The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-20
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mouse. lie took me 10 Sarah Guest So
did he explain to you that it was an
assignatiOn house before he ran home TO
account for himself"
No, sir, he did not"
who met you at the door Of this
housel"
Sarah"
"Was anything said there in the half
hour before Mr.. Breckenridge went home
about the character of the house2n
her SURRENDER.
Il only know" said Miss Pollard be-
tween her teeth, chat during that half
hour / gave myself heart and soul and
body and life to that man"
girl25
Eyes, I was''
Did you have any fears for the future
at the time2"
mo, people usually don't on such occas-
ions. Mr.. Butterworth.N
" did not you know this was wrOng2N
"Yes, but Mr. Breckenridge is such a
man that he can make it all seem right to
live in that way"
Did you not know he was married."
eyes, sadly, he told me that
And you loved himHn
81 loved him then with all my heart
and soul-every word Of his was a re-
hgiOn TO me-and he has brought me all
this misery, he has ruined my life for
me-
Miss Pollard s voice had a tremble in it
during all this examination, but at her
last words she broke down and her answer
was interspersed with half formed sobs.
HER RETURN To LEXINGTON.
Miss Pollard told of her return to Lex
ington to attend Sayre Institute at Mr.
breckenridge 5 suggestion, and said that
Rhodes paid for her tuition and Mr.
yfs,ts e.
lard said no one knew that Mr.. Breckin-
ridge was paying her board, he arranged
matters so very discreetly.
Did Mr. Rhodes know anything about
your relations with Mr. BreckinridgeW
asked Mr. Butterworth
Indeed he did not" exclaimed Miss
Pollard, "Or Mr.. Breckenridge would be
dead"
Then Mr. Butterworth asked If, while
Miss Pollard was being kept by Col.
Breckinridge she was engaged to Ros-
ell, and had the contingent contract of
marriage with Mr.. RhOnes.
Yes, " was the answer, 'as bad as it
sounds, that was just the condition"
RE-sKETCHED HER LIFE.
Miss Pollard rapidly sketched her life
in response TO Mr.. Butterworth, while in
Cincinnati when her first baby was born
in 1885. Mr. Butterworth asked ques-
JlOlAS eNlltuIlS llUbuQGu 10 THROW uOuOD
on Miss PoIlard's claim that she had been
to St. Joseph's asylum. He asked if one
of the sisters at the asylum had not ven
tured to tell her she was not telling the
truth when Miss Pollard and her brother
visited the asylum to get evidence last
year.
ION the contrary" said Miss Pollard,
''she said had undoubtedly been there,
although she did not know me. She un-
dertoOk to give me a little lecture, asking
why do you try to ruin this man in his
old agel Meaning Col. BreckinridgeJ
And ! said, why did he ruin me in my
youth. She said I should consider his
little daughter and | said ! wanted JUS
tlce, he had not considered me-
Miss Pollard cried a little here. 81
wanted him to have his share of suffering
as l have had mine. The time viii come
for justice and | believe the men (evi-
IDENTIFY meaning the jury are going to
help me- This remark provoked a mur-
mur of disapproval.
you have never done anything as a
free and independent agent since you
passed under his control}' asked MIR.
Butterworth.
IL don't believed ever have" said Miss
Pollard with sigh shaking her head
woefully
A QUESTION RULED OUT
Are you not ofvery strong will?"
Judge Bradley ruled this question out,
but not before Miss Pollard had asked if
it were necessary to ask it,
Miss Pollard said she came to Washing
ton because Col. Breckenridge said he had
arranged for the cOncealment of their
relations. He said that she would
be as safe here as anywhere
During her stay in Washington at the
convent of the Holy Cross and elsewhere,
Col. Breckinridge had paid her bills.
Soon after coming to Washington her
second child was born, on Feb 3, 1885 1t
died the following April. Miss Pollard
told of visits to Bread Loaf Inn, near
Middlebury, Conn, to Boston to see the
EOdenhausen Madonna, and where she
stopped at Houng's hotel to Brooklyn
and other places
did you claim while at Bread Loaf
Inn that YOU We're the author of a poem
called Loves POwer2'"
mo sir, did not do these things told
in that article" "
"What article?" asked Mr.. Butter
worth, apparently surprised.
THAT article in the Brooklyn Standard
Union which you are leading up to, and
which you have been studying 50 assidu-
ouSlY all the morning
"Have you read that article?"
81 have"
THE PAPERS STORY.
porting TO be an interview with a Brook
lyn woman who knew Miss Pollard; and
Miss Pollard interrupted him to say that
she had never been an opium eater and
was not now and had not claimed to be Jo-
sephine Pollard, the authoress. She knew
Miss Josephine Pollard, she said. but had
not claimed to be that lady, or to have
written her poems. Neither had she
claimed TO know James Russell Lowell so
intimately that she walked hand in hand
through the streets of Cambridge with
him" She did know Mrs. Howe the
sister of MIR. LOwel's first wife, but she
had never met MIR Lowell.
She also knew Charles Dudley Warner,
she said, and W. d. Howells had been
kind in answering her questions about
becoming a writer, but she did not know
him nor any Of the other literary men
whom the writer in the Standardization
claimed Miss Pollard had said she was on
intimate terms with.
Miss Pollard said she knew the woman
who wrote the article inO the Standard
Union. The judge said this line of Ques-
tioning was improper and stopped it,
Mr.. ButterwOrth gradually led up to
the alleged offer Of marriage which Miss
Pollard swore Col. Breckinridge made TO
her in August, 1892 the day of her
arrival from the south. Miss Pollard
said that Col. Breckinridge took her to
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