Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-03
SON quoted several passages from the Got

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able had it not been too serious.
| Then Judge Wilson took another tack
| After Colonel Breckenridge had admitted
that he was in good health on the night of
his first ride with Miss Pollard and had no
| throat trouble nor chills as Mr.. Wilson
loosely asked, he was asked whether it
was not a rather unusual proceeding to
select closed carriage for a drive on hot
summer evening, to which the colonel re-
| piled, ooh, no; | don't think it was, " and
| the audience laughed.
| OF the conversation or the ride he could
| only remember that Miss Pollard did most
| of the talking.
You were not inclined to talk?'' Mr..
! Wilson commented.
! "Oh, that depends on the company I am
| in replied the colonel. Continuing, he
described how Miss Pollard had talked of
! her aspirations to be an authoress and how
he had encouraged her, telling her that
| other women had been authors, but that
it was matter of work, like any other vo-
! cation.
When you put your arm around her,
had there been anything of a suggestive
nature?"
He Speaks of Remorse.
"Well, l cannot answer that definitely.
There was no particular word or act that
| | could lay my hand on. There was just
something internally that moved me to.
If she had reproved me, | could not have
said, You have encouraged me- and yet
would have been surprised if she had re-
scented it."
well, then, you drew her to you, and
| how long were you in that position?'
"Oh, cannot say"
And what was talked about?'
Nothing was said" Laughter and re-
Duke from the judged
Il want to know how long you held her
in your arms%'
The transaction could not be stated as
| to time. 1t was all one transaction. l took
her in my arms, drew her across my lap,
drew her to me. 1t was all one action"
Did you give her any friendly advice on
| that OCCASION"
Il did not
You were a man of A. and she girl OF
II to PIP"
That was all true and much more No
man in America had less excuse for such
an action than | with the domestic sur.
roundings | then had. l have attempted
to make no excuse for it. 1t just happen
! ed So.
| "And the fact that she was young girl
! in school makes it all the worsef'
You cannot frame words too strong to
| characterize it. | have not attempted to
justify it or even defend it, and all the hell
| have suffered since then have deserved"
Then | understand you to say that tho
enormity of the act cannot be overestimat.
| ed?''
There is but one punishment which
have not deserved, and that is to marry
| the woman who " as concerned with me in
the act
"As a lawyer, since you claim you did
hot seduce her, will you tell us what you
| consider seduction?"
Il mean to say that l did not seduce her
| by any protestations of love or reward;
that she did not come to me a maiden or
virgin; that l did not seduce her in the
| physical sense that she came to me a maid
ell and l left otherwise, nor, in the lower
sense, that l did not offer her money"
do you know that dumb man can Sc
| duce woman; that by taking her in your
arms and exciting her passion, without
opening your mouth or winking your eye;
| you can seduce?"
Il am not prepared to attempt under
oath to give definition of seduction. !
| only know what happened in that carriage
that night was not seduction
A Definition Asked:
DO you know that a married woman
can be seduccd?"
Il suppose in neral sense that is posi-
BILE
Now, you went there as her Attorney"
asked Judge Wilson after going over the
! giving of the $40 bill to Miss Pollard.
''Oh, no. There was no thought of my
| going in the capacity of attorney. There
is the letter. 1t speaks for itself l eX-
pected no fee l supposed she wanted to
talk to me about some little childish trou-
| BILE which she had gotten into and which
she greatly exaggerated when she said it
was worse than a divorce suit
You had never seen her but once before,
| and you came at her request?'
The letter speaks for itself"
When they met on the train to Lexing-
| ton the next day, Colonel Breckenridge
said, he had not known that Miss Pollard
was to be on the train and supposed that
| she could not know he was there. While
| this was being related Miss Pollard and
Mrs. Ellis rose and threaded their way
from the courtroom.
Describing the interview on the train,
the colonel said: 81 suggested to her that
| if she stayed over in Lexington wouldn't
she meet me and asked if there was any
| place she could go. She said she could &C
| to Sarah Guess house, and with some sur
prise l asked:
What do you know about Sarah
| Guessf'
She said that Mr.. Rhodes had once tried
to get her to go there with him, and she
| had gone as far as the gate, but refused to
| go in
| Nothing had been said about your
meeting the night before2''
Nothing had been really said, only
when we met there was some sort of indef-
mite lock-something more than formal
recognition"
"You knew of places in Lexington where
people could goS"
II knew of no particular place where
could take this person."
| "How many places did you know off,"
"Do you mean in the sense of having
been thereS" returned the colonel.
"No; that you knew Off"
| Lexington was a place of 90 900 inhab-
itants. There were such places. But I
would not have put such a girl as sup
posed the plaintiff to be in the power of
such woman as / supposed Sarah Guess
! to be-"
Miss Pollard had known the way to the
| house, the colonel continued, and then in
response to questions as to his going home
to dinner and returning to the designation
house he responded continuously 81 did,
| did" with bowed head.
"The next morning did yal go to
church," Mr.. Wilson persisted
"No"
''To Sunday SCHOOL,"
"No"
''To Bible class?"
81 was not member of any class" re-
sponded the colonel, lifting his head and
tossing back his silvery name.
The Cincinnati Meetings.
After going over again the visit to the
house of Sarah Guess on the Sunday night
| w he WAC uncertain w ether hn w nn Ia
find the plaintiff there and mis- payment of
money to her at the close of the evening
before his departure, the conversation with
Rhodes on election day (Monday) was
touched upon, and he declared that he had
not considered that he was acting in the
capacity of attorney in that talk. After
ward the lawyer asked if Breckenridge had