The Washington times., 1894-04-11

sci to saints and sinners. while his life itself
was lie. He asks you to believe him now.
on the ground that during those half dozen
| interviews with Mrs. Blackburn, q woman
high in the standing Of her state, who must
have won the admiration OF every mothers
son In this jury box, he told her and carried
on a complicated lie."
was fur greater, Mr.. Carlisle said, than any
! which has hung over him before; the induce
ment for him to lie was greater than ever yet
he asked the jury to believe his uncorrobo-
rated word now on the supposition that he
had always lied before when he made the
statements controverting his present position
| "This young woman does not come before
you stainless, free from SIN or impurity, I" the
attorney began, in comparing the character
| Of his client with that Of the Congressman
"What is left now Of her Hie?' he asked
"He has had it all. The opportunity had
passed for him to make that reparation which
| he owed to her and himself When YOU con-
slider the character Of the witnesses on both
| sides, when you think of this man with power
socially, politically, and otherwise, who ac-
| quired domination over this unfortunate
| girl, who ruined her life, you cannot but be-
lieve that he promised to make good to her
the ruin of her life, you cannot with the
| thought of the mothers and daughters in the
| land refuse to make the only reparation to
this unfortunate plaintiff
Reminding them of the 600 which the
declaration allowed them to award. Mr.. Car
| Isle closed his plea. and Madeline Pollard
and her companion left the room.
Then Col. Phil Thompron faced the jury
| Col Thompson started off with the proposition
| that his client was not responsible for dragging
this case into court, that it not the province
of the jury TO punish his client for immortality,
although he asked no leniency at the bar of pub
| lie opinion. Who was ii, he asked, who brought
into court this mass Of fifth, spreading il through
| the newspapers before the daughters of the
family. II want you TO try this woman as q
bawd and wanton as she has acknowledged
| herself" he declared
ADO you want to encourage every bawd and
wanton In the country to bring their filthy suits
into this court and corrupt the community He
asserted that the suit had been brought with
venge as its prompting motive and told the
turymen that II they had lived with the woman,
as Col Breckenridge had they would not have
taken her into their family, among their daugh-
ters and placed her at the head of their table.
Every decent man would sustain the colonel in
his refusal TO do that
Beginning with Madeline Pollards age since,
he said she had claimed to have been seduced
by the colonel at the age of II, he inquired why
her mother and the family Bible had not been
brought forward as the best proof of her age.
Back at that time when she claimed that she
was II she had been associated with Mollie
shinglebauer, and he could not understand why
so much had been said about Mollie Shingle-
bauer, who good the strumpets she
had associated with. A good deal had been said
about 30 many witnesses for the defense having
been IN houses of prostitution, but Col Thonp-
son had no doubt that many good fellow had
been IN such houses and could tell the truth about
what happened there as well as il IL had hap
pened In q meeting house II the people wanted
to hnd out what happened in these places they
must go after the people who had been there.
Turning to the occasion of the mock marriage
at Squire Tinsleys, he said that Miss Pollard
had been in a state Of debauchery and drunken
ness, although she claimed that she was sick.
