The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-31
HIS STORY OF THEIR LOVE.
The Defendant Denies That He Ever
Promised to Marry Her.

; Breokinridge Also Claims That the
/ Plaintiff Told Him sho Had Been to
/ Sarah Guests House With Rhodes
/ Before She Went There With Sim.
/ Never Knew She Had Living Child.
/ Why They Deceived Mrs. blackburn.
/ Washington. March 30.-From o o'clock
/ this morning until shortly after E o'clock
| this afternoon. with an intermission Of
/ three-quarters of an hour. Col. W. G.. =.
/ Breckenridge told more about his rc.a-
/ tions with Miss Madeline Pollard. He
denied that he had ever promised to
marry her Miss Pollard and himself he
said had made arrangements that he
/ should pretend 10 Mrs Luke c. Blackburn,
/ the widow Of the Kentucky governor, that
/ he and the plaintiff were engaged to be
married. in order to avert the suspicious
which Mrs. Blackburn entertained, but
! this agreement. ne said, was conditioned
on the plaintiff going away out Of the
! lives Of both of them Stories of three
attempts made by the plaintiff to take
his life were told by Col. Breckenridge
with interesting detail.
| How Miss Pollard pursued him, how
| she threatened him with making public
| their relations. how she gave him the
choice of marriage or death after his Sc
! cret wedding in New York, and how he
/ had made unsuccessful attempts to send
| her away from Washington were all mar
rated by the defendant in simple direct
| language
! MISS POLLARD BIPEACHEs HIS WORD.
During all this recital Miss Pollard sat
! looking at Col Breckenridge and he oC-
! casioually turned toward her, and seem
| ingly addressed himself to her Only
! once did she openly resent his words, and
| this was when Col. Breckenridge said he
told the plaintiff that she was certainly
| bound in gratitude and by a nearer
tie than that to marry Mr.. Rhodes
| Miss Pollard cried out at this point that
| Col Breckenridge was not telling the
! truth, and Judge Bradley was Obliged to
admOnish her. Again the plaintiff nearly
| created a scene when Col. Breckenridge
| said she had told him that her mother
| knew Of her unchastity and HAD attended
| her through miscarriage
The indications were, when the court
| ad Journed at AIS o'clock. that the direct
| examination of the defendant would close
| during the morning session on Monday, to
which day the court adjourned, and that
| the cross examination of Col Breckin-
ridge would then begin.
The proceedings in the court room be
gan promptly Both plaintiff and de
PENDANT were early in reaching the court.
Maj. Butterworth opened up by show
ing the defendant the little decorative
basket which had belonged to Col Breck-
inridges first wife and which the plain
tiff asserts Col. Breckenridge gave to her.
Col. Breckenridge denied that he gave
Miss Pollard the basket. or that he knew
she had it until after the suit was filed
He did lrVAtV bntEv aarp in
Pollard's possession, he only knew that
he had not given it TO her
THE NIGHT AT SARAH GUEST.
The examination then required to the
trip from Cincinnati TO Lexington, and
the witness said 81 entered the car for
Lexington, and found the plaintiff sitting
in il. She was not there by any prear-
rangement with me, / spoke to her, and
our conversation resulted III an arrange
ment to meet that evening in Lexington
| We agreed TO meet at the house of col
ored woman named Sarah Guest.
asked her II there was any place in Lex
| ingtOn she would like to go to. She said
we could so to Sarah Guests. expressed
surprise that she knew of this place, and
she said she had gone there on one occa-
! sion with MIR. Rhodes. -"
THE ARRIVAL AT THE HOUSE.
The witness then told of going to the
| assignation house with the plaintiff on
| their arrival in Lexington. which he said
| was substantially as told by Miss Pollard.
| He said he left Miss Pollard at the door
of the designation house, promising TO.
come back after going to his
home. He went home, took sup
per with his family, and returned
| TO the house of Sarah Guest in less
! than an hour. He made no such arrange
ment with Sarah Guest as Miss Pollard
/ md fiFa1 IN, afro h, l.,
gone to see Sarah Guest the night before
| gong to her house. He remained with
| the plaintiff until a bout 1880 O'Clock and
| the plaintiff elected TO spend the night
| there instead Of going to a more respect
| able place There were no prOtestations
| of love and affection on his part, said Col
! Brec kinridge, and no talk with the plain
| TIT about helping her to secure an educa-
| ton.
MADE HERSELF QUITE AT HOME.
"She elected to remain where she was.
said the witness after detailing a CONVEX
sation between Miss Pollard and himself
as to whether she should go to the house
| of lady she knew, AS less liable to de-
! lection | went back the next evening
| with some expectancy that | might not
! find her there. She said the first
| evening that she wanted to get up early
the next morning and take the train for
/ FRANKFORT, so as TO be able to see her
mother there between the two trains.
there being an interval of several
hours between the arrival of
the train from Lexington, and the
departure of the train for Cincinnati
81 did not learn anything from her about
the coming of Rhodes to Cincinnati during
| her absence
NOT AN IMMATURE YOUNG WOMAN.
"What was there in her conversation
or manner that made her appear an i'm
mature young woman"
She appeared TO be q young woman
fully grown aud matured, and understood
matters pertaining to the sexes that "a
young girl would not know. There never
was anything in her conversation to me,
| and [ never heard it told Inherently until
the fling OF this suit. and there never had
been any claim on her part to me that she
was maiden. or that ] had physically or
in any sense seduced her.
when, if at any time or place prior to
the bringing of this action did she state
to you. or claim TO you. that you had Sc
duCed her or she you; believe there have
been some statements made as to that2'
AS to the last claim on her part. Of
course, that never was claimed AS to
the first part of your question, there
never was any time, under any circum-
stances, in any presence in which the
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