The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-15

day of the rd-Breckinridge trial
was devoted by the plaintiffs attor-
neys to celebrating the main points al
ready marked out in their case.
There was no sensational incident
nor display of belligerence among The
legal gentlemen.
Miss Pollard was in court during the
morning, but left when DIR. Belle Blu
chanan, of Cincinnati, began to testify
concerning the birth of her first child.
Most OF the day was occupied by the
reading of dispositions from Cincin-
natl physician and one of Miss Pol
lard's school friends.
The testimony of Sister Cecilia was
resumed. The question at issue was the
competency of the Identification of
been Treated in the asylum in CIncln-
natl.
The court ruled out various questions
to bring out this point, and the plain
tiff took exception.
Sister Cecilia testified that two or
three ladies in that retreat yelled their
faces when they thought there was
danger of being recognized by visitors.
The name of Burgoyne, supposed to be
while in the asylum, was unfamiliar
to her. The crOSS-eXaminatio was
brief and unimportant
Kate Terry Kane, of Cincinnati, re-
membered seeing Miss Pollard in the
house in which Mrs. Kane and Mrs.
Doctor Buchanan practiced, as a pa
tient.
DR.. Buchanan, under the name of
Louise Wilson, identified Miss Pollard
pc sitively. Miss Pollard has a miscar-
riage. Mrs. Kane asked her why she
did not marry the author of her mis-
fortune. Miss Pollard replied she could
not He had ruined her and she
loathed him and would not marry him.
Are you married or single?" asked
Mr.. Stoll, beginning the ross-examina-
ton.
81 have been married" responded the
witness. with the emphasis on the
verb. Il married James S. Scherer in
1874, but afterwards secured a divorce
and resumed my maiden name''
When Mr.. Stoil went into the
degree of intimacy between DR..
Buchanan and her partner, DIR.
Street, between 1881 and 1882,
was carrying that too far whereat Miss
Pollard turned to flash upon the Ken
lucky lawyer a significant smile
The cross-eXamination of DR.. Buch-
AMMAN completed the afternoon recess,
the doctor inclining toward sarcasm in
her replies.
An affidavit by Mrs. Wesleyan Rob
ertson, wife of William F. Robertson,
of Cincinnati and daughter of DR..
seminary in 1888 and 1884, was read by
Carlisle The deponent had been
student at the seminary when Madeline
Pollard was there and had been given
by Miss Pollard a letter to be opened
on the night of her graduation in June,
1885. She had last seen the letter when
her husband gave it to Col. Breckin-
ridge without her consent.
Here Mr.. Stoll said before a notary,
that he had the letter and wanted the
court to protect him in the possession
of it and he intended to offer it to wit
ness for identification.
But you did not get it honestly"
witness replied.
The letter was identified by her. Miss
Pollard had said her father was a great
admirer of Mr.. Breckinridge's father;
that she herself admired w. C. P.
Breckenridge greatly, as he then was
THE Star of Kentucky" a statement
which, even at second hand, stirred a
laugh. In the contested letter Miss
Pollard had spoken of her love for a
Professor OYerman. According to wit
ness, Miss Pollard was an exception
ally bright and lady-like girl, and
smart in her studies. Although her ed
ucatiOn in early life had been neglected,
1 thought Miss Pollard was a pure
minded girl as 1 ever met She had
considerably less experience of the ways
of the world than the average young
woman who came to college. My first
impressions were that she had been
taken advantage of and l always re-
tanned them. She spoke of Mr.. Brock
inridge as kind, fatherly old man"
The court adjourned after reading
the letter. which refers ito J. C. Rhodes
offer OF marriage and calls him IAN old
wretch" 1t has already been publish
ed