Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-30

Interesting Part Of the Story.
WASHINGTON, ID. C., March %
The attorneys for Madeline Pollard
began the proceedings with a request
that the general order Of the
PROCEEDINGS MIGHT BE VARIED
by permitting two witnesses for the
plaintiff who had been waiting % the
city for a week aud whose private busi-
ness demanded their attention 40 home,
TO testify sc once. The lawyers retired
Cor a conference and on their return an
unced that the request had beon
reed 90.
The first witness was a rOund-iaced
Young man, John BeBckhart of Lex
ingtou, Ky. Attorney Farrell, OF the
same city. conducted the examination.
It developed that in 1852 the witness
bad lived at the northeast corner Of
Third aud Upper streets in that town.
The witness described in detail the
houses on the block fronting on Third
and Upper streets and identified a dia-
gram OF the locality. This is the block
iu which Lena Singleton is said % have
lived, but the witness testified that at
no time between April, 1ss2 and 1857
had such a person lived there AtJ0r-
rey StoI wanted 20 know what this had
20 do with the case and Attorney Far
ren reminded him OF the testimony of
"Y0ur friend Brandt"
From cross-eXaminat,On it appeared
that the neighbOrhOod was a rather
shady one, there being two or three
houses which John termed sporting"
houses in the block. Some Of them he
had never visited, while az The others
he had been an occasional visitor.
"Have you ever been indicted down
there?"
''No. SIR"
"You need not answer hatQuestion,
iE.srpossd Judge Bradley.
The second witness was TAN,
BEwH1sKEEED COLoRED NAN,
stephen Dunn by name, who deals in
furniture. and lives 40 l62 North Upper
street, between Third and Fourth, ia
Lexington. he gave the same line OF
testimony regarding the people who
had dweIt in the vicinity since 1879,
when be moved there. He was conf
Cent that Lena Singleton had never
lived there, and ii she had be would
have known 10.
The deposition OF Mrs. VIM. =. Mil
Ter, of Memphis, Tenn, who claimed
that she and Miss Pollard had been iu-
mates Of Lena S.ngleton's establish
uent in Lexington. occupied she court
uutil after the recess.
Then Mr.. Buttcrworth arose and said:
"CoI Breckinridge will you take the
stand2" and the cOmmot.on which en-
sued required an the efforts of the
baiIf 20 quiet the noise.
Col. Breckinr.dge declared that he
was born near Baltimore, in 1850, that
his father. John q. Breckenridge, soon
afterward moved 90 Jefferson, Pa, 90
accept the presidency of the college,
ad in 1877 90 Lexington, 90 take the
pqstorate of the Presbyterian church.
he had taken his diploma $40 Center
college. lie had practiced law only at
Lexington. after studying in the Office
of Madison O.. Johnson and in Louis
Vile at the Law school, q diploma from
which was "a license 60 practce.
'.When were you marriedI
"On So. Patrjck's day, 1859.
How long did your wife lve2'
'She died in April. 1850, after the
nth of her first child.
"Were YOU in the late war;
eel was" He told OF his various SER
ices I'm the confederate army under
Kirby smith; how he had
RISEN TO THE EANH or COLONEL
and surrendered his regiment of Ken
tuckv cavalry 40 the close of tCe war.
Hs was married the second time, The
rigbt the FederaIs occupied Lexington,
10 Miss Desha. September l9, 1864. lie
had fvs children, four living. Cne son
and one daughter we're with him here.
Here Miss Pollard and Sister Ellis en-
tered. taking seats before the bar 90 the
Fight of the defendant amid O Suodued
rust.ing DO the court room.
Col BreckinridCe said that hs had
practiced with Attorney B K. Butler
from 1874 90 the time of the appointment
of the latter 90 the bench. As matter OF
dutv he had served on the local school
board. afterwards been county proSecu-
,or. was @ member OF boards OF trustees
several educational institutions,
hong them Centre college, but had
YER been q teacher, except in law
.hool. Co which he lectured.
,.Do you know the plaintiH!'
''I do"
..Nhen did you first meet her?'
sIn the spring of 1SS+. 10 was a cool
lorning on q train between Lexington
nd Franklort. I had sn overcoat on
he back seat of the car and as l passed
down the aisle 20 get it she acc0sted me
iu
A PERFECTLY PROPER WAY.
I said: Il suppose j ought GO know you,
but Young persons grow up soon and
we forget their faces She said; II am
Madeline Breckenridge Pollard That
her father admired my father; that II
sbe had been a boy be would have
Domed her John b. AS 10 was, he gave
her the middle name Of Breckinridge.
She said she was going % sister who
yyes diving of consumption. j expressed
nv svmDathy and passed on
t,When did you next meet nerF
,,T do not remember exactly. re-
.aivs6 letter from her. I have lost
tbat letter. but the substanceof 10 was
rsonsst that would call on her at the
-olfegs on some business of great lm-
o-,enee 10 her. The substa#co or my
INV vas that 90 would BED ineconve-
snr for me Co call at the Nis9s' ou'