The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-11

Washington, April 1O.-During the
progress of the Breckenridge trial Judge
Bradley was engaged in reading a let
ter He called Attorneys Carlisle, Will
son and Butterworth for a. consuIta-
ton, and finally one juror for further
consultation. 1t was probably one of
the anonymous letters that have been
pouring in by The bushels since the
trial began.
Pollard appeared in a most becoming
hat Breckenridge was paler than
usual
Burning breckenridge.
Attorney Carlisle took up the review
Of the testimony and devoted himself
FOR the first half hour to the discussion
of Mrs. BlacSburn's testimony, COM
menting on the testimony of Claude
De Laroche Frances, a cousin of Ward
AlcAllister and a nephew of Marquis
De Laroche. chamberlain of the pope.
Mr.. Carlisle laid stress on the fact that
in response for the production of Miss
Pollard's letters only those advanta-
seous to the defense We're brought
forward. Later they brought forward
a work basket which had belonged to
the late Mrs. Breckenridge, which the
colonel had denied giving Miss Pollard
y
of Mary Yancy the colored cook, who
had seen the pair sitting on sofa to-
; gether with the basket between them.
Carlisle passed on To the time when
Pollard took Breckenridge from the side
of his lawful wife with quotation
from Miss Pollard's testimony: Il
said, come with me, will you, and he
came" and then to the interview in
the office of the chief of police where
he had sworn, closing her hands in his,
q TO marry her on the Slst Of May. De-
III PENDANT asked the jury to believe his
Rword supported by corroborating testi-
hnOny or conduct that. the engagement
Mi marriage had been a concerted sub
terfuge.
u .'Judee Him by His Words"
The speaker continued: L ask You
TO Judge him only by what he has told
You here the stand The father OF
- family, with eight children, and
devoted wife, he tells you that he lived
nine years in calm, deliberate adultery
with this woman, not giving away to
sudden passion, not led by misguided
love; lust, not love, was the bond be-
tween them. During these years he
was posing before the world as a
Christian statesman, a man high in the
counsels of the Presbyterian church,
giving counsel to saints and sinners.
While his life was lie, he asks You TO
believe him now on the ground that,
during half a dozen interviews with
Mrs. Blackburn, q woman OF hlgh
standing in her state, who must have
won t!!- admiration of every mother 8
son in mis- box, what he told TO her
and carried on was a complicated lie"
After comparing the social position
of the two principals, and stating that
i $4,000 was little recompense for the
J harm done Carlisle closed and Colonel
Phil Thompson faced the jury.
Thompson scores Madeline.
Colonel Thompson stated that his
client was not responsible for bringing
the filth into court. He wanted Pollard
tried as the bawd and wanton- she
confessed herself. Then followed a
terrific arraignment of the plalntlII,
the painting Of the revelations OF the
testimony in the worst possible coiors,
naming her associates, and calling at
tention TO her drunkenness and heen-
+io1I. less. Re wanted to known where
plaint.re got money to carry on the eX-
pensive suit
The counsellor had some good words
for Hiram Kaufman and John Brandt
zrI7iose characters, he said. had not been
smpeached. When Miss Pollard denied
s,fFat she wrote that letter TO 8reckln-
y ridge. she lied and had lost the case
The letter showed that he had come &c
the school on her invitation. II nay
been said this timid little girl Woulo
moi approach such big man as BTech-
5nY-idsge but she had told how she en-
trusted herself in the same way tc
Roselle, telling She had heard OF MN
from Nellie Oliver, and asked nm lt
take her to the school. Mrs. Brown
had come forward TO purify the atinos'
! pnere OF the school, and nobody coulc
blame her. because the plaintiff baC
left trail of impurity behind hel
wherever she went.
Speaking Of the plaintiff being under
Z. D-y-as rarlf II
one man and another mans mistress
and billdng another out Of his money
Colonel Thompson exclaimed, And {
school girl. at that. Ny God, ii she eVel
gets out of her short dresses what {
robber and plunderer she VIII be.
Thompson called Down.
Judge Bradley here interrupted tht
sfee5h with remonstraace, saying:
Now Mr.. Thompson, take care no
10 use such expressions As that
What have 1 used, you~ h@ncr" th'
lawyer inquired.
You said, My God
y beg pardon, that was an inadver
tence."
Colonel Thompson discussed Ire prob
ability Of the young woman accCm
ranvina Colonel Brecknridge to an as
signation house in Cincinnati, as SIT
claimed the day after drive when ~
had made improper advances a:d sh
ffer tie noon recess Col. Thomp
son resumed his speech characteristic;
Miss Pollard as the most shilful al
zentlIress who ever made tract
Hbrough a court room" He argued
fEon dates to show that Col. Breckin
1idee could not have been the fatle
Of her first child. To give the plain
tiff a verdict would De to convict JON
Trandt Hiram KaufI "a. dollie Shin
aelberger and the defendant OF wiilfu
1eriqry. He referred TO Miss Pollard
statement to Claude De La Roch
Francis that Col Breckenridge was
IoyabIe and noble man and said tn
defendant had been the soul of gener
osify throughout his dealings with tn
woman. Her letters to Rhodes wer
blind wooden letters to the man VIII
had seduced her and she was demand
ing money of the poor old man. Sh
went at Rhodes booted and spurred
and if was stand and deliver, telling
hin he could not come and see her un
less he put up. Were these the de
Inands Of schoolgirl TO a Generou