Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-04-12
THE POLLARD CASE.
BRECKINRIDGE IN THE HANDS
OF THE PLAINTIFFS ATTORNEY
Colonel Says That While There
Were demonstrations" on the
Part Of Both He Said There Were
No "Expressions" OF Love.

Washington, April 3.-The usual crowd
was present at the Pollard Breckenridge
trial to-day, and the colonel went over d
great deal of the ground already covered.
odd YOU" asked Mr.. Butterworth,
have any sexual relations with the
plaintiff after the Goth of April, 1887
That is the date on which the DEFEND
ant was secretly married to Mrs. wing.
Mr.. Breckinridge-I did not after the
Goth of April, 1893. 1 did not have any
sexual relations with the plaintiff what
ever. 1t is absolutely false. | never had
sexual intercourse with the plaintiff after
/ returned to Washington after the olst
day of March, at any time or at any
place. l returned on the 31st of March
and had the conversation with Mrs.
Blackburn. Plaintiff and l had no sexual
relations on that day or ever after that
day. The arrangements were made prior
to my going to Mrs. Blackburn's, as the
only reason 1 would go to Mrs. Black
burns was that our relations should
terminate; that she should leave the city
of Washington, and that the relations be-
t, cen herself and Mrs. Blackburn should
be allowed to die out gradually and /
should support her until she should find
some honorable vocation.
Judge Jere NJ. Wilson took Col. Breck-
inridge in hand for cross-examination af-
ter recess. The first questions We're d.
rected toward e%liciting from the defend
ant admissions that in his early law
practice friends had been obliged to make
good sums of money improperly appro-
priated from clients. Col. Breckenridge
was obliged to explain his connection
with the Presbyterian church. which had
bsen passive, rather than active. He
had lived in Lexington within four
squares of the house occupied by Sarah
Guess, and had known the character of
the place for twenty years. He also adj
mitted that he had visited the house be-
fore he ven there with Miss Pollard.
In telling that Miss Pollard had said
that she had given Rhodes a higher proof
of her intention of marrying him. he said
he would advise a woman who had had
sexual intercourse with a man to marry
him, but with a man ii was different, for
the knowledge of it by the public would
destroy the woman and only injure the
man. Society looked upon these things
differently. The colonel told of the first
carriage ride, when their Illicit relations
began, and said that he had no excuse to
offer for his actions. He could not justi-
fy it, but he declared it was not seduc-
ton, as Miss Pollard did not come to
him a virgin.
Having secured the statement that he
had written no letters to Madeline Pol
lard in 1856, Mr.. Wilson sprung some
thing very like a trap by dropping into
a line of questioning which indicates that
he has in reserve testimony to show that
the member from Kentucky directed un-
derground letters through a typewriter
at the capitol. Then for the first time the
defendant seemed to lose his temper and
made most strenuous denials. The type
writer whose testimony is next in order,
is a Miss Louise Lowell, now a clerk in
the treasury department.