The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-03-18
Story OF Their Guilty Love

WAsHINGroN, II. c., March 17.-Af-
ter relating the incident about meet
ing NJ. Bre ;kinridge at the Baltimore
an Ohio depot in August, loo2, Miss
Pollard proceeded as follows:
uIoness had stopped a. - Lafayette
square for n few days during that
visit and had seen Mr. Brecllinridgc
every day. She added: He said
that he had married his second wife
fourteen months after the death Of
his first wife, and a year after the
death of his sc 'ond wife would not be
too soon TO marry me. ! told him we
ought not marry for two year, and
proposed to 90 with VI IS Willard on a
school trip for young aides i'm Europe.
He said | must not go and leave him
living in rooms-a thing he had not
done for thirty years. lie put IL on
the ground that ] would be selfish
to go, and did not
a letter dated Gray Gables, Buz-
Yards Bay, Mass. in October, 1892,
from Miss Catharinc willard, and
which referred to the proposal that
Miss Pollard join the European party,
was read to the jury.
Breckinridge paid the expenses of
W Nloh I OlldiA Oll iltl 4NtN III II NlnlA III
the fall of 1892. When he was in
Washington she saw him every few
DAYS. The question of marriage wa
brought up at that time and, although
no date was fixed, the colonel always
insisted that year after his wife's
death, which would be in the spring
of 1898. would be the time most suita-
BILE TO him. Once on a lecturing trip
to New England She accompanied Mr.
Breclinridge. During her stay at Mrs
Thomas, at 1918 II street, Washing
ton, 1892 and 1893. She had
seen Colonel Breclinridge always once
day, sometimes twice day and
often in the evening. She had spoken
of the engagement to Mrs. Thomas
and she repeated the circumstances
related by witness Francis, pronounc-
ing the name "Frawnces, as did the
young man. Hreckinridgc had eN-
pressed regret that she had met Fran
els, because he knew many kentucli-
ians and the engagement would be
spread all over Kentucky before they
were ready to have it known.
The visit to Mrs. blackburn was also
rehearsed by Miss Pollard, who de-
elarcd that Colonel Breckenridge had
introduced her to Mrs. blackburn with
these words: II want 10 place this
young lady under your protection, Tor
intend to make her my wife. She IS
q great deal to me now and VIII be q
great deal more She repeated
the circumstances OF Colonel
Breckinridge's visit TO Mrs.
Blakburn when he had explained
TO her the engagement and
spoke also of the instance when Colo
II Il haH plaaAl his
around her, saying: "He was most
affectionate and most kind" II asked
MIR. Breckenridge then" she declared,
"as he was talking of going to Chica-
20, to name the day when he would
marry me. / think knelt down be
side him and put one arm over his
shoulder, but MrA Blackburn OBJ
lected." oo
This was on Sunday, May IA, 1892
The preceding day she had visited the
office of DIR. Lincoln with Colonel
Breckinridge and gone to the office OF
thief of Police Moore, a visit which
that official had described on the
,tand. The second visit was on May
II TO Major Moore.
Then going back almost ten years
to the time OF her first meeting the
defendant, Miss Pollard testified; I'll
April. 1854, | was called to see my
sister who was sick at Frankfort
MIR. Rhodes had put me on
the ear at Lexington. Before
the train had gone far a gentle mai
came to me saying; Your iac'
seems very familiar, don't | know
you?' | replied: Il think not but
know YOU. You are Colonel Breckin
ridge lie asked me if he could come
and see me. / said: My mother ant
aunt will be very glad to see you.
After q short conversation he left me,
Miss Pollard's 5 verson of her relation
with James c. Rhodes did not var,
essentially from the accounts hereto
fore published. She then told of hoy
she had sent for Breckenridge to ad
wise her regarding Rhodes threat I
eompell her to marry him, and tn
manner in which the congressma
had put himself in the position
of rel i've in the sight of tn
school pi lcipal and Others Sh
also related the incidents of his earl
visits To her at the school and sal
that he urged her to go else ewher
with him in order that they might b
able To consult over the Rhodes matte
more unreservedly. The second tim
he came TO see her he took her ridin
y" closed earriage-- saving tha ais al