The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-31

from D. s. Kenly, member of the Lex.
! ington bar, who received them from
Mrs. Eagle, sister Of James G..
Rhodes "
Breckinrid4e denied having ever seen
DR.. Street to his knowledge or that he
had ever called upon her. After the
visit to Sarah Guests his next meeting
with Miss Pollard was on October IL,
1884, in Cincinnati He fixed the date
by means of political meeting on that
day. Miss Pollard met him at the Lex
ington train and they went to a house
OF i'll fame.
when did you first learn that she
had been pregnant"
The first time 1 learned from her
that she had been pregnant was in the
summer of 1887. and I never had any
information from any body else about
| the matter. The first time I learned
that her pregnancy had carried her to
| Cincinnati was in the winter OF 1892.
She asked me to help her obtain place
| in Washington for lady on the ground
that she was the sister Of the man who
had been her physician during her
pregnancy"
AS Colonel Breckinridge said this he
looked squarely at Miss Pollard and
nodded his head in her direction as il
to emphasize his words.
OF her pregnancy in 1885, tell you where
she was connned?"
From what she told me understood
that it was a legitimate miscarriage"
did she indicate where the miscsr
rage took placer"
From what she said l understood
that it took place under the care and
charge Of her mother. who exercised
great care that no scandal should re-.
suit"
Miss Pollard became red and white by
turns when Colonel Breckinridge men.
toned her mother in this connection.
She trem bled violently and made an Of
fort to rise in her chair, her head shak-
ing with excitement and her hands
clinched as If ready 10 strike. 1t took
the whispered words of Mics Ellis, Mr.
Carlisle and Judge Wilson to quiet her
agitation.
Witness could not recall having seen
plaintiff during the year 1886; no knew
ne had no relations with her in that
year. He said Mis- Pollard did not
come to Washington with his solicita-
ton; on the contrary he did ali he could
to dissuade her When he found she
was determined to come he did all he
could to help her.
She visited him q. his office in Lex
ington and there relations, dropped for
! twenty months, were resumed. She
afterwards came to Washington, but he
did not furnish her money for the trip
He saw her upon the street shortly after
his return to Washington, but did not
| see her again for three or four months
| when she visited him at the capitol and
| told him she was pregnant and he ad-
vanced her all the money she needed.
state whether you ever at any time
@ tn hn r,1e
! I'm preston, that you would marry her."
There is not o scintilla of truth in the
matter and there never was a CONVEX
sation of that kind between the plain
| tiff and myself. There is not thread
OF truth In it ct all. Under no circup
stances and at no time or place did
the plaintiff ever know from me the
possibility Of such an occurrence ever
happening"
Ibid you know she had given birth
to child?"
q never knew she had living child
she never informed me of it and !
never believed word of it until Dr.
Parsons testified on the stand that she
hsd given birth to a child"
Colonel Breckenridge acknowledged
that he paid the bill brought him by
DR.. Parsons for professional attendance
to Miss Pollard. 1t was $50. DR..
Parsons brought it to him about
year after the child was born Ac.
cording to the testimony OF DE-. Par
sons the child was born February 3,
1888. Miss Pollard did not apply for q
position in the Government service
when she came to Washing ton. but went
TO the Catholic academy, where she re-
NAMED two years and six months, tho
defe ldant paying her expenses. Dur
ing part of that time the improper rela
tions were carried on.
"Where did you first hear of the ex-
istence OF an engagement between the
plaintiff and yourself?"
I'm the Washington papers in May
last by reading notice which she put
in. / received several letters from her
at the time threatening me with ex.
posu-e unless married her"
Judge Wilson made demand for the
production Of those letters, but Colonel
Breskinridge said he mad DESTROYED
them as they were received
breckenridge described q stormy scene
that occurred in the room OF the House
committee on appropriations in Febru-
airy, 1893, and another at her boarding
| house
Coming to the Mrs. Blackburn episode
| breckenridge said Miss Pollard first
told Mrs. Blackburn they were engaged,
but he told Miss Pollard he would not
sanction any such statement, and he
| erdeavored to induce her to withdraw
| 1t; but, under her persuasion and upon
her promise to leave the city and break
up their relation, he finally agreed to
go to Mrs. Blackburn with her and
acknowledge the marriage eng agement
After telling the details of the talk
with Mrs. Blackburn, Colonel Breckin-
ridge said he and the plaintiff walked