The morning news., 1894-04-12

anu sue COuIeSSSu loNe Tor AleCk Julien
and Prof. Obermeyer. Did she not have
experienced" he asked
BUTTERwoRTH AS AN ACTOR.
Taking up the letter dated July 20,
1885, inviting Col. Breckenridge to call on
Miss Pollard at Wesleyan college, which
the plaintiff pronounced a forgery Mai.
ButterwOrth criticised the counsel for
the plaintiff for trying to hold up the de-
fendant as a blackleg a periurer. n
forger, in the face of all the evidence
that she wrote the letter. Shaking his
fist at Col Breckenridge, and rushing at
him with Il we'll simulated ferocity of
countenance and manner, he almost
shouted: ITS either the letter of Made
line Pollard or you're guilty Of forgery
You've diSgraced your family your tradi-
tions and your boy who sits BY your side,
or else that woman lied"
Contrasting the claim of Miss Pollard
that she was an innocent girl when she
met Col. Breckenridge with her own tes-
timony, and the letters she had written,
Mai. Butterworth said that if she were
all she said she was then there
was some excuse for bringing the suit.
If what she said is true, he said, with
eyes turned upward and hands high above
his head, then l am in favor of congress
Offering a premium TO every woman for
pulling down a glittering star in the polit-
ical or any other tirmament"
THE MEETING AT WESLEYAN.
Without attempting to disguise his
irony he pictured Miss Pollard as she had
made herself appear at the meeting with
the defendant at Wesleyan college. poor,
tiuttering little creature, who tried and
tried to tell this nan of her trouble with
Rhodes, and was laughingly diverted and
made TO tell Of herself and to listen to
batteries. Maj. Butterworth maintained
that II Miss Pollard had been all she
claimed, and if Col Breckenridge had
made wrongful advances, he would have
been repulsed in way that would have
kept him from further conduct of that
sort
There is that about a virtuous
woman, he cried, (which chills every
germ of lascivious approach"
LAS for the carriage ride that night,
If she were virtuous woman. at the first
approach Of lasciviousness on his part,
she would have cried (and Mai. Butter
worth made rush at the white-haired
defendant and shook his fist in his face,
shouting his words in tones that could
have been heard block Take me back,
you leper;' you would not have gone
twenty feet with her. he shouted, ad-
dressing the defendant.
II don't care anything about your
landishments-she would have run away
from you-gone to her mother-to some
body for protection-and so would every
virtuous woman repulse such lecherous
advances"
THE PRIcKING PIN OF CONSCIENCE.
Then Mai. Butterworth pictured the
little pricking pin of conscience that we
may forget in the moment of temptation,
but which comes back after we have had
good nights sleep with terrible force
and keeps us straight Miss Pollard had
said that after the defendant had at
tempted to take advantage of her one
night and she had resisted, she went in
nocentlg TO him the next day. And If she
were Yirtuous, he asked, could she
have done that without that pulling back
OF conscience2 In the course ofhis further
argument Mai. Butterworth compared
the plaintiff to Delilah and Col. Breckin-
ridge TO Samson. She got him in her
power and led him by single hair and
when she has shorn him of his locks she
cried, Sampson, the Philistines are upon
you" and then he pulled down the temple
of his fame and accomplished his ruin. y
In all the years of the liaison, he said,
there had not been memento, a ring,
anything given her as mark Of
affection save and except the little
willow basket which had been the dead
wife's. And she comes here for no other
purpose than to make his crime more hor-
rible, saying he brought it to her with
these words Madeline, this was Issa's;
she cared for it and l want you to have
it My God. Can 1t be that this man
can be monster enough TO drag in The
name of his dead wife. to bring q message
from her grave to this woman-his mis-
tress?n
MORE THAN HE COTT,D RE GrrTryTy OF
Whatever William C. P. Breckenridge
may be guilty of whatever his shortcom-
ings, he could not be guilty of insulting
the memory of that dead wife, with her
grave clothes still clinginR to her dead
form. And this woman tells how, in that
carriage ride when he was trying to Sc
duce her. he spoke of his dead wife (his
first wife) and his dead little boy, and
she hauls them like q ghoul from the
grave TO parade them before the world,
and every decent woman cries, My God,
that can't be So.
II do not condone the shortcomings of
this gray haired man, do not seek to ex-
tenuate his fault, but is he the monster
she has PAINTED him} She tells US that she
gave up her child after holding 1t in her
arms two hours. Did ever woman live
who would do that? Neverl No woman
would let her child be taken from her
breast, but would pull back her child as
il from the gates of hell" "
The fervor and intensity displayed by
Mai B Butterworth at this point was felt
by the jurors and spectators. The Ohio
lawyer marched back and forth, shouting
and gesticulating and illustrating every
idea by appropriate gestures. Mai. But
terworth contended that the description
given by Louise Wilson" miss Pollard)
of the man who seduced her fitted
old man Rhodes, and that he was the
father of her child. He had just reached
this point at $40 o'clock, when he asked
Judge Bradley TO adjourn the court He
was exhausted, he said, and Judge Brad
ley readily granted him the courtesy he
had extended to Messrs. Carlisle and
Thompson.