Evening star., 1894-03-21

CoVtngton on business, and was compelled
TO remain over in Cincinnati on Saturday.
lie went to the Birney House, and while
there it occurred to him that he had re-
ceived this request from the young lady at
the wesleyan College, and having nothing
to do. he decided to go out to see ner, and
ne did SO on Friday, the 1st day of August.
As to Miss PoIiard's Age.
1t Is claimed by the plaintiff that she was
then young school girl of seventeen years
1t was claimed by her counsel that she
was then an ignorant and innocent country
girl. If there was any fact that would be
established beyond doubt 1t was that this
plaintiff was then twenty or twenty-one
Years of age. This would be established by
the testimony of disinterested witnesses
ior instance, the testimony Of DR. VIII
iams, who ofilciated in 1865 at the birth Of
tne next youngest sister. At that time this
plaintif was a little girl two or three years
old, running around the house. II would be
SHOWN mat she was born in 1862 instead of
lS'6 and that when Col. Breckinridge call
ed on her she was in the neighborhood of
twenty-one years of age.
Her Relations with Rodes
When he called there she came into the
parlor. saw him and explained the nature
Of her agreement with Mr. Rodes She also
In the course Of that conversation desired
Mr.. Breckinridge's cpir.on as to whether
Mr. Rodes could compel her to that mar
r1age-a strange question for girl without
experience to ask. She explained to him
that there was something more than that
and told him that out of her relations with
Mr Rodes had grown another fact and
told him that she had submitted her person
TO Mr.. Rode5. Col. Rreckinridge advised
her to carry out her ARRANGEMENT with Mr.
Rodes. In the course of the conversation
she suGgested-not he-that there was n
musical entertainment somewhere that
night, and they might go. In consequence
OF this he called there that evening Mr.
Shelby said he was authorized to state that
CHI Il
detailed about the closed carriage Also
that he practiced no deception upon the
principal of the college as to being an old
friend: that he was told no permission was
necessary, as she was a summer boarder
1t was by her suggestion that they aid not
go to the concert but went for a drive in
stead.
That First Drive.
In the course of the drive that night, and
without the use of seductive means by him.
and In a manner that might occur when a
woman was not averse to such relations
Illicit relations were established between
them. This was a matter in which she
fully acceded. and no persuasion was
needed. There were no protestations on he.
part. He denied that the drive was nro
tracted till midnight; they returned home
about 10 O'Clock. He denied that any Ar
rangement was made to meet her the fol-
lowing day In the public library, or that he
took her to a disreDutable house I'm Gin
ctnnat. He made no arrangement with her
to, go to Lexington, and sent no such tel
egram as had been testified to- When he
got upon the train he saw he plantiR on
the train. and in the course of that Journey
it was arranged that she would meet him
In Lexington that night
As to Sarah Guests House.
He asked her where, and she herself sul-
gested Sarah Guests house. He asked her
what she knew of the house and she said
she knew the location of the place Sarah
Guests testimony that he had on the nrs
vlous day arranged with her about the
coming of this young woman would be en-
phatically denied. On that Friday night he
was In Cincinnati. and 1t was not till Sat
urday night he went to her house with this
girl. Far from overcoming her will in The
matter, this was, as such matters too often
are. the result of mutual Arrangement.
After Tint Meeting.
After that meeting at Sarah Guests
Col Breckinridge never at any time at
tempted to induce her to come to Lexington.
Mr. Rodes, 1T would appear, had become
behindhand in meeting her bills and was
being pressed to pay them. They would
contend that when she left Cincinnati and
came to Lexington il was in pursuance of
an arrangement of her own or with Rodes
with which Col. Breckinridge had nothing
to do and of which he knew nothing. The
intimate relations between the defendant
and the plaintiff continued for several
months at Lexington. The defendant never
met her. testified. at Miss Hoyt's. Their
meetings We're at Sarah Guests. She left
Lexington in February 1885,. The defend
ant did not know of her departure, he did
not know she had gone to Cincinnati; nor
did he fix up the letters sent to her mother
and TO Rodes; that statement they would
contend was without the shadow of truth.
Col Breckenridge did not see her again un-
til she reappeared in Lexington the follow
ing fall or summer
The Alleged First Child.
I,
of child in the founding asylum N Gin
cinnati they would show was not true. The
Jury had heard the testimony of one OF the
witnesses on whom they expected to rely
that was DR.. Street, now Mrs Logan.
Mr.. Shelby then reviewed briefly Mrs. Lo-
gan's testimony, to show that when the
plaintiff attempted to introduce herself to
Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Logan did not recognize
her a person upon whom she had at
tended. When she went to the room where
Mrs. Logan was she had introduced herself
not as Miss Bergwynn or Miss BurgOyne
but as Louise Wilson. They would show by
Sister Agnes of the hospital that when this
plaintiff went there to identify herself as a
patient who was there in 1885 she had at
tempted to get the sisters to recognize her
as one who had been there under the lame
of Louise Wilson.
The sister Did Not Recognize Her.
But no one could remember her or could