The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-19

friend Wessie Brown to whom wrote the
letter. interjected Miss Pollard.
Have you corrected all the errors in this
letters" asked Mr.. Butterworth, when he
concluded the reading.
Miss Pollard shook her bowed head and
sighed. Her answer was not understood.
THE FAIR PLAINTIFF IN TEARS.
Miss Pollard in the letter had made fire.
quent reference to the phrenologist, such
handsome man, and how his praise caused
her aunt to dislike her. "Was that trueT
he asked.
81 don't-don't know" said the plaintiff
with an effort. tears starting in her eyes.
Don't you remember itF'
"Oh, Mr.. Butterworth, / have no recolec-
tion of it.n
Miss Pollard was crying now, and soc had
difficulty in answering.
'It was only a fancy thenw
sYou said that, Mr.. Butterworth, did
not. l haven't any recollection of it; it
might have been so." This was also said
with an effort that made Miss Pollard look,
and speak pathetically. Mr.. Butterworth
persisted until, .'Oh, Mr.. Butterworth, this
collections, cried Miss Pollard, putting her
handkerchief to her eyes.
s'It's hard for me too,n said Mr.. Butter
worth, but he did not perfist.
Continuing on this line of cross examina-
ton, Mr.. Butterworth asked about what
answers on this subject Saturday and he
wanted to know particularly about whether
she had read any impure books
AN ATMOSPHERE OF PURITY,
Here Judge Wilson, of Miss Pollards
counsel, interfered and said the questions be-
ing put were SO far remote from the main
question involved that he felt called on to
ask discontinuance of them, and a return
to matters brought out by the examination
in chief.
81 have just one word to say,' said Major
Butterworth sThis plaintiff has in every
possible way put forward the claim of the
purity of her character. She has surrounded
herself with an atmosphere of purity It's
the matter, the soul of this issue" Mr..
Butterworth said other things in the same
line and was finally asked by Justice Bradley
whether he had concluded this line.
Major Butterworth said he had; but the
next question was so much like the others
that Judge Wilson arose and protested.
In the course of his remarks he said some-
thing about young girls character depend
ing on the individual in whose way she
might have been placed. He made some
reference to ''That individual having sill
very tongue, and the audience laughed.
Judge Bradley threatened to clear the
court room if such demonstration hap
pened again.
Mr.. B1tterworth asked Miss Pollard if she
knew certain persons-Dr. Green M. Stout,
Aleck Julian and others in Bridgeport. She
said she did not know any of them except
Aleck Julian and G. B. Roach Julian, she
said was the man she referred to in tine
Wessie Brown letter as "My blind sweet
heart, my modern Barnabas."
He was a school teacher and she liked him
very much.
LIKED HER SISTER.
s.But he didn't like me" said Miss Pollard,
in explanation, and with just note of sur
prise in her voice. s'He liked my sister very
much. liked him. He didn't like me-"
Julian is the witness who made the deposi-
tion that he and Miss Pollard went through
the form OF a mock marriage and that,
she suggested, being intoxicated at the time,
that it was customary for married people to
go to bed together.
do you recollect going through the form
of marriage with Mr.. Ju1ianw was Mr..
Butterworth's next question.
mot the slightest on earth, Mr.. Butter
worth,n said Miss Pollard, earnestly. 81
have not the slightest recollection of it."
Miss Pollard was asked to describe visit
to the house of Justice of the Peace at
Bridgeport, KY, with Aleck Julian.
Miss Pollard did recollect; she sai@she
went there one Christmas day, while visiting
her uncle George, at Bridgeport. There
was quite party there.
'Of course l have seen these references in
the papers to a mock marriage at Squire
Kinsey's house, said Miss Pollard, 'sbut l
assure you know nothing of it. 1t could
not have happened, for my uncle George was
there, and uncle George was dreadfully
daughters were there. 1t could not have
happened. / have no recollection of it."
JULIAN NEVER CARESSED HER.
"Did Mr.. Julian ever make love to you,
ever caress youg' asked Mr.. Butterworth
aNo, he did not dare" said Miss Pollard,
L.. %4<~,
Julian was more afraid of my uncle than of
any other mamie was dreadfully afraid of
him.
Miss Pollard said her visit to Squire Kin
sey's was ON invitation from the
Squire to her uncle and his family,
including herself, to come there and drink
egg-nogg. They went there early Christ
mas morning. She drank too much egg
nogg and it made her feel sick, so she went
home. Julian was there, but she persisted
in her statement that there had been no
mock marriage with him.
While Miss Pollard was giving this part of
her testimony Elijah A. Morse of Massa-
chusetts entered the court room and took his
seat with Colonel Breckinridge's counsel.
Major Butterworth read a letter signed by
Miss Pollard, and addressed to Owen Robin
son, in which she said, "To forgive is to be
divine, and am determined to be divine for
once"
81 am willing to confess that am guilty
of very unmaidenly bit of conduct" said
the letter with reference to sending valen-
tine.
"YoU NAUGHTY LADDIE."
SIT was silly the writer acknowledged
She also asked if Robinson thought she
was grieving because Mr.. Roach had taken
to himself the woman of his choice, and
said she was just recovering from
an attack of pneumonia. Robinson was
called "You naughty laddie." His picture
was the thing she wanted most in the world,
she said She asked him to burn all her let
letters, and wanted to know if it were true
that he and some young lady were going to
site the knot" This letter was dated Shick-
away, near Lexington, in March of 1888,
and Miss Pollard acknowledged the author
ship.
A LOCK OF HAIR.
Mr. Butterworth also read another letter,
dated September, 1888, to Owen Robinson,
beginning :-'' Friend Owen y and in this Miss
Pollard referred to the good time they had
together and dropped into poetry to
emphasize the pleasures of memory. One of
her poetical quotations was Moore's famous
verse, ssYou may break, you may shatter
the vase if you will, but the scent of the
rose will hang round it still. .
There was nothing loverlike in this note,
except lock of hair enclosed in it, Miss
Pollard inspected this and said it didn't look
like her hair was at the time.
ssWe're good friends, aren't we, Owenw
was one of the expressions in the letter. The
name ''Valoria" was put in place Of s'Vin-