The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-03-17
MADELINE AND WILLIE
ihl Piain.iT Tlkai ihl Sand and Tells
H.V SltFI
OLD BRECK WAS TOO GAY
A Discovery In Relation 20 tho
Date OF his Last Marriage
Which Nay Figure In
tho Case.

Ailo Sabts
WAsnISGroS, March 1.-two distinct
| sensations were furnished to-day IN the
Pollard Brccklnriige trial. The foremost
was the appearance Of the plaintiff on the
stand IN her own behalf, but toe gFcatest
interest To LEGAL circles was tho corrobora-
tion Of the rumor which has been alioat
thai Colonel BTcckuridzc was secretly
married 10 Mrs. Louise Wing in New York
last April, three months before the public
ceremony in Cincinnati. II is improba-
bls that this secret marriage will consti-
iuto new legal factor IN tho case, for,
while il occurred on April -, the rep
resoniations which Colonel BFcckinridge
made to Mrs. Blackburn that Misc Poll
lard was hs iiance were made prior To
the secret marriage; the promises made
in tho presence of Major Moore. chief OF
police, being those which wore subsequent
10 tho secret ceremony.
In tho cross-examlaation. which was
conducted by Mr. Bu;terworth. tho fenc-
inc between the skilled lawyer and the
young woman was so kecn rs to furnish
uns;intcd amusement 10 tho court. Tho
court adjourned TIL Monday leaving the
cross examination uDllnisnci.
At tho opening of the Pollard Hreckin-
ridge trial this morning the plaintiff her
scif took the witness chair. She testified
that her father was a saddlor Ivy trade,
dying in 1875, when she was 10 years old.
lie Lott no estate. Hc was an Odd Fellow
and Mason, aud members oE the grand
lodges OF those orders attended his fu-
neral. Two OF her sisters were taken 10
tho odd Fellows home to live.
There tho testimony jumped to her life
at Washington, emitting tho early stages
of her acquaintance with tue defendant.
lie endorsed all her papers for positions
in the civil service bureau.
In the last days OF August, 1892. he met
her at the Baltimore & q bio depot. Wash
| ington, put lis arms around her, kissed.
her. took her TO tue carriage, told her he
had determined 10 marry her and she
promised to marry him. lie said be had
married second wife IL months after the
death OF his first wife and year after the
death of lilo second wiio would marry
plaintiff. She wanted hin TO wait two
years aud proposed 10 20 To Europe with
| Miss willard on school trip for young
ladies'. He strenuously opposed being left
alone, saying such descrtion would he
selfish. aud she gave il up. a letter from
Miss Catherine Willard. dated Gray Ca
bles. BuzEhrds' Bay. Mass, in October,
| ls92, referring 10 the proposed European
trap, was read.
| The witness detailed at length the con-
slant atteation paid hcr by Breckinrdgc,
saying hc visited her daily, sometimes
twice day aud often in the evening"; how
he paid her expenses on visit To New
York, and how sho accompanied him on q
lcciuring tour TO New England.
| Witness then went back To her first
meeting with BreckiurIdge in April, 1854,
when he approached her on a car between
Lexington and Frankford. protesting
to having met her before. Then
came the story of her rela-
tIons 10 James G. Rhodes, who
undertook TO educate her II she would
marry him; OF her sending ior Breckin-
ridge for counsel as an attorney; OF tho
means which he took to be alono with her
without chance Of interruption; of their
subsequent intimacy; of the birth OF the
children in 1885 and lsss. she produced
letters and tclegrams from him contain
ing words of endearnent and closed her
testimony by declaring that never since
|
any other man. her frame shaking with
suppressed emotion as she passed out of
the court room leaning on the arm Of an
attendant.
Before Miss Pollard left the stand she
testified that Breckiuridgc had taken her
with him on several occasions when he
went out of tho city 10 address religious
bodies. lie had given her no reason for
tho postponemeut of the dates fixed for
marriage and sho never asked for any
until the scene IN the Office Of Colonel
Moore.
Prom the night he took mo to Sarah's,'
said Miss Pollard, dramatically, "there
WAS never a suggestion OF tho discontinue
ancc Of those miserable relations until he
left mo with al! sorts of promises, plead
inrs and loyiag words OH tho 10Th of May,
ISG."
NEW YORK. March lG.-The Ersning Post
says. 4 certificate filed in the health de-
par,ment by Rev. Dr. John L. Paxton
shows that ". e. =. Breckinridge married
Louisa L. :. Wing April %, 1873. This was
a secret marriage. The public ceremony
was last July. Il is thought this may play
some part in tho Observation-Disclosures
trial as going to show that when he prom
scd to marry Miss Pollard In the presence
of Colonel Moore. chief OF police of WASH
ingion last May, he was not in position
10 redeem tho promise.