Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-23
But LITTLE NEW
In the Suit Of Madeline Against
Her Loving Willie.
Dispositions Show That She Either
Was Mistaken or Lied.
Interest in Trial Mas Fag+ on sines Made
line Left s|stand.

day and spent the minutes proceeding TIM
appearance of Judge Bradley in chatting
earnestly with her counsel. She smiled
occasionally and seemed in very good spirits
Miss Pollard and her companion, Mis-
Ellis, remained only about Is minutes ant
then left the court room.
The day opened withou indicati of in
teresting proceedings, for the spectator
who have attended the trial have found thai
documentary testimony, no matter how sen
sational, does not compare in dramatic
effect with evidence given on the stand.
The deposition of Sister Augustine wa
first read. Sister Augustine was connected
with St. Joseph's foundliDg asylum nea
Cincinnati in 1885, at the time when Mis-
Pollard claims she was confined there. Sh'
testified that she knew only of one Louise
Wilson who had been an inmate of thu
asylum when the deposition was given. She
had never heard of Madeline Pollard as 81
inmate. She did not remember having seel
any girl who was at the asylum in May
and June, 1885, who remained veiled and
who gave birth to child, except one, ant
that woman was not Madeline Pollard
This woman, Sister Augustine said, hat
lived in Kentucky for while, but was from
the far north and had family of children
Mr.. Carlisle and Mr.. johnson of thu
plaintiffs counsel had called at the asylum
in December, 1898. with Miss Pollard, sale
the depOnent, but she could not remember
Miss Pollard. Sister Agnes, said Sistel
Augustine, told Miss Pollard that she was
a bad woman, she said it to her face. Mis-
Pollard said she had been bad girl, bu
she was not bad woman. Sister Agnes
continued Sister Augustine, was very sharI
and very shrewd, and would certainly have
known Miss Pollard had she been an in
mate of the asylum.
Incidents connected with the visit Of
Miss Pollard which were narrated by Sistel
Agnes in the deposition read yesterday
were told by Sister Augustine. Miss Pol
lard or her lawyers had told the deponen'
that Miss Pollard had been the asylum un
der the name of Louise Wilson, but there
was no such name on the books. She
found the name of Miss. Burgwynn as hav
ing been confined on May Goth, 1885, the
day Miss Pollard claims to have given birtf
to child. Miss Burgwynn or Burgoynt
is one of the names Miss Pollard says she
assumed while enciente in Cincinnati.
The entry in the asylum books showed
that Miss Burgwynn had left the asylum
June 30lh, while Miss Pollard claims she
left the asylum within two weeks after hel
child was born.
When Sister Augustine read the name oi
Miss Burgwynn during the visit of Miss
Pollard 10 December, 1898, Miss Pollard
said: "Oh, yes, that is the name; 1 had 81
many names I cannot remember them all. ,
tsM Da1 ~ <ho Pnr
goype,' added Sister Augustine.
"Do you believe that Madeline Pollard
is Miss Burgwynn?" was asked of the de-
ponent.
mo, sir, believe she is not. Miss
Burgwynn was much smaller than Miss
Pollard"
During the visit of Miss Pollard to the
tsylum, she asked where the child of Miss
Burgwynn was and was told it died In July
1888.
"Then," said Sister Augustine, "she put
1er hands to her face and ran out of the
room. l supposed grieving over the deatf
Of her child"
A number of the questions asked Sister
Augustine by Mr.. S,oll. who was present Al
the taking of the deposition, we're in refer
cuCc W a Vlolt " hnC dSy W ouy
Mallon of the plaintiffs counsel, what h.
looked like, what he asked, what he tried tt
6nd out and other pertinent questions.
Part of the deposition was devoted to the
finding of Christmas card in one of the
volumes of Irving which Miss Pollard
claimed to have presented to the asylum
library when she was there. Sister Angus
tine said she did not know whether Miss
Pollard could have slipped the card in the
book, but nobody was watching her.
The card was produced in court and
shown to the jurymen. This card Miss
Pollard claims, was given to her by Lex
ington man, and that she placed it 10 one of
the Irving volumes while confined in the
ssylum. When the trial began the counsel
for Miss Pollard irsisted on the produ ction
of the four volumes of Irving. which Sister
Augustine had given to Mr.. Stoll, of the
defence, to take to Washington, and there
was a legal controversy before the matter
was settled by an order from Judge Brad
lev for the production OF the books.
Judge Wilson. Miss Polla,d' attorney,
said with some heat at the time, when
called on to more fully identify the vol
umes mentioned, that they we're the books
IrOu W ulCu WI CbuAl hhA t1AcH . SIilSt-
mas card which would have great bearing
in the case. The four books and the Christ
mas card are beginning to play an import
ant part in the trial. Miss Pollard said, in
identifying herself with the asylum, that
when she was there she saw statue of St.
Joseph with ga cross eye or one bad eye,
or concealed eye or something the matter
with his eye." Sister Augustine said that
there was . statue of St. Joseph at the asy-
lum but its eyes were all right.
Mr.. Stoll then read the deposition Of
Mrs. Lena Schmidt, . nurse at the found
hing asylum, who testified that she did not
remember anyone named Louise Wilson at
the asylum and could not recognize Miss
Pollard when she saw her in December,
1892, ~ the one she had seen before. Mr..
Stoll read the deposition Of DR.. W. E.
Decourcey. There was nothing of import
ance in this deposition.
Orvin G. Brown, president of the Quinn
Valley college. son Of DR.. w. K. Brown,
president of Wesleyan college in Cincin-
natl, where Miss Pollard was . student, de-
posed that he frst knew Miss Pollard in the
fall Of 1888, when she came to Wesleyan
college, where he was then. Her board