The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-13
VERDICT TOMORROW NIGHT.
BrecklnfidSe Soon 10 KnlW Whether He
Must Pay Madeline Damages.
BUT1ERWORTH CLOSES HIS ARGUMENT
Ex-Judge Jerre NJ Wilson to Have His Say
To-Day and will Conclude To- Morrow.
The Ohioan's Speech Effective.

DitthlHIiuSe case VIII 20 10 the JURY OH
Saturday, ana a verdict will probably be
rendered that day. for jurymen have no
lilSins for being locked UP over Sunday,
as the jury in this case undoubtedly will
be if its members fail to come to con-
clusion before midnight. Tomorrow
morning ex-Judge Jere NJ. Wilson will be-
gin the closing argument for the plaintiff.
which viii be the last argument in the
case. He will continue all day and end
his speech some time Saturday, when
Judge Bradley viii charge the jury.
Major Butterworth concluded his argil-
ment this afternoon. and the court then
adjourned until tomorrow. There was an
absence from his speech of the dramatic
efforts Of yesterday. To-day he was
milder, though at times he approached the
sensational. The plaintiff was not present.
though she will probably be in her usual
place tomorrow 10 hear her counsel,
Judge Wilson, reverse the portrait Major
Butterworth painted.
MAJOR BUTrEgwOHTH REsUMFs.
Major Butterworth began few minutes
after the court was called 10 order lie
ItiQ UP ~ NitW tue NItldtlti Oh AiNut-
line Pollard, described from his stand
point. and dissected ii. His language
was delicate and clean, and there was
a careful avoidance Of the risque stories
and broad illusions. which had marked
the address Of his associate counsel. The
relations Of Miss Pollard with James G.
Rhodes were the subject to which Major
ButterwOrth first devoted himself lie
read the letters from the plaintiff to
Mr.. Rhodes, begging and demanding
money from him. Then he read the let
ters which Miss Pollard called wooden
or dummy letters. These letters were
dated from New Orleans. jacksonville
and other places in the South.
Miss Pollard says they were written I'm
Cincinnati during her first pregnancy.
some of them at the dictation of the
defendant, and sent TO Rhodes through
her mother at TOwelsboro. to divert sus-
picion. Miss Pollard testified that her
mother knew nothing about her trouble,
and taking up this point. Major Butter
worth said:
NO ONE But HER MOTHER COULD TILL.
"There is only one 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, and she has not been called.
Why has she not been callel? People
may say, Why don't you call her? And
will say TO them that we are not going
into the camp of the enemy for our pro-
visions or our powder either"
Major Butterworth dwelt on the testi-
mony Of Sister Agnes and Sister Angus
tine. Of ST. loseph's Founding Asylum
near Cincinnati. These Sisters, he said.
were emphatic In their declaration that
Madeline Pollard had never been at
the asylum, as she claimed. and more
positive that she was not "Alrs. Bur
goyne." Either these holy women are
guilty of deep falsehood." cried Major
"or Madeline Pollard never
gave birth TO a baby at St. Joseph's Asy-
lum."
TILT WITH JUDGE WILSON.
A little tilt between Major Butterworth
and eX-Judge Wilson furnished diversion
for the spectators. Major ButterwOrth
taunted the plaintiffs counsel with refer
ence TO the four volumes Of Washington
Irving, which a patient presented to the
Founding Asylum. and through which
Miss Pollard seeks to identify herself
with the institution. Judge Wilson inter
rupted and asked why the defence had
not shown the volumes OF Irving 10 Miss
Hoyt and Mrs. Ketcham, of Lexington,
who had seen the volumes OF Irving which
Miss Pollard owned, and which the latter
says are identical with those taken from
the asylum library.
What" cried Major Butterworth,
"show them 10 people and get them 10
identify things they had never seen? Not
N
Of words and the spectators laughed.
Judge Bradley Immediately told Major
TO stop. and then threatened
TO clear the courtroom as he had done
WHAT DID SHE MEAN BY MANA?
Major Butterworth laid considerable en-
phasis on the frequent use OF the express
sion in Miss Pollards letter 10 Rhodes
Come early and we will go to see Mama"
We will go 70 see Mama" when Mama
was not there? What does 1t mean. |
iont know, perhaps Judge Wilson does
said Major Butterworth, but If he did
not know, he conveyed very clear i'm
preston TO the minds of his hearers
hat he meant that the expression used
20 frequently was merely a code phrase
FOR going out for some wrongful or
secret purpose. He referred sarcasticaIly
10 Miss Pollard as Z" pawn on an i'm
moral chess-board moved whether the
player was near II or not" 4 MS was
ipropos of Miss Pollard's statement that
she wanted TO take her baby and go away
out of the defendants life. and the de-
,endant would not let her.
SIMILAR CASE CITED.
In this connection Mr.. Butterworth told
/ little story. II met an old friend the
)ther day and he said: Ben, why did
lot Breckenridge break off with this
| said to him. DO you remem-
)er about twenty years ago when a
)rave. stalwart man, ripe I'm years and
experience, with a loving family about
lim got a womans hand tangled In his
lair? My God, / do he cried. oh
'es.' said /. L remember how he sweated
Hood before the world But why did
lie get in It, somebody asks. Oh, yes.
hats all right, but that is not the ques-
ion when | am 10 be offered up for a
icarious atonement for a crime | never
ommitted We know that a man who
'ill court death. who goes bravely into
be very front OF battle. trembles like an
spen leaf in the presence of such
ituation as this
Major Butterworth said he did not
eek TO extenuate the fault of his client,
ut. he said, "the men who have framed |
our financial systems. the men who have !
lade your laws. your great generals. |
trong as they were. have trembled and |
iven way TO this temptation to which |
his man was subjected. She |
new she held this mans destiny in her |
and She could command. not demand. |
nd vet she never contemplated "a bet /
,r life. She kept him there crawling |
[ her feet"