The Washington times., 1894-04-07

sponded with her in 1886 when she was in Lex.
| ington and he in Washington, she started. ~
| never was separated from Mr.. Breckinridge a
day during the nine years that was in his life
but'-when she was stopped by the chorus Of
| objections from the defense.
Dear Sister Louise" she continued "His letters
! were love letters, such love letters as man
writes, and he made me think he cared more
@Tne ID defendant MT has said that hat when he lived at
| Mrs Hoyt's he news was with you How is
| thatH Mr.. Carlisle asked.
why i was In his room every single night that
| he was under that ROOT"
"Did you ever before the 18th Of March, 1888,
| by word or act threaten the life Of the defend
| anti"
mo, never did"
"The defend mt has testified that late In Feb
ruary at the house of Mrs. Thomas you pre-
sented . revolver ut his headi"
mo, MIR. Carlisle, that Is not truc. never
| did present pistol at the head OF the defend-
ant in any house showed him pistol once at
| the house of Mrs Thomas, but did not present
1t at him gave 1t to him with my own hand
| and there was no struggle"
| "The defendant has declared that some time
In February you told him you intended to COM
| nit suicide? Is that true?
| "It was on the day of the electoral count I
told him at the Capitol had given away great
| many OF my things"
"Did you ever state that your mother had
cared for you In pregnancy"
Indeed, did not, and she never did and she
| Q1C not know II until this suit was uleu.
Concerning the time she had communicated
| to Col Breckinridge the fact Of her pregnancy
in 1893 Col Breckinridge said that it was late in
May. Miss Pollard, In answer TO O question, re-
piled, "Indeed, that was as far from the truth as
| even he could get" whereupon Mr.. Shelby sub
| mitted to the court that this was not proper
| form Of answer, and the Judge sustained him,
| reproving her
"Did the defendant in 1892 tell you that it was
| impossible for him to marry your Mr.. Carlisle
| asked.
~ NJ ip1aad bo did not
"Did you go to Mrs Blackburn's with an un-
derstanding that you should deceive herr"
mo, indeed; quite the opposite"
"Did you have an understanding that you were
not 10 be married?"
mo The promise was made in solemn good
| faith"
"Now," interposed Mr. Shelby, stop that, Miss
| Pollard. We object"
"was there an understanding that you should
| falsely represent 10 Major Moore that you were
| to be married when you did not intend tor
NO, could not be a party to such an agree
ment, and was not No, no, no"
Questions as to whether Col. Breckinridge
had ever made protestations of affection to her
Were overruled. Regarding the work basket
Miss Pollard said:
ale even bought the little piece of blue silk
with which had 1t lined. he saw mo use 1t
many, many times and commented on it; said
he was glad TO have me have it.
Mr.. Shelby read TO Miss Pollard on cross-ex-
animation Aleck Julian's deposition regarding
the mock marriage inquiring: Now does that
refresh your memory"
"Mr Shelby, my memory does not need re-
freshng on that point" was the response. II
did not know MIR Owen Tinsley then: do not
know him now; / never was in a bedroom with
Mr. Julian. Tint is not only not true, but It is
absolutely false"
"But you did drink eggnog to excess9"
"They had eggnog there. l did drink a glass
of eggnog and a little glass of cordial; had not
been used to drinking whisky, had never
touched so much as thimbleful before, and it
made me very i'll"
"Now, Miss Pollard. art is long, but time is
neeting," Mr. Shelby interrupted. Wont You
stop"
citedly
Miss Pollard, confne yourself to answering
the questions" her attorney, Mr. Carlisle, re-
monstrated-
"But if they will persist in asking me about
these dreadful things j must tell how false they
are" she said excitedly, with symptoms of tears.
Then when she was asked about the locality Of
rooms in Mrs. Hoyts house, where she had said
she had spent part Of every night in Col Breck-
inridge's room, she said TO Mr. Shelby command
ingly: "Now, don't interrupt me"
She thereupon testified that she had roomed
upstairs with another young lady, but the other
people had gone to bed early and supposed she
was downstairs studying her lessons TWAS nee
essary for her TO go down one flight Of stairs,
through the sitting room, and up another flight
TO invade the sanctity Of the coloners chamber
The colonel when he came into the house slammed
the door as signal that he had come in. 1t was
not by any peculiarly of the slam, but the slam
itself, by which she recognized his entrance, as
there was no one else who came in late. Miss
Pollard was dismissed after she had told about
these things, and the announcement was made
that the plaintiff rested its rebuttal
For surrebuttal the defense recalled TO the
stand Mrs Idle, the matron of the Washington
Founding Asylum.
Mrs Idle said that she had talked with Aunt
Mary, the old colored woman who had been on
the stand, and that she was not the woman who
brought the child, because the woman who
brought II was large black woman, and had
given the name of Charlotte Thomas.
On cross-examinaton Mr.. Wilson managed
TO emphasize the fact that six years had passed
and the colored woman had not remained more
than fifteen minutes at the asylum when she
brought the baby.
Then Col Breckinridge was recalled TO deny
basket He was again asked whether he had
made the statement TO colored Mary Yancey
that he wanted her to come and COOK for him and
Miss Pollard when they went to Housekeeping in
the fail Objection TO reopening this matter,
made by Mr.. Wilson, was sustained
Objection was also made to reopening the mat
ter of their relations at Mrs. Hoyt's, and Judge
Bradley declared that the plaintiffs denial of
that was already broad, but permitted the
colonel TO say that Miss Pollard had never been
in his room there with his knowledge. He denied
also that Mrs. Lowell the Capitol typewriter had
ever written letter, in which he had reference
TO a manuscript sent him for criticism
This ended the testimony, to the relief OF
everybody. for il had been drawn out in q tire
some way for several days. The attorneys
arranged 20 submit their requests for instruc-
tions by the court to the jury on the legal
aspects Ct the case to-day, and then the jury was
excused until Monday.