Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-04-14
ROAST FOR BRECKENRIDGE
JUDGE WILSON STAYS AM
SPARES NOT.
The kEed Defendant Held Re
tpOns.ble For Making Miss I.os-
lard what She Is-Ths Garden
Of Eden Story Over Again,

WASHINGTON, Awil LITTLE closing
argument of the Pollard case, which com
menced its sixth week Friday, was be.
gun yesterday morning by Hon. Jerc-
m!ah Wilson, chief counsel for Miss Pol
lard. The Judge is tall spare man with
narrow shoulders, very thin face accen-
tuated by a prominent Rumanuosc. He
hardly looks the power he possesses in
making an argument before the Jury.
Starting quietly, iii tones so low that
they could scarcely be heard, Juise vii
son gradually allowed his powerful voice
tu!i sway, hurling accusation after ac-
cusation at the white haired kentuckian.
The plaintiff was not present. Neither
was Maj Butterworth at the opening.
hut he came in with Breckenridge Just as
Judge Wilson was regretting in his alb
sence that he could not ask him what he
would do with fallen woman and man
who it iured her.
II suppose" said Judge Wilson, she
would say, i would turn the woman
out and I'd send the man to Congress. |
stand here Tor womanhood," Wilson
said. This def ndant proclaimed from
the stand, that while aft airs of this kind
only injured the man they destroyed the
woman. am here to insist that this
social law shall be equally distributed.
stand here to protest against allowing
this man entering my parlor and your
parlpr, while the basement door and
gate III the back alley are botch against
the women. condemn HIM | would
condem" il could SO that the condem-
nation would ring round the world.
1T had pleased Butterworth to de
claim pyrotechnically that the woman
hood of he land was arravcd in hehalf
OF the defendant No, a Thousand times,
no. lie had said that girls If the cnun.
try did not need chaprronrs, ard he,
Wilson, expected to hear it sand that
gray-haircd III II Of II needed to be
guarded.
Col. Thompson said Brp,knrilge had
told the jury that the plaintiff was a
wanton woman. Call her what Won
will. will show you that whatever she
is, that defendant aud he pointed an
accusing fnger at Breckenridge is re-
sponsib'e tor her condition. What is
the argument OF Cot. Thompsnn and
Maj Butterworth Ii is not that this
II year old girl was not ruined by this
~ wear oli man, but that she ruined
HIM. That ) their argument. Ifit were
not SO serious it would he ludicrous.
How could tnat defendant sit there and
allow the uttcrance of such statements,
as II lie were not a craven and a COW
ard. He says the woman did IT, that's
his deenSr tbs the old story of the
Garden of Eden. That's what Adam
said when brought before the King OF
Men, she did it, and. gentlemen, Adam
has not been in good grace from that
time t. this
"Eutterworth had told the jury moth
inS whatever about the CASE said Judge
Wilson. when he started in to do so,
he iouud that he was getting into mud "
water, so he said ri just stand on the
bank and shoot { ii hrt-works."
Judge Wilson's remarks caused oc-
casional laughter and some shulil S of
approval, which Judge BRADLEY rebukcd.
Tins morning Breckinridge was again
IN court, secrninglv indifferent to the fur
ther arr alignment he was to receive from
Judge Wilson. There is no prospect Of a
verdict today.