Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-27
DISPOSITIONS ARE ADMITTED
IN the POLLARD CASE AssAIIlxe
THE woMAN's CHASTITY
Before She Met observation-disclosures
bradley Makes Severe STRUCTURES
opon the ohseenity OF the case
and Wants Details Left out.


Washington. March e6.-There was
great Interest today to learn tho do.
o'sion OF Judge Bradley upon the adj
nissloiii'y Of dispositions Impending
The character of MadelinePoilard. which
the Breetlnridge forces had offered
ana TO which the plaintiff opposed nu.
merous objections.
Regarding the sweeping denim, q, ,n,.
right to take any depositions h, on ~.
Sc under the act of congress creating
me court, the judge said that the an.
dietary act Of 1879 conferred the rich,
n broad terms upon any pnrty 10 amy
elNli action in any court OF the rrnited
states. It could not be dlsnu,es ,h,t
this was court OF the United states.
ana the fact that the court had al.
ways maintained that right would ius.
uty him In concluding 10 enforce II i'm.
I'll higher court overruled the prac-
uee' There We're other grounds upon
which he sustained the regularity OF
the dispositions as n whole. obieetlon
had been made TO the deposition OF one
Rrand' because he refused TO answer
certain questions concerning a woman
who had introduced him 10 Miss Poi.
lard' He said that he did not want
10 give away" married woman. ana
then persisted that he did not know
her Name The judge said that IL an
peared that instead OF refusing To an
swer the man did not know or was
lying.
lie concluded. saying that while the
direct examination OF the witness had
brought nothing derosatory to Inc
piHlntlu' he had refused TO answer a
duesuon whether he had taken llber.
win her while riding. What
OBJECT he could have mad in rsf,ts-
Ing TO answer, n the answer would
nave injured the plainum me fudre
could not see, since from his own tss-
umony he was utterly lacking Ina NOR
az sense, admitting that although n
married man, he was accustomed IA
VISIT houses Of ill-fame. me bdga
overruled this objection. remnrl,ing
mat tnere was nothing relating upon
4; N'lsH Foilhd In the testimony unless
IL was that she had consented 10 no
sooistc with such "a dsreputobie cbor-
TO be- ''n'seW
The deposition OF one Kaufman ia
also admitted, but Judge BRADLEY snoI'e
very sharply OF these last two. snvlnr
that they We're utterly unfit To be read
before court, that he would eladiv
exclude them " he could and expressed
the nope mat the counsel would see M
20 omit the dlsgraooful obgcene matter
I'm them. He sustained tho obtertlons
which had been made TO tho drnosj.
tons Of John o'Toole. Dr. Green and
Or. Lewis, that they were bnsed ON
heafsny' Or. Lewlg f. the phv,dcian
that testified that Col swope, the Re.
publican candidate for congress- in the
Lexington district, had asked him 10
perform criminal operation upon
Miss Pollard
The dispositions or Mrs. Miller
and OF Resell, who had been engaged
TO Miss Pollard while she was In the
Wesleyan institute, were admitted, tho
judge commenting that the plaintiff
had placed her character and her ma
turlty IN a measure IN question by that
clause Of the declaration which nverred
that she had been seduccd by the de-
fendant and that she was n mere girl
when Col, Breckenridge first met her
Each side filed objections to the rulings
against H.
Then Judge Bradley made a few re.
marks in the interest Of public moral
fly, as he said. "rhe court has been
deluged with anonymous letters IN
this case" he began 1T ls said that
anyone who would write IN auony-
nous letter should not expect to have
any notice taken OF them and would
do almost anything mean, Some OF
these letters however, seem 10 come
from females and to be dictated by
good motives"
Many OF them referred to the pub
licity and details Of the trial. and
while the court could exercise no cen-
sorshlp over the press. he suggested
that papers should omit the improper
details. as he thought some OF these
details, n published, would subject tho
papers to exclusion from the mails, AS
obscene matter. Moreover. II wass al
most cAlamity 10 the city Of wash
ington and the country at large that
such matter should be carried broad
cast into It's homes.
These prclimlnaries having been 1
finished. Attorney Stoll proceeded to |
read the deposition OF Jos. c. Bailey |
and others for the defense