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and the objection was sustained.

Then Judge Wilson took another tack After Colonel Breckinridge had admitted that he was in good health on the night of his first ride with Miss Pollard and had no throat trouble nor chills, as Mir. Wilson jocosely asked, he was asked whether it was not a rather unusual proceeding to select a closed carriage for drive on a hot summer evening, to which the colonel re- piled, ''Oh, no; don't think 1t was," and the audience laughed.
 Of the conversation or the ride he could only remember that Miss Pollard did most of the talking
 "You were not inclined to talkt" Mfr. Wilson commented.
 ''Oh, that depends on the company am in," replied the colonel. Continuing, he described how Miss Pollard had talked of her aspirations to be an authoress and how he had encouraged her, telling her that other women had been authors, but that it was @ matter of work, like any ot her vo- cation"
 When you put your arm around her, had there been anything of suggestive naturesn
 He Speaks of Remorse.
 Well, l cannot answer that definitely. There was no particular word or act that l could lay my hand on. There was just something internally that moved me to. If she had reproved me, could not have said, You have encouraged me, and yet l would have been surprised if she had re- sented it."
 Well, then, you drew her to you, and how long were you in that positionsn
 "Oh, cannot say"
 And what was talked abouts''
 Nothing was said" Laughter and re- buke from the judge
 "I want to know how long you held her in your armsT
 ''The transaction could not be stated as to time. 1t was all one transaction. took her in my arms, drew her across my lap, drew her to me. It was all one action"
 Did you give her any friendly advice on that occasionP
 "I did not"
 "You were 8 man of 47 and she girl of F to 21s'
 '"That was all true and much more. No man in America had less excuse for such an action than with the domestic sur roundings I then had. have attempted to make no excuse for it It just happen cd so."
 And the fact that she was young girl in school makes it all the worsef"
 "You cannot frame words too strong to characterize it. have not attempted to justify it or even defend it, and all the hell have suffered since then have deserved" !"
 Then l understand you to say that the enormity of the act cannot be overestimat- eds"
 "There is but one punishment which have not deserved, and that is to marry the woman who was concerned with me in the act.n
 'As a lawyer, since you claim you did not seduce her, will you tell us what you consider seductionp'
 1T mean to say that I did not seduce her by any protestations of love or reward; that she did not come to me & maiden or a virgin; that did not seduce her in the physical sense that she came to me maid en and l left otherwise, nor, in the lower sense, that I did not offer her money"
 Do you know that a dumb man can se- arms and exciting her passion, without opening your mouth or winking your eye, you can seduces"
 II am not prepared to attempt under oath to give definition of seduction. only know what happened in that carriage that night was not seduction"
 Just here Attorney Wilson tripped Breckinridge badly in cross examination. After several apparently immaterial ques- tions as to his family he inquired If he had not had typewriter make copies in lssd (the time when Miss Pollard was confined in CincinnatD addressed to My Dear Sis ter Louise" Breckinridge denied abso- lutely writing such letter and pronounc- ed any such a forgery after he and his at torneys had objected to the question. Will son said the original and copies were re- turned, but he would produce Louise Lowell, the typewriter who wrote them. Then the court adjourned.