Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-14
IN MADELINE'S BEHALF.
Wilson Meets Butterworth's Ar
 guments Point For Point.
BRECKENRIDGE RdUNDLY SCORED

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 The Colonel F1Inehed Tnder the Fiery Ar
 raignment-shafts of Logic, Tipped With Denunciation and Feathered With Flo quence, Were Hurled at the Defendant. | WASHINGTON, April i4-Tke great speech | of Major Ben Butterworth in tie Pollard
 Breckinridge ease was surpassed by the | greater argument of Jud~e Jere Wilson who began the final suSlmary for the | plaintiff. Doubts had been current wheth CT the impression left by the fervent ora tory of the ex-congressman from Ohio | could be eliminated by the matter of fact methods of the eX-congressman from In6i 1 ana. Judge Wilson, however, bears an en 1 viable local reputation as pleader of con vincing power, and everybody was assured of an effort worthy Of one of the most i'm. | portant causes for W alieh he has ever ap- peared.
 The audience which crowded in to hea1 him was in itself a compliment, and the at tention which it gave him was notable flat. tery. Many of the most substantial mem bers of the bar were glad to occupy stand. ing room all day, and congressmen perched on the window stills or pressed their aching backs against the walls, willing to endure any discomforts for the sake of an oppor- tunity to listen. The silence which ore. vailed all day was distinctly noticeable. Even the newspapers which have hereto- fore been constantly rustled during the proceedings were thrust aside unopened Returned Butterworth's Arrows.
 There were some advantages in the sit uation for MT. Wilson which he was most alert to grasp. He had been playmate of Ben Butterworth in boyhood, back in the Miami hills. in the country life which the Quaker politician had 80 effectively conjured with, and he was able to return the same ammunition which had been employed against him and to turn some of his opponents weapons in damaging boom erangs He disclaimed all intention to deal in oratory, and yet he was able to use ora tory of the most effectual kind.
 The defense of Adam was what he called Colonel Breckinridge's position, and to the credit of humanity, he said Adam had always been deemed a coward and a craven. He did not attempt to assert that his client was free from fault, but that just as far as she had strayed from the path of womanly virtue she had been led by the man.
 To appreciate Judge Wilsons speech it I would be necessary to know the man and his methods. He is tall as slender as Sen ator Evarts, with q waist smaller than a woman's when his coat is buttoned around it; face which is covered tight as parch- ment by bronzed skin; an iron gray im- perial and bushy hair of the same tinge. His voice is bass and seems to come from his boots and is frequently broken by a hacking cough.
 He talks slowly, deliberately. He has the facts in the testimony marvelously under command and his ability as straightfor- ward logician is accounted his greatest power On two or three important points he drew logical deductions from the evi- dence which surprised even the lawyers He has long right arm, tipped with an accusing index finger, which serves to drive his deductions home That long bony forefnger was several times leveled in denuuciation of Colonel Breckinridge, which made the Kentucky orator shift un- easily in his chair.
 It was terrible arraignment to which he was subjected, and he would have been something more or less than human had he not shown the effect of it as he did Judge Wilson will continue for an indefi- mite time. and then Judge Bradley will deliver his charge to the jury, and the trial will he-endted hen q verdict is announced Mir. " l-on's voice was low and impress i've as he told the jury that it was his duty to reply to all the defendant had said as witness and through his counsel
 It had been said that the woman in this case was a bawd, wanton and woman of the town, but he promised Io show the jury before he finished that whatever this woman is the defendant was responsiblq for her and for the life she had led Mir. Butterworth had spent seven hours arguing that the woman who he said was 20 years old, had seduced the 41-year-old defend Hnt that she had dragged him from his family, his wife, his home, to the verge of this awful precipice If it was not so SC rious, it would be ludicrous.
 Called Rossell Liar:
 Mir. Wilson had some sharp sparring with Attorney Stoll, and then he went on to speak of the testimony of Rankin Ros- sell He might, he said, have passed by that testimony as did famous lawyer who handled "a most unique liar" by sim ply dismissing him with, May God have mercy on your soul"
 He then characterized Rossells testi mony as "a black, a damnable iea lie nailed to the counter to be written up i'll letters of deepest black against this de fense
 This disposed of all the aspersions upon the character of Madeline Pollard MT Wilson thought, except the unsupported SldltLlGuL O1 luS llclcultdAG t4dU Pollard and James Rhodes had told him that they sustained illicit relations. He discussed the inherent proba abilities of such confidence, saying that Colonel Breckin- ridge was the most agile man he had ever seen on a witness stand: that the colonel had not practiced law 40 years for nothing He (Colonel Breckinridge) knew that if he had said Rhodes made to him a profes- sional communication the court would have sealed his mouth. The statement was the more improbable since all the testimony showed Rhodes to be an honor able, hard working man--a decent man.
 Then MT. Wilson proceeded to attack the credibility of the defendant fiercely. 'He has been equally guilty with my client," declared the 1awyer-"even more so, for he had taken solemn VOW to heav- en, and she had not. He had broken that VOW by his own confession before he ever met Madeline Pollard.
 "He has admitted that he knew Sarah Guess; knew the character of her house, and had been there before he went with Madeline Pollard. He has lived lie for 10 years. His life has been that of faith lessness to the most sacred obligations of life. He, has lived 1ife-of duplicity, of hypocrisy, such as you can't coin words to express the engthl and breadth of His own counsel has characterized him in a way such as l, although my heart Is in this case for this poor, friendless, stricken, homeless girl, could hardly find it in my heart to say.
 "When he comes and makes such a con- fession and then tells this story, how can he expect to find man so creduious as to
 believe its The walls of no temple of jus
 tice ever heard the like of it. He tells yot that he went to Mrs Blackburn intention
 ally to deceive her. He tells you that h went to Moore to tell him lie.
 Not to Be Believed.
 He was married in New York secretly
 and he falsified his own marriage certif1
 cate. The laws of New York compel thes,
 certificates to be filed, and he was an ac
 tive participant in having it kept secret He tells you that when he was pubi,cl, married ha triad tn keen that ,.ar.c,...l n