The sun., 1894-03-29

Washington. March 22.-The cross-ex-
animation of Miss Pollard was concluded
to-day without bringing out any sensa-
tionaI testimony, and the plaintiff rested
her case.
ridge camp of conversation and docu-
mcnts, after which Attorney Butterworth
asked for few moments for his side for
consultation, and the defendant, his son
Deska and five attorneys trooped out
through the door by which Miss Pollard
had made her exit.
THE delegation from Kentucky re-
tired for conference" remarked a gentle
man who had attended political con-
ventiOnS.
The Breckenridge forces were in re-
ilement for twenty minutes. Then Col.
John T. Shelby, the Lexington, Ky,
law partner of Col Breckenridge, a short
pale man, With light mustache, partly
bald head and spectacles, faced the jury
to outline the defense.
While the case was technically one
for breach of PROMISE" he said, "it in
cludes a wider scope. I am authorized
by the defendant to say" he said, land
it will be corrotorated by his solemn
oath, that he did not seduce her; that it
never was made known to him that sh
had any children by him until the filing
of this suit last August, nor did he ever,
under any circumstances, make any prom
Use of marriage to her.
The defense did not intend, he said,
to cOndOne whatever was wrong in the
relations of the two, and it was only by
the truth the defendant wanted to be
judged.
Outlining what would be the defense, he
stated that Miss Pollard had accosted
Col. Breckenridge on the train, before
which time he had never seen her. She
invited him to call at the seminary.
Having nothing else to do lie went to the
college that day and saw her. He saw
rot an ignorant girl, unacquainted with
the ways of the world, for if there was one
fact that would be established, it was
that the plaintiff was at least twenty or
twenty-One years of age, and it would be
shown by the doctor who officiated at
the birth of her next youngest sister in
1865, when the plaintiff was then a
little girl of two or three years Of age,
running about the house.
When the colonel arrived at the col
lege she came into the college and saw
him, explained the contract with Mr.
Rhodes, which was that in consideration
of his paying for the schooling, she was
to marry him. She asked if he could
compel her to marry him-a strange ques-
tien for q SCHOOL girl-and also said that
she had submitted her person to Mr.
Rhodes. He told her that she was not
obliged to carry out the contract. She
then asked him to take her to an enter.
tainment on Vine street, and he consent
ed.
That Col. Breckenridge had called
a closed carriage that night was denied.
1t was declared that Miss Pollard had
made the proposition that they ride in.
stead of going to the concert. and the
counsel said that during the course o.
that ride and without the use of seductive
means, but in that way which occur.
when woman is pQt averse to sucl
things, an Illicit relation was established
oil the first night he had been with her.
The defense will be partly denial ant
partly explanatory; denial that Col
Breckinrldge seduced Madeline Pollard
tlat she gave birth to child at the Nor
wood convent; an explanation that she
trapped him into a promise to marry hel
on the mutual understanding that the
promise was only devise by which she
was to withdrqW from his life and be
| able to break off her relations with MrJ
Blackburn. The long-continued illicit re.
latlons between the two are admitted
without excuse or Dalliati0n exrant q ref.