St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-15
1.-THE STAR OF KENTUCKY"
MISS P0LLARD'S NICKNAME FOR OLD
BRECKENRIDGE.
FIFTH DAY OF THE BIG TRIAL

First ChiId-A Student Of the
Wesleyan Seminary Says Miss
Pollard Was Smart in School.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-The fifth
day of the Pollard d-Breckinridge trial
was devoted by the plaintiffs attorneys
to celebrating the main points already
marked out by them in their case. There
were no sensational Incidents, nor was
there any display of bellIgerence among
the legal gentlemen. Since his encounter
of Monday evening with Attorney
Shelby, OF Lexington, Mr.. Johnson, Of
Miss Pollard's counsel, has appeared In
court but twice, not that he anticipated
any trouble, but because he is engaged
outside in working up the testimony.
Miss Pollard was in court during the
morning, but left when her friend, DIR.
Belle Buchanan, of Cincinnati, began
to testify concerning the birth of her
first child. Col. Breckenridge was there
also, and so were some OF his Kentucky
constituents, one of whom secured ad-
mission to the court room on the repre-
sentation that he holds membership in
eiiC odihC ltSuy lCl luil Cuul I'll lh WhASh
the congressman is enrolled.
Most of the day was occupied by the
reading of depositioEs from Cincinnati
physician and one of Miss POllard'S
school friends, and there was some con.
flicting testimony regarding her age,
which is disputed point, the plaintiff
asserting that she was but seve nteen
when Col. Breckinridge met her. Her
identification by Sister Cecilia was not
complete, and remains to be fastened,
if it can he. by the writing found in the
volumes of Irving said to have been
presented by Miss Pollard to the con-
vent.
The. testimony of Sister Cecilia, of
Pueblo, Col. formerly superior of
THE NORWOOD ASYLUM,
near Cincinnati, was resumed when the
Breckenridge trial commenced this
morning. Miss Pollard was again In
the court room, sitting nearly III front
of Col. Breckinridge, with only the
austere-faced Sister from the house of
refuge beside her, her other unknown
friend being for the first time absent.
Sister Cecilia was Oh the witness stand.
Replying 10 Attorney Carlisle's ques-
tions, she said that she had a good
memory for names, but poor one for
faces. She could not affirm positively
that Miss Pollard had been an inmate
of tine Norwood convent, nor could she
say she had not. A dispute arose be-
tween counsel over the question of ad-
mission as evidence of the witness
opininion as to the identity of the oung
woman.
Judge Bradley said that if the ques-
tion as propounded was intended to
elicit the opinion of witnesses as to the
identity OF the plaintiff with a certain
person who was at the hospital at Ger
tain time. it was competent; If it was
intended to show that the witness, from
things she had subsequently learned,
had been convinced that the plaintiff
had at some time been an inmate of the
asylum, it was incompetent. The
plaintiffs counsel reserved an exception
to the courts ruling, and then framed a
different question. asking: "What is
your opinion as to the identity of the
plaiotitf with patient
IN YOUR ASYLUM
in May, June and July, 1852" which
was also Overruled and exception noted,
and followed by the question:. "What
is your belief as to whether the plaintiff
was in your hospital during these
months?' That is question for the
jury" SAID Judge Bradley. Mr.. Carlisle
hot tI,o
asylum had been in the habit of vel ling
themselves. to which the sister replied
"There were two or three ladies who
yelled their faces when they though
there was danger of being recognized
by visitors from Cincinnati" Sister
Cecilia remembered that three or four
ladies lad come there from Cincinnati
i'll the spring of 1885 in carriages, but
when asked if there had been patient
by the name of Burgoyne, answered:
"The name is not familiar to me-" The
cross-examination was very brief, Sister
Cecilia saying, in answer to Mr.. Butter
worth, that she had held several con-
versations with Miss Pollard since her
arrival in Washington. After the two
Sisters had retired the reading of dep
osition by Kate Perry Kane, of 62 Front
street, Cincinnati, who had been in the
spring of 1885 member OF the firm of
Drs. Buchanan & Perry, was begun by
Mr.. Carlisle. Mrs. Kane remembered
that Miss Pollard had boarded in their
house as DR.. Bucharan's patient under
the name of Miss Louise Wilson, identi-
flying the plaintiff positively. From
the cross-eXamination in the deposition
it appears that
MISS POLLARD
had miscarriage, that she was de-
scribed by DR.. Buchanan as IAN un-
fortunate girl from Kentucky" The
bOarder was understood to be an unmar-
ried woman. and once after she had
been to meet friend at a hotel about
some financial matters DR.. Kane asked
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 he had offered to marry her.
From Miss Pollard's ways, general
actions and knowledge of things in 1885,
the witness thought she must have been
about twenty-four years old then. She
was nOI at ali IrlVOlOuS or RlrllSl: Kept
her affairs to herself, and time seemed
to have dealt gently with her.
The identity of the friend who
sat beside Miss Pollard throughout
the trial was divulged when Mr.. Car.
Isle called DR.. Belle Buchanan and
that lady walked around to the witness
stand and took the oath. AS she was
giving her name, occupation and the
usual preliminary answers, Mr.. Thomp-
son spoke out familiarly: "Speak up a
little louder, please, doctor; we can't
hear YOU" DR.. Buchanan has an intel
llgent face. She stated that she first
made Miss Pollard's acquaintance un-
der the name of Louise Wilson in June,
1885, when Miss Pollard came from the
founding asylum at Norwood in car
riage, her coming having been arranged
by DIR. Mary Street, now Mrs. Logan.
Miss Pollard had evidently given
BIRTH TO CHILD,
"Are you married or SINGLE" asked
Nx. StalL baginning the cross -axspaiAa-