Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-03

iHe prCusiL c1icam.IsnIes a1l1 eulEoLh1-
Is of rAe CASE"
..It you'll
TIE August day that he an Miss Pollsri
took the carriage ride. said Col. Breckin-
ridge. was warnl aad he did 10, have any
| affection OF The .h.oat, as Miss Pollard said
be toll her.
DONE rou think il quite unnatural rhst
| man shOu d get clo-ei carriage on hoI
| August eyenjns for driye with Ia6y 2:
| II douG know that II was. | have no
| recollection nor Of v hat sors CT cafri1ge
| | selected: it may have been something in
| lie drivers srpesrance that attracted NE.
/ dill not eonsiier whether it vas open or
closed" Witness said: Her whole talk
was Of her ambi N 70 become an aufhore.s
AMI she held George EiioInp as an example
81 ali sha woaid Ike ID be
"Dii sic express surprise vhen you pat
your ann about hsr:" ak 4 Jutg Wilson.
She did not"
Did she encourage you:'
II cannot say she did
What dM she say when you pnt your
arm sbou: and drew her 10 ycu:'
Not word"
Can you give Us an idea OF how long
yoa held her in your arms"
| The en'i-e transact IN was not long,
| dUriog wkich, to ms recollection, not
word was said. II was not a matter of
time that held her there and then drew
h re into nv lap"
| Col. Breekinri lge sail he hal immoral
| relations IN women during his married
| life, and after Ju lge Wilson made state
ment of what such coaduct on the part of a
married man meant, Col. Breckenridge
sail
| That is all true, and more than you said.
| There never lived a man who had less ex
cuse for doing what did. than had. No
| form in which you ceoll put the question
could clake ME wish 70 piliiate in the
slightest degree the conditions surrounding
me at thst time. have no defense TO make
for it; but that it happened that way"
| Much Of the EXAMINATION that followed is
unsuitable for general publication. 1t Pc
latad to the seduction part of the pliiatiffs
petition and the defendant gave a categofi-
cal denial of that part of the case in all its
phases. He continued
"Tha. act happened in the circumstances
| narrated and the punishment | have re-
ceived for it is the punishment shall have
to submit: to. There was but one possible
thing that did not dc serve for my punish
ment, ami which | did most positively re-
fuse to accept. AMI that was TO marry the
woman with whom had that transaction
| Miss Pollard left the courtroom al this
point
Col. Breckinri lge said that when the
train on which Miss Pollard and himself
went to Lexington in August, 1854, was
nearing Lexington, Miss Pollard said she
did not know whether she would get off at
Lexir gton or 90 to Frankfort. and he sail:
well, If you stay over at Lexington, to-
night, why cannot we meet?'
She agreed, and | said, DO you know
of any place in Lexington where you would
be willing to trust yours slf:' and she said,
Sarah Cess turaed to her with some
surprise and asked, what do you know
about Sarah Cess She said she had been
there once with Mr.. Rodes.'
did you know houses in Lexington of
the character of Sarah Cess place" asked
Judge Wilson.
Not in the sense of being known at any
one of them" said Col. Breckenridge. 81
| did know of Sarah Cess place and should
not have taken any young woman there or
allowed her to be placed in the power of
such woman as Sarah Cess
/ Gel. Breckinri iga said be spent the day
after lac and Miss Pollard mt at Sarah
| Cess, at hi. home. 1t was Sunday add
he did rot e, t. church. That night he went
to see the piaiouf at Sarah Cess.
! Col Breckenridge sad that between Au-
gust 4, 1891 ard the follow ing October,
,he immoral rel tons between Miss POI
lard ard himself were not m,intained. He
,ad he met her at the gate Of SAvrp iasti
tuie, anil they agreed to meet in Cincinnati
sud so To the ass'gultiDu house of Mrs.
Rose. Witness said that daring the two
years he scenupani d the p'sintilf not more
/ than six, perheps only four tm,s $, to the
, Rose h-use. Every meeting | had with
| plaintiff was parely acct !entat,' he addel
witness was asked il he knew a person
who dii t, pewritiHg 10 th' corridors of the
| Capitol, who's name vas 81 en-. lie said
he ing5; know her if he saw her, but ill
rot remember her hv nams. Judge Wit
son asked tn witness if he had . sister in
|. ,uisvt'je. Col. Breckiaridge sud he had
sister Msrythere.
Have you a sitter Louise: asked Judge
wilson.
II have net
! Did you ever take letter TO a type
writer IN the CAPITOL for coming, I'D
| dressed, My dear sisEcr Lo1lse
Il don't ec1lle,t sanling such letter.
| have si.ter-il law whose name is Louise,
| call her Lou
1t was the belief of those who have fol-
lowed the conrse CT the nal that Judge
Wilson wanted to prove that Ny lear
! sister louise" meant II. ai e wilson" the
name which Miss Pollard says she sssnm ID
| in Cincinnati after her confinement in 1855.
The defense tired to prove that Miss Polls
dill not give birth to a chi i in Cincinnati,
bat Il at he heard a girl named I.ouse
Wilson was 1t ST. joss pha founding
asylum and had pretended it was her as
sumad name
"ln th>t letter asked JUICE Wilson.
dill YOU nat sag you we're looking forward
to the time when you would ct home AID
that Won were anticits'inz With pleasure
the meeti- 2 with this corre'p7n4ent. Won
described "a NY lesr sister l.oHise 2 p"
II have not the slightest recollection Of
ever having written such litter. If YOU
csn produce the lstter so that eau re-
feesh my n-r,p-y, ~ili be z'st II saf
wte;heT wro'e it, |, so.s not souni j ke
my correspondence. / don'i believe any
such letter was evsr in existence
! There MANY obi c'i ne II Judge Wilson's
I no. I Il