Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-12
TELEGRAPHlC.
A GENTLE DEFENDER.
Bly,f Bul.1rBorth EIhlusIs Himself
lor BrtCkilrId e.
MS LINE OF ARGUMENT.
Miss Pollard Travels Ninety Miles
with the Colonel to Resist
His Advances.

wAntSaroN, April o. - IL the
the Breckinridgs trial today Major
Ru,tcfworth, whoie mild manner IL
Al, great contrast with his colleague,
began bis remarks by expressing his
,,sufration that tho trial must coon
bs brought to an end. lyon those
Who were to blame for ia being before
the public, the burden must rcsi. Even
TO save tnu lives Of the two nominal
principals, the court could not afford
To deal With such mass u oontagiou.
He would not use harsh language 10
Mics Pollard, but he would that come
gpu had whispered iutO her ear thc
vofis. "Go and sin NJ more"
Bufferwotth spoke VI hls long ao-
1uaiutance with the defendant and
bi audntlon Of defendant waa followed
by applause irIm the spectators.
Judge BrAuiey raped on his deck.
uNow you may clear the courtroom"
he said 10 Il balm, 1--WE have had
enough outiagts IN this courtroom"
No one stirred VI what the Judge
said, At which he exclaimed, Livery
one not number Of the bar will have
10 leave the courtroom"
several men got ~ and started out
but "a ore than haj the spectators re-
manned.
Then Mf. Bultorworth reviewed the
childhOoi OF Mihs Pollard, ss described
By herseif. He was not there TO OK.
tenuAte the conduct OF Colonel Breck.
lnudge. II he did lac knew Colonel
BfucAnfidge would discharge him
rom tho case. The country had been
tuliiituus about sixleeu-y eAT-old
ch iUt girl, but there was no such per.
su iu tho case. IL she had been but
..Atecn She was a. much skilled Ia
i've making Ne any woman no had
ever known.
Ailuf this he spent an hour reading
Iisg Pollard's early lst.ofs aud discuss
.us testimony to show that when sho
met uoiendari she was not tue uu.
tupnisuoalcd country sitl she had rep.
resented herself 10 be.
The Instincts OF yiTluoua woman
would have led her 10 say, "Get Out,
oJ irprf,r MIR. Builotwonh shouted,
rushing down tho aisle toward bis
ciunt herceiy. Hut nU, she hal at.
ragged 10 meet him the ext day.
AAt NNNuAtN NuA o. ANt IhANNa NN Wv
klte, M hu top O1uced with mixed
metaphor the sill, email voice, cry ling
loudly Ia tue name OF her mother to
shrink back from this man. The next
dsy ihu colonel had taken her 10 an
ursig nation house.
"rbink OF II" the lawyer shouted.
II nave Thought OF It," Mr. Wilson
replied.
Then Mr. Butterworl slapped three
jurors on the knee Ia succession Rs he
rrneartod Miss Pollafd's description Of
1no colone's iiai,ery.
you loptr," no shouted 10 the
colonel, "why did she not act that
way u leave your"
lie told how Miss Pollard had, after
resisting the colonel In the carriage
aud the Cincinnati designation house,
iult ready 10 tackle him again al Sarah
Gls'e, 10 travel nineiy miles with
him % Tusist him. She did NOT want
10 marry him. She knew Of HE vile
ash children, she kew TIA, u woulI
ruin her ana might fuiu him anu his
uaus htors.
Alt. Buttrfwofth said he was willing
% give Misa Pollard credit Tor being "a
gruat genius In certain lines, but tue
ratitat par. VI her story 10 believe
vas that part Ia when she stated that
ia that half an hour Ia IN howell OF
Huih Glss, while tho uoiendAut had
sOue home 10 his dinner, she had
bought over tho whole matter, had
given up honor, friends anu future and
iad decided 10 enter Colonel Breckin.
IiJgo's he, AMI MIR. Wilson would
toll that story as though ho believed IL.
Tue speaker told some IA my stories
shout his h0yish esGapa1es aud went
ul 10 compare tho plainui with
Dtlilah, who had got her hands In III,
nalr VI samson aud then had been
Wiling 10 pull down tho temple over
Lofsolt 10 accomplish her ruin.
Further on he declared that there
was NO memento Of all these years VI
affection save that little willow basket
20 lAiely handled by the nngeTs VI hl-
dead wiie, brought into tho case Tor no
ulher purpose than ~ make hls iaul
trtm more abhorrent. w. T.. T.. Breck'
lnflugu had never gwen 10 his mis-
.ioss the possessions Of his wife before
Der grave clothes had oTumbleJ.
~ can forgive you Tor anything
rite," taid the lawyer 10 the jury,
"but that you believe no tAlgei 9 hii
mistress Of his dead wife,
Mt. ButtcrwOTtn asked the court fol
an adjournment shortly before
o'clock, AS no was greatly exhausted
Judge Bradley accudud 10 the ftqueat
aut, fomarklng thAt he mad noticed
large crowd outside the door, suggested
that Colsnel Breckenridge might 20 GU
before the spectators, when the cOlOnu
seemed glAd 10 do.