Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-03-22
The card was produced in court an

The card was produced in court and
shown to each juryman. This card
Miss Pollard claims was given her by
Lexington man, and that she placed it
in one of the Irving volumes while
confined at the asylum. The four books
and the Christmas card are beginning
to play an important part in the trial.
Miss Pollard said, in identifying her.
self with the asylum, that when she
was there, she saw statue of ST.
Joseph with something the matter
with his eye" Sister Augustine said
there was statue of St. Joseph at the
asylum, but it's eyes were all right.
The cross-eXamination of Sister Au-
gustine was read by Mr. Carlisle.
Mr.. Stoll then read the deposition of
Mrs. Lena Schmidt, nurse at the
founding asylum, who testified that
she did not remember any Que named
Louise Wilson at the asylum, and could
not recognize Miss Pollard when she
saw her in December, 1898, rs one she
had seen before. Miss Pollard claimed
to have seen Mrs. Schmidt before, but
said she did not remember her name.
Mrs. Schmidt deposed that Miss Pollard
said to her, in reference to her suit, 81
did it for justice and to disgrace him"
and that ''he had to stop getting up at
ladies schools"
Cross-examined, Mrs. Schmidt said
she didn't remember any "AIrs. Bur
goyne" or "Mrs. Burgwynn" at the
asylum, nor what she looked like, nor
anything about her.
Mr.. Stoll then read the deposition of
DR.. w. E. DeCourcey, the physician for
the founding asylum. DR.. DeCourcey
said he could state that there Was girl
at the asylum in 1851 or 1855 named
Wilson, but he did not remember that
her name was Louise. To his knowl-
edge no woman named Louise Wilson
gave birth to child there at the time
named. A picture of Miss Pollard was
shown DR.. DeCourcey, but he did not
recognize her.
Orvin g. Brown, president of the
Quinn Valley College, the son of DR..
w. X. Brown, president of Wesleyan
College, in Cincinnati, where Miss Pol
lard was a student, deposed that he
first knew Miss Pollard in the fall Of
1888, when she came to Wesleyan Col
lege, where he was then. Her board
and tuition-$200-was 10 be paid by a
Mr.. Rhodes, but all of it had not been
paid. All objections Of the plaintiff to
evidence about absences of Miss Pollard
from the college, which Mr.. Brown
turned to the records to discover, were
sustained, and exceptions taken.
Miss Pollard while at the college had
said, according to the deposition, that
she was related to or knew nearly all
the prominent people in Kentucky.
Once when she returned from a
visit to some relative in Ken
lucky who was i'll, Miss Pollard, Mr.
Brown said, had told her school-fellows
that so many prominent people called
on her that she didn't know what to
do. She mentioned among those Col.
Breckenridge and Senator Blackburn,
and there were so many people named
that it became quite joke among the
girls. Mr.. Brown said there was al
ways more or less kinship claimed by
Miss Pollard with these prominent
men, and out of this the girls nick
named her Madeline Vivian Bill
Breckenridge oe-Blackhurn Pollard"
Mr.. Brown found that lie had entered
Miss Pollard's name on his books
as IN. V. B. Pollard" in
1854, shortly after she met
Col. Breckenridge. 1t was in June.
1884 Gust subsequent to the meeting
of Col. Breckenridge and the plaintiff),
that Miss Pollard began claiming kim
ship with these prominent people.
Here recess was ordered until lis.