The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-07
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Mrs. DR.. Parsons Tells Her Story of
the Baby Sent to the Founding
Asylum and the Paper Pinned to
Its Dress - OaIderon Carlisle Testi-
fes Concerning the Christmas Gard
Found in the Books at Cincinnati.
Washington, April 6.-The curtain was
rung down on the most interesting scene
of the Pollard Breckenridge case to-day,
when the last of the evidence was sub
mitted to tho jury. 1t was a sort of q
clearing up day, like the last act in a
play, when explanations and reconcilia-
tions are in order, and the session of the
circuit court differed from the dramas
conclusion only in the absence of an ad-
justment of the differences of the princi.
pal actors. That will be left to the jury
Col. Breckenridge was the last witness
of the trial. Like Miss Pollard, who had
preceded him, he denied pretty much
everything she and her witnesses had
said, just as she had most emphatically
denied ali his leading statements and
those put forward ON his behalf.
ATTORNEYS on THE STAND.
The plaintiffs attorneys, Calderon
Carlisle and Mr.. johnson, took the stand
and testified that there was no truth in
the interference put forward by the de-
fense, that one or the other of them, or
the plaintiff, had slipped a Christmas
card of Miss Pollard s into a book at the
Norwood founding asylum Of Cincinnati
to strengthen her claim that she had been
there in her confinement. and there was
more testimony about the baby born In
| Washington on Feb. 8, 1888, to Miss Pol
lard, or Mrs. H0ll,'' as she called her
| self which died two months later at the
Washington founding asylum.
SENSATION NARROWLY AvERTED
A sensation was narrowly averted at
the morning session, when old aunt Mary,
the coloredl midwife who 3ttended Mrs
| Hall" said she had never seen Mr.. Hall"
until that moment, when she recognized
him by the child.'
Tomorrow prayers for Instructions to
the jury will ce submitted to Judge Brad
ley, and arguments thereon will consume
the day.
Monday the argument to the jury will
begin. The case may perhaps go the jury
on Wednesday, but probably not until
Thursday. Mr. Calderon Carlisle will
| Thompson for the defense.
| Mai Ben Butterworth will make the
closing argument Tor the defense and
| Judge Jere Wilson will close the case
! with his argument for the plaintiff
Not forty persons were in attendance
| on the trial this morning besides the
newspaper men aP9 interested parties to
the case.
DE-. PARSONS TAKES THE STAND.
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stand yesterday afternoon. was to be the
first witness this morning, but after
waiting about twenty minutes for her to
appear, the court decided TO call Dr. Mary
Parsons, bright little physician, who
says she attended Miss Pollard at the
birth of her child on Feb. 3, 1885, She
was called by the plaintiff, but the defense
made hard fight against allowing her 10
testify as to who wrote on 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 she went
to the founding asylum in a cab, and
! that Aunt Mary Mckenzie. the colored
midwife, carried the baby into the asy-
luln. The baby, said the witness, was
one born to the plaintiff. When she had
| gone that far, Maj. Shelby, for the de-
fense, 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 it. 1t viii be remembered that
Miss Pollard said she wrote the name
Oldest CARLYLE on the paper. while the
1 paper itself has on it "Diet2 Downing
Judge Bradley decided to admit the
| evidence of Mrs. Parsons, and MIR. Car
/ Isle showed to the witness the slip OF
| paper pasted in the founding ASYLUM
| book with the name "Dietz Downing,
written on it.
DO you recognize that handwriting?'
asked Mr.. Carlisle.
THAT is my handwriting, +" said DR.. Par
sons.
10 Maj. Shelby she said she had given
the slip to Aunt Nary to pin on the
child. She examined the slip and said
there were pin holes in it, indicating that
it had. been pinned to something.
ANOTHER COLoRED WITNESS.
"Aunt" Mary Mckenzie was the next
| witness. She is an old colorcd woman.
and testified that she worked for the
plaintiff in February, 1888, as Mrs Hall, "
when she gave birth to child at the
house Of the witness on Second street in
this city. Mrs. Hail." she sand, was
also suffering from heart troublen Aunt
Mary said that Dr. Parsons attended
Mrs Hail. in her confinement, and she
described the taking Of the child TO the
asylum.
Mrs. Minear was recalled to disprove
| the testimony of Col. Breeknridge that
Miss Pollard was not in Washington on
''one of the last days in August, 1892, ,"
the time hxed by the plaintiff when the
first alleged promise of marriage was
made Mrs. Minear produced her board
ing house account book, which showed
that Miss Pollard had returned TO Wash
ington on Aug. 81, 1899. The plaintiff
claimed that she reached Washington
during the last week in August in that
year from a trip north, and that Col.
Breckinridge met her at the station and
proposed marriage that day in a carriage.
CARLISLE AND THE CARD.
Much TO the surprise of everybody, the
next witness was Calderon Carlisle, Miss
| Pollard's junior counsel. He took the
oath and was asked by Judge Wilson to
tell the circumstances relating to the dis
covery OF the Christmas card, which it 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 an inference that Miss
Pollard, or ono of the attorneys who were
with her when she visited the asylum
last December, had put the card in the
book to more clearly identify
her with the ASYLUM and