Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-30
THE COLONEL'S DENIAL.
His Second Wife's Work Basket In
the Breckenridge Pollard
Case.

Washington, March 30.-There was a
large audience awaiting the second ap-
pearance of Col. Breckenridge on the wit
ness stand who manifested great interest
in him and what he would have to say.
No time was lost in sending him to the
witness stand and when Mr.. Butterworth
handed up the work basket which be-
longed to his second wife and which Miss
Pollard said he had given to her with
affectionate words, Breckenridge said:
II did not go to Miss Pollard's house that
night; did not ride with her in herdic
to the depot; did not give her the
basket under any circumstances"
MEETING MISS POLLARD.
Mr.. Butterworth then left the question
of the basket and directed his questions
to the details Of the meeting between the
witness and Miss Pollard and the circum-
stances of the visit to the house of Sarah
Goss.
Witness said: 81 found plaintiff in the
car when got into it and the oonversa-
tion resulted in an arrangement by which
we were to meet that evening in Lexing-
ton. We went to the Goss house, knocked,
but no one was there. We agreed to re-
turn later which did and met her there"
"She made No resistance to what was
done there. We merely carried out ar
rangements made on the train. I re-
turned the next night with some uncer
tainty whether would find her there, as
she said
IF SHE COULD SLIP AWAY
without risk she would do so. l found
her there, however, as she said she had
not dared to take the risk of going away
by daylight. remained until abont 10
o'clock that night. She was then fully
developed young woman with nothing to
indicate she was not experienced in the re-
lation of the sexes" Nothing was said then
DID NOT LEAD HER EsTRAY
nor until the filing of this suit was any
thing ever said to the effect that had
seduced her physically or otherwise"
"While Miss Pollard was absent from
Lexington, d7f Fling the spring of 1885,
when she said her first child was born
witness deEared that he had no
knowledge her whereabouts and no
communication with her."
"Did you pay plaintiff anything when
sou parted from her!"
~ can not use the word pay" replied
the colonel considerably. II paid ex-
penses and presented her with sum not
very large but enough to pay her travel
ing expenses"
DENIED FABRICATfNG LETTERS.
Continuing he denied knowledge of the
correspondence to Rhodes, alleged to
have been written and dated from New
Orleans and other places in the south by
Miss Pollard under his direction. Nor
had he ever written letter purporting to
be from her to her mother or any other
person.
Instead of being in Cincinnati on Sat-
urday August II, when Miss Pollard tes-
titled they met at public library, and
afterward visited an assignation house,
he had been engaged in court at Win.
murder.
"On the 11th of October met her in a
h ONE in Cincinnati. She came from the
western part of the state and from the
east. And
MET HER AT THE GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT
and we went to Mrs. Roselle's house where
we remained several hours. returned to
Lexington in the morning and she went
by another train"
"The first time had any information
from the plaintiff that she was pregnant
was in the summer of 1887. The first time
I ever heard her pregnancy had carried
her to Cincinnati was in the fall of 1892,
when she desired me to obtain an office
for lady on the ground that the lady's
brother had been her physician on that
occasion.
"The information to me was that it had
been legitimate miscarriage, that it oc-
Cured under the mothers supervision,
that it was through her mother secrecy
had been secured"
During this passage Miss Pollard's
friend had great trouble in keeping her
from making an outcry.
RosELLE's rEsTIMoNY DISPUTED.
Cincinnati--Mrs. McClelland Brown,
formerly of the Wesleyan college of this
city, has written a letter to the general
public in which she denies that Roselle ever
introduced Miss Pollard to the college,
but that she was brought there by Rhodes.
Roselle's statement that he called at the
college several times she pronounces ab-
solutely false.