The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-03-30

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plaintiff based on its contcnts1 lie
continued, ut appears that this Is
largely Il dispute over shadow, aa tho
contents OF this letter have been pub
liShod by tho prcss and tho jury .are
probably Intelligent msn and readers.
Newspaper enterprise Ia good thing.
In this instance 1t was enterprise witha
vengeance. II was contempt OF court
and was q gross improprioty to publish
| Il before !. Tcs given 10 the Jury. I
| presume tho reporters wcro not aware
| OF the improperly OF their net, which
must have boon committed within tho
precincts OF tho court. Tho letter
would hnvo been admitted any way, but
suppose IL had not bccn und the Jury
hnd read it. Great harm might have
been done by tho action"
After these admonitions, Mr.. Buttor-
worth road tho letter, which has a.
ready been published.
TIE COLONEL RESUMES.
This finished, Colonel Breckenridge
explained that his visit to Wesleyan
seminary had boon mado while on o
business trip to Covington, on Friday,
tho first OF AuGust. There being no
hotel accommodations in Covington, no
| had gonc to Cincinnati TO stay over
night. After dinner, remembering the
letter OF Miss Pollard, hO had strollod
up to tho college. 81 sent my name
up" no said, "was invited into a room,
| and in fow moments tho plaintiff
came down. We shook hands. Sho
said she supposed she had astonished
| inc by the substance OF her letter; that
1t was worse that divorce case. We
took seats, she on divan, l
on n chair, in the rear OF tho
room. She narrated tho circumstances
under which she had mado the agree
ment with Mr.. Rhodes. Until then I
had not known who her mother was.
Mr.. Rhodes had fallen in lnve with her.
but sho had respected him as m older
mHn, but had not loved him. She want
cd to know whether he could compel
her to marry him. treated tho mat
ter with somo levity; said | knew OF no
law OF this day by which shc could be
compelled to tho specific performance
| OF marriage contract. She grew grave,
looked as though she felt like crying,
took out hor handkerchief, put it to her
face and got up and walked the room.
| She said her mother had not approved
OF the contract, and 1t had made un-
pleasantness in the family. We had
ceased TO walk tho room, she was sitting
on the divan and was standing beside
her. started to leave after some ex-
pressions Of sympathy, but she de.
tanned inc. She said. the plaintiff did:
ITS much worse than that it's much
worse than that. He insisted on mar.
rying me. l did not want to be like
Aunt Lou. with house full OF children
| and unable to educate them.' She put
her handkerchief to her face.
"She said: I gave him n higher proof
than that contract Then l said she
ought to marry him anyway. She
said: Il can't. l have grown away
from him. know what other men are
and his very presence is offensive to
me- l replied: you can't afford not
to marry him; young girl as you are
Then tho conversation drfted away.
There was nothing more l could cay.
Sho seemed to have said all ahe
cared to.
"A DOUBLE LIFE"
"As stood there with my hat in my
hand she said: I have set my heart on
becoming an authorcss.' I said: 4
don't see why you can't do that, but
you must remember that this double
life here he assumed the stern tone
OF n moraist. man stainless above re-
proach, reproducing the paternal, ad-
visory manner OF the counsel he said no
gave to the young woman.
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up against you any time. He has you
in his power. A young girl can't afford
that. You should marry him as aoon as
you can.'
"she said: 4 won't do that now, any
way; no danger Of his giving me up
''Then sho spoke Of an entertainment
at Vino street. She said there was to
bo cornctist play. have been going
TO Cincinnati ever since I was a boy,
but l never knew which one OF the hills
Vine street wra on. She said, in an en-
tircly proper way = perfectly proper
= Colonel Breckinridse seemed anx-
ious to make assurance doubly sure on
this point), that VIC might ride. l ask
| ed il they would let her 90. She said
she was summer boarder and she
knew OF no rule against it. Then n
young man came into. 4 room, whom I
recognized as Mr.. Brown. We. shook
hands and ho eaid it would be perfectly
| proper for US to 60. It was warm
August evening. Nothing was said
about closed carriage or about my
having sore throat, no allusion what
ever, no excuse, nor any reason for any
excuse"
In the mild deprecatory gesture with
which the colonel brushed away tho
breath OF n suspicion of impropriety
from his action at that time, he
knocked tumblor from tho stand with
a crash which startled tho room, and
men looked around apprehensively 40
though they thought OF Kentucky
shooting-irons.
ave started in an entirely proper
way" he resumed.
How long were you at tho college
that afternoon"
"0h, about IN hour or On hour and a
half"
"Did you speak OF going to Lexington
then?"
Nothing wns said about going to
Lexington that day, and the next day
when | started for Lexington | was
surprised TO find her on the train."
What do you know about any bogus
telegram"
u never heard OF any such telegram
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