The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-03-31
He WHINES ABOUT IT
Breckenridge Tells How Hs Vas Lid
AS.ray by Tha. Girl
IT'S A PRETTY TALE HE TELLS
Tho Unfortcnats Woman Listens to
Ii ana Weeps Piteously-The
Whlte-Halred Old Sinner Says
He Couldn't Help II.

WASHINGTON, March so.-Chapter two
Of the story of the Breckenridge case was
told to-day. II consumed the whole ses-
sion Of the court and is still incomplete.
From the second meeting at the Lexington
house OF assisnation kept by Sarah Goss
in 1854, down 10 the late spring OF 1888, the
recital wound its way along a path stormy
with pistols, illegitimate children, clan
destine interviews and secret marriage.
More of intrigue than one would suppose
could be contained in n life OF such a
mild-looking. elderly gentleman as the
one who leaned over the witness box and
told it all in matter-of-fact way,
occasionally dropping into Jest. There is
a wealth of detail in the defendants story;
he binds il about him with many en-
iraueous matters and throws in an atmos-
pherc of high life over il, weaving in II al
lusIons 10 many political events in which
ho has taken part, schools he has adj
dressed and banquets 10 which he has
been called as all honored guest.
Ills examination by Buttcrworth began
by the exhibition OF n workbasket which
belonged 10 his former wife, which Miss
Pollard asserted lac gave 10 her after his
wife's death. Brcckinridge denied abso-
lutcly that he gave il her or ever knew she
had ii till the trial opened. The c!rcum-
stances of their first visit to the house OF
Sarah Goss. colorcd assignation house
keeper, Lexington, was then taken up.
Witness said he met her on the train TO
Lexington and an arrangement was mado
to meet at the house mentioned that even.
I ing. They won't there, but could not get
in. Finally 1t was arranged that she
should wait awhile for Sarah's return.
while Breckinridge should go home, re-
Turning later, and II tie keeper OF tho
house returned in reasonable length of
| time she would find plaintiff there. llo re-
turned from taking supper with his family
and found her there. She made no re-
sisiance or protcstation against what was
done there, carrying out the arrangement
made on the train. lie left her there. as
she did not want TO take the risk OF being
, discovered coming out, with the under
standing that she would slip out during
the course of the day, il n favorable OPP
portunity offered; if not, she would
he there tho next night. He re-
turned the next night and found her still
there. He remained till 10 p. M. Every
thing in her appearance and conduct In
dicated that sho was fully developed
young woman, experienced in the rola-
lions of the sexes. Nothing was ever
said then or until the filing of the suit
about his having seduced her, physically
or otherwise. The meeting at Sarah
Goss' was Aug. ., and he did not sec her
again till the next October at the Sayre
institute. Lexington. He declared If she
received anyone in her room there at
night il was not he. While Miss Pollard
was absent from Lexington in the
| spring oil 1885, when she said her FIRST
child was born, witness declared that he
had no knowledge of her whereabouts
and no communication with her. He
further denied having written tho alleged
letters 10 Rhodes and Miss Pollard's
mother about this time.
Brecknridgo then, in response TO fur
| thcr questions, detailed the story of his
relations with the plaintiff, declaring they
had frequently been interrupted for
months at n time. once for year. lie
told OF n series of visits to the assignation
house in Cincinnati. At Sarah Goss'
house and elsewhere. he said, he had paid
| the expenses and gave the plaintiff money.
| The first time no was ever informed by
| the plaintiff that she was pregnant by him
was in the summer of 1ss7; the first time
he ever heard OF her pregnancy he called
her 10 Cincinnati in the fall of 1892 She
afterwards said the pregnancy OF 1891 re-
| suited in q legitimate miscarriage IN her
| mothers house, with her mothers know
ledge.
During this evidence Miss Pollard's
| friends had difficulty in keeping her si-
! lent.
| lie denied that il was on account OF h is
| opportunities that she came To Washing
ton. and declared that she came in spite
OF his efforts TO dlssuade her, pointing out
| the danger to both from such q course.
In reply TO n question as TO the truth OF
| the statement by Miss Pollard that he had
| on two occasions after proiestations OF
love promised to marry her, Breckenridge
SAID: There is moi n scintilla of truth in
| that statemeni; not shred. Under no
circumstances, at no time, was there
such a statement and the plaintiff never
alluded to the possibility OF il. Before the
death of my wife no solitary word that
could be distorted into such n thing was
ever uttered"
lie further declared that she
never told him she gave
birth 10 living child. II she had II would
have given him an excuse for breaking Oft
| the relations. for considering the time OF
those relations it was impossible that the
child could have been his. From Novem-
ber. 1885, TO July, lss9. there were no i'm
proper relations between them. They
we're resumed after that, during the time
she was in the Academy Of the Visitation.
He paid her expenses even when not sIs-
tanning those relations, recognizing the
danger Of a scandal in view Of her temper
and disposition. "Somc of oGr interview $
were more excessively UNPLEASANT than
any words can describe. She would come
to me ut the capitol in my committee
room, declare she was not going TO leave
she said she was going 10 have the
support owing TO her. | suppose
M times became excessively
angry and said things hard and bitter.
knew the only alternative was submission
or the destruction of The wives whose lives
depended on me and, let IL 20 on, hoping
tomorrow wou!d bring a solution OF tho
problem. would tell her in every way
from the gentle TO the most severe that