St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-02
FORTNIGHT MORE OF IT.
EcKiNRiOcE SCANDAL TO, COW
TIYUE TWO WEEKS.
COLONEL STILL ON THE STAND

All OF Today May Be Taken Up
With His Direct Testimony,
and Tomorrow He Will he Put
Under the Fire of Cross Tx
aminer Wilson Madeline til
Testify Again.
WASHINGTON, April although
the Observation-Disclosures scantial lfas
dragged through the circuit court for
three weeks, to the exclusion of other
cases which are equally as important
from financial point, it promises IL
hold the board for two weeks more.
Judge Bradley has heightened the
daily session of the court by sitting un-
til o'clock in the afternoon. thus
breaking the tlme-honored custom
under which the local courts have al
ways finished work at 3 D. IN. But de-
spite this addition. which, means gain
OF one day in a week, the lawyers do not
expect TO be able to deliver their vale
dictorleS To the jury before the last of
next week. Congressman Breckenridge
will continue OIL Monday the recital of
his version of the nine years intrigue
with Madeline Pollard. and ne may con-
sumo the entire day i'll rounding Out
his story, after which he Will pass into
The hands of eX-Judge Jere NJ. Wilson
for INSTRUMENTATION. From this i'll
QUESTION the followers of the trial are
anticipating their
CHOICEST ENTERTAINMENT,
for the juriSt and ex- congressman from
Indiana has a well-earned reputation as
the most trying man who could be Sc.
iected from the local bar TO rake wit.
ness. He is no respecter of persons in
the court room, following faithfully the
axiom that all men are equal in tire
eyes OF the law, and he has all unusual
facility at planning traps for a witness.
leading him along different lines OF
inquiry which seem harmless, eOnSid
cred sIngly, and then combining the
conclusions therefrom in one q uestior
which puts the victim on record in
another light. Miss Pollard and i,er
lawyers have busted themselves III
taking notes throughout the colonel'S
testimony, from which they expect tt
draw material for cross-exaininatlon.
The Kentucky colony here has been
keyed up to frenzy of anticipation re.
garding the course that Col. Breckin-
ridge would take in attempting to re-
flute the testimony of Mrs. Blackburn
Had he
ACCUSED THE WIDOW
of the governor of Kentucky of mis-.
stating facts. trouble would have been
likely to follow, for that lady has friends
| of her own family and state who were
expected TO resent any reflections upon
her veracity by other than legal meth
DDS. No such complications have arisen
SO far, and 10 proyOcaton has appeared
for breach Of the peace. LIN the mos
part. Col. Breckinridge'S account of the
episodes to which Mrs. Blackburn was
witness has agreed with her state.
mentS, only he has declared that the
representations of an engagement were
part of preconcerted plan between
himself and Miss Pollard whereby the
young woman could preserve her rep
utatiOn. OF those passages OF tue in
tervlews of which he has given an ac-
count differing from Mrs Blackburn's
he has said automatically that his rec
objection differed from hers. NJ
trouble is expected by the Breckin
ridge forces from the writ signed by
Speaker Crisp, summOning him. ID appear
at the house to help make a quorum fol
ho lou oil alaatinn a
formal statement to the house of the ex
ceedingly important business which de
mands his presence elsewhere viii
| probaly lead the house to make an eX-
ceptIon in his case from the order re
vOking all leaves of absence, which wa.
passed last week. There will be bu
| little testimony for the defense afte
| Col Breckenridge leaves the stand, and
most of that will be in the form of dep
ositions. The rebuttal for the plaintiff
will come, in which
MISS POLLARD HERSELF
will probably take the stand again, ane
the old principaliof theWesleyan college
will be called to refute the testimony Of
| Rankin Rossell. to whom Miss Pollard
was engaged in 1884. DIR. Brown will
testify that Rossell could not have
called to see her two or three times
week, as he said, because the rules o
the school, which were strictly enforced
permitted visitors only Friday nights
and then in the presence of the teachers
and will deuy that Miss Pollard prepared
to go with him to Chicago. as she wa
only permitted to kiss him good-b,
under the search light of teacher
gaze. After the rebuttal there may b.
witnesses for surrebuttal, and final,
will come the closing arguments of tn
attorneys, from whom the city is eX
pecting great efforts at pleading, as TIN
regulations of the gentlemen and thu
material in the case justify. Since tn
belligerent outbreak near the beginning
of the trial. tue personal relations be
tween attorneys have been visibl,
strained, although they have for tn,
most part observed scrupulously TIL
courtesies of the court room. MI
Shelby. the law partner of Congress
man Breckenridge, at whose eXpens
the papers were disposed to make flu
because of his belligerence, has show
himself one of the most mild-mannere
and gentlemanly attorneys in the case
Although he has not expressed regre
at his early action, he has frequentl
deplored the necessity for it, which
under the code of honor which obtain
in his section, made it imperative upo
him to resent the remarks of Mr.. John
son.