The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-22

running about the house. She was born,
he said, in 1868 instead of 1866.
Major Shelby told of the first converse
ton between Miss Pollard and Col.
Breckenridge about the Rodes case, and he
contended that she had submitted her
person to Mr.. Rodes. Col. Breckenridge adj
vised carrying out the arrangement with
Rodes, and IN the course of the conversa-
ton she, not he, suggested that they go
out in closed carriage that night and
state" said Major Shelby. that there
was no such remark by the defendant
about weak throat which caused him
to bring a closed carriage, nor about
headache, which compelled him to fore
go the concert and suggest that they
ride instead. 1t was she who suggested
that they ride instead of going to the
ride Illicit arrangements were estab-
lished between them without objection,
but with willingness OH her part They
did not return at twelve that night, but
were back at the college at ten O'Clock.
There was no meeting at the pubic
| library next day to arrange the Rodes
| case, no arrangement for going to
Lexington, no bogus telegram sent by
| the defendant as an excuse for her re-
quest that she be allowed to go home
| When he took the train, he found the
| plain tiff on it.
They Travelled to Lexington Together
and she, not he, suggested that he take
hher to the designation house of Sarah
| Guess. He was surprised that she knew
about such a place, and she said she
| knew where it was located. They stayed
there from that Saturday until the fol-
| lowing Monday, when she returned to
| Cincinnati, their arrangements having
| been completed" r.,
| Major Shelby said he was also author
| lied to state that there was no sugges-
| ton made by the defendant that the
| plaintiff go to Lexington, but that she
| W M there and entered Sayre Institute
| without his knowledge and he did not
even know she was in Lexington until
| he met her one day on the street. Ihe
| illicit relations were continued several
| months thereafter. The defendant had
never visited her at Miss Hoyt's, her
| boarding place, but every meeting was
| at the house of Sarah Guess. The
| defendant did not know when she went
| to Cincinnati in 1885. to give birth to
| child; he did not know she was in Gin
| cinnati; he did not try to trace her up,
and Major Shelby was authorized to
deny absolutely, and they would show,
| that there were no such arrangements
| made by the defendant to conceal the
| plaintiffs condition. or that he knew
| anything about her being in the city of
| Cincinnati. Major Shelby said the
defence would show that the claim of
| the plaintiff that she gave birth to
child at the Norwood Founding
| Asylum, in 1885, was false The attempt
of Miss Pollard to have herself identified
as Mrs. Bergwynn, or Mrs. B. Burgoyne,
| who had been at st. Joseph's Founding
| Asylum had failed absolutely, and it
would be shown there was not shadow
| ttf foundation for her claim.
Miss Pollard, he continued, returned
| to LeXginton in the fall OF 1885, and
| there fell in with the defendant again.
He had just been elected to Congress
and was arranging with the speaker.
| Major Shelby, to take charge of all his
| law business. Just before he came to
Washington, he received a note from the
| plaintiff asking him to come and see
| her, and as a consequence their relations
| were resumed in a measure. Major
| Shelby claimed that during the visits of
| Col. breckenridge to Lexington during
ing to do with the plaintiff. After the
session ended, on March 4, 1887, he re-
| turned to Lexington and his family be-
| ing away and not liking hotel life, he
took hoard at Miss Hoyt's where the
plaintiff was stopping. but there was no
| suggestion that their relations would be
resumed. That the defendant was re-
| sponsible for Miss Pollard's coming to
Washington, Major Shelby denied and
| said that on the contrary, the defendant
advised against it. Major Shelby asked
the judge to carefully consider the state
ment he had made that the plaintiff and
| the defendant had maintained no rela-
tions for eighteen months.
Prior to February. 1888, when she
| claimed she had given birth to child,
| Major Shelby did not condone or excuse
the fault of the defendant, but said that
many men had done the same thing and
had been forgiven. The plaintiff had it
| in her power to do him injury, she knew
! she had him mere : or less in
| her power, and she used that
power in getting money from
| him sand in continuing INTERPRETATIONS.
| Then Major Shelby went on to tell of
| the continuance of the relations between
Miss Pollard and his client until the
winter of 1890-91, when, he commended.
| Miss Pollard, through her power over
| him tried to make him introduce her in
| to the houses of people she wanted to
| know and to give her money which he
| could ill afford. He did not introduce
| her to private houses.
Major Shelby then told what he
commended were the circumstances in the
case last spring
| When the Alleged Engagement Existed.
Miss Pollard meanwhile had become ac-
uuainted with Mrs. Blackburn, and she
| had herself told Mrs. Blackbu that
she and Col. Breck inridge were engaged.
The defendant was angry but the plain
| tiff begged him not to expose her.
She begged him to give her another
| chance and he finally suggested as a way
out of the difficulty that she should go
| to New York or somewhere and gradual
| ly drop out of his life, he paying her ex-
penses, and that in time what she had
| told Mrs. Blackburn would be forgotten.
Concerning the visit to Mrs. Black burn,
| in which the defendant acknowledged
| he was engaged to Miss Pollard, Major
Shelby said the plaintiff had induced
him by that influence which such women
have over men, to fall into her plan and
to 60 to Mrs. Black burn and acknowledge
that they were engaged. She held
terrorizing influence over him. She had
not My attempted to kill him. but
worse than that, she had it in her power
to ruin him completely by an exposition of
their relations, and, like many another
good man, he was weak enough to fall
into the trap. The intimation that Col.
Breckenridge sustained improper rela-
tions with the plaintiff after the time he
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