The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-23
FLAWSIN MADELINE'S TALE
Sisters at the Hospital Take No
Stock in Her Story.


Time She Claims-Her Inability to
Remember Her Alias Considered
Suspicious.
Washington, March 22.-The dreary
reading Of documentary evidence the
noting and arguing of objections. and the
taking of exceptions, made this the most
uninterestiug day of the Pollard Brec1in-
ridge trial since it began, two weeks ago.
A number of depositions taken by the de-
fense were read to the jury, and a great
deal of the evidence was objected to by
the plaintiffs counsel So many were the
objections and exceptions noted that at
the request of Mr.. Carlisle, Judge Brad
ley set Saturday next for hearing argu-
ment on their admissibility.
THE DISPOSITIONS.
The depositions read to-day were all
taken in Cincinnati and in Kentucky and
they related TO Miss POllard's claim that
she had given birth to a child in st.
JOseph's / toundling Asylum, near CiuCin-
natl, in 1884; to her school life ana the
first visit of Col, Breckenridge to her;
and her to age Two sisters and others
connected with St. Josephs asylum made
deposition that they did not recognize
y
at any time, and several persons
who knew Miss Pollard in childhood
ana girlhOOd, testified that she was APP
parently in the neighborhOOd of 20 or -
years in 1884, when she met Col Breckin-
ridge, and when she claims her age was
II. The physicians who attended her
mother at the birth of a daughter named
Rosalind, in October or November, 1865,
deposed that another daughter called
MaJtie was then running about the house
and looked 2 or years old.
The court will not be in session on
Good Friday.
MISS POLLARD IN COURT.
Much to everybody's surprise, Miss
Pollard came TO court to-day, though
there was nothing in prospect but the
reading of the dispositions made by wit
nesses favorable 10 Col. Breckiuridge
She was an early conner and spent the
minutes preceding the appearance of
Judge Bradley IN chatting earnestly with
her counsel She smiled occasionally
ana seemed in very good spirits. Miss
Pollard and her companion, Miss Ellis,
remained only about fifteen minutes, and
then left the court room.
The day opened without indications
of interesting proceedings, for the specta-
tors who have attended the trial have
found that documentary testimony, no
in dramatic effect with evidence given on
the stand.
DEPOSITION OF THE SISTER.
81 might as well go ahead with Sister
Augustine" said Mr.. StoA, when the court
had been called TO order. Col. Breckin-
ridge nodded, and as the plaintiffs coun-
sci made no objection Mr.. Stoll "went
ahead" Sister Augustine was connected
with St Joseph's Founding Asylum. near
Cincinnati, in 1885, at the time when Miss
Pollard claims she was confined there.
She testified that she knew only of one
Louise Wilson, who had been an inmate
Of the asylum, and she was there
when the deposition was given
she had never heard of Madeline
Pollard as an inmate. She did not
remember having seen any girl who was
at the asylum in May and June 1885,
who remained veiled, and who gave birth
to child, except one, and that woman
was not Madeline Pollard. This woman,
Sister Augustine said, had lived in Ken
lucky for a while, but was from the far
north and had family of children.
Calderon Carlisle and William H. John
son of the paiutitf's counsel had called at
the asylum in December 1892, with Miss
Pollard, said the depOnent, but she could
not remember Miss Pollard.
A BAD WOMAN
"Sister Agnes, " said Sister Augustine.
"told Miss Pollard that she was a bad
woman-she said it to her face. Miss
Pollard said she had been a bad girl, but
she was not bad woman" SISTER Ag-
nes, y" continued Sister Augustine, was
very sharp and very shrewd, and would
certainly have known Miss Pollard, had
she been an inmate of the asylum" " In
cidents connected with this visit of Miss
m gsvasiF Tod
by Sister Agnes in the deposition
read yesterday, were told by Sister
Augustine. Miss Pollard or her lawyers
had told the deponent that Miss Pollard
had been in the asylum under the name
of Louise Wilson, but there was no such
name on the books. She found the name
Of Miss Burgwynn as having been con
fined on May %, 1885, the day Miss Pollard
claims to have given birth to a child.
Miss BurRywnn, or Burgoyne, is one Of
the names Miss Pollard says she assumed
while pregnant in Cincinnati.
ANOTHER DISCREPANCY.
The entry in tie asylum books showed
that Miss Burgwynn had left the asylum
June 80, while Miss Pollard claims she
lett the asylum within two weeks after
her child was born. When Sister Au-
gustine read the name of Miss Burgwynn
during the visit of Miss Pollard in De-
cember, 1858, Miss Pollard said: so, yes
that is the name 1 had so many names I
cannot remember them all.'' Miss Pol
lard called the name Burgoyne," added
Sister Augustine.
do you believe that Madeline Pollard
is Miss Burgwynnl" was asked Of the de-
ponent,
No sir, I believe she is not. Miss
Bmgwynn was much smaller than Miss
/ Pollard"
During the visit of Miss Pollard to
the asylum, she asked where the child Of
Miss BurgwyQn was, and was told it
died in July, 1855. Then" said Sister
Augustine, she put her hands TO her
face and ran out of the room, / supposed
over the death of her child. p"
THE CHRISTMAS CARD.
Part Of the deposition was devoted TO
the finding of a Christmas card in one OF
the volumes of Irving which Miss Pol
lard claimed 10 baye presented to the
asylum library when she was there Sis
ter Augustine said she did not know
whether Miss Pollard could have slipped
the card in the book; nobody was
watching her The card was pro-
duced in court and shown to each
juryman This card Miss Pollard
claims, was given her by a Lexington
man. and that she placed it in one OF the
volumes, while confined at the asylum.
There was dispute about the admission
Of the card on the day the trial began,