People generally said that they we're sicx under
such circumstances Mr. Thompson had been
there himself, he frankly admitted. Julian was
pretty good sort of fellow, although he had
shot out his eyes in one OF his drunken sprees-
He had not wanted to tell what he knew about
the girl, but IL had been dragged out OF him, and
he had half apologized for her. saying that she
was as cd as the other girls In the locality
Yet il was a fact tina, he had taken her upstairs
when they were drunk and laid her down on the
bed, land was about proceedin' to the perform
anee" Col Thompson said, in his Kentucky col
lo4uinlsm, "when he wgs scared of "
As he was proceeding TO the discussion of sub
sequent events, he demanded to know where the
plaintiff got SO much money 10 prosecute this
case with all these unnecessary expenses and TO
hire these eminent counsel and he promised 10
show that the woman had been q money-seeker
and n money-getter every step of the way, and
was trying TO get money now. She seemed TO be
always daft about two things, was always trying
TO get money and TO GO to SCHOOL, had been talk
ing about going TO Berlin clean up 10 last Fall
Then she had always been wanting TO get mar
ried; would have married old man Woods ''if he
could nave showed up the sponduiix to take her
10 Europe" Col Thompson did not believe that
her mother had sold her out 10 Rhodes Chi
numan sold his girl lie had been intimate with
her, and was sending her to school in good faith
intending TO make her his wife hiram kaufman
was an honest fellow: he could tell the truth if he
had been in a bawdy house and no one had been
brought to impeach his character, yet he had
told how he was lending Rhodes his money and
how he told Rhodes he would not put up any
more unless he Was shown the girl So he was
shown her and he had described the perform
ances that occurred there John Brandt was an
other honest man and he had told the same
things. II was not important where these things
happened. but TO know tina. :hey had happened.
Why had not some one besides two young men
who had been boys at that time come forward to
prove an aliDi:
When Miss Pollard had denied that she wrote
that letter TO Breckinridge she had lied and had
lost her case. The letter showed that he had
come to the school on her invitation. II had
been said that this tind little girl would not ap
proach such big man as Breckinrdge, but she
had told how she Introduced herself in the same
way TO Resell, telling him that she heard of
him from Nellie Oliver, and asking him to take
her TO the school Mrs. Brown had come forward
TO purity the atmosphere of the school. and no
body could blame her because the plaintiff had
lett trail of impurity behind her wherever she
went
The contested black-bordered letter was pro-
duced by Col Thompson, and he declared that
he was willing TO stake the case on that The
enc phrase in it. that her troubles were worse
than a divorce suit showed that her relations
with Rhodes had been something worse than che
would have people believe now. He laid par
ticular stress on the remark that her troubles
would cause q preacher premature gray hal rs,
averring that that meant more than sim pie
contract 10 marry Rhodes or refund his money.
'.How did she know that she was going to like
Col Breckinridge." Mr. thompson asked. "Was
not that an invitation to come around. an intima-
tion that he was going TO be some sort OF favor
ite with herr
This is most remarkable woman, gentle
men She is already under contract with
Rhodes and he was poor man, gardener,
and, according to her own account, he was spend
ing nearly every hard-earned dollar on her
She was blood-sucking old Rhodes ont of his
money. She has said herself that she was en-
gagged to one man, was another mans mistress,
and was a 'bilkin' smother out of his money, and
n school girl at that Ny God, If she ever gets
plunderer she will be This is the bawd and
wanton who wants this honest jury TO give her
$4,000
Judge Bradley here interrupted the speech
with a remonst-Gnce.
Now, Mr.. Thompson, please take care not TO
use such expressions as that" he said
What have said your honor" the lawyer
inquired.
'sYou said My God''
II beg your pardon, that was an inadyert- |
ance," Col Thompson responded, and then he |
discussed the improDability of the young woman
accompanying Col Breciinridge 10 an assigna-
ton house in Cincinnati, as she claimed. the |
day after drive. when he had made improper |
advances and she had repulsed him
No, she was willing and she was anxious. |
He a man and she Il woman. Isn't that the |
most likely story. The next day she Went to a |
negro assignction house aud he left her, she |
waiting ;or his return. was not that the most |
remarkable seduction you ever heard of? But |
she said tEHt she had dedicated herself to him. |
We dedicate churches and things that are |
sacred to God Wasn't this n remarkable dedi- |
cation, with this old negro woman prestess
To dedicate herself coldly, knowingly, calmly I
into the life of q married man. What for? Not |
Tor love, not for passion but il he is to be be-
lieved, for money All this jury know that she |
does not speak the truth when she says she |
came to him without sexual fault"
After the noon recess Col Thompson resumed |
his speech characterizng Miss Pollard as ''the
most skillful adventures who ever made a track |
through a courtroom" He argued from dates |