St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-28
UPON TROUBLED SEAS.
EXPERT TESTIMONY IN THE POLLARD
CASE.
MADELINE,s TENDER EpIsTLu
To My Dear Colonel Put to a
Crucial Test-Judge Wilson
Mixes Things Up Somewhat
Today a Field Day, With the
Gay Colonel on the Stand
Union League will Take Action

WASHINGTON, March 27.-The de-
tense in the Pollard Breckenridge trial
TOOK new tack today, and ventured
upon the troubled sea of expert testi
mony. Two witnesses well known in
Washington-Dr. E. NJ. Schaefer. the
deputy coroner of the District of Colums
bla, and Edwin b. Hay, an attorney,
who is something of local Chauncey
ew,appeared for the Kentucky con-
gresham. and their statements were
directed to the support of the conten-
ton that the hand of Madeline Pollard
penned the black bordered letter, writ.
ten IN 1884, which she has most emphat.
ically denied twice over on the witness
stand.
Great stress is laid by the defense
upon the authenticity of this letter, NOT
because 1t runs counter to the testimony
OF .the plaintiff that Col. Breckenridge
called upon her at the Wesleyan acade-
my OF his own vOlltiOn, but because
they think if she can be proven false in
one Important detail her whole snee.
ment will be impeached. The signature
TO the letter also goes to support the
opening statement of the defense on a
minor detail. viz: that Miss Pollard hal
adopted at that time the middle name of
Breckinridge. This letter, whisa mas
figured so conspicuously - she case,
and which the defense will fight to ger
before the jury, is as follows:
THE LETTER.
wesleyan College. July 20, 1Ss4.-Ta
Dear Col. Brekinridge: Your letter
came to me Saturday. l am glad YOU
told ME it would be inconvenient to
come out here to the college. for if YOU
had gone to ever such little trouble to
listen to what sometimes overburdens a
school girls mind,yOu might be inclined
TO be provoked with yourself. A
preachers opinion of any little affairs
OF mine would cause premature gray
hairs where your opinion might clear
away all doubts and fears, and let me
be quite free-hearted again. | think l
have prepared you for a divorce case,
but listen, it is worse than that, If a
certain person should advance funds
for my tuition here at school for three
years, under the promise that l marry
he do anything If l would not marry
him. but teach and refund all he had
advanced? l know you think, why the
deception? But OIL no other terms will
he agree. When a girl wants nothing
but good education, and means to
obtain such are denied her, what is she
to do but take the only chance she is
very likely to have? l liked your face.
aud l am sure | would like you. and IL
at any future time you are in the city
and would care to come around. re-
member that home faces are always
welcome. l am very respectfully yours.
MADELINE b. PoLLARD.''
For the first time today the keen
cross examination Of Judge Wilson,
whose work has been awaited with In
terest by his fellow lawyers, was brought
into play. 1t was first exercised on
Maj. Moore, the chief of police, who was
called back to dispute some of Miss
POllard's statements regarding the, two
interviews III his office during which
Col. breckenridge repeated his promise
to marry her. and afterward Mr. Wilson
stirred up such a cloud of verbal dust
around the expert testimony of DR..
Schacfer that the spectators hardly
knew whether the letter purported to
have come from the plaintiff to the de.
fendant or the reverse.
Tomorrow bids fair to be the great
day OF the trial, for, unless the cross
examination of the two intervening wit
nesseS Is too long drawn out, the silver
defendant himself will mount
a roStrum of the kind in which he has
not figured before, and will give his
version of the long intrigue.