Evening journal., 1894-04-11
THOMPSON'S EPITHETS
He Applied a Large Variety to
Miss Pollard.
HIS SPEECH FOR BRECKENRIDGE

ster''-lIis Novel Views Of Moral Lapses
From a Kentucky Standpoint.
WASHINGTON, April ll.-Colonel Phil
Thompson, formerly member Of congress
from Kentucky and one of the best known
men in Washington, entertained the jury
H. the Pollard Breckenridge case with a
pyrotechnic speech such as has rarely been
heard in this section. The Blue Grass or
ator once had great reputation as a
stump speaker, and Washington had a
chance TO see ON what the fame is founded
Colonel Thompson is a thick set, chub-
by, red faced man, with scant hair on the
top of his head. He talks in a free and
easy but exceedingly vigorous manner
His speech was sprinkled with anecdotes,
some Of them too broad for reproduction,
and his views regarding the stability Of
the seventh commandment will doubtless
provoke response from the pulpits of New
England.
Madeline Pollard did not hear the terms
In which her fellow Kentuckian referred
to her as an adventures and shameless
woman because she left the court as soon
as Mr.. Calderon Carlisle had finished his
plea in her behalf
The speech of Colonel Thompson will be
concluded today, and then Major Butter
worth, another ex-congressman, who is a
mild spoken Quaker, will follow him.
Mr.. Carlisle Finishes.
Attorney Calderon Carlisle took up his
review Of the testimony where he had
dropped it and devoted himself for the first
half hour particularly TO discussion of
Mrs. Governor Blackburn testimony. lie
rehearsed in manner devoid Of rhetorical
attitudes and in a colloquial tone how
Colonel Breckenridge had brought 20 the
Kentucky lady the plaintiff in this case,
saying that she was much to him now and
would be more in the future, as he intend
ed to make her his wife.
The attorney compared the character Of
his client with that of the congressman.
"What is left now of her lifefn he asked.
'The opportunity has passed for him to
make that reparation which he owed to
her and himself. When you consider the
character of the witnesses on both sides.
when you think of this man, with power
socially, politically and otherwise, who
acquired domination over this unfortunate
girl, who ruined her life, you cannot but
believe that he promised to make good TO
her the ruin Of her life; you cannot, with
the thought of the mothers and daughters
In the land, refuse to make the only posi-
BILE reparation to this unfortunate plain
tiff"
Reminding them of the $50, 600 which the
declaration would allow them TO award,
Mr.. Carlisle closed his plea. and Miss Pol
lard and her companion left the room.
Colonel Thompson's Address.
Then Colonel Phil Thompson faced the
| Jury. Colonel Thompson started off with
the proposition that his. client was not re
sponsible for dragging this case into court;
that it was not the province of the jury to
punish his client for immortality, although
he asked no leniency at the bar Of public
opinion.
Who was It, he asked, who had brought
into court this mass Of filth, spreading il
through the newspapers before the daugh
ters of the family? II want you to TRY
this woman as a bawd and a wanton, a.
she acknowledged herself" declared Mr.
Thompson.
He asserted that the suit had beer
brought with revenge as its prompting
motive, and he told the jurymen that il
they had lived with the woman as Colonel
Breckinridge had they would not have
taken her into their families among theil
daughters and placed her at the head o
their table. Every decent man would sus
tain the colonel in his refusal to do that
Beginning with Madeline Pollard's age
since, he said, she had claimed to have beer
seduced by the colonel at the age of II, h'
inquired why her mother and the family
Bible had not been brought forward as thu
best proof of her age. Back at that timl
when she claimed she was II she had beer
associated with Mollie Shinglebauer, an,
he could not understand why so much ha,
been said about Mollie Shinglebauer wit
was as good as the strumpets she had asso
ciated with A good deal had been salt
about so many witnesses for the defens
having been in houses Of prostitution, bu
Colonel Thompson had no doubt tina
many good fellow had been in such place
and could tell the truth about what hap
pened there as well as if it had happene
In a meeting house. If people wanted {
find out what happened in these places
they must go after the people who had bee
there
Turning to the occasion of the mock MAJ
riage at Squire Tinsley's, he said that Mis-
Pollard had been in a state of debaucher
and drunkenness, although she claime
that she was sick. People generally sal
that they were sick under such circun
stances. Mr.. Thompson had been ther
himself, he frankly admitted.
A Money Seeker All the Time.
As he was proceeding to the discussion
of the subsequent events he demanded {
know where the plaintiff got so muc
money to prosecute this case with, and pa
all these unnecessary expenses, and to hir
these eminent counselors, and he promise
TO show that the woman had been a none
seeker and money getter every step q
the way and Nas trying to get money now
She seemedto be always daft about tw
things; was always trying TO get none
and go to school; had been talking abou
going to school at Berlin clear up to las
fall. Then she had always been wantin
to get married.
Colonel Thompson characterized Mis-
Pollard as ''the most skillful adventures
who ever made track through cour
room" He argued from dates that Col
mel Breckenridge could not have been Il
father of her first child. To give the plail
tiff verdict would be to convict Moll
Shinglebauer, John Brandt, Hiram kau
man and the defendant Of willful perjur,
Colonel Thomson. continuing, said thu