The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-16

Washington, March 15.-Some sensa-
tional testimony was given in the Pol
lard Breckenridge trial this. morning.
The first witness called was Sarah
Goss. a mulatto woman. She testified
that she was a slave at one time and
had lived in Lexington, KY, since the
late war. She had known Colonel
Breckenridge since she was a little girl.
Ten years ago, she continued, Col.
| Breckenridge began to visit her house
on Broad street, Lexington, with Miss
, Pollard. Before the first visit he
, called and made arrangements to have
Miss Pollard kept there from Friday
+ till Monday.
Each night during the stay Col.
Breckenridge visited Miss Pollard, re-
naming with her till II o'clock at
night. When he was ready to go he
: would knock on the middle door for
witness.
Each time she saw Miss Pollard in
bed with her night dress on, and the
. bed giving evidence of having been oc-
cupied. Witness said that in parting
Breckenridge kissed Miss Pollard good
night, putting his arms around her.
AT that time Miss Pollard was a
school girl II or Is years old with
: dresses to the top of her shoes and
sometimes wearing her hair in plat
, down her back. The question as to
whether Breckenridge ever visited her
, house before was objected to and ruled
improper, but witness answered in the
affirmative before she could be stopped.
l Miss Pollard had never come there with
any other person. Miss Pollard came
: there with Colonel Breckenridge about
fifty times.
t Visited Her for Years.
The visits of Colonel Breckinridge
and Miss Pollard to Sarah's the wit
ness testified was extended over a
8 period of three or four years.
s Colonel Shelby began the cross-ex-
animation by inquiring:
:, Sarah? How long have you been
keeping an designation house in Lex
: ington?" whereupon Sarah responded:
Nearly nineteen years"
'tWho brought you here?" -
"Mr. Farrell telegraphed for me to
: lcome."
How long have you known Mr.. Far
rel?"
"Oh. ever since he was lineman, .
answered the witness, a reply which
drew visible blush to the cheeks of
u the attorney because the witness per-
e sisted in smiling.
5, From School to Shame.
The first visit of the colonel and
Miss Pollard had been in the latter
part of August, and Sarah understood
that the girl had been brought from
- school, as most of the schools were
closed from Friday to Monday. Colonel
Breckenridge had said the girl came on
IS a train
d The next witness was a well-dressed
20 lady, Lucretia Marie Minear, of Wash
- lington, whose voice trembled as she
u ANNOUNCED she had lived at 25 Lafay-
s. cite square, the fashionable boarding
g house between the Cosmos club and
is Senator Don Cameron'S residence, and
n but one door from the Blaine mansion
"a where Miss Pollard had boarded in
y 1892 and 1893. Colonel Breckenridge
=, had often visited Miss Pollard at the
% house. The witness, it appeared, was
the landlady of the Lafayette Square
,, house. Mrs Minear had last seen Miss
- Pollard walking in the park with Col
- onel breckenridge in April or May OF
- 1888 On two occasions Colonel Breck-
:, Iinridge had brought Miss Pollard
~ home in the evening at or $3.50.
Ie Still Pursuing Her.
J., Mrs. Kate w. Burt, stout middle
lie aged lady clerk in the land office, had
I'd When Mr.. Wilson asked her if Miss
" Pollard had lived there and under
what name, Mrs. Burt expressed a de.
> sire to see Miss Pollard. The plaintiff
) had just left the court room with hel
n COMPANION and Mr.. Carlisle sent after
s. son explained that Miss Pollard was
9, not feeling well, and he had advised
s; her to go to her room. So the witness
Z, was excused until 2 o'clock.
E. Soon, however, Miss Pollard re
a, turned, and Mr. Wilson went in search
2; of the witness and Mr.. Carlisle. Mrs
a. Burt recognized Miss Pollard and sale
she had lived at Thirteenth and F
streets for ten days in October, 1887
under the name of Mrs. Foster. The
witness had seen Colonel Breckenridge
at the door twice and he had gone t.
Mrs. Fosters room on the third,
do you know what Mrs. Foster
Of condition was, whether there wers in
IN dications that she was about to becom
g. a mother?" asked Mr. Wilson.
eyes," was the almost inaudible re
x ibid Colonel Breckenridge ask if San
u Walter, of Kentucky, was livini
"a there?" asked Colonel Thompson Of
te cross-examination, to which Mrs
.ss Burt said he had, but that Sam Waite
~ wss dead.
e After this, Mr.. Carlisle partly emp
" tied the court room be beginning to real
e a deposition by Mrs NJ A. Ketchun
oI of Lexington, with whom Miss Polar
ai had boarded in 1884, 1885 and 1886, dur
ling the time she attended the Sayr
institute. Colonel Breckenridge mani
tested Impotence at the trivial details
ge Urging the lawyers to skip them an
It. hurry up.
where Rhodes Comes In.
The deposition of Miss Mary F. Hoy
10 years of age, who lived with he
ne sister, Mrs. Ketehum, followed. 7
Id her Miss Pollard had reported that sh
a had left the Wesleyan institute an
:. had come to school in Lexington,to
nc nearer her mother. Miss Pollard ha
O. said her. expenses were paid by he
d, aunts in Pittsburg, and when she lei
to at the time the first child is said t
to have been born, declared she was &c
ing to the Mardi Gras with an aun
ed who was in delicate health. Rhode
ne had visited Miss Pollard and the gil
is had once said he offered to pay he
school expenses if she would MARI
him, but did not say whether she ha
agreed or not. The old lady had bee
OF asked if James Lane Allen. or Colont
r Swope had visited Miss Pollard an
had answered in the negative 1t woul