The evening world., 1894-04-06
SIDES CLOSED.
Ballard Case vii Go to the Jury
Next Week.
! ,ur Lawyers Will Take Part in the
%Summing-Up
l,,,iutiT Enters Many Denials in
Rebuttal To-Day.
nv Associated Press

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WASHINGTON, April 6.-Fewer spec
ators were in the court this morning,
,,.hcr m, nth week of the Breckenridge
breach If promise case began. than on
onv other day Of the trial.
After some delay DIR. Mary Parsons,
the friend Of Miss Pollard, was pro-
duced as the first witness of the day
for the %paintif, in rehuttai.
After some legal spa rring DIR. Parsons
was allowed to testify that she had
ofnciated at the birth of the plaintiffs
child in February, 1888, had taken the
! child to the Founding Asylum herself
IN a cab, accompanied by a colored
! woman, Mary Mckenzie, h carried
the baby into the asylum while she
ODr. Parsons remained outside in the
cab.
The matter of the slip bearing the
baby's name being REQUIRED to. Judge
BRADLEY said that since the defense had
had the benefit of all the entries in the
| record concerning the child there seemed
! 10 be no improperly in permitting the
| admission OF testimony regarding the
slip. Dr. Parsons asserted that the
paper was in her handwriting, and was
| th6 Identical one which had been pinned
ON the Child's clothing.
In the course of the cross-eXamination
! Attorney Shelby read the slip: PLEASE
name my baby Dietz Downing
Us Mary Mckenzie now in Gourt?'
bert the stand. she is," the doctor an
SEVERED, and n colored woman If middle
ge. wrapped in a black shawl. took the
stand and testified in confederation Of
he doctor.
She said the chlld's mother called her,
elf Mrs. Hall. Said the lawyer: Did
fir. Hall ever come to visit Mrs. Hall?'
so she claimed"
'Jtil Won ever see himV'
Not till to-day. 1 recognize him by
he child. RESPONDED, the colored m
o0king directly at the g~ray-haircd Con-
FRESHMAN, who sat before her.
The Washington irving books and the
Christmas card alleged to have been
found in one OF them were brought in
gain at this point. Lawyer Carlisle
Nmself took the stand, and being sworn
id:
II am able to swear that from the
time l took that book from the book
mas card. no other hand but mine and
that of Sister Agnes touched it. l was
looking for handwriting in the book, or
come other marks of Identification.
| While I was handling It, l found be
&tween the leaves this Christmas card,
which did not have it's edges turned up
writing which you have seen: "Co,npli-
ments of w. S. D. There was also the
Invisible net and the pressed rose leaves.
when l found them my client was
lifting in an opposite corner of the room.
md my colleague, Mr.. %lohnson, was
pine distance away. No one but myself
build have put those things between the
kaves of the book when our party was
kere, and say to YOU, gentlemen. on
" oath, that I did not do it"
Miss Pollard herself was called to the
pair a little later for the fourth time.
pc denied the mock marriage story
pd the incident of the SO bill, alleged
breckenridge to have followed the
ret carriage ride.
e. ,r-l, ,lafo,Iart hoe eu,or-, chat on that
Iening he put a SO bill in you hand
that true?" asked Mr.. Carlisle.
"That Is as false a statement as even
ever made He. could not have done
No man could have put a $40 bill in
v hand" said the plaintiff in an ex-
Miss Pollard denied knowing Lena Sin
teton, and said the whole testimony
bout her being in a disreputable house
/ Lexington in 1s77-7s was false. She
ad never seen nor heard of Brandt
hd Kaufman tn she saw them in court
Witness said she did not sugges Sarah
uess's house to defendant as a meet
e place.
|hrrespondcd with her In 1856 when she
kas in Lexington and he in Washington
he started: "I never was separated
line years that I was in his life. but
Ehen she was stopped by the chorus of
objections from the defense.
"He did write those letters to me adj
Pressed My Dear Sister Louise" she
Continued. His letters were love let
hrs, such love letters as a man writes,
nd they made me think he cared more
bout me thar anybody in the world"
Prize testimony in the Pollard suit is
D w all in, both sides having closed this
t%ernoon. Arguments will begin Mon
". Calderon Carlisle opening for the
pintiff. Phil Thompson and Major But
worth will follow for the defense and
dge Wilson will close with an argu-
INT for the plaintiff.