The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-03-30

The colonel smiled occasionally as he
spoke. Once he glanced down at the
slender young woman in the first row of
seats before him. That was when he was |
assuring the court that her manner to-
wards him had been perfectly respectful
and very differential, but for the most
part he addressed himself to his attorney,
Major Ben Butterworth, who did the
questioning As for Madeline Pollard,
she never took her eyes from his face.
When Colonel Breckenridge was telling
how he made her accept ten dollar bill
after their first interview she shut her
lips tightly, and would have IN ade a mo-
tion to rise but for the restraining words
of Attorney Carlisle, who sat beside her
The Kentucky congressman got no fur
ther in his story than the first meeting
with Miss Pollard. He held that the young
woman had lured him to her-had met
him more than half way in theirintimacy,
and the ground of his excuse is found in
his words: 81 was man with passion; she
was woman with passion. We were hui
man.
The commotion which ensued when
Colonel BrecBinridge was called to the
stand required all the efforts of the bail
ifs to quiet it. After answering number
less questions as to his antecedents he was
led up to his first meeting with Miss Pol
lard.
"when did you first meet her2" was
asked
"In the spring of 1884 It was a cool
morning on a train between Lexington and
Frankfort. She accosted me in perfectly
proper way. l said 4 suppose | ought to
know you, but young people grow up so
on us we forget their faces She said L
am Madeline Breckenridge Pollard;' that
her father admired my father; that if she
had been a boy he would have named her
John b. As it was, he gave her the
middle name of Breckenridge. She said she
was going to sister, who was dying Of
consumption. | expressed my sympathy
and passed on.
"When did you next meet her?"
| 81 do not re member exactly. received
letter from her / have lost that letter,
! but the substance of it was a request that
i would call on her at the college on some
business Of great importance to her The
substance of my reply was that it would
be inconvenient for me to call at the col
lege, but if / could give her any advice l
would be glad to do so, and if she was in
Lexington she might call. "
! Then he was asked if he had received
frmatively Then the famous black bor-
( dered letter was passed up, and he identi-
, fled it as the letter in question. When he
! visited Miss Pollard at the seminary it
| was on a day that he happened to be in
! Coviugton on business. After dinner, re-
membering the letter of Miss Pollard, he
strOlled up to the college.
Il sent my name up" he said was in
vited to room, and in few moments
the plaintiff came down. We shook hands.
She said she supposed she had astonished
me by the substance of her letter, that it
was worse than divorce case. We took
seats, she on a diyan, on chair, in the
rear of the room. She narrated the cir
cumstances under which she had made
the agreement with Rhodes. l treated the
matter with some levity; said knew of no
law in this day by which she could be COM
PEELED to the specific performance of a
marriage contract She grew grave, looked
as though she felt like crying, took out
her handkerchief, put it to her face and
got up and walked the room. | started to
leave after some expressions of sympatg y,
but she detained me. She said, the pluln-
tiff did, It's much worse than that; it's
much worse than that. He insisted on
marrying me. l did not want to be like
Aunt Lou with house full of children
and unable to educate them. l gave him
higher proof than that contract Then
/ said she ought to marry him any way.
She said, Il can't. / have grown away
from him. l know what other men are,
and his very presence is offensive to me.
/ replied; You can't afford not to marry
him, young girl as you are
''As / stood there with my hat in my
| CHI oil hax az RI IN hf-
| coming an authoress. ! said, 4 don't see
why you can't do that, but you must re
member that this double life (here he as
sumed the stern tone of a moralist) may
come up against you any time, He has
you in his power. A young girl can't af-
ford that You should marry as soon as
you cam She said, 4 won't do that now,
anyway
"Then she said in an entirely proper way,
perfectly proper Colonel Breckenridge
seemed anxious to make assurance doubly
sure on this point), that we might ride. |
asked her if they would let her 60. She
said she was a summer boarder, and she
knew Of no rule against it. Then young
man came into the ROOM whom ! recog-
nized as Mr. Brown We shook hands,
and he said it would be perfectly proper
for US to go. Then l took dinner at the
Burnett House. After dinner / walked up
10 stable and selected a carriage without
any particular thought about what kind
it was. Nothing was said about a closed
carriage or about my having a sore throat
mo allusion, no excuse, nor any reason
lor any excuse"
Then the colonel detailed at great length
! what took place in the carriage Miss Pol
lard's attitude at the outset was very diff
| ferential. There were no protestations Of
love. After they had ridden awhile he took
liberties with her, TO which she offered no
resistance
Just a case of Illicit lover" broke in
! Mr.. ButterwOrth.
''rhat was it, Butterworth; l man, she
| a Momnn-human both of Us -