St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-11

were any who had not they had better
go out for 4 while, because they were
too sanctimonious for the place. But
the attorneys OH the other side seemed
TO think this case was like that of the
old preacher in Kentucky who was tried
for adultery with one Of the sistefs.4fhe
jury, all men, returned a ierdict find
ing the minister guilty and acquitted
the sister. viii
Miss Pollard's testimony. from which
he read. showed that she admitted they
both lied. In one instance she had
called him ont of Chamberlain's TO help
her out of scrape. and Billy always
came" he said. Cuncernlng Mrs. Black
burn, Col. Thompson said that she. was
lovely old lady, but she was getting
pretty we'll along In years. She is no
longer maiden gay, he SAID. She
would not tell anything that was not so
for the world, but 1.-THE old Indy
Thought she had been imposed upon,
and wanted TO put it to Col. Breckin
ridge as hard as she could. That's emily
human nature; | don't blame heE!1I
admire her spirit. Why. | was afraid
she would jump down my throat, fr2zes
aiid all, when began to examine her,"
The jury was rot TO punish Col. Breek-
lHridge for immortality. sol
ALL THE GREAT MEN
of the world had had their troubles
with women. When julius Caesar was
rot making laws lie was making love To
Cleopatra. David had put Uriah i'll the
forefront of battles because lie had
luoked on the mans wife and she was
Lively. IF there have been great men
who were not ioud of women they were
great hypocrftes, the colonel declared.
There was Bonapartc. Washington, all
of them who had their affairs Of love.
as well as of war, and he added: Il
don't see why this man. who is no worse
than the rest Of US, only he has been
discovered and We have not, should be
punished ualesS we are to Oe hypa.
critics" Ii Col. Breckenridge had been
disguised to lie he might have kept many
things to his discredit out of the
case. only because he would not play
the bart of a iiypocrits and perjurer, he
was condemned. I'VE are iuuking at
this thing as men of the world and men
of common sense" the colonel said,
going on tn tell how the colonel had
provided for htr. She had said that
She preferred being Col. Breckinridge's
mistress 10 Jim Rhodes wife. aud why?
because as his mistress she did hot
have 10 work, went into good society
aud had intellectual conpanianShip.
w idlHtf NC tilS !tflStttSS III q
man like Col. Breckenridge, good-io0king
and intellectual. than tn sleep all the
days uf uy life beside All omnibus
Iffdt MAS iler choice. and think it was
good one aTerrrd the defendants at
torHey. Coming down to the
DEATH OF BRECKENRIDGE WIFE.
The attorney said: Then and there a
new ambition sprung up in her. She
said. here is the old man L have swung
onto So long. He is free AMI now Eli
make him marry me. Col. Breckenridge
had never introduced her to Mrs. Black
burn and tie other ladir's, III whose
parlors She had left Ter slime. and yet
1t was demanded that he should go there
and admit his relations with her. No
man would have done II. He would
have looked pretty amusing, the role of
the seraphim and cherubinl, driving her
out nj the garden of Eden when SHE had
got There"
This a common going on all the
time" anu Col. Thompson, taking All
other tack. only he is exposed ami Must
OF them are not, ami il is il good thiiig.
But all OF Us have these relations with
women, that is, ali men, Just 10 Siluw
that they are men. There may be setue
g0ud fellows, only L never met them.
They start III 10 nave a little fun with
Il woman, aud the first thing they Know
they have got into eternal he'll with
her." So j.
Here the court adjourned. be'.