Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-22

contract that Miss Pollard might be able
10 terminate relations with the defend
ant, and with this the statement closed.
Mr.. Wilson attempted to reply 10 the
statement that ii would be shown that
Miss Pollard had visited a house OF
assignation with men other than the
defendant, but was not permitted to.
Thereupon Attorney Stoll, who mas
been
COMPARED TO BILL NTE
in facial contour, started to read the
deposition of Sister Agnes Brown, when
the plaintiffs $ attorneys interrupted
him, insisting upon the exercise OF their
right to examine the deposition before
it was read, They had no objections on
a casual glance.
The deposition had been taken at the
Norwood Convent Asylum, near Cincin-
natl, where the Sister had been In 1888.
She had seen all the inmates, some OF
them were yelled when they went on
the street, but none were yelled from
her. There was one who had been
yelled from the physician who attended
her, but that was in 1884. Deponent
did not know Madeline Pollard but had
for the first time seen her in December,
1898. in the library next to the office
witt Messrs. Carlisle and Johnson, her
ATTORNEYS, when Miss Pollard had asked II
the Sister knew her, but the Sister ala
not. Deponent questioned her, but she
did not remember the Sister, nor who
had been the Mother Superior. Miss
Pollard had said that she went under
the name Of Louise Wilson, but when
the Sister said that no Louise Wilson
had been there, but that girl named
Burgeyne had a child there at that
time, Miss Pollard had replied, "Oh,
that was the name I went by. There
we're so many of them did not remem-
ber."
Then Miss Pollard had asked what
had become OF the child, had been told
that it died the next July and had then
GONE INTO MYSTERIES.
Miss Pollard had remembered the death
of girl while she was there, but had
forgotten the death OF a sister who died
in a room near bv. The Sister had said
that Miss Pollard had never been there
and did not seem to know much about
the house. Miss Pollard had spoken II
giving the volumes of Washington lrv-
ing to the convent, the Sister had said
she thought the books were given by a
girl who had been there and who
thought she had not compensated them
sufficiently for hersboard. They found
them ia the library. Miss Pollard re-
membered having left Christmas card
for man named Davis in one Of the
books which she found. From the
questions propouuded by the attorneys
for the defendont at that time IL seemed
that they had tried to throw suspicion
upon attorney Carlisle, OF having slipped
the card into the book. The Sister had
said that the card had not the appear
ance of having been in a book nine
years, but looked as though it had been
rolled up. Miss Pollard had said
that when the Sister suggest
ed compromise that Mr.. Breckinridge
had no money and that she was suing
to digrace him. The Sister had said
that MIR. Breckenridge would still be
Mr.. Breckenridge after the trial, that
his friends would still receive him,
while the woman would be ruined. At
torney Johnson had said: But he will
not be called upon to address young la
dies, seminaries and open prayer meet
ings," to which the Sister had replied
that she presumed there were others AZ
prayer meetings as bad as MIR. Breckin-
ridge was accused OF being.
Miss Pollard remembered having
spoken to the Priest at Convent snd
that he was deaf The Sister Superior
had reproved her for speaking to him.
The Sister denied that
MRS. DR.. STREET HAD NEVER CALLED
there to see patient.
Mr.. Carlisle had brought letter OF
introd duction to the Sister from Arch
bishop Elder, who wrote that they had
been recommended 10 him by Bishop
Keane, OF Washington. Attorney Over
meyer, of Cincinnati, had called at the
convent looking for the evidence in the
case Of Miss Pollard, but said that he
must send some startling message TO
Miss Pollard's attorney, that he had
been able to find no trace of her. A
servant named Eliza had been able to
recolleet Miss Pollard al first, but after
ward when the Sister cautioned her to
be careful, acted as though she might
not remember her.
Sister Agnes had said to Miss Pollard:
''What bad girl you have been to go
with 4 man who had wife" to which
Miss Pollard had replied: II have been
pad girl, but q better woman"
No inquiries had been made by Miss
Pollard so far as the Sister knew about
the child she claimed 10 have given
birth TO there. As the Sister remem-
bered Miss Burgoyne. she had been
shorter than Miss Pollard and lighter,
had seemed very fond of reading and
spent most of her time in the library.
Miss Burgoyne had been from an Ohio
town and had been attended by DR.. De-
Courcey.
THE GIRL WHO GAVE THE BooKs
had said when she was there that there
was enough money wrapped up with
them to pay for her burial il she died,
so that no one would know who she was.
The cross-examinati0n OF this Sister
was read by Mr. Carlisle, the Sister say
ing that the writing on the card lOOkea,
Il