The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-14

! outstrctched finger and asks why GER
tain witnesses were not brought. The
answer is the simplest in the world. IL
was because they had to prove the mat
ter In which those witnesses were con-
ccrned and not we. Judge Shelby said
that the plaintiff had put her whole life
ana character I'm Issue. and that they
were going to show that her character
was such that no promise made 10 her
could be kept. They have not proved q
single word OF her general character.
CHARGES or Perjury.
After recess Judge Wilson. referring
10 some OF the ietters that had been read
by the defence said
lhere has been no hesitation whatever
10 use perjury TO tarnish the reputation
OF this plaintiff. and what has been done
is putrid and offensive 10 the nostrils OF
all. The accusation made by the Shin
! giebauer woman lies at the very bot
tom OF this defence. They tried to prove
! that the plaintiff was a matured woman
before she met the defendant"
Judge Wilson held up 10 scorn the at
| tempt of Major ButterWorth to show
vicious habits through Miss Pollard's
schoolgirl letters. Madeline Pollard had
| not met James &. Rhodes until the sum-
mer Of 1885, and yet during the months
of May, June, and July" said Judge
! wilson, the defence sought to prove
| that she was living I'm n house OF prOsti-
tuition, in Lexington. In all the letters
TO James G. Rhodes from the plaintin
there was not suggestion of any i'm
| proper relations. If there had been such
relations it would have cropped out some
where"
Mr.. Wilson handled. without sparing
the witnesses. the testimony of Brant and
kaufman. and the other witnesses who
made oath 20 the plaintiff having visited
| the house Of Lena Singleton when that
house, at the time, had 10 existence. and
said he knew Of nothing more worthy
Of reprobaton than the pulling before a
! jury Of every perjured statement that
! could be hunted up in the back cellers
and slop barrels of Lexington, to blackeA
| the character Of this unfortunate girl.
! There was quite a tilt between Judge
Wilson and opposing counsel on the sub
iect of deposition. Yesterday Major But
terw0rth threw the gauntlet down. ask
ing Mr. Wilson: "Will you answer me
why you failed to take depositions to
Offset our testimony taken In Lexing-
toni"
Judge Wilson replied that he would
take up that challenge. His answer
was that when the plaintiff had tried to
| take depositions she could not get
notary or a commissioner to authenticate
them. Major Butterworth insisted that
| this was not So and when Mr.. StOll
| interrupted Judge Wilson told him ne
dare not deny his accusation.
As TO RHODES AND RosELI.
Then Judge Wilson took up the testi-
| mony Of Rankin Resell. who was at one
| time engaged 10 the plaintiff and said
that Resell had furnished a loop which
| the defence had tried to place around
| the neck Of his clients character. Il
| .rfrIff a.f1 T..Ja I
| say of him as Tom COrwin said Of a
notorious scoundrel named Van Zandt.
| May God have mercy on your soul,
| and stop there" He referred to Roselrs
statement that he had broken his en-
| gagement with Miss Pollard because she
| let him fondle and caress her. That's
another lie" he said, "a black, damna-
bic lie." Judge Wilson took up the
statement of Colonel Breckenridge that
on the day he called on Miss Pollard at
Wesleyan College she told him that she
had had wrongful relations with Rhodes.
This Miss Pollard had denied. "Her word
is as good as his" said Judge Wilson.
Her word In this case is as good as
his. and this doctrine and probity comes
here with crushing force against this de-
fendant Was IL probable that Rhodes
also told the defendant Of the relations
with the plaintiff? The defendant was
told him this, not as an attorney, because
he knew if he said It was told him as
an attorney the Court would not have al
lowed him 10 speak OF ii. Oh, he's the
most agile man on the witness-stand that
ever l saw" said Judge Wilson. "You
might fling him out of the window, but
he will allght on his feet"
COL. BREcKINRIDGE EycoRATRD.
Then, with dramatic manner and deep
voice Of accusation, Judge Wilson made
a severe arraignment Of Colonel Breck-
inridge.
''lt pains me to say it, gentlemen" he
said. but / must say he has lived a
lie. For ten years his life has been that
Of faithlessness TO the most sacred OBJ
legation of life He has lived "A life of
hypocriscy, such a life as he himself has
said, you can't find words TO coin into
phrases to define the heighth and length
and depth of my fault" | am so fill
ed with pity for this homeless. friend
less woman, that / can find il in my
heart to say things that / would not
otherwise have said. After he has told
you he has lived a lie for ten years. |
don't believe l could find man so fool
ish as to believe him now. What has he
not done? He has even falsifed his mar
rage certificate Can you believe the
story he tells with all its improbabilities.
and which he asks you to believe in
the same breath in which he tells you
Of all these deceptions of other people?
How can you know that he Is not prac-
ticing these things on you? II is simply
impossible for you to find that Madeline
Pollard told him any such story about
Rhodes, or that Rhodes told this story
about himself. Whatever there is of
slime upon her comes from this defen-
dant. Every distorted muscle and every
broken bone in her character was from
the defendant 1t is the trail of a SER
pent that is over her life"
TRIBUTE TO THE SISTER OF MERCY
Judge Wilson painted a picture of the
plaintiff kept cut Of the society of her
sister but was taken in by the House
of Mercy, and he paid a high compliment
70 Miss Ellis, the elderly lady from the
House of Mercy here who has accom-
panied Miss Pollard 10 the court house
every day.
When he had concluded on this line II
was half past three O'clock and he asked
Judge Bradley TO adjourn. In asserting.
Judge Bradley said the court would sit
tomorrow, and the case should be finish
ed then.
MRS. BREcKINRiDGE DRcEIvnD.
Mrs. Breckenridge, formerly Mrs. Wing,
the wife OF the defendant In the now
famous Breckinrldge-Pollard breach-of