Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-03-29


the character OF Madeline Pollard.
which the Breckenridge forces had Of
fered and to which the plaintiff OPP
posed numerous objections.
Regarding the sweeping denial Of the
right to take any dispositions de bcne
csse, under the act Of congress ere
atIng the court the Judge said that the
judiciary act Of 1870 conferred the
right In broad terms upon any party to
any civil net In any court OF the
United States.
1T could not be disputed that this
was Il court of the United States, and
the fact that the court had always
maintained that right would Justify
him I'm continuing to enforce II until
u higher court oyerrnlcd the practice,
There were other grounds upon
which he sustained the regularity of
the depositicns as u whole. Objections
had hecn made to the deposition Of one
Brand because he refused to answer
certain questions concerning woman
who had introduced him to Miss Pol
lard. said that he did not want to
give away II married woman and
then persisted that he did not know
her name, The Judge said that It mp.
pcarcd that instead OF refusing to nm
swcr, the man did not know, or was
lying,
He continued, saying that the direct
examination Of the witness Ind
brought ont nothing dcrogatory to the
plaintiff, md that he had refused to
answer II question whether he had
taken liberties with her while riding.
What object he could have had In re
fuslng to answer, If the answer would
have injured the plaintiff the Judge
could not sec. since from his own tcs-
timony he was utterly lacking In moral
sense, admitting that although he was
a married man, he was accustomed To
visit dsrcputablc places.
The Judge ovcrrlled this objection,
ramarking TINT there was nothing re
nesting upon Miss Pollard In the tcstl-
mony, unless II was that she had con
scented TO associate with such dis
reputable character. ns tho Witness nd |
mittcd himself to he.
The deposition Of one Kaufman WAS
also admitted, but The Judge spoke
very sharply of these Inst two, saying
TINT they were utterly UNIT to be read
before the court; and that he would
gladly exclude them II no could and
expressed the hope TINT the counsel
would see ut to omit the dlsgracefully
obscene matter in them.
He sustained the objections which
had been made to the dispositions Of
John O'Toolc, DR.. Green and DIR, Lewis
that they were based on henrsay.
The dispositions of Miss Miller and
OF Rosscllc. who had been engaged to
Miss Pollard, while she was In the
Wesleyan institute. were admitted, the
Judge commenting that the plaintiff
had placed her character and her mn
trity In n measure In question by that
clause of the declaration which nvcrrcd
that she had been led nstray by the
defendant. and that she was II mere
girl when Col. breckenridge first met
her.
Each slde filed objections to the rul
lllES uEullSl H. ltH bNuE' IhuNhN
made few remarks In the interest of
public morality, ns he said:
''rhc court has been dclugcd with
anonymous letters In this case" he
began. II said that anyone who would
write nm anonymous letter should not
expect to have any notice taken of
him and would do almost anything
mean Some of these letters, however,
seen to hnyc come from females and
to be dictated by good motives
MANY of them referred to the publ
cation OF details OF the trial and while
the court would exercise no censor
ship over the press. he suggested that
papers should omit the Improper dc.
tails. ms he thought some OF these de.
tails IL published would subject the
papers to exclusion from the mails as
obscene matter. Moreover, II was nj
most calamity to the city of Wash
ington and the country NJ large that
such matter should he carried broad
east into Its homes.
These preliminarles having been FIN
ishcd. Attorney Stoll proceeded to read
the deposition OF Joseph &. Bailey,
clrrn uf the Woodford county circuit
court at Versailles Ky, This drposl
tion showed that the colonel was at.
tending daily To court business In Yer.
sailcs when Miss Pollard testified that
Prockinridgr took her to the house of
Sarah Guest In Lexington; also on
Aug T.. - and ~
The cross examination of the clerk
Rad by Attorney Farrell. Developed
the further information that during
this time Col Breckinridgc had fire
Qucntly driven over from lexington,
returning N night, and sometimes
bringing his wife
one Of the Lexington lawyers, Ed.
ward NJ Wallace, who had been asso.
cated with Col. Brcekinridge In the
defense Of Ollie Brown, which was
being tried ut this time had dcposed
that the colonel WAS present through,
ont the trial, arguing and examinin2
the witnesses, and his statement was
read.
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