The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-03-16

| part OF August, and Sarah GEES undcr.
stood that tho girl had been brought
from school, ai most schools wuro c lOscd
from Friday to Monday. Colonel
BFnckinridgo had said that tho girl
canO on train.
The next witness was n well dressed
lady, LucrGtla Mario Muoar, of Wash
ingIon, whose voice trembled ns she
announced tint she had livod at 95 La
iaycttc square, the fashionable board.
Ing house between the Cosmus club and
Senator Don Cameron's residence aud
but ono door from the Blaine mansion,
where Miss Pollard had boarded In 1892
and 1893. Colonel Brocknridgo had
often visited Miss Pollard Rt tho house.
The witness, II appeared. was the land
lady OF the Lafayette square house.
Mrs. Mincar had Inst seen Miss Pollard
walking In the park with Col. BrGCkin-
ridge In April or May OF lS03. On two
occasions Col Brcckinridge had brought
Miss Pollard homo in tho evening at 0
or $3.50.
IDENTIFIED MISS POLLARD.
Mrs. Kate W. Burt, a stout middle
aged lady, n clerk in tho land oillco, had
boarded ut Thirteenth and + streets.
Whom Mr.. Wilson asked II Miss Pollard
had livod thoro and under what name
Mrs. Burt expressed desire TO acG
Miss Pollard.
The plaintiff had just left the court
room with her companion, and Mr.. Car
lislo hastened after her, but did not re-
turn. Mr.. Wilson explained that Miss
Pollard was not feeling we'll, and ne had
advised her to go to her room. So tho
witness was excused until . o'clock.
Soon, however, Miss Pollard returned
and Judge Wilson went in search Of tho
witness and Mr.. Carlisle.
Mrs. Burt recognized Miss Pollard,
and said that she had lived at Thir.
teenth and / streets for ten days in
October, 1857, under the name OF Mrs.
Foster. Tho witness had seen Colonel
Brcckinridsc at the door twice, and he
had gone to Mrs. Fosters room, on tho
third floor.
"Do you know what Mrs. Fosters
condition was. whether there were in
dlcations that she was about TO become
mothcr?" asked Mr.. Wilson.
Yes, was tho almost inaudible reply.
ibid Colonel Breckenridge ask ii Sam
Waltor, OF Kentucky, was living there?"
asked Colonel Thompson on cross.cx-
animation, TO which Mrs. Burt said tina.
ho had, but that Sam Waltor was dead.
After this Mr.. Carlisle partly emptied
tho court room by beginning to read
deposition by Mrs. NJ. A. Ke,chum, OF
Lexington, with whom Miss Pollard
had boarded in 1881. 1885 and 1856,
during the time she attended Sayre in
stiiutc.
MISS HoYT'S DEPOSITION.
Tho deposition OF Miss Mary F. LIoyt,
ssventy-nine years OF age, who lived
with her sister, Mrs. Ketchum, fellow
ed. To her, Miss Pollard had repre-
scnted that she had left the Wesleyan
Institute and had come TO school in
Loxinxton to be nearer her mother.
Miss Pollard had said that her expenses
were paid by her aunt in Pittsburgh
'Hnd.wheusIir left at tho time the first
child is said to have been born, declared
that she was going to the Mardi Graz
with an aunt from Frankfort who was
in delicate health. Rhodes had visited
Miss Pollard and the girl had once said
that he offered to pay her school ex-
expenses ii she would marry him, but
did not say whether she had agreed to
the proposition.
The old lady had been asked il James
Lane Allen or Colonel Swope had
visited Miss Pollard, and had answered
in the negative. 1t would have been
possible for Colonel Swope to call with.
out her knowledge, but not probable.
Miss Pollard had occupied q room
down stairs while the old ladies roomed
up stairs. Another deposition by u aior
II. B. Mcclellan, who had been prin-
c!pal OF Sayre Institute in Lexington
since 1870, vas read. Tho principal
testified that Miss Pollard entered the
school in September, 1854; had always
conducted herself well and had never
been suspected OF being other than
puFo young woman.