Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-03

particularly here in Washington. where
the abilities of both men are appreciated
The expectations began to be realized after
the noon recess, when the colonel was de-
livered over into the hands of his oppo-
nents.
He had continued his story of the in
trigue with Madeline Pollard through the
morning. entering many and reiterated
denials of various statements made by her
and relating his own version of the inter-
views with the Washington chief of police
and of the correspondence between HIM
self and the plaintiff.
He had been testifying for nearly two
court days when his direct testimony was
finished, and although Mr. Wilson piled
him with questions all the afternoon the
cross examination seemed to have been but
just begun.
Finally at the close of the day having
secured the statement that he had written
no letters to Madeline Pollard in 1856, Mr..
Wilson sprung something very like a trap
by dropping into a line of questioning
which indicates that he has in reserve testi-
mony to show that the member from
Kentucky dictated underground letters
through a typewriter at the capitol. Then
for the first time the defendant seemed to
lose his temper and made most strenuous
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is mex. in order is Il Miss Louise Lowell.
now a clerk in the treasury department.
1t had been expected that the colonel
would be requested to reconcile his posi-
ton as n churchman and mOraliSt with
his course of conduct, and this expectation
was not II misguided one, for the eXamina-
ton took that direction from the start
His Acquaintance With Sarah Guess.
BY questions concerning the colonel's
residence in Lexington in 1884 Mr.. Wilson
elected the information that his home was
on the same street with the house of Sarah
Guess, four blocks away. Then he asked
How long had you known Sarah
Guess" to which Colonel Breckenridge
answered: "Oh, | can't tell Perhaps 20
years
Did you know the character of her
house,"
II did
Had you ever been there before you
went with the plaintitf?'
Il had"
Then understand that before you met
the plaintiff YOU had for years known
Sarah Guess-known the character of the
house, known the location of the house and
had been there before you went with the
plaintiff"
Each of those statements is true
Turning to the letter produced by the
defense and purporting to have come from
Miss Pollard. Mr.. Wilson asked where the
envelope was, and Mr.. Breckenridge re-
piled that it had been lost. 1t was his gen
eral custom to preserve all his letters, but
the first letter from the plaintiff he could
not find.
from herr"
al bova
And you are only able to produce, of all
of them, what is called this wooden or
dummy letter.
Il do not admit that it was a dummy
letter. l have not said so. After the re
lations which grew up between the plain
tiff and myself on the list of August, 1884,
did not want to preserve the letters be
cause of many references in them
You have received many kilograms
from the plaintiff"
Il never was in the habit of preserving
kilograms.
so that of all your correspondence with
the plaintiff, extending over nine years,
you have only this letter."
ut seems so
Mr.. Wilson requested a specific account
of all Miss Pollard had said during the
first visit of Colonel Breckenridge to the
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was again dissected, the colonel denying
that Miss Pollard had said it was part of
her agreement with Rhodes to repay the
money he had advanced for her schooling
if she did not marry him, but explained
that she had asked if it would not be all
right if she repaid the money
In his most pathetic tones the colonel re-
peated all the details of the interview;
how she had insisted upon telling him all,
and he had demonstrated that there were
things she probably did not want to say to
a stranger, advising her to go to her grand
father, mother or uncles. He continued:
There is an impression on my memory.
although | cannot remember her language
after 10 years. that she said she had given
him even a higher proof of her intention
to marry him. Then l told her that she
could not afford not to marry him
And that same rule would apply to a
man under the same circumstances?'
breckenridge on Moral Ethics.
Well that is question of casuistry OF
sociology l would not care to answer II
you ask me whether 1 would advise a
young woman who had sexual intercourse
with a man to marry him, would say,
Yes, but with a man it would be differ
ent, for the knowledge of it by the public
would destroy the woman and would only
injure the man"
Would only hurt the MANI"
"Oh, it would not injure him so much
as the woman. Society looks upon these
things differently. If young man should
come to me under certain circumstances,
would advise him to marry a woman; I'M
der other circumstances l would say tc
him, Better death or hell am not talk
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a contemptuous air. 81 was not asking
you about justice"
Are you a member of the Christian En-
deavor society,""
mo, sir"
did you take the Christian Endeavor
pledge?"
Never To be candid, will say that
was twice invited to deliver an address at
the annual greetings in New York and
Montreal on the possibilities of the present
age. wanted very much to deliver that,
but was prevented"
By further questioning Mr.. Wilson clio
tied the information that the colonel last
June had delivered a speech to a woman's
society in Nashville and had been present
ed basket of flowers. He denied that he
had said in his response that he had nc
wife to present them to and was anxious
to explain what he had said, but MIR. " III
son would not permit.
Are you a member of the Masonic fra
ternity?'
Il am"
you knew that Miss Pollard's father
was Mason"
81 did not. knew that he was an Odd
Fellow"
care there any obligations to the widow
or daughters of members growing out of
mem bership in those organizations"
Phil Thompson objected to this question,
Snd the objection was sustained.
An embarrassing presumption which
Judge Wilson chung to throughout was
that the same standard of morality should
be demanded of men as of WON, ii. Along
this line he Questioned the gray haired
congressman upon his reading of Byron
and Burns, and when the attorneys across
the table interposed their objections he
justified his course with the reminder that
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