The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-04

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rolls I became q member in 1859 and
have never withdrawn"
| You have taken an interest in the
church,"
I'm the sense Of contributing so far as
| my means would allow and giving legal
| advice when II was wanted. ! have no
recollection Of ever addressing a presby-
! terry or synod l was never an officer
| Of the church. In 1855 at the centennial
| meeting in Philadelphia I addressed the
meeting on Calvinism and religious free
| DOM
Have YOU taken an active interest in
| Sunday-school work."
| II have never been a teacher since
| left the confederate army IL depends
on what you mean by an active in
| terest."
Have YOU lectured before young
ladies' seminaries?" asked Mr.. Wilson.
II have addressed schools. lectured
| and delivered diplomas at times"
| You were given public reception
| at the Norwood institution in this city?''
"Oh, yes"
An Invitation to Miss Pollard.
Thereupon Mr.. Wilson handed up to
the colonel and requested him 10 read
an invitation which he had sent TO Miss
Pollard in February, 1898. requesting the
! pleasure Of her company at a reception
| TO the Hon. w. &. ?. Breckenridge at
| Norwood institute. which he read. BY
questions concerning the colonel's resi-
| dence in Lexington in 1884. Mr.. Wilson
| elected information that his home was
| on the same street with the house OF
Sarah Cess, four blocks away. Then he
! asked: How long had You known
| Sarah Gess?" TO which Col. Breckenridge
answered; oh 1 can't tell, perhaps
| twenty years.
| house?"
Il did"
Had you ever been there before you
went with the plaintiff?
Il had"
! met the plaintiff you had for years
| known Sarah Cess. known the character
| of the house known the location Of the
| house and had been there before you
! went with the PLAINTIFF
Each Of these statements Is true.
Turning to the letter produced by the
| defense and purporting 10 have come
1 from Miss Pollard, Mr. Wilson asked
/ where the envelope was and Mr.. Breck-
/ inridge replied that II had been lost.
! Il was his general custom to preserve
. all his letters. but the first letter from
the plaintiff he could not ind.
You have received a great many let
| tiers from herr"
Il have
And you are only able TO produce OF
| all Of them what IS called this wooden
! or dummy letter."
Il do not admit that IL was a dummy
| letter. have not said so After the
I relations which grew up between the
| plaintiff and myself on the first OF
| August 1884. I did not want 70 preserve
the letters, because of many references
| In them"
You have received many kilograms
| from the PLAINTIFF"
7 never was in the habit Of preserv-
! ing kilograms.
$50 that of all your correspondence
with the plaintiff. extending over nine
| years, you have only this letter2'
1T seems So
| II 1t would not be all right II she repaid
the money; In his most pathetic tones
| the colonel repeated all the details OF
| the interview. how she had insisted upon
telling him all and he had demonstrated
! that there We're things she probably did
/ not want 10 say TO a stranger, advising
her TO go 10 her grandfather, mother or
| uncles.
There is an impression on my mem
! DRY. although I cannot remember her
| language after ten years. that she said
| she had given him even a higher PROOF
! Of her intention to marry him. Then 1
| told her that she could not afford not TO
marry him.
And that same rule would apply to a
man under the same circumstances -
well. that is a question Of casuistry
| or sociology would not care TO answer.
| If you ask me whether 1 would advise a
| young woman who had sexual inter-
| course with man to marry him would
| say yes. but with man II would be
| different, for the knowledge Of it by the
public would destroy the woman and
| would only injure the man."
| Would it not hurt the man."
"Oh, IL would not injure him so much
as the woman. Society looks upon these
| things differently. If a young man should
! come TO me under certain circumstances
1 would advise him to marry woman;
under other circumstances 1 would say
| TO him better death or hell. I am not
talking OF the justice OF -
"Oh. no." interrupted Mr.. Wilson. with
a contemptuous air, Il was not asking
Are You a member OF the Christian
| endeavor society,""
NO, sir"
''Did you take the Christian endeavoS
pledge?'
Never. To be candid I will say that
I was twice invited to deliver an ad-
| dress at the annual meetings in New
| York and Montreal on the possibilities
| OF the present age. ] wanted very much
| to deliver that, but was prevented"
! BY further questioning Mr.. Wilson
| elicted the information that the colonel
| last June had delivered a speech TO
woman's society in Nashville. and had
been presented Win a basket OF uOWSIS-
! He denied that he had said that he had
no wife 10 present them to in his re
Spouse, and was anxious TO explain what
| he had said, but Mr.. Wilson would not
| permit It.
Are you a member Of the masonic
fraternity"
| Il am"
You knew that Miss PolIard's father
! was mason?"
II did not. knew that he was an
odd fellow"
Are there any obligations TO the
| widow or daughters of members grow
ing out of membership in those organi-
! Zations?"
Phil Thompson objected 20 this queS-
| fion and the objection was sustained
EIOped with His Pupil.
HELENA, Ark, April 2,-Prof. z. E.
Beardon. a married man and school
| teacher eloped last night with Miss
| Pearl Pointer, his pupil. A party of in
| dignant citizens gave pursuit They
| caught the couple at Holly Grove, where
| to prevent the professor from being
| -, ooh ad in