement to marry between herself and
Colonel Breckenridge had been anything
but contract made in good faith on her
part, at least. She also talked of the birth
OF her children with a freedom which
the matter of fact way in which all man
ner of usual things have been discussed
throughout this unusual case She was
very much the mistress OF the situation,
as she had been on her former appear
ances; determined to tell her own story
in her own way, and succeeding In her
determination, as well as keeping the
corps of lawyers for the defense in a f1ut-
ter of apprehension lest she should get
away from their control.
Colonel Brickinridge repeated, in all
the various keys of negatiOn in which
his silvery tongue is skilled, the denial OF
the story of Mary Yancey, the colored
cook, and other vital details of the case
for the plaintiff.
Arguments to the jury will begin Mon
day morning, so the case will probably
close by Wednesday night. Mr.. Carlisle
will make the opening one for the plant
if. He will be followed by Colonel Phil
Thompson, formerly member OF Con-
gress from the Bluegrass State, and Major
Ben Butterworth. eX-member OF Con-
gress from Ohio, for the defense, and ex-
Judge Jere Wilson, ex-member of Con-
gress from Indiana, will give the final
plea for Miss Pollard.
The expectations OF great display of
courtroom oratOry from the lawyers will
probably be fulfilled.
Said Desha Breckenridge. the son of
the defendant: Father will place him.
self, as he has in his political campaigns.
in the hands of his seconds"
When court convened this morning DR..
Parsons was called in rebuttal to estab-
lish the handwriting upon the paper
alleged to have been attached to the cloth
ing of Miss Pollard's child.
Mary Mckenzie, middle-aged colored
woman. was next put on the stand. She
testified that the baby spoken of by the
plaintiff was born in her house, the
mother giving the name of Mrs. Hall.
The defense did not care to cross-examine
Aunt Mary.
Mrs. Lucretia Maria Miner, landlady of
a fashionable clearinghouse in Latay-
cite Square, was brought to the stand,
her account book showing that Miss Pol
lard arrived at the house August 81, 1892,
the day on which plaintiff claims Colonel
Breckinridge first broached the subject
of marriage after the death of his wife.
The four mysterious volumes of Irving,
which had figured in that part OF the case
centering about Norwood Convent, and
in which the gdisputed Christmas card
had been found, were placed on the wit
ness stand.
Then Attorney Carlisle walked to the
stand and took the oath. Mr.. Carlisle
said: II am able to swear that from the
time [ took the book from the book case
until [ discovered the Christmas card no
other hand but mine and that OF the sister
touched it. The Christmas card had on it
the handwriting which you have seen
Compliments of w. s. b. There was
also an invisible net and pressed rose
leaves When l found them my client
was sitting in an opposite corner of the
room, and my colleague, Mr.. johnson,
some distance away. No one but myself
could have put these things between the
leaves of the book when our party was
there, and [ say to you, gentlemen, on
my OATH that l did not do it,"
Mr.. Carlisle's evidence was fortified by
the testimony of Attorney Johnson, who
had accompanied him to the convent.
Then Miss Pollard once more took the
stand, and made denial that she had ever
known Mollie Singlebower, Lena Single
ton. John Brant or Hiram Kaufman, all
of whom had deposed that she was an in
mate of house of ill-repute in Lexing-
ton. She had never heard of Sarah Goss
until she heard her on the stand; had
never had improper relations with
Rhodes, nor told Colonel Breckenridge
that such relations had existed. She had
not accepted from the defendant money
at the time of her alleged seduction.
Miss Pollard also denied, in all details,
the story OF the mock marriage between
her and owen Tinsley on Christmas Day,
1889.
The testimony is all in, and argument
will begin Monday, Mr.. Carlisle opening.
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.
Doings in the National House and
Senate.
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