Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-04-05

Forgery AuhItLeu IN ENtuBHCOs
WASHINGTON, March 29.-William
Clifton Preston Breckinridge, the cee-
brated defendant in the celebrated suit
brought by Madeline Pollard, to-day
told part of the story of his double
life.
BRECKINRIDeE's STORY.
Colonel Breckinridge's narrative to-
day went as far us the celebrated ride
in the closed carriage he took with
Madeline Pollard on the evening of the
day he first called on her at the school
in Cincinnati, in 1883, Of which occur
renee he said to-day: ~ was man
with passion; she was woman with
passion; that is the way il happened"
He took liberties with the girl to whom
he had given moral advice earlier in
the day, and when she left him he slip
ped a ten dollar bill into her hand.
Colonel Breckenridge testified that Miss
Pollard had told him that Mr.. Rodcs
, and she had had improper relations, and
the rest of his evidence was simply
contradiction Of minor points in Miss
Pollard's story. lie declared that she
ii was who spoke first to him when
they met on the train in the spring Of
81, that she suggested the going to the
concert when he called at the college;
that she suggested the carriage ride aud
the staying away from the concert when
once they were started. He said he
had mover met her in the library in
Cincinnati, had never sent her teie-
gram in her mothers name to get her to
go to Lexington, and that the fact that
the two were ON the train together be-
tween Cincinnati and Lexington on that
next day after the ride was simply
coincidence.
The mysterious black bordered letter,
which Miss Pollard says she did not
write, was finally read to the jury. 1t
is as follows:
WESLEYAN COLLEGE, July Goth, 1884,
Dear Colonel Byeckinridge: Your letter came
to me Saturday. | am glad you told me
it would be inconvenient TO come out here
to the college, for if you had gone to even
such little trouble to listen to what
sometimes oyerburdens u school girls
mind You might be inclined to be pro-
voked with yourself. preachers opin-
ion of my little affair OF mine would cause
premature gray hairs, when your opinion
might clear away all doubts aud fears, and
let me be quite free-bearted again. think
] have prepared you for adivorce case but,
listen. it is worse than that. If certain
person would advance funds for my tuition
here az school for three years under the
promise that marry him at the expiration
of that time, could he do anything If l
would not marry him, but teach and re-
fund all he had advanced2 know you
think, why the deceptioI2 but ON no
OF air terms will he agree. When girl
Wits nothing but good education. and
means to obtain such are denied her, what
is she to do but take the only chance she is
ever likely to haye2 liked your face and
am sure would like you, and il at any
future time you are in the city and would
care to come around, remember that home
faces are always welcome.
am very respectfully yours,
MADELINE B. POLLARD.
THE EVIDENCE THAT ANGERED HER.
WASHINGTON, March 30.-Madeine
Pollard INDUCED in little theatrical
business in court to-day when Colonel
Breckenridge was testifying to con-
versation he had with her in which he
told her the reason Rodes had said he
must marry her was due to the relations
which existed between Miss Pollard and
Rodes. Miss Pollard's emotion here got
the better of her. She shifted uneasily
in her chair, and was about to rise to
denounce as untrue the statements that
Colonel Breckenridge had Just made,
when Lawyer Calderon Carlisle, who
sat at her left, and the matron, who sat
on the other side of her, both took hold
of her arms and told her to keep silent
With voice choked with passion she
said pleadingly:
Cant say he never told me that "
Judge Bradley was evidently not
going to allow Miss Pollard TO indulge
in any dramatic actions in his court, for
he leaned forward and said abruptly,
and in commanding tone:
"Keep quiet, Miss Pollard, or else you
will have to leave the ROOM"
The evidence which Colonel Brockin-
ridge was giving which called out this
display of anger and passion from Miss
Pollard was TO show that Rodes had told
him that he (Rodes) had had improper
relations with Miss Pollard prior to the
time when Colonel Breckinridge first
met her at the school in Cincinnati.
Colonel Breckenridge testified to the
same effect yesterday, and great deal
of evidence had been put in before to-
day to prove the same circumstance,
which makes it all the more unnecessary
that Miss Pollard should have INDUCED
in this display to-day, for the charge
was not a new one TO her. During the
rest of the day she kept quiet. She
now and then whispered something to
Lawyer Carlisle, and made frequent
menlorandums upon loose slips Of paper
which she preserved and handed to her
lawyer.
LONG BREAK IN THEIR wooING.
Colonel Breckenridge made it appear
however, that the relationship between
Miss Pollard and himself was not SC
continuous as has been stated by wit
nesses on the other side. He says, fol
example, that there was one period OF
90 months when he did not see Miss
Pollard. He also says that he lived al
the same house with her in Lexington
for few weeks, and this, too, not long
after he had had improper relations
with her at the house Of Sarah Cess in
Lexington, and that ne did not con,
tinue those improper relations with
her at that time, and that there was nc
sign or word about any improper rela.
tions between them, made by him OF
Miss Pollard, during the time they hat
rooms In the same house in Lexington
which was kept by a Mrs. Ketchum.
When the court finished yesterday
Colonel Breckenridge had reached thu
point In the story of his life and rela.
lions with Miss Pollard, where he hae
called upon her at the Wesleyan COLLEGE
and had taken the celebrated ride in the
carriage on that night. To-day he took
up the thread of the story at that point
and said he had made no arrangement
for her TO meet him IN Lexington; tina
when he got on the train in Cincinnati