The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-28

testimony to prove that Madeline Pol
lard made the advances which resulted
in the long liason between Colonel
Breckinridge and herself, WAS the
feature OF the breach of promise suit
to day,
letter dated at Wesleyan College
July 90, 1884, addressed to Colonel
breckenridge and signed Madeline v.
Pollard, was produced by the defence
and experts who had compared it with
letters acknowledged to have been
written by Miss Pollard testified that
the handwriting in the first letter WAS
that of person who wrote the others.
When the July letter was shown Miss
Pollard on the stand, she pronounced it
a forgery. She said she had written
Colonel Breckenridge in July, 1884, ask.
ing his advice about the threat made
by James c. Rhodes, but that she had
not asked him to call on her.
The defense claims that the letter
dated July 90, 1884, was written by
Miss Pollard when Colonel Breckin-
ridge had not answered the letter she
acknowledged writing. The disputed
letter was not placed in evidence, but it
In known that it contains an invitation
to Colonel Breckenridge to call on the
alleged writer a. Wesleyan College, and
com pliments him on his mice face"
The only other witness was Maj VIM.
q. Moore, tho chief of Washington's
police force, who denied STATE ments
Miss Pollard said had been made by Col
onel Breckenridge and herself in his of.
fee on two occ asions in May, 1893, when
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the plaintiff
Hardly fifty people were present in
the courtroom this morning when the
case was called, and the big bare court
room looked cheerless in mparison
with it's aspect on former days of the
trial. The court was somewhat late in
Assem- bling Mr.. Shelby conducted the
examination of Major Moore, who had
already testified in behalf of Miss Pol :
lard.
In answer to questions from Mr..
Shelby, Major Moore denied statements
made by Miss Pollard on the stand with
reference to what had been said at in
terviews had between Colonel Breckin.
ridge and Miss Pollard and the witness.
He denied that Colonel Breckenridge
had said, as testified by Miss Pollard,
This Is ono Of life's tragedies" adding
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two children and there was third in
prospect, to which, according to Miss
Pollard's testimony, she replied: Eyes,
Major Moore. l gave myself to him "
Major Moore said, in answer to Judge
Wilson on CROSS exam lin alton, that his
recollection Of the conversations in his
office between the plaintiff, tho defend
ant and himself, on May 10 and May II,
was based almost entirely on shorthand
notes which he had made Immediately
after the interviews. He would hardly
have remembered much about the two
interviews If it were not for the short.
hand notes.
what was his Colonel Breckin.
declarations to you about marrying Miss
Pollard?" was Judge Wilson's next
ques ion.
Quiet" said Major Moore, after an
objection to the question had been over
ruled.
81 want to know whether on that
occasion her manner did not indicate
satisfaction and qualification over the
PROMISE of marriage?"
"Oh, we object TO that, too" said Col
Phil Thorn psop, but the question was
allowed, and Major Moore said: "Her
manner indicated satisfaction and graf.
ification."
On re direct examination by Mr.. Shelby
Major Moore was questioned with
reference to statements that had been
made by him when previously on the
stand and to these Judge Wilson OBJ
iected on the ground that they had all
been gone over before and he was sus-
tame in several instances. Exceptions
were noted by the defense. This con
Guided Major Moore's testimony.
Dr. G. b. Sh8ffer, deputy coroner of
tho District of Columbia, was put on
the stand as an expert in handwriting
to examine the letter which Colonel
breckenridge says he received from
Miss Pollard in 1884, and which caused
him to call on her at the Wesleyan Col
lege in Cincinnati the week their init
mate relations began. Miss Pollard
read this letter on the stand and pro-
nounced it forgery. land no one
knows better than that man there" she
said, indicating Colonel Breckenridge,
"that it was not written by me-" This
letter has never been made public.
DR.. Shaeffer WAS asked many ques-
tions as to his practice in detecting
forgeries and in running down anony-
nous letter writer's. He had been called
as an expert In ndwriting, he said, in
several trials, and devoted from two to
Six hours day to the study.
After examining DR.. Shaefer