Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-31

"State what took place between you
and the plaintiff then"
The statement in the New York
World was substantially correct. we
knocked so the door several times.
When no one responded, little talk
took place between the plaintiff aud
myself as 20 what TO do. One sugges-
tion was that she should go to the door
Of a friend, where she expected TO
spend the night. Another suggestion
was that she should wait little while,
20 being Saturday night and Il being
the custom 90 do a little marketing that
night The conclusion was that she
should wait aud I should 20 90 my home
and if Sarah Guess returned IN rea-
sonable time, I Would find her there.
had supper with my family that night.
There was a torch light procession and
some speeches, out / did not make a
speech myself. I walked back TO Sarah
Guesss and found the plaintiff there.
There was 60 be an election the next
Monday and there was some feeling on
both sides
Had YOU made an arrangement TO 90
90 Sarah Guesses, as the plaintiff saldY'
None whatever.
"Was there any conversation about
her schooling and Inducements Of help
held out by y0u?'
"None whatever"
"Was there any
RESISTANCE OR PROTEsTATION
on her part against what was done
there?"
"None whatever. We merely carried
out the arrangements made on the
train. She preferred 20 remain in the
house and avoid any risk or questions
which it might be incOnyeuient 70 an
swer. returned the next night, Sun
day, with some uncertainty whether /
would find her there as she had said If
she could slip away without risk 20 the
house OF her grandfather or uncle she
would do so. I found her there, how
ever, as she said she had not dared 10
take the risk of going away by daylight,
7 remained until about ten o'clock that
night"
"Was there any reference TO Rhodes?'
"I cannot recollect any. Possibly
there was in those two evenings"
"Did you see her Monday morning.
"I did not"
"What was there In her conduct or
appearance 90 indicate that she was not
a matured young wOman?'
Nothing whatever. She was a fully
developed young woman, with nothing
20 indicate that she was not expert
en- ced In the relations OF the sexes"
''Was there anything ever said about
her being seduced by you, or, as it has
been said here,
THAT SHE sEDUCED YOU?'
This question stirred laugh at which
Judge Bradley looked up from his writ
ing aud raped sharply.
LAS % the first, said Col. Breckin-
ridge, smiling in an embarrassed way,
"of course nothing was said. Nor until
the filing OF this suit was anything said
20 the effect that I had seduCed her
physically or otherwise
The witness said that from that time
until he met her with other school girls
OF the Sayre Institute TO Lexington, the
next October, he had not seen or heard
of Miss Pollard. The two old ladies
with whom she boarded there, 80 be
said, "wers perfectly proper, most es-
timable aud respected persons. II the
the plaintiff received any ono IN her
room there at night as she has said, /
know nothing of il. 1t was not l.
While Miss Pollard was absent from
Washington during the spring Of 1883,
when she said thar her first child was
born, witness declared that be had no
kuowledEe OF her whereabouts and no
communication with her. III she had
written 90 him under the nom de plume
of Margaret Dillon be had not received
the letters, nor any box No. f7.
"Did you pay the plaintiff anything
when you parted from her at Sarah
GueSs's2'
'I cannot use the word pay" replied
the Colonel, considerably. 81 paid
the expenses at Sarah GueSs's and pre-
sented her sum, not very large, ont
enough % pay her travelling expenses. "
CONTINUING, he denied all knowledge
OF the correspondence 20 Rhodes alleged
90 have been written, dated from New
Orleans and other places IN the South,
by Miss Pollard, under his direction, nor
had he ever written letter. purporting
20 be from her 10 her mother
OR ANY OTHER PERSON.
Their handwriting was so dissimilar
that it would have been out of the Ques-
tion. The letters from Miss Pollard 70
Rhodes which were read ia court be had
procured from the sister of Rhodes,
through Attorney Tenny, of Lexington.
He had never seen Dr. Mary Street, OF
Cincinnati, now Mrs. Logan, and refer
ring 10 her description o. him as small
man, he said: II was 10 more of a
pigmy then than I sm now" He de-
scribed 10 general way his movements
in the year 1855, until he met Miss Poll
ard I'm August or September, asserting
that he had no knowledge of where she
had been OF the reason for her absence.
In his bovhood be had been acQuaint-
ei with Mr. Rhodes. Instead Of being
iu Cincinnati on Saturday, August -,
1894 when Miss Pollard had testified
they had met az the public library and
aiterward visited an asSignation house,
he had been engaged in Court at Win
chester in the trial of Ollie Brown for
murder. The next week and all that
month be had been greatly engaged.
"Djd YOU meet Miss Pollard after that
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