Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-04-11

man. moline ShUngie bauer never painted
/ herself as black as that. Now this woman,
/ this adventures. this money hunter. wan
/ ton and haEo, comes here with a plea OF
being an innocen. girl before she met Col
Breckenridge"
| Col. Thompson started his argument al
I The afternoon session With the promise that
ne would show no contract of marriage be.
tween the plaintiff and defendant, and even
I il there had been contract, the defendant
/ had the right 10 break it on account of the
conduct of the plaintiffs.
| To give the case to Miss Pollard, he said
il will be necessary for the jury to convic,
Motlie Shinglebauer, John Brapt, Hiram
/ Kaufman, Aleck Julian, Rsnkfp Rosell and
the defendant himself of wilful and deliber-
ate perjury. 1t had been shown, be sail
/ that Col. Breckenridge was attending court
AT Versailles when Miss Pollard says she
was carrying on the lisson with him in
| Lexington, in 1884. This is proof of no
| improper relations at that time, also proof
| thst the child she alleges was born at Cn.
cinnati, May, 1855, was not the chill of the
1 defendant. Letters to Rodes we're wri ten
in 1883 begging him for money, which you
/ know she said i need so badly
| "She says the defendant was mos. gener-
Gus, most kind, and she knew that if she
| needed money TO prepare for the birth Of
his child size could have got it from him
| But il Was Ro5es She ask. d for morey she
did not turn TO this noble, generous man
whom she loved (Bre, kintidge) and who
would have be, II Willing to furnish all the
money she needed, if he vas responsible
her condition, but 20 poor Old Jim Rodes, ,on
| $40 a month salary, who wouli not and
could not have paid if there had not been
some great reason for causing him TO do so.
i Was ever man in the power of ar unscru.
/ pulous woman ridden so rough sbnd as
Breckenridge has been by this woman
| Discrepancies between the testimony of
the plaintiff and Sisters of Charity at Nor
wood F4uniling Asylum were told of by
Col. Thompson, who said be was willing to
rest the case on the testimony Of these Sis
ters against that of the woman uho said she
| dedicated her life to the defendant. I'm
less the Jury believed these noble women
who dedicated their lives to God, then they
must place Sister Agnes Regina and Sister
! Augustine in the same category of perjury
in which the plaintiff placed Resell, Julian
Brsnt and the rest.
So, too, Sister Cecilia, brou ght all the
wav from Pueblo, Col, by the defense,
said she did not recognize the plaintiff as &
woman who had been Norwood. "And
there is DR.. Belle Buchanan and that
| crowd said Col. Thompson, referring tc
the witness who said she attended Miss
Pollard after her confinement in 1885. al
haven't got very good opinion of thes ,
female doctors"
Speaking further in regard to the female
doctors evidence, Col. Thompson said the
witnesses testified that Louise, for there
was such girl, asserted that the man who
betrayed her was an unmarried man. ado
you admit that" turning to Judge VII
son and Mr. Carlisle. '.If you do, h I'VE
nothing further to say. Will you answer
me in our argument?' asked Col. Thomp-
son.
AZ WILL replied Judge Wilson.
This woman says she gave birth to q
girl in 1855, and last year she goes to the
place where she saws it was born, and did
not know whether it was dead. when III.
child born to Mrs. Burgoyne died room af-
ter she left, Did you mean to tell me II
woman would be so ignorant of her chIli q,
that? She left that child, she says, srd di'
not think to inquire about it for rioe long
years. The babe was born in 1888, if it
was born, and she says she saw its dead
body at the undertaker's, yet it laid in a
grave she had never seen"
just think of it." be said, "her little
ones lying in graves that she had never
seen. Oh, inhuman woman, inhuman
woman and monster, to hide her own shame
she lays it at the feet of this man and says
he told her to give them away. And yet
We are appealed to by this woman, with
her stage acting, in the most sacred name
Of mother
The Christmas card was pooh-poohed by
Col. Thompson, who said it was YER,
probable the card was slipped in the volume
of Irving at Norwood asylum to more fully
Identify the plaintiff With that place. when
the card was taken out" he said, "she
cried there's the little veil | wore when
was here Remarkable woman, whose
memory for little things came back so sud
denly, who remembered the little veil she
wore and forgot her own name at the
asylrm.'
Col. Thompson said be had look ed up the
meaning the meaning of the word "Pollard'
in the dictionary and found that il meant a
"small counterfeit coin" and another def
milton was a "petty thief" "Well, he
added, II don't know how in the world
names should run so close in connection
with character"
Col. Thompson did not mince words or
phrases in his unsparing denunciation of
the plaintiffs character, prostitute" being
one of the terms most frequently applied.
Col. Thompson came to the testimony of
Mrs. Blackburn, in which he said she had
confused several conversations, a natural
thing in an old lady.
Mics Pollard was raised, not lowered, by
ber affair with Col. BreckiDridge, con-
tended Col. Thompson. She said she had
rather be his mistress than the wife of
Rodes, rather go with the defendant into
society where she could have intell ctlsl
enjoyment than be the wife OF II 'des tend
ing children, milking cows and doing farm
work. and" said Col. Thompson,
"barring the sin, l don't blame her for
feeling that way"
Fifteen minutes before the sGjournme nj
hour, Col. Thompson took up the alleged
intention of Miss Pollard to compel til.
defendant to marry her, and as thi, was q
new line of argument, he asked an adjourn
ment until tomorrow, which the court
granted.