The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-13
BRECKENRIDGE.
Continuation Of Major ButterWorth's
Argument.
MAKES A DRAMATIC ATTACK ON
MISS POLLARD.

| He-why Was the Plaintiffs Mother
| Not CaIled?-The "Wooden" Letters to
Rodes Madeline and Breckin-
/ ridge Both to Blame.
Washington, April .12.-Major Ben
| Butterworth continue his great speech
today in defence of Colonel Breckinridge
He held up to view the character
/ of Madeline Pollard, described from his
standpoint, and.dissected it.
| The relations of Miss Pollard with
James C. Rodes was the subject to
which Major Butterworth first devoted
himself.
| He read the. letters from the plaintiff
to Rodes, begging and demanding money
from him. Then he read the letters
which Miss Pollard called wooden or
dummy LETTERS These letters were dated
from New Orleans, Jacksonville and
other places in the South and Miss
Pollard says they were written in Gin
cinnatl during her first pregnancy some
of them at the dictation of the defend
ant and sent to Rodes through her
mother at Towlesboro, Kentucky, to
divert suspicion. Miss Pollard testified
that her mother knew nothing about
her trouble and taking up this point
Major Butterworth said:
| "There is only on person in the world
| who can tell whether these letters are
| genuine or not there is but one person
living who can clear up this mystery.
| That person is the mother of Madeline
| Pollard she has not been called. Why
has she not been called? People may
say, Why don't you call herP' and 1
| will say to that we are not going into
the camp of the enemy for our provis
| ions or our powder either. "He laid great
stress on the statement of Miss Pollard
that Rodes had been told she had a
| position in Cincinnati when she went
| away to prepare for her first contine-
| ment, and her second statement that
| Rodes thought she was travelling
| companion at that time.
These utterly Inconsistent statements
said Major Butterworth were tie result
| of the attempt of Miss Pollard to
square her story.
| Major Butterworth dwelt on the tes-
| timony of Sister Agnes and Sister Aug
ustine of ST. Joseph's foundling asylum
| near Cincinnati.
| These sisters, he said, were emphatic
| in their declaration that Madeline Pol
| lard had never been in the asylum as
| she claimed, and more positive that she
as not Mrs. Burgoyne.
/ Either these holy women are guilty of
deep falsehood, "said Major Butterworth,
| "or Madeline Pollard never gave birth
| to baby at ST. Joseph's asylum.
This plaintiff, said Major Butter
worth, had been careful not to lose sight
of the defendant during the whole period
| of their elatious. She tells us that not
| for the shortest space of time were they
| separated, and why? Because she knows
| L, 9 %I,o
| ask himself, woman, did you never sit
| down minute and contemplate the
| happy home you were likely tosdestroy?'
| and she wants to say to that, our
relations were not discontinued long
enough to enable me to think such
( things-he could not let me CO.
| Major Butterworth said he did not
seek to extenuate the fault of his client,
but he said. "The men who have
! framed your financial systems, the
| men who have made your laws, your
| great generals, strong as they were,
| have trem bled and given way to this
temptation to which this man was sub
| jecte
| in her hand. She could command, not
demand. And yet he never contemp-
| lated better life. She kept him there
crouching at her feet :" Taking up the
| alleged promise of marriage on August
| 81, 1892, Major Butterwortn drew picture
| of what sdepravity was shown if her
| story were true.
| "He had met her at the railroad sta
| ton and told her he had something to
| tell her that evening which he was vain
enough to think would please her, and
| what did he do? She says he took her
to house of ill-fame to ask her with
| tender affection to be his wife.
| That's what makes it all the worse,"
| said Judge Wilson.
| "And that's what ma kes your manly
| manhood know it isn't true," retorted
| Major Butterworth, shaking both
clenched fistsain the opposing lawyers
face.
I Before the mold had gathered on the
shroud ofshis dead wife he asks her ten
| derly, with loving kindness, to marry
him. Asked her to marry him and con-
| summate their years of debauchery by
placing her'at the head of his table, to
preside over his pure and loving daugh-
| ters, to rule his home-and she says
| when he wanted to ask her that he took
| her to house of ill-fame.
| at isn't true said Major Butterworth.
| The usual recess was here orderd.
| After recess, Major Butterworth con-
| tinued his argument ana laid consider
! able emphasis on the frequent use of the
| expression in Miss Pollard's letter to
| Rodes, "Come early, we will go see
mama" lie 6hougn6 tne expression .uSeu
SO frequntly was merely a code phrase
for going out for some wrongful @or Sc
cret purpose He said Madeline Pol
| lard might have been a good woman in
the eyes of the world today if she had
carried out her part of the contract with
| the defendant, to leave Washington and
die out of his life. He declared riculous
the story of the plaintiff that on the
very day she returned to Washington
after not having seensthe defendant for
! a long time, when not line had been
exchanged between them, the defendant
| asked her to marry him.
Major, Butterworth took up the calls
on Mrs. Blackburn 10y the defendant and
| nIaintiff to tell her they were engaged
merely for the purpose of setting right
| in Mrs. Black burns mind the statement
Of Miss Pollard that Breckenridge had
promised to marry her. He took occa-
Sion to picture Miss Pollard as an ad-
yenturess. laying her plans to entrap
| into marriage the man whom she had in
her her power through their guilty rea-
tions. The defendant agreed to say they
were to be married to keep the plaintiff
| from being condemned. Breckinridge
did noble act in going to Mrs. Black
burn to save the woman'ss honor, to keep