The herald., 1894-04-11

turese who ever made track through
a court ROOM"
He argued by dates that Colonel
Breckinridge could not have been the
! father OF her first child. To give the
plaintiff a verdict would be to convict
John Brandt, Hiram kaufman, Mollie
Shingelbower and the defendant OF will.
full perjury. He referred 10 Miss Pol
lard's statement to Claude de Ia Roche
Francis that Colonel Breokinridge was q
lovable and noble man. and said the de-
fendant had been the soul of generosity
throughout his dealings with the woman.
Her letters to Rhodes were blind,
wooden letters to the man who had se-
duced her, and she was demanding
money OF poor old man. She went at
Rhodes, booted and spurred, and it was
stand and deliver, telling him he could
not come and zee her unless he put up.
Were these the demands of school girl
to the generous old man who was furn-
ishing money for her education?
Colonel Thompson, continuing, said
Miss Pollard had deliberately stated
that she mad brought this suit for re.
venge, whereupon Mr.. Wilson corrected
him.
Judge Bradley said: "Thers is no
evidence to that effect in the case" and
Mr.. Butterworth said: II think she
did not Say that"
Colonel Thompson said he hoped the
Jury would correct him if he made any
mistakes, 40 he had not tried a case for
10 years and did not pretend to be up in
talk.
He told how Miss Pollard had gone TO
the convent last year, not knowing her
child, born several years before, was
dead. "The mother of this first-born is
8 person that pretends to be a human
being" he ssid; latter eight or nine
years, when she had never raised her
into Mysteries. Oh, inhuman woman
her own conduct che lays it on this
man. We are appealed to by this
woman, in stage play, by the sacred
name of mother, trying to coin crocodile
tears over children whose deaths she
had forgotten, to coin money out of the
pockets of the man with whom she had
lived in equal disgrace"
He referred to the life of Miss Pollard
at Miss Hoyt's house in Lexington,
when she played the innocent school
girl on the landl Adv. Then he came to
Miss Lowell, the typewriter at the cap
itol, and produced her memorandum
book to show that it ran its entire con-
tents from 1887 to 1888, 80 that if the
transaction had occurred it had not
been in 1888. The charges in the book
might have been to Clifton Breckenridge.
He (Thompson) found his own name in
the book, although he did not remem-
Der having had any work done by Miss
Lowell, to whom he referred az 1.-The old
lady,"
Colonel Thompson contendsd, in his
picturesque way, that it knocked the
stutfiug out OF the case. The plaintiff |
swore the name of her last baby was
Dietz Oarliale,. when the records Of the
aey lum showed the only baby brought |
there at the time was named Dietz
Downing.
The other side had raised great fuss |
about the colonel's signing her examina.
tion papers fox the civil service, earthly |
ing that ehe had q moral character.
There was not any fnssing or swearing |
or kicking up dust along about that |
ot6ef' and wsFs tsiiIindS; any fittTsi fles
that came along to help each other out.
Every man in the court has told lies
about these little domestic matters. II
there we're any VINO had not they had
better 90 out for a while, because they
were too sanctimonious Tor the place.
But the attorneys on the other side
seemed to think that this case was like
that of the old Kentucky preacher who
was tried for adultery with one OF the
sisters. The jury, all men, returned
verdict finding the minister guilty and
scouittiDg the sister"
Miss Pollarda testimony, he SAID
from which he read, showed that botn
hsd lied. In one instance she had
called him out of Ohamberlain's to help
her out OF scrape, "aud Billy always
came" he said.
Concerning Mrs. Blackburn, Colonel
Thompson said that she was lovely
old lady, but she was getting pretty we'll
along IN wears. She would not tell any
thing that was not 80 for the world, but
the old lady thought she had been i'm
posed upon and wanted to put it to Col
onel Breckinridge ss hard as she could.
That's entirely human pature; don
blame her. 1 admire her spirit. Why,
Iwas afraid she would Jump down my
throat, frizzes and all, when began to
examine her."
The Jury was not to punish Colonel
Breckenridge for immortality. All the
great men OF the world had had theil
troubles with women. When Juliut
Csesar was not making laws he was
making love to Cleopatra. DAVID had
mt Uriah in the front Of battle, becaust
he had looked on the mans wife and eh'
was lovely. If there had been great mer
who were not fond of women, they were
great hypocrites, the colonel declared
There was Bonaparte, Washington, al
of them who had their affairs OF Iowa a.
we'll as of war, ''and," he added, :"
don't see why this man, who is no wors
, than the rest OF us, only he has be el
. discovered and we. have not, should b
punished unless We are to be hypocrltes
F II Bsckinridge had been disposed TO II
: he might have kept many things to hi
discredit out Of the case; only becaus
q he would not play the part of hypo
! critic and periurer he was condemned.
1 1--WE are looking at this man OF tn
! world and man of common sense," b.
: said, going on to to tell how the colone
had provided for her. 'She had sal
i she had preferred being Colonel BrecE
q inridge's mist ese to Jim Rhodes wif'
h because, as his mistress, she did nc
4 have to work; went in good society, an
n had intellectual compcnionship. why
4 had rather bs the mistress OF a una
4 like Colonel Breckinridge, good lookip
/. and intellectual, than sleep all the day
V of my life beside an omnibus" Thi
: was her choice, and l think it was
# GOOD one," said the defendants alto
,r ney.