The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-04-07
THE EVIDENCE IS NOW ALL IN.
No More to be Submitted in the
Pollard Breckinridge Suit.
The Last Act Was q Series of Denials OF
What the Other Had Said-Miss Pol
lard Very Emphatic in Her Answers.
Counsel for the Plaintiff on the Stand
to Refute an Insinuation-To-day the
Instructions for the Jury Will be
Framed

WAsHINGToN, April 6.-The curtain
was rung down on the most Interesting
scenes of the Pollard breckenridge case
to-day when the last of the evidence
was submitted 30 the jury. 1t was a
sort of clearing up day, like the last act
in play, when explanations and
reconciliations are in order, and the
session Of the circuit court differed from
the dramas conclusion only in the
absence OF an adjustment of the differ.
ences Of the principal actors That will
be left to the jury.
Colonel breckenridge was the last
witness OF the trial. Like Miss Pollard,
who had preceded him, he denied pretty
much everything she and her witnesses
had said, just as she had most emphat-
tcally denied all his tearing statements
and those put forward in his behalf.
The plaintiffs attorneys, Mr.. Calderon
Carlisle and Mr.. Johnson, took the
stand and testified that there was no
truth In the differences put forward by
the defense that one or the other Of
them or the plaintiff had slipped a
Christmas card of Miss Pollard's into a
book at the Norwood Founding ASYLUM,
OF Cincinnati, to strengthen her claim
that she had been there in her conine-
ment, and there was more testimony
about the baby born in Washington on
February 8, 1888. to Miss Pollard, or
MRS. Hall' as she called herself, and
which died two months later a, the
Washington Founding Asylum.
sensation was narrowly averted at
the morning session when old Aunt
Mary, the colored midwife who attended
MRS. Hall" said she had never seen
Mr.. Hall" until that moment, when
she recognized him by the child"
Tomorrow practices for instruc tions
TO tho jury will be submitted to Judge
bradley, and arguments thereon Will
consume the day. Monday the argu-
ments to the jury will begin. The case
may perhaps go to the jury on Wednes-
day, but probably not until Thursday
MIR. Carlisle will open for the plaintiff
and Col. Phil. Thompson for the de-.
PENDENT. Maj Ben. Butterworth will
make tho closing argument for tho de-
tense, and Judge Jere Wilson will close
the case with his argument for the
plaintiff.
a small number OF persons besides
the newspaper men and interested
parties were in attendance when court
opened. In the absence of Mrs Meuear
DR.. Mary Parsons was put upon the
stand and testified to the bringing of the
child TO tho Washington Founding
Asylum by Aunt Mary Mckenzie She
said she had written the slip offered in
evidence, bearing the name "Dietz
Downing" Miss Pollard said that she
had requested that tho child be named
"Diest Carlyle"
Aunt Mary Mckenzie was then
called and she testified that the plain
tiff, whom she had known as Mrs.
Hall" had given birth to tho child at
her house in February, 1883.
Much to the surprise of everybody,
the next witness was Calderon Carlisle,
Miss Pollard's junior counsel. He took
the oath and was asked by Judge Wilson
to tell the circumstances relating to tho
dif Covery Of u Christmas card, which it
is claimed was found by Miss Pollard,
in the books she had given to tho Nor
wood Founding Asylum. Mr.. Carlisle
said when no went to the asylum with
Miss Pollard and Miss johnson only he
and Sister Augustine touched the books
in which the card was found. Miss Pol
lard and Johnson were about ten feet
away from the table where tho books
were.
Mr.. Carlisle said he opened ono of the
books and found Christmas card which
w bS SuCH uOb GuEHeQ aU INC GuHoS OF
mutilated as it was now. 1t was in
closed in pasteboard covers with an in.
visible net, which Miss Pollard recog
niZed as one she had worn, and some
dead flowers.
On cross eXaminatic-: Carlisle said
that he went out OF the library for i've
minutes to examine the cords, leaving
Miss Pollard, Sister Agnes and Mr.
Johnson there. To ona of the jurors,
Mr.. Carlisle said he WAS not sure, but
il was his impression that he discovered
the card after he returned.
William G. Johnson, Carlisle's law
partner, who was at the asylum when
the card was found, corroborated the
testimony of Carlisle.
Miss Pollard took the stand again
when Johnson had concluded. She said
she had never known and had never
seen the woman named Mollie Single
bauer, or Miller, nor Brant and Kauf-
man, the two men who testified that
they had known the plaintiff as an
inmate OF house of ill-fame in Lex
ington. Miss Pollard also denied know
ing Lena Singleton, the keeper of a
Lexington house OF ill-fame, in which
Mollie Shinglebauer, Kaufman and
Brant swore they saw her.
did you ever go driving with John
Brant?"
mo, assuredly not. Mr.. Carlisle; l
never did"
Did you ever know Hiram Kauf-
mann?"
~ never did, and never heard Of him
until this defendant brought in his
lying deposition"
Now, Miss Pollard, did you tell this
defendant in Wesleyan College tho day
he called that you had been improperly