St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-29
MISS POLLARD'S OLD LOVER
A Y0UYC KENTUCKY ScH5OLMASTER
TELLS OF HIS cOURTSHIP.
KISSED AND CAREssED Heinz
From That Place Give Their
Testimony-An Expert on PEN
manship Submits to a Cross.
Observation-Disclosures to
Take the Stand Today.


Examination-Bre to
Take the Stand Today.
| WASHINGTON. March 2S.-The sur
prise of the misunderstanding trial
today was the unexpected appearance
OF one of Miss Polard's old lovers,
Rankin Roselle. a Kentucky school
| master. His deposition had been read
in the case. bat to make his testimony
more sure. the eX-fiance was intro
| duced in person. and no sooner had he
taken the stand than Madeline Pollard
| glided i'm for the first time this week,
| from the office of her attorney across
| the street. where she waits to be sent
| for when her presence is desired.
Probably she will he in court tomOr-
| row to face her siver-haired accuser,
for the attorneys declare that there will
be positively no longer postponement of
the testimony of the principal IN the
| case. and that Col. Breckenridge will
| take the stand without fail IN the course
| Of the day.
Most of the testimony today was in
the form of dispositions. and much of it
was of character which can only be
published i'm eXpurgatiOn. Those de-
| positions regarding which Judge Brad
ley had expressed his regrets that they
could not be excluded on general prin-
ciples, were recited. and the justifica-
ton for the scathing remarks upon
them was self-evident. The language
employed bv Hiram Kaufman. Lex
ington butcher. and John Brandt. a
janitor from the sane place, would
hardly be tolerated in
WELL-REGULATED BAR ROOM.
These gentlemen admitted in mat
ter-of-fact wav their tendencies toward
habitual drunkenness and marital inf
deity. and the court admitted their
statements unexpurgated, as he re-
marked in conversation that the jury
might judge of the character of the
witnesses
Col. Breckinridge's private secretary
was one witness of the day. and another
was Col. Hay, the best known man in
Washington. and, incidentally. an eX
pert on penmanship. who was subjected
to further croSs-eXamnation upon the
principles employed in detecting for
geries, under the suggestions OF another
expert who sat at Attorney Wilson's
side. From the addition of this new eX-
pert into the case it looks as though a
hard fight had been precipitated over
the authenticity of that black. bordered
letter which was made public yesterday
| exclusively by the Associated Press.
| The cause of the defense is drawing to
a close with the appearance of Col.
| Breckenridge, whose testimony. is eX.
| pected to occupy at least three days. as
| long time as Miss Pollard was on the
stand. Then there will be rebuttal for
an indefinite period. as Miss Pollard
will take the stand again, and witnesses
have been summoned from Kentucky.
| No sooner had the circuit court met
for the misunderstanding case today
than Judge Wilson, of the plaintiff $
counsel. requested that the disputed
letter, which has been in the hands of
THE BRECKENRIDGE FORCES,
be placed in the custody Of the clerk of
the court. He also requested that
Col" E. B. Hay, the expert on hand
writing, be recalled for further cross
examination. Mr.. Wilson asked him
some questions about his method of
judging handwritings. whereat Mr.. Hay
gave a dissertation upon specific
characteristics, as he called them, illu-
minating his remarks by illustrations
drawn Off-hand on the blackboard.
When Mr.. Wilson inquired upon what
characteristic the expert laid greatest
stress, Mr.. Hay replied, with an i'm
|
semble." The spectators snickered,
| Judge Bradley smiled, some of the jur-
Ors looked puzzled, as though they suS-
| pected there was improperly lurking
in the words. and Mr.. Wilson requested
that the expression be rendered in En-
| glsh.
From this point Mr.. Wilson turned to
| inquire if Mr.. Hay remembered having
testified as an expert before congress
Sional committee upon a letter supposed
| to have been written to Congressman
| Springer by one Fiudley. Mr.. Hay re-.
called the case, and Mr.. ButterwOrth
| recollected also that he had been a
member of the committee.
Eyes, you wrote the report" re-
marked Mr.. Wilson.
mo, but it was a good report" Mr..
Butterworth replied, land | signed it,
$50 il was a good report" Mr.. Wilson
| repeated. and the object of his reference
to the case was shown when he pro-
ceeded to read extracts from Mr.. Hays
testimony
AT THAT INVESTIGATION,
to show that he had said at different
! upon general characteristics and upon
| special characteristics. Cool as the ira
ditional cucumber, Expert Hay eX-
planned how he reconciled his state
! ments. Asked If he had not testified
that Findley did not write the Springer
letters, when it had been proved that he
did, MIR. Hay replied that his belief re-
manned unchanged that Findley was not
the writer.
"Did you not testify in this court
recently that will was forgery when
it was proved undoubtedly genuine?"
Mr.. Wilson inquired.
Mr. Hay denied that this was the fact,
| and Mr.. Butterworth insisted that the
| case referred to should be named.
Mr.. Hay, as all expert penman him.
| SELF asserted he could initiate any
| individual letters in the disputed docu-
| ment, but would not be able to combine
| them into plausible imitation of the
| handwriting. He did not remember a
case involving the genuineness of some
| naval vouchers in which the experts had
| picked out the original vouchers as
| forgerles. He had never known case
in which experts had differed so widely
| as over the Findley letter, and incident
| ally remarked that congress had never
| paid him for the twenty five days OF hard
/ work upon the case. MIR. Butterworth
| added that the government never paid
| anything it could avoid except its bonds,
an observation which would have
| pleased Gen. Coxey, ct the c2mmonweal.
| methods 81 tracing, the expert averred
| that none of them could have been
| employed IN making
THE LETTER BEFORE HIM.
Lawyers Wilson and Butterworth in.
| dulged in a dispute over the reading Of
the report Of the congressional commit