Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-10
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TO the jury ard with it the marriage
certificate for Colonel Breckinridge's
secret marriage to Mrs. Wing. The
authenticity of the letter, he claimed,
rested wholly on the defendants word,
while the testimony Of the experts
should not weigh a feather. He thought
that the value OF the letter to the de-
| PENDANT was merely as an opening wedge
while the plaintiff would have no object
In denying it except the fact that
she had not written it. 1t would have
been easy to concoct letter like that
| because, for the most part, 1t conceded
with the statements Of the plaintiff and
the defendant. He laid stress on the
| fact that of all the hundreds OF letters
written by Miss Pollard to the Colonel
this was the only one which had been
found, with the exception OF little
note written Ia 1889.
While Mr.. Carlisle was reading the
testimony of Colonel Breckenridge re-
garding his first visit 10 Miss Pollard,
the Colonel spoke up in correction OF
one of the statements concerning the
Rreckinridge family, saying: That
should be Judge Breckenridge and not
General Breckenridge.
The lawyer laid stress upon the
SELECTION OF A CLOSED CARRIAGE
for the ride from the seminary, COM
pared the story of the Colonel that with
out any preliminary encoeragement he
had become intimate with her with her
story OF having repulsed his advances,
and his fattering. Of "ths tongue which
had been accustomed to sway large
audiences, confined TO an audience OF
one girl in q Cincinnati hack"
The mere fact OF Colonel Breckin-
ridge, the Congressman, coming to take
Madeline Pollard. the daughter OF q
Kentucky saddler, to ride, was COM
pliment and flattery to her. The state
ment OF the Colonel to Major Moore
that on the first night he had taken
liberties with her person and the sec
ond night had slept with her,
concurred with her testimony
and not with his. From the
testimony OF Mrs. Blackburn. Mr.. Car
Isle said. proceeding to that aspect OF
the case, there were but two avenues OF
escape for Colonel Breckenridge, TO say
that he had not told the truth or that
she had not, and as the lesser horn OF
the dilemma, he had said that he mis-
represented facts to her. To show that
the testimony Of Colonel Breckenridge
was not worthy of credence, the attor-
ney referred 10 his statement that his
relations TO Miss Pollard, continued
through nine years, had been entirely
without love or fascination, "a relation
so low that I would have thought he
would have been afraid to admit it on the
stand Taking his own statement that
this woman was merely
THE PLAYTHING OF HIS PASSIONS,
It does not add 10 his credibility that he
should have taken such a woman as he
claims this plaintiff TO be, to such a wo-
man as Mrs. Blackburn, a woman Of
such character, such standing, such
surroundings.
Considering the Colonel's own state
ment OF how he had deceived Mrs.
Blackburn, "a woman of the highest
standing from his own State" the at
torney appealed to the jury, TO think
whether they could trust him under cir
cumstances carrying such weighty in
ducements for him to misstate the
facts.
Mr.. Carlisle called attention to the
appearance Of Miss Pollard on the wit
ness stand, when, after two hours OF
direct examination, she had been SUBJ
iected to two days and a half OF cross
examination without being shaken on q
material point II would be easy for
the defense TO talk OF her extraordinary
acuteness, but only one OF two condi-
tions, mind trained sin the courts, ex-
perienced as witness, or an absolute
adherence to the truth, could enable a
person to do this, and it was doubtful
il the former qualifications could avail
in such an ordeal If one was not telling
the truth.
Canvassing the testimony OF Sarah
Guess, and the after meetings Of the
pair while Miss Pollard was at the
Sayre Institute, Mr.. Carlisle came down
to the birth Of the first child, concern
ing which, he said, there was not
shadow of proof even attempted to car
nv out the defendants insinuation that
another man than himself
MIGHT HAVE BEEN ITS FATHER.
After reviewing the life of Miss Pol
lard in Cincinnati. the attorney said
that everything in the case went TO
show that Colonel Breckenridge was
right when he wrote in the civil service
papers that be would trust her in any
position, for had she been the sort Of
woman he had attempted to prove her,
and had their relations been OF the kind
ha stotad cba would long ago have re-
Vealed his secret.
In discussing the probabilities OF the
nature of the relations of Colonel Breck-
inridge to Miss Pollard, the attorney
asked il it was probable that he would
have sent invitations TO receptions at
Norwood. the fashionable female semi
nary Of Washington, TO woman who
was nothing TO him but his mistress.
Before Mr.. Carlisle had finished
speaking, the hour of adjournment ar
rived.
CATTTP Ann MApY