Connecticut western news., 1894-04-12
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plaintiff was a resident of Kentucky, of the same congressional district as the de- fendant, who came to Washington merely as temporary representative of that state The plaintiff was friendless wom- an of humble birth, the defendant, a man of national reputation. Later it would be the duty of the speaker to say what the community had right to expect of the defendant and how greatly had it been to his interest to find everything he could against the character of the poor girl.
 Mr. Carlisle, who has himself been the master of one of the leading Masonic lodges of the city, reminded the jury of the Mason ic funeral of Mir. Pollard. Colonel Breckin- ridge had known her father and, accord ing to bis version of that first meeting on the train, had inquired for him, apologiz- ing wien he was told that the father had died.
 The lawyer sketched the early life of Miss Pollard as disclosed by the testimony "a life free from islander or reproach until she had met the colonel.
 He thought he might as we'll first as last refer to the attempts which had been made to discredit the early life of Miss Pollard. Referring to Mrs. Miller, formerly Mollie Shinglebower, who had said that Miss Pollard was making free with men back
 
 asked the jury to disbelieve the woman on the ground of her own disclosures regard ing her character, but that was unneoes- sary, since it had been conclusively proved by Dr. Cowan of Pittsburg that Miss Pol lard had been in his city instead of in Ken lucky from 1876 to 1880.
 The dispositions of Hiram Kaufman and John Brandt might have been discredited on the same grounds of their own admis- sions concerning their character when they pretended to say that the plaintiff had been guilty of certain acts of miscon- duct in the house of an alleged Lena Sim gleton in 1888, but this was not necessary. Not only had Miss Pollard's cousins de- scribed the manner of her life in these years, but two reputable witnesses from Lexington had told that no such woman or such house was at that part of Upper street. Doubtless the jury had formed an opinion of the character of Rankin Ros- sell, who made the last attack upon Miss Pollard-a man who had testified that in the open parlors of a female seminary he had held on his lap for an hour and half the plaintiff, who was engaged to him at that time.
 An Illustrated Point. Then Attorney Carlisle drew from his | pocket tintype, saying: ''Gentlemen, here is the picture brought here by Mrs. Brown of the plaintiff, taken with her daughter in that summer of iSS4-a girl with dresses | up to the tops of her shoes, girl in mourn | ing for her sister. That is the girl upon | whom the defendant would place more | than half the blame for this affair" The jury took the tintype and were ex- amining it closely while Mir. Carlisle con- tinued, Look at that girl, and then look at the plaintiff, rememb bering how little the testimony says she has changed since | then"
 The white haired Kentucky congressman | sat facing the jury, so they had no trouble in seeing him as they lifted their faces as though pulled by one string. Taking ur that meeting in the train where first ths lives of the two came together, and where their testimony began to differ, as they | said, the lawyer remarked: He has told | you that there was nothing improper then | in her conduct-nothing to alarm him. He had borne. as he has phrased it, the burden of local offices; had been a lawyer 23 years, and an experienced lawyer; had been tried by the fires of war; had such an experience in what he had seen and known | as few men have who have arrived at the age of 4. As he tells you he had happy home and was beloved by his wife and ! children, he confesses that no man ever had less excuse for what he did; that nc l man has had greater advantages; that ns