Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-03-14
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The MISUNDERSTANDING Trial.

assembled and the clerk was calling
the Jury in the Pollard Breckenridge
breach of promise suit this morning
when a door to the left of the judges
bench opened and Miss Pollard came
in. 1t was her first appearance since
her sensational exit on Monday. The
court room was crowded. Col. Brock
inridge and all his counsel were pres
ent.
Mr.. Calderon Carlisle began the pro-
ceedings by continuing his examination
of Sister Cecilia, which was suspended
Yesterday. Sister Cecilia said she could
not positively say that Miss Pollard
was patient at the Norwood found
ling asylum while she was in charge.
"Now, Sister Cecilia, do you know
whether, while you were in charge of
the asylum, there were any patients
there who went yelled ?"
"There were two ladies there who
went yelled because they feared being
recognized by visitors"
"Now, Sister Cecilia, did you ever
send any patients back to Cincinnati in
carriages ?"
"Yes, three or four"
In answer to other question, Sister
Cecilia said the name of Bergwyne or
Burgoyne was on the record of the
Norwood Asylum as patient there.
There was sigh of Disappointment
throughout the courtroom as Sister
Cecilia withdrew and Mr.. Carlisle took
up voluminous mass of typewriter
manuscript, which was recognized as
one of the prosy dispositions. The de-
position was that of Mrs. Kate Perry
Kane, a physician of Cincinnati. Mrs.
Kane identified Miss Pollard as young
woman who came to the house Of Drs.
Perry and Buchanan in 1885 as a pa
tent. She boarded there for awhile
during the warm weather, and was
known rs Miss Louise Wilson.
Mr.. Stoll read the cross-examination
Dr. Buchanan had told, the deponent
that Miss Wilson was an unfortunate
girl from Kentucky. Miss Wilson, she
understood, was recovering from con-
tincment when she was at the de
ponent's house. AT one time Miss Will
son had gone out to meet her seducer
at a hotel-permisson beirg given by
her physicians. When she came back
Miss Wilson told the deponent that
she had met the man, but that it was
impossible for her to marry him; she
loathed him, she said; he had ruined
her. Miss Wilson also said that the
man had offered to marry her to clear
things up, but she disliked him so that
she refused.
This last testimony was important in
view of the effort the defense is making
to show that Col. Breckenridge did not
seduce Miss Pollard. Col. Breckenridge
was married man in 1885, while Miss
Wilson, whom the deponent said was
Miss Pollard, had said her seducer Of
fered to marry her.
Mrs. Kane said she thought that at
the time Miss Wilson was at her house
she appeared to be about 24 years old
She showed much knowledge of the
world and had many womanly ways.
| Miss Pollard contends that at this time
she was is years old.
DR.. Belle Buchanan, of Cincinnati,
took the stand. She said she was
practising physician in Cincinnati in
1885, she and DR.. Perry (Mrs. Kane)
renting the house jointly where they
they lived.
She said: 81 first knew the plaintiff
in the summer of 1885, when she came
to my house in Cincinnati from st.
Joseph's foundling asylum at Bond
Hill, sometimes called Norwood, near
Cincinnati"
CHOW long was the plaintiff at your
house 2"
"My best recollection is that she was
there six or seven weeks. She was
very weak when she came to our house;
it was difficult for her TO climb the
stairs"
"Do you know from what she was
sufering?"
81 do-She had given birth to
extraordinarily"
"Can you state how long prior to
coming to your house the child was
born 2"
II should say about ten weeks"
DR.. Buchanan said Miss Pollard or
Wilson was about IS when she was at
her house. She had recognized the
plaintiff last Februday when Miss Pol
lard called on her.
Mr.Stoll wanted to know how DR.. Buch-
anan knew Miss Pollard had given birth
to child, and he asked q number of
other questions on that subject. Miss
Pollard became somewhat nervous dur