The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-28

ton of her motive for bringing the suit
was that 1T would secure justice The
entries on the convent books under. the
name Of Miss Burgoyne corresponded
with the dates which Miss Pollard and
Or. Street had given Of her admittance
10 the asylum. the birth of the child and
her departure. The name of the child
on the records was NJ. Gertrude Bur-
goyne. According TO the recollection Of
the sister, Miss Burgoyne had visited
the convent twice after the child was
born. The child. Marie Gertrude Bur-
goyne. had died in July, 1885. When
Miss Pollard was told of this, the sister
deposed. she had thrown up her hands
and run from the room, but when she
returned there were no evidences Of
grief in her face.
A Little sparring.
When in the course of the deposition
Attorney Stoll began to read testimony
concerning the visit Of one OF Miss Pol
lard's attorneys, Mr.. Mallon, to the con-
vent. Mr.. Carlisle objected to it as ir-
relevant. Whatever one of Miss Pol
lard's attorneys might have done at the
convent. not in the presence Of the par
ties to the suit but in the pursuit of his
professional duties, he argued, was ir-
relevant
Mr.. Stoll protested that he wanted TO
show that all facilities had been granted
the plaintiffs representatives for secur-
ing information at the convent. Col.
Shelby added that the attorney had
gone in the capacity of agent for Miss
Pollard, therefore his acts were bind
ing upon her, a construction of the rela-
lions of client and attorney from which
the Judge dissented and sustained the
objection of Mr.. Carlisle. -.
II developed that Attorney Mallon had
~. If he ant nd
copied some of the entries, Judge Bradley
admitting these statements of facts but
excluding the conversation which had
taken place between the attorney and
the sister.
The Christmas card which had been
found between the leaves of a volume of
Washington Irving, given to the convent
by Miss Pollard, was produced with
this deposition and displayed to the jury.
II was a large souvenir, six by eight
inches. fringed. on which was caught
and pressed a faded rose. This Christmas
card is expected to play an important
part in the case. as proof that Miss Pol
lard was confined in the convent The
defense claims that when Ii was dis
played by Miss Pollard. who averred
that she had tound it in the book. one
corner was rolled up in way impossible
for a card that had been eight years
pressed in a book. Sister Augustine, &C
cording TO the deposition, had declared
that the statue of St. Joseph in the
convent had perfect eyes. Miss Pol
lard had recollected that one eye or
the statue was out of line.
The second deposition read by Attor-
ney StOll was by Lena Schmidt, who
had been employed for eight years in the
Norwood convent, who had no recollec-
ton Of a woman in the convent in 1883
under the name f Louise Wilson, and
had never seen Madeline Pollard until
last December. She had then been pres
ent at the interview between Sister Agnes
and the plaintiff but as the former had
testified. failed TO identify Miss Pollard
as one she had ever seen. According 70
her remembrance Miss Pollard had SAID
Of her motive for the suit: I did IL for
Justice and 10 disgrace Mr.. Brechlh-
ridge
cey. physician at the Norwood convent.
was objected 10 by Mr.. Carlisle on the
ground of immateriality, but admitted
by the Judge. The physician testified
that he did not know Madeline Pollard or
Louise Wilson, but there had been girl
in the convent named Wilson in 1884 and
1885 whose first name he did not remem-
Der and whose face he would not recog-
nize. He had looked over the books Of
the asylum and found no record Of Louise
Wilson. AT times special physicians at
tended patients at the hospital, If they Sc
requested. One girl who gave birth to a
child had her face yelled because she
claimed Dr. De Courcey knew her. There
had been 500 children born at the asy-
lum. DP.-De Courcey had not been cross
examined.
Rhodes Paid the Bills.
The deposition of o. G.. Brown, presi-
dent of Quinn Valley college, in Ohio,
and a son Of the president Of Wesleyan
seminary. where Miss Pollard had at
tended. was read He was a young man
in those years Of Miss Pollaro's school
ing, and from the records of the school
testified that her bills had been paid by
James c. Rhodes. One note by Rhodes
for $125 given in 1885 had been paid only
in small parts. The deponent had often
visited Rhodes to press for payment, but
the latter had begged off, representing
that he was hard up; that the expenses
We're greater than he expected. etc.
Conversations between Brown and
Rhodes, testified to. were objected to by
the plaintiffs attorneys and the objec-
ton sustained. The answer to the ques-
ton concerning his understanding Of the
relations between Rhodes and Miss Pol
lard was excluded also on the ground
that the basis Of that understanding was
not given.
An interesting question was raised over
the admission of the testimony Of Mr.
Brown, based on the records of the school,
kept by others than himself, to show the
attendance and absence of Miss Pollard,
and this passage was excluded, the usual
exception being noted. Mr. Brown re-
membered that in the spring of 1884 Miss
Pollard had left school to visit her home
on account Of the death Of her sister, but
this was also excluded on the same
grounds. Witness had been personally
acquainted with Col. Breckenridge; re-
membered that he had called at the
school once. Miss Pollard had been in
the habit Of claiming relationship or
friendship with most of the prominent
people Of Kentucky, among them Mr.
Breckenridge and Senator Blackburn
This bOasted acquaintance Of hers had
grown into a joke at the school, 50 that
the visit of Col. Breckenridge, being un-
expected, had impressed itself upon him
as corTobOratiOn Of her claims. Wit
ness remembered that Col Breckenridge
had taken Miss Pollard driving that
evening The question as TO the feeling
about Miss POllard's return to the school
was excluded objection BY the
scholars Miss Pollard had been jokingIy
How Rhodes Looked.
AFTER the noon recess Judge Bradley
announced that the court would adj
journ tonight until Monday morning on
account Of Good Friday. What sort Of
a looking man was RhOdes?' was one OF
the questions read by Mr.. StoIl. 'Oh.
We don't care what Rhodes looked like
"Bue we do" responded Mr.. Stoll