The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-11

piohhlecu W uluhu boou 10 lcT tHO rum
OF her life; you cannot, with the
thought Of tho mothera aud daughters
in tho land, refuse to mako tho only
possible rOparation 10 this unfortunate
plaintiff"
Reminding them Of tho $4,000,
which tho declaration would allow them
to award, Mr.. Carlisle then closed his
plea, aud Miss Pollard aud her compan.
ion left the room.
Thcn Col. Phil Thompson faced tho
jury.
THOMPSON For THE DEFENSE.
Colonel Thompson started of with
tho proposition that his client was not
responsible for dragging this case Into
court; that 1t was not the province OF
tho jury to punish his client for i'm
morality, although he asked no louiency
at the bur OF public opinion. Who was
it, he asked, who had brought into
court this mass OF filth, spreading it
through the newspapers before tho
daughters OF the family2
~ want you to try this woman as q
bawd aud wanton, as she acknowl-
edged herseli," /" declared Mr.. Thompson.
DO you want TO encourage every
bawd and wanton in the country to
bring their filthy suits into this court
and corrupt the community? =
lie asserted that tho suit had been
brought with revenge as its prompting
motive, aud told the jurymon that il
they had lived with tho woman MS Colo.
mel Breckinridge had, they would not
have taken her into their family, among
thcir daughters, and placed her at the
head OF their table. Every decent man
would sustain tho colonel in his refusal
to do that beginning with Madeline
Pollard's age. since, he said. she had
claimed 10 have been seduced by the
colonel Mt tho age Of seventeen, he in
quired why her mother and the family
Bible had not been brought forward as
,thc best proof OF her ago. Back at that
time, when she claimed she was seven.
teen. she had been associated with
Mollie Shinglcblower, and he could not
understand why SO much had been said
about Molio Shingleblower. who was as
good as the strumpets she had asso-
clated with. 4 good deal had been said
about go many witnesses for the de.
Tense having been in houses OF prostitu-
tion, but Colonel Thompson had no
doubt that many good fellow had
been in such places and could tell the
truth about what happened there as
we'll as ii it had happened in meeting
house.
II people wanted to find out what
happened in these places. they must 20
after the people who had been there.
Turning to the occasion OF tho mock
marriage at Squire Tinslcy's, he said
that Misa Pollard had been in state of
debauchery and drunkenness, although
she claimed that she was sick. People
generally said that they were sick
under such circumstances. Mr.. Thomp-
son had been there himself, he frankly
admitted.
Julian was pretty good sort OF iel-
low, although he had shot out his eyes
In one OF his drunken sproes. He had
not wanted to tell what he knew about
tho girl, but it had been dragged out OF
him and he had half apologized for her,
saying that she was as good as the other
girls in tho locality.
AS he was proceeding to the discus
sion OF subsequent events, he demanded
to know whcre tho plaintiff got go much
money to prosecute this case with. All
the necessary expenses and to hire
these eminent counsel, and he promised
to show that tho woman had been a
money seeker and money getter eyerv
step of the way and was trying to got
money now.
Colonel Thompson did no. believe
that her mother had sold her out to
Rhodes us Chinaman sold his girl. He
had been intimate with her, and was
sending her to school in good faith, in
tending to marry her.
CALLED Down.
Tho counsellor had somc good words
for Hiram kaufman aud John Brandt,
whose characters, he said, had not been
impeached. When Miss Pollard had
denied that che wrote that letter to
Breckinridge she had lied and had lost
her case. The letter showed that he
had come to the school on her invita-
ton. 1t had been said that this timid
little girl would not approach such n
big man as Breckinridge, but abe had
told how sho introduced herself in the
same way to Rossell, telling him that
she had heard OF him from Nellie Oliver
and asked him to take her to the school.
Mrs. Brown had come forward to purify
the atmosphere OF the school, and no.
body could blanc her, because the
plaintiff had left n trail OF impurity be-
hind her wherever she went.
Speaking OF the plaintiffs being under
contract TO Rhodes-"engaged to ono
man and another mans mistress and
billling another out OF his money"
Colonel Thompson exclaimed: And a
school girl at that. My God, il che ever
gets out OF her short dresses what rob-
Der and plundcrer she will be"
Judge Bradley here interrupted the
speech with n remon3trancc.
Now. Mr.. Thompson, please take
care not to use such expressions us
that" ho said.
"What have used your honor?" the
lawyer inquired.
"You said: My Cod" q,
81 beg pardon, that was an inadvert.
cucc"
Colonel Thompson then resumed and
discussed the improbability OF the
young woman accompanying Colonel
Breckenridge to an assicnation house in
Cincinnati, rs she claimed, the day at-
ter drive when he had made improper
advances and she had repulsed him.
AFTER RECESS.
Alter the noon recess Colonel Thomp-
son resumed his speech, characterizing
Miss Pollard as "the most skilliul nd.
ventures who ever made u track
through court room"
He argued from dates that Colonel
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