Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-11


colloQuialism. ''When be was scared
Of"
As he was proceeding TO the discus
sion of the subsequent events, be de-
manded 70 know where the plaintiff got
so much money to prosecute this case
with. All the necessary expenses and
70 hire these eminent counsel, aud he
promised 20 show that the woman had
been a money seeker and money get
ter every step Of the way and was Try
ing 10 get money now.
sHE SEEMED TO BE ALWAYS DAFT
about two things, was always trying to
get money and 90 10 school, had been
talking about going TO school at Berlin,
clear up 20 last fall. Then she had al
ways been wanting to get married,
would have married old man Woods, "if
he could have showed up the money TO
take her 70 Europe" ."
Colonel Thompson did not believe
that her mother had sold her out to
Rhodes as a Chinaman sold his girl.
He had been intimate with Der and was
sending her TO school in good faith, in-
tending 20 marry her.
The counsellor had some good words
for Hiram Kaufman and John Brandt,
whose character, he said. had not been
impeached. When Miss Pollard had
denied that she wrote the letter to
Breckinrldge, she bad lied and lost her
case. The letter showed that he had
come to the school on her invitation. 1t
had bean Sain that this timid little girl
would not approach such q big man as
Breckenridge, but she had told how she
had introduced herself in the same way
20 Rossell, telling him that she had
heard OF him from Nellie Oliver, and
asked him 70 take her 70 the school.
Mrs Brown had come forward 20 purify
the atmosphere OF the school and no.
body could blame her, because the
plaintiff had left
A TRAIL OF ISIPUBITY
behind her wherever she went.
Speaking of the plaintiffs being IN
der contract to Rhodes-"engaged TO
one man. aud another mans mistress
and blking another out Of his money"
Colonel Thompson exclaimed, And
school girl at that! Ny God, II she ever
gets out Of her short dresses, what
robber and a piundsrer she will be-"
Judge Bradley here interrupted the
speech with a remOnstrance.
Now, Mr.. Thompson, please take
care not 70 use such expressions as
that. be said.
What have used, your HOnor?"
the lawyer inquired.
''You said, My God"
81 beg pardon; that was an inadver-
tence"
Colonel Thompson then resumed and
discussed the improbability OF the
Young woman accompanying Colonel
Brsckinridgs to an assignation house
in Cincinnati, as she claimed, the day
after drive when be had made i'm
proper advances aud she had repulsed
him.
After the noon recess, Colonel
Thompson resumed his speech, charac-
teriZing Miss Pollard as 1.-The most skill
ful adventures who ever made track
through a court room"
He arRucd from dates that Colonel
Breckiuridge could not have been the
father OF her first child. To give the
plaintiff a verdict would be 70 convict
MOllie Shinglebower, John Brandt,
Hiram kaufman and the defendant, Of
wlful perjury. He referred to Miss
Pouard's statement 70
CLAUDE DE IA ROCHE FRANCIS,
that Colonel Breckenridge was a lovable
aud noble man, and said that the de-
fendsnt had 0een the soul of generosity
throughout Bis dealings with the
woman. Her letters 20 Rhodes, he said,
were blind, wooden letters 20 the man
who had saduced her, and she was de-
manding the money Of the poor old man.
She went at Rhodes booted and sPurred
and 10 was stand aud deliver with her,
telling him that he could not cOme and
see her unless he put il no. "Were
those the demands Of a school girl 20
generous old man who was furnishing
the money for her education?"
Colonel Thompson continuing, said
thai Miss Pollard had deliberately said
that she had brought the suit for re-
venge, whereupon Mr. wilson corrected
him.
Judge Bradley said, "thsre is no eyi-
deace 20 that effect in the case" aud
Mr.. Butterworth said: II think she
did not say that"
Colonel Thompson said he hoped the
jury would correct him II be made any
mistakes. as be mad not tried a case for
fifteen years and did not pretend to be
Up in law.
de tod how Miss Pollard had gone to
the convent last year, not knowing that
her child born several years ago WAS
dead.
THE frst born Of person that pre-
tends 60 be human being. After eight
or nine years, when she had
NEVER RAISED HER INHUNiAN VOICE,
they tell you she went into Mysteries
Oh. inhuman woman" be exclaimed.
"Inhuman monster. In order 10 hide
her Own conduct she lays IL on this man.
We are appealed 10 by this woman. in
stage play by the sacred name OF mother,
trying TO coin crocodile tears over
children whose deaths she had forgot
ten, TO coin money out OF the pockets Of
the man With whom she had lived 10
equal disgrace"
He referred 10 the life OF Miss Pol
lard az Miss Hoyt's 10 Lexington, when
she played the innocent school girl 20
the land adv. Then be came 10 Miss
Lowell, the typewriter az the Capitol,
and produced her memorandum book 70
show that IL ran its entire length from
1857 TO 1SSS. so that If the transaction
had occurred it had DOT been ia lSSS.
The charges IN the book might have
been 70 Clifton BreckinridGe. He
fThompsonl found his own name in the
hook. although be did not remember
having had any work done by Miss
Lowell, % whom be referred as "the
ola lady"
Colonel Thompson contended in his
picturesque way that lit knocked the
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