The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-03
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a boy came 10 tho hotel and said Miss
Pollard wanted to 500 him, with u mca.
sage requesting that ho take hcr to
Mrs. BIaGkburn's, where she wanted to
stay all night. lle took her to Mrs.
Blackburn's house. Monday shc came
again 10 tho hotel and presented to him
an additional schedule for clothing.
she wanted II little moro money to
mako preparations to go away.
Tho next day she Bcnt him Il noto and
they took lunch At tho Shorcllam. They
talked again OF the trip to New York
and Gllc told him the name Of the phys
lean IN whose care she was 10 pat her.
sell, and witness told her that this doc.
tor was u comradc OF his In the war.
SAW Mus. BLACKBURN.
Tho next day after this tho plaintiff
came to sec him again and on the night
OF that day they saw Mira. blackburn,
who, after hearing their explanation,
said s!ic would wash her hands Of tho
whole matter. Mrs. Blackburn m.
proved Of the agreement for the plain
TIL TO 90 to New York. The following
day tho plaintiff caiI6 TO the hotel and
VI iNtlDI clhNtN " lNtll us
TO Il further conference which it was
proposed should DO held with, Major
Moore prior to her going away. IA he
described how he had waived her oil
Colonel BrGckinridge gesticulatcd very
lmprcssivoly with both hands aHh OK.
planned the whole interview in puutO-
mime. There was q tragic infection to
his tones rs ho closed tho account OF tho
visit to Major Nloorc's with Then /
left her!" There was u constant %reitera-
ton in tho defendants deuials. lie
would frame them in every possible
form OF ncgatiOn OF TING, place and
manner.
Containing the description Of tho
second visit TO tho major, he said: "WO
agreed to say that she was going TO
New York 10 have T. child aud that |
was the author OF her pregnancy. We
agreed on all but one point. She
insisted, crying several times, that |
should tell Major Moore. l was the only
man who lind ever been Intimate with
her. declined to do that. Said | had
put myself in THO power Of her and
Major Moore already and | would re-
fuse 10 say to any man that | had &C.
duced her. Then she said she would
not go. As she turned her jacke:back
l saw the CLEAN OF a pistol in her
bosom. l said: you arc sitting close
to me- and shc said I will use that on
myself il | do anybody"
Then describing tho scene Mt tho Office
oil the cnief OF police where tlloy sat on
the sofa he said: "Shc seemed 10
be dissatisfied with tho form in which
l made the statement. She took ont
the pistol and looked at it. | said:
You had better let Major Moore take
that and make inc 4 Christmas nresent
OF it. Then I said that nobody could
say that | had seducel her, because the
fret night | saw her l took liberties
with her and the second night | slept
with her"
The account OF this interview in
Major Moore's office differed from the
version OF it given by that officer and
the plaintiff. Continuing his recital re-
garding tho arrangements Tor Miss Pol
lard's visit to New York for confinG.
ment, Colonel Breckenridge said: "Shc
only wanted to arrive there with $40 in
her pocket because she WAS afraid ii she
had more she would come back to
Washington. She was to stop ut No. !
T~hirty-iirst street, where she would
have good care. She was TO study
painting on china or in water colors
when her strength would enable her TO
and to continue her studies in English
literature.
THOUGHT IT WAS SETTLED.
lie said: Il considered the problem
settled, so far as Washington was con.
cerned. so far as Mrs. Blackburn was
concerned, SO far as our relations were
concerned. Tho only thing loft open
was regarding the child. l said to her
that il it was my child, as l only parti-
ally belieyed it was. | wanted TO educate
it, to tukc care OF it, to give it every
chance possible for o child born out OF
wedlock, and in the meantime abe was
to have every caro- and tenderness. We
parted without anger and on this un.
derstandlng."
Speaking OF tho reasons for leaving
Washington the last Of May, Colonel
breckenridge said thew were not con.
nected with the caie but were most in.
supperab!o reasons, relating to his
younger son who attended Washington
and Lee university, and WAS in great
difficulties. lie took the dispatches
which he had sent Miss Pollard during
this trip and read them with great clio.
cutionary effect. Tho burden OF most
OF them. which have been already pub
lishnd, was that she should make he:.
seli comfortable. That was Just what
l moant," he commented; '!ha: she
should make herself ns comfortable as
possible. Nothing more; nothing less"
Two dispatches received in Coving-
ton he said he suspected were from the
plaintiff, with the name OF her land
lady rs n blind. Miss Pollard had gone
10 New York on the 18th OF May and
returned on the 10Th. After a~rrivilg
in Lexington he received 4 telegram TO
tho effect that Miss Pollard was coming
there. He returned Il message, the
principal part OF which was, "Wait. it
will come" referring. he declared, to
money. This correspondence was re.
viewed ut length.
Hn seemed to DO amused when no
spoke OF a Cincinnati paper sent bv his
son containing "an announcement OF
the engagement between the plaintiff
and myself"
Injecting somebody on tho street in
Lexington they spoke of it," he went
on, "and denied that such Il marriage
was possible"
did you," asked Mr.. Buttorwor,h,
"have any criminal relations with tho
plaintiff after the 10Th OF April, 1892"
(This is tho date on which tho defend.
ant was secretly married to Mrs. Wing.)