The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-30

lot NUlELEl WIN MISS EallLS, OF Ant house
Of Mercy.
Col. Breckiuridge did not allow the
plaintiffs entrance 20 interrupt him
Continuing he said he had taken a law
course in Paris and elsewhere, and at one
time was member of Gen. Ben amin
+. Buffers law firm Detailing bispuhlic
duties. he said ne had been a member OF
the Lexington school board and the attor-
ney for the county Of Fayette and a con-
gresham. In one form or another he
had been connected with educational in
stitutious He had been a professor in
the Kentucky University
DO you know the plaintiff" asked Mai
Butterworth.
Il do
THEIR FIRST MEETING.
"When and where did you first see
herr"
i can't recall the month, but ] should
say in the latter part of April, 1854.
met her on the train going TO Lexington
from COvinEton.
state about that meeting
Whenever it was, it was a cool morn
ing and ] had my overcoat. went to get
IL and saw the plaintiff sitting near the
door. She bowed in perfectly proper
manner, and l stopped. / said Young
people grow Up so rapidly nova
days that l cannot remember YOU
She said: But / know YOU.
am Madeline Breckenridge Pollard. >
She said: My father was such an ad-
mirer Of John G. Breckinrikge that be
put Breckenridge in my name. II / had
been a boy he would have called me
John
she said she knew Dr. Dudley in Lex
tngtOn, whom / knew I asked her where
she was going and she said TO Frankfort
to sec her sister, who was i'll. We chat
ted a few minutes, and said / hoped her
sister would be better, and then passed
out Of the car. "
TIE SECOND MEETING.
GLOW did you meet her again"
"She sent me q letter telling ne to
come to see her about legal
matter l do not know where that
letter is, but with an unaided
memory / should say ] kept il. as was my
habit, but it has been searched for by my
son and my partner, Mr. Shelby, without
success
did you write to her."
Eyes, ! wrote to her. and have very
distinct recollection that / told her if she
would write the nature of the business, or
would call on me If she were in Kentucky,
would be glad to help her
''Did you receive any other letter from
herr"
yes
WAS it this one" said Mai Butter
worth, handing the defendant the alleged
forged note. July 20 1854.
judge Wilson Immediately objected to
having this writing placed in evidence
and Mai. ButterworCh passed it over
for the time being.
Col Breckenridge said the next time
he saw Miss Pollard was at Wesleyan
University in Cincinnati. He had gone
TO Covington on law business and re
membered this letter while there, so he
went across the river to see the writer
IIn nrf YIg, hfc Mic ND
came down almost instantly and said
Il suppose you were surprised to receive
such letter from a schOolglrlH'
WORSE THAN A DIVORCE CASE.
Il said laughingly," said the witness
"that I supposed that she had somewhat
exaggerated things when she thought the
latter was worse than a divorce case. "
This is a quotation from the alleged
forged letter
Mai Butterworth then made an appeal
to the judge TO admit the dubious letter
as evidence He contended that it was
similar in penmanship, according to the
testimony OF eXper S, 70 the ad-
mitted writing of the plaintiff, and
he quoted decision of the
United States supreme court to show
that writings identified with other writ
ings by experts. as this had been. were
clearly entitled to admission as evidence,
and had been so admitted. Maj. Butter
worth said the defense proposed TO offer
this writing that the Jury might examine
ana determine whether the plaintiff wrote
1t or not.
BREcKINRIDGE SHOWS THE STRAIN.
Col. Breckenridge sat down during this
argument and listened intenty. AS he
sat tn re in the witness stand he looked
older than he did when the trial began.
His white hair, mouse-cOlored at the end,
and his white mustaChe and short white
beard made him a picturesque figure He
was cool and dignitied
Judge Wilson argued against the ad-
mission Of the letter as evidence and
threw ridicule upon the expert testi-
mony.
THE LETTER ADMITTED.
Judge Bradley decided to admit the
letter to evidence on the statement of the
defendant that he had received it and
had mentioned it to the plaintiff with
out contradiction or correction on her
part, and also on the testimony of the ex-
perts. He would have admitted it, he
said on the testimony of the experts
alone. The comparison of the dis
puted letter and the letters ac-
by Miss Pollard might be made
by the jury. 1t seemed TO him that all
this controversy was more a shadow than
substance, because this letter had been
plbhshed IN the newspapers and had
been probably READ by the jury. News
plper enterprise was a very good thing.
bat it was sometimes carried too far
Tat was en- erprise with a ven
&c nee. Anywhere else it would be
punished as contempt of court.
1t was contempt OF court committed
VAIN the very precincts Of the court
where the copy was made. He did not
think that the newspaper men who Sc
cured that letter knew they were doing
harm, but it was an act OF gross impropri-
ETY., and he hoped IL would nos be repeated.
If it were he would punish the
offender. Its publication might cause the
case TO be decided one way or the other
and the wrong thus done could not he
righted. Mai. ButLerworth then read the
disputed letter as hereto ore published.
TIE AGREEMENT WITH RHODES.
Col Breckenridge resumed his inter
rupted story of his meeting with Miss
Pollard at Wesleyan College: Il was
standing in d window when she came in.
She shook hands and said she supposed
she had rather astonished me by her state
nent OF the gravity of the case. Isaid
goklngly that ! presumed it was not so
grave as a divorce suit We sat
Gown near Il window. looking out
INTO the streets, she on 4 divan and on a
chair She then told me the circum-