The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-06
AUNTY KNEW HIM.
Recognized Miss Pol1ard's
Friend By the Child
Born in Her House.
DIDN'T SAY IT MAS BRECKENRIDGE
DR.. Parsons Pinned the Name to
the Child's Dress as 1t Was
Taken Away.


Taken Away.
WASHINGTON, April 6, 1894-There were
not forty persons in attendance on the
Breckinridg Pollard trial this morning, be-
parties to the cause.
Mrs. Mlnear, who was the last witness on
the stand yesterday afternoon, was to be the
first witness this morning, but after waiting
about 20 minutes for her to appear the Court
decided to call DR.. Mary Parsons, the bright
looking little physician, who says she at
tended Miss Pollard at the birth of her child
of February 8, 1888. She was called by the
plaintiff, but the de Tense made hard fight
to who wrote the slip of paper
pinned to the dress of the baby
which was brought to the Washington
Founding Asylum. Finally Dr. Parsons
was allowed to testify. She said that she
went to the Founding Asylum in a cab, and
that Aunt Mary Mckenzie, colored mid
wife, carried the baby into the asylum.
The baby, said the witness, was the one born
to the plaintiff
When she had gone that far, Major Shelby,
for the defence, made another fight against
testimony as to the Identification of the
handwriting on the slip of paper, holding
that it was not evidence in rebuttal, and
that it did not matter whether
Miss Pollard or anybody else wrote
Miss Pollard says she wrote the name
"Diest Carlyle on the paper, while the paper
itself has on it s'Dietz Downing Judge
Bradley decided to admit the evidence of
Mrs. Parsons, and Mr.. Carlisle showed to
the witness the slip of paper pasted in the
founding asylum book with the name
"Dietz Downing written on it.
s'Do YOU recognize that handwritingg' said
Mr.. Carlisle
That is my handwriting" said DR.. Par
sons
To Major Shelby she said that she had
given the slip to ''Aunt Mary" to pin on the
child. She examined the slip and said that
there were pin holes in it, Indicating that it
had been pinned to something.
"AUNTo MARY NJ 'KENzIE'S TESTIMONY
s'Aunt' Mary Mckenzie was the next wit
ness. She is an old colored woman and she
testified that she knew the plaintiff in Feb
ruary, 1888, as HMrs. Hall, . when she gave
birth to child at the house of the
witness on Second street in this
city. ''Mrs Hail." she said was also suffer
ing from heart trouble. Aunt Mary said
that Dr. Parson attended ssMrs Hallp in her
confinement and described taking the child
to the asylum.
did you ever see Mr.. Halls" asked Mr..
Carlisle
Never until now, but recognize him by
the child, = said Aunt Mary. She was look
ing straight and did not indicate Colonel
Breckenridge or any other person present.
Aunt Mary was made to describe her house,
but the defense objected to allowing her to
answer whether she had tried to see Mr..
Hall, and the witness stepped down.
Mrs Minear was then recalled to disprove
the testimony of Colonel Breckenridge that
Miss Pollard was not in Washington on lone
time fixed by the plaintiff when the first al
legged promise of marriage was made. Mrs.
Minear produced her boarding house ac-
count book, which showed that Miss Pollard
had returned to Washington on August
81, 1892 The plaintiff claimed that she
reached Washington during the last week in
August of that year from trip North, and
station and proposed marriage that day in a
carriage.
ATTORNEY CARLISLES SURPRISE
Much to the surprise of everybody the
next witness was Mr.. Calderon Carlisle,
Miss Pollard's junior counsel. He took the
oath and was asked by Judge Wilson to tell
the circumstances relating to the discovery
OF UQe OuFlSGllldS cara, WHICH, IL Is
claimed was found by Miss Pollard in books
she had given to the Norwood Founding
Asylum The deposition of Sister Agnes,
which was read some days ago, conveyed
the inference that Miss Pollard or one
of the attorneys who were with her when
she visited the N,sylum last December, had
put the card ia The book to more clearly
Identify her with the asylum and to help
the plaintiffs case.
Mr.. Carlisle said that when he went
to the sasylum with Miss Pollard and
Mr.. johnson only he and Sister Augustine
touched the books in which the card was
found Miss Pollard and Mr. johnson were
about ten feet away from the table where
the books were. Mr.. Carlisle said he opened
one of the books and found the Christmas
card, which was then not turned at the
edges or mutilated as it was now
It was enclosed in a pasteboai cover, with
an invisible net, which Miss Pollard recog-
nized as one she had worn, and some dead
flowers. The defence had tried to
show, by expert testimony, that the
words written on the card were written
within few years and surely not so long
ago as 1885, and in reference to this Mr.
Carlisle said:-sT swear to you on
oath that these words 'Compl-
ments of W. S. d. were writ
ten in this card when | took it from that
book, and that no one but myself could have
put the writing there during the time we
were in the library" W.
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