Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-04-05
PAID ALL THE BILLS.
COL. BRECKINRIDGE CONTINUES
HIS TESTIMONY.
He Said That He Paid Bills 1T Assis-
nation Houses and Gave Miss Po4A
lard MOney-The Plaintiff Makes =
Scene Ina Court and IL Rebuked.

Washington, March 31.-Therc was an
audience awaiting the second appearance
OF Col. Breckenridge on the witness stand
whose interest in him and what lie woult,S>
nave to shy was more intense than that
OF any of the audiences he had ever
faced before. Foremost in it sat the
plaintiff and her elderly companion, Mrs.
Ellis; back of them in double rows, the
LAWYERS in the case and also Desha
Breckenridge, the son to whom the de-
PENDANT had referred in affectionate terms
Willie detailing the members of his family
yesterday. Further beyond were two
long rows Of newspaper men and sketch
ers waiting to transfer to paper the diff
ferent attitude of the congressman wit
LESS, and then the ranks of spectators,
most of them members of the bar. No
time was lost in sending Col. Breckin-
ridge to the stand. He began by testi-
flying that he had often given and sent
Miss Pollard money.
When Col. Breckenridge said Mr..
Rhodes told him he had been intimate
with Miss Pollard, the plaintiff burst out
crying and said: ''That is lie. Why
can't he tell the truth about some
things?" She was reproved by the
judge.
'"The plaintiff has said that on two oc-
casions, after protestations of love, you
said you would marry her if it was posi-
ble," the lawyer queried.
There is not scintilla of truth in
that statement-not shred. Under no
circumstances, at no time was there such
a statement. The plaintiff never alluded
to the possibility of it. Before the death
OF my wife there was not solitary word
that could be distorted into such a thing"
He related how he went to Mrs. Guess
designation house and other places with
the plaintiff, paid the bills and often gave
Miss Pollard money. He continued:
From November, 1885, to July, 1887,
there were no improper relations between
us, although was supporting her. The
ENHANCEMENT really began when she
csme to Washington against my will. I
frequently said to her as earnestly as 1
knew how, that the relations between us
could only result in public scandal and
perhaps destruction of us both; that her
character, her lack of self-control, her
temper was such that some day there
must come an exposure. urged her
to go anywhere, where she could study,
Offering to pay her expenses and saying
the burden could be no greater on me
than it was. Several tin es l thought she
had agreed to 60, once to Cambridge.
Some of our interviews were more ex-
cessively unpleasant than any words can
describe, She would come to me at the
capitol at my committee room; declare
that she was not going to leave; that she
was going to have the support owing to
her. suppose at times, being excessive
" angry, I said things that were hard
and bitter. knew that the only al
tentative was submission or the destruc-
ton of the lives of those dependent on
me, and let it go on, hoping that to-mor-
row would bring solution Of the prob
lem
Mr.. Breckenridge related how the
plaintiff had threatened to shoot him and
herself. He finally consented to permit
ting Miss Pollard to tell Mrs. Blackburn
that they We're engaged. with the under
standing that the marriage was never to
take place. This, he said was done to
prevent scandal and to keep Miss Pol
lard from carrying out her threat of
killing him. He admitted the secret mar
riege to Mrs. Wing, but denied that he
promised, in the presence of Maj. Moore,
to marry Mise Pollard.