The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-03-16
MADELINE TESTIFIES
Some More GlimDses of the
DOtiDg Colonel.
He Wanted to Marry Her Right
Away.
'TWASAHABIT HE HAD
When One Wife Died to Get
Another.
'TWASAHABIT HE HAD
Their Relations Of the Clinoing
Kisses Kind.

KISSES IL IIltE-
WASHINGTON, March 16.-Those who
managed to run the gauntlet IF door
keepers into the circuit court this morn
ing were unusually numerous and dis
tinguished in appearance. They were
able to get an early sight of the princi-
pals in the case for Miss Pollard and
Colonel BreckInrldge appeared earlier
than has been their custom. The plain-
tiff looked somewhat worn by the strain
Of the trial. but the stalwart congress
man beamed with his perern al freshness,
and shaking hands with Ine array Of
lawyers and relatives around the tables
Of the defense. while his slender antagO-
mist busted herself with her morning
mail, which seemed to include great
variety Of epistles, the import and sources
Of which can only be cOn1ectured. though
most of them appeared to be written in
feminine hands
Once Miss Pollard turned to flash
quick glance from her black eyes in the
direction of the Kentucky statesman but
did not catch his attention for he was
absorbed in the comments of the morn
ing papers upon his case.
After the lawyers had rustled their
papers for a quarter Of an hour, there
was ripple Of great surprise for no less
a parsonage than the plaintiff herself
walked around to the witness stand,
took a seat directly facing Col Breckin-
ridge and the whole room Of men.
@Aly father was saddler," said shes
cody in response to an Interrogation.
"He died ia 1876"
"Did anything impress his death upon
your mind3" Inquired Dir. Carlisle.
my father was an Odd Fellow, and
Mason, members Of the grand lodges Of
the state attended his funeral"
-IIe left no estate. She continued.
'4Iwo of my sisters We're taken to live in
the Odd Fellows home My mamma
said ! was born on the 3Oth Of N OVEN Der,
She had always supposed that to be
the date of her birth and had attached it
to all her papers on file ia the civil SER
vice bureau
s.alr. Breckinridge endorsed all those
papers, she said. gazing at him.
Nv hen die AR Breckenridge meet
YOU in 1S92rs asked AIr. Carlisle.
sIn one Of the last days of August, 1892.
lie met me at the b. 81 o. depot in Wash
ington. He put his arm around me,
kissed me- drew my arm through bis and
led me to a carriage He told me that all
his children had grown up, that he had
determined to marry me, and / said
would marry him.
She had stopped at 25 Lafayette square
for a few days during that visit had seen
Mr. Breckinridge every day. and added.
"IIe said that he had married his second
wife fourteen months after the death of
his first wife, and year after the death
of mis- second wife would not be toe soon
to marry me.
~ told him we ought not to marry for
TWO years, and proposed to go with Miss
Willard on a school trip for young ladies
ia Europe. He said l must not g0 and
leave him living in rooms, q thing he had
not done Tor thirty years. lie put lt ON
the ground that / would be selfish to 20,
and I did not
A letter dated Gray Gables, Buzzards
Bay NJ as, in October, 1892, from 81 Tss
Catherine Willard. and which referred
TO the proposal that Miss Pollard pin
the European party, was read to the ury.
Col. Breckinridge had paid the ex-
penses of Miss Pollard on her New York
visit in the fal Of 1892. When the col
0nel was in W Washington. she saw him
every few days. The question Of mar
riage was resumed at this time, and all
though no date was fixed, the colonel
always insisted that year after his
wife's death. which would be ia the
spring Of the 1898 would be the most
suitable to him.
Miss Pollard said that once Oh a lee
turing trip to New England She had ac-
c0mpanied Ar Breckinridge. During
her stay at Mrs. Thomas, at 1913 III.
street, w ashin gtOn, 1892 and 1898, she
had seen COL Breckenridge always once
a day, sometimes twice a day, and often
ia the evening.
She had spoken of the engagement
to Mrs. Thomas and she re-
peated the circumstances related
by witness Francis, pronOuncing the
name .F'rawnces' as did the
Young man. Colonel Breckenridge had
expressed regret that she had met
Francis. because he knew many Ken
tuekians, and the engagement would be
spread all over Kentucky before they
were ready to have 1T known.
The visit of Mrs Blackburn was also
rehearsed by Miss Pollard, who declared
that Colonel Breckinridge had intro
duced her to Mrs. Blackburn with these
words:
II want to place this young lady under
your protection. for I intend To make her
my wife. She is a great deal to me now
and viii be great deal more" She re-
/ peated the circumstances of Col Breck-
inridge's visit to Mrs. Blackburn. when
he had explained to her the engagement,
and spoke also of the instance when Col.
! Breckinrldge had placed his arm around
her, saying she was most affectionate
and most kind.
asked AIr. Breckinridge, then, as he
was talking Of going to Chicago, to name
the day vhen he would marry me.
/ think I SneIt down beside him and put
one arm over his shoulder, but Mrs.
Blaclzl urn objected"
1his was on sunday, May II, 1892.
/ The preceding day she had visited the
I office Of DIR. Lincoln with Col. Breckin-
ridge. and the same day went to the of-
ice Of chief Of police, Major Moores a