Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-04-05
PAID ALL THE BILLS
COL. BRECKINRIDGE CONTINUES
HIS TESTIMONY.
He Said That He Paid Bills at Assig-
nation Houses and Gave Miss Poi-
lard Moncy-Thc Plaintiff Makes u
scene I'm Court and Is Rebuked.

Washington, March 31.-There was an
audience awaiting the second appearance
of Col. Breckenridge on the witness stand
whose interest in him and what he would
have TO say was more intense than that
Of any of the audiences he had ever
fac ed before. Foremost in 1t sal the
plaintiff and her elderly companion, Mrs.
Kills; back of them in double rows, the
lawyers in the case and also Desha
EreSAinridge, the son TO whom the de-
PENDANT had referred in affectionate terms
while detailing the members of his family
yesterday. Further beyond were w
long rows of newspaper men and sketch
Frs waiting to transfer to paper the dit
ferent attitude or the congressman wit
less, and then the ranks of spectators,
most of them members of the bar. Nc
time was lost in sending Col. Breckln
ridge to the stand. He began by testi
flying that he had often given and sen,
Miss Pollard money.
When Gel. Breckenridge said Mr..
Rhodes told him he had been intimate
with Miss Pollard, the plaintiff burst out
crying and said: THAT is a lie. Why
can't he tell the Truth about some
~thingsT She was reproved by the
Judge.
1.-The plaintiff has said that on two OF
S~asions, after protestations of love, yot
said you would marry her if it was posi-
ble," the lawyer queried.
There is not a ~scintilla of truth in
that s~tatement-not a shred. Under nc
circumstances, at nc time was there such
a statement. The plaintiff never allude,
to the possibility of il. Before the dealt
Of my wife there was not a solitary wore
that could be distorted into such a thing
He related how he went to Mrs. Guess
designation house and other places with
the plaintiff, paid the bills and often gave
Miss Pollard money. He continued:
Prom November, 1885, to July, 1887.
there were no improper relations between
US, although l was supporting her. The
ENHANCEMENT really began when she
CT mt to Washington against my will.
frequently said to her as earnestly as
knew how, that the relations between us
eculd only result in public scandal and
perhaps destruction of us both; that her
character, her lack of self-control, her
temper was such that some day there
must come an exposure. l urged her
to go anywhere, where she could study,
Offering to pay her expenses and saying
the burden could be no greater on me
than it was. Several tin es l thought she
had agreed to go, once to Cambridge.
Some of our interviews were more ex.
cessively unpleasant than any words can
describe, She would come to me at the
capitol at my committee room; declare
that she was not going to leave; that she
was going TO have the support owing ia
her. l suppose at times, being excessive.
ly angry, I said things that were hard
and bitter. / knew that the only al
tentative was submission or the destruc.
ton of the lives of those dependent or
me, and let it go on, hoping that to-mor.
row would bring a solution of the prob
lem"
Mr.. Breolinridge related how the
plaintiff had threatened to shoot him and
herself. He finally consented to permit
ting Miss Pollard to tell Mrs. Blackburn
that they were engaged, with the under
standing that the marriage was never to
take place. This, he said was done 10
prevent a scandal and to keep Miss Pol
lard from carrying out her threat of
killing him. He admitted the secret mar
riage to Mrs. Wing, but denied that he
promised, in the presence Of Maj. Moore,