Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-04-06
She Gives the Lawyers Some
More Trouble.
POINTS AGAINST BRECKENRIDGE.
Rankin Rosselrs Testimony Torn to Tattcrs
by Mrs. Mcclellan Brown-Some OF the
Plaintiffs Cousins Construct an AIibi.
What the CoiOred Cook Saw.

The rebuttal brought forth several PEG
pie from kentucky-three of them cousins
| of Miss Pollard-to prove an alibi for her
in reply TO the dispositions of Mrs. Miller
( (nee Shinglebower), Hiram Kaufman and
| John Brandt the witnesses for the de
! Tense who had attempted to blacken her
character. Mrs Miller had sworn that in
! 1877 and 1878 the plaintiff was stopping
/ with an aunt five miles from Lexington
! and acting improperly with men in the
neigh borhood.
John Brandt was among them, but ac-
cording to her witnesses she lived in Pitts
| burg from 1876 to 1850 with an aunt. Mrs.
| Mcclellan Brown. wife of the former prin-
cipal of the Wesleyan institute. disputed
! fatty the testimony of Rankin RosSell and
incidentally exhibited a photograph of
Miss Pollard taken i'll 1884, the year in
! which she first met the colonel. The pho
| tograph corroborated the testimony that
Miss Pollard was at that time a schoolgirl.
her dress reaching to the top of her shoes
Mrs. Mcclellan Brown.
Mrs. Brown said: The rules for receiv-
ing company of gentlemen in the city We're
that visits could be made Friday evenings.
and then only in the parlors. library and
office. all opening one into another. The
! teachers received their company at the
same time and place. This had been the
rule since the founding of the institution.
When | went there. found folding doors
/ between the rooms, which l had taken
down, and put up portieres. which were
hung close to the walls and were never
drawn. Often there were none there, for
the portieres We're put mp for special occa-
sions and taken down"
Did you ever see Rankin RoSsell at the
college Mr.. Carlisle asked.
Il have
WAS it possible for a young man to hold
young lady in his lap there for an hour
and half in the evening"
The answer of Mrs. Brown was lost in "A
hurried objection from Mr.. Shelby which
approached the intensity of yell. He ar
gued that conditions could be described,
but not the inference of the witness as to
possibilities arising from those conditions,
and in this he was sustained.
Young ladies were not permitted to see
young men alone at all and never to see
them but once a week, said the witness.
1--WE had two young ladies that year who
were engaged. but they were not allowed
to receive calls but once a week. The
young ladies received their visitors in pub
lie in the public rooms.
DO you remember the last visit of Mr..
Rossell TO the schools"
Mrs. Brown did not know that of heI
knowledge, but remem bered the last time
she had seen him.
Il last saw him on the occasion of the
literary contest, when Miss Pollard won
the great victory for her society"
When asked to tell what manner of man
Mr.. Rhodes was. she said impressively, as
though delivering an Grafton: A country
gentleman of honest face of green habit
and manner. of pure atmosphere and
To1 lol
He was an admirer of Miss Pollard's in
tellectual attachments. anxious for her
best development.
Bright. but not deep, was the descrip-
ton she gave on cross examination of Miss
Pollard's mind
You would hardly expect a schoolgirl
of that age TO be deep The victory she
won was notable" the witness continued,
because of her youth. Her opponent was
much older.
Judging her youth from her represen-
tations, interposed Colonel Philip Thomp-
son.
No; from her appearance" declared
The Typewriter Again.
Judge Bradley took a hand in question
ing, eliciting the information that on Fri
day nights there usually had been from Is
to p callers in the parlors of the school
Mrs. Louise Lowell was recalled. and
over the objections of the defense she was
permitted to tell the substance of the let
ter to My Dear Sister Louise"
There was much difficulty in getting the
statement in proper form. Mrs. Lowell
began:
Il thought from the beginning of My
Dear Sister Louise that but was halted
by storm of objections, being informed
that her thoughts were not wanted.
Starting on new tack. she said. Nat
| urally from the tenor of the letter"-to be
again waylaid by the protests of the de
Tense
Finally. when pinned down to telling
the substance OF the letters, she related
He spoke of the great disparity between
their ages, Of his great love tor her, and,
think, used the expression that he never
knew two of the same family of such diff
ferent ages who loved each other so well.
That was the tenor of the whole letter and
of other similar ones which followed it. In
one he spoke highly of some manuscript
which had been sent him for criticism and
told how proud he was of the person to
whom the letter was addressed. He told
how impatient he WAS to get away from
the duties which kept him from her and
described in glowing terms the meeting
they would have when he returned. He
cautioned her in one not to leave her let
tiers around, as people might look in bureau
drawers. Once he called her little spit
fire or dear Miss Spitfire, and told her to
stand before the looking glass and give
herself scolding for him.
He told Esr that letters mailed at a GER
tain time reached him in the morning;
those mailed at another time reached him
at night, and requested her to mail them
so that they would arrive in the morning
In one letter he expressed doubt whether
his letters reached her, and requested her
i@she received that one to send him pos
tai card asking for civil service report
and sign it Mary Smith,"
During her cross examination Mrs Low
ell said that she had told friends in gen.
eral way that Congressman Breckenridge
had her write love letters for him, but
could not imagine how Miss Pollard's at
torneys had got hold of the facts. The let
tiers had been handed to her written in
Colonel Breckinridges hand. She had
copied them and returned to him the man
uscript and copy.
The COlored Cooks Testimony.
Another witness was the colored cook
from the house on II street. where Miss
Pollard had lived with Mrs. Thomas, who
declared that Colonel Breckenridge had
said to her last April that he wanted her
to come and cook for them when he and
Miss Pollard began housekeeping.
did Colonel Breckenridge call often"
Mr.. Butterworth inquired.
often, very often"
How oftenP' -..
Sometimes every day; sometimes twice
a day; sometimes three timesla day."
Miss Pollard had come tosthe house in
February. Mary fixed the day of the
lunch because her people had sailed for
Europe that day. and Mrs. Thomas had
the pleasure of taking the house for six