The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-03-14
She Wouldn't Marry Her Be
trayer if She Gould.
AN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Was the Way She Was Charac-
teriZed
By the Physician Who Attended
Her.

WASHINGTON. March 14-The testi-
mony Of Sister Cecilia Of Pueblo Colo.
formerly superior of the Norwood aay-
lum, near Cincinnati was resumed when
the Breckinridge trial commenced thiH
morning. Miss Pollard was again fra the
court rooms sitting nearly in front of
Col. Breckenridge with only the austara
faced sister from the house of refuge
beside her, her other unknown friend
being for the first time absent Sister
Cecilia was ON the witness stand
Replying 20 attorney Carlisles ques-
ton she said that she had good memory
for names, but poor one for faces
She could not affirm positively ,that Miss
Pollard had been am inmate of the Nor
wood convent, nor could she say Chat She
had not a dispute arose between counsel
over the question of admission as evil
dence Of the witness to the identity of
tire young woman.
Judge Bradley said thatif the question
as propounded was intended t0 elicit the
opinion Of the witness as to the identity
Of the plaintiff with "a certain person who
was at the asylum at certain time Z.
was competent. If 10 was intended t9
show that the witness, from things aha
had subseQuestly learned. had become
convinced THAT the plaintiff had at some
time been an inmate 0f the asylum it waa
Incompetent.
The plaintiffs counsel reserved an eE-
ception to the courts ruling and Chen
framed different question. asking.
"W hat IS your opinion as to the ioeu-
tity 0f the plaintih with b patient iu y1ur
asylum in May, June and July. l5s3T"
which was also overruled Another ex-
cepuon was noted and followed by tle
question. "What is your belief as 30
whether the plaintiff was in your aey-
lum during these monfhst That is
question for the jury, said Judge Bral-
Mr. CarIfzIa fr,lr,lirarI ,thaffar ANS ,.-
tients ID the asylum had been iu tle
habit of yelling themselves. fo which tIu
sister replied. "Iherc were tltu on llree
ladies who veiled their faces when they
thought there was danger of being rec-
ognIzed by visitors from Cincinnati.
Sister Cecilia remembered that three
or four ladies had come there from Cine
cinnati ia the spring of l5s5 in carriages.
but when asked If there had been
patient by the name of BureoFne. au-
swered: "Ihe name lis not familiar to
me-
The cross examination was very brief
Sister Cecilia saying lu answer TO l-r.
Butferworth that she had held several
conversations with Miss Pollard since her
arrival ia Washington After the two
sisters had retired, the reading of depg-
sition by Kate Perry Kane of 14 Front
street. Cincinnati, who had been iu the
spring of 1868 member of the firm ui
doctors Buchanan & Perry, was begun uy
Dir. Carlisle
Mrs. Kane remembered that Miss Pol-
lard had boarded in their house aa I1r.
Buchanan's patient under the name af
Miss Louise Wilson, Identifying tile
plaintiff positively
From the cross-examination in the
deposition it appeared that Miss Pollard
had a miscarriage. that She was de-
scribed By DR. Buchanan as San unior-
tunate Kentucky girl
The boarder was understood TO DE an
unmarried woman, and once after She
had been to meet a friend at hotel
about some financial matters. DR. Kane
asked her why she did not marry the
friend to which Miss Pollard replied
that she could not. that he had ruined
her and she loathed him. had steeled her
heart against him and would not marry
him. although lie had offered TO marry
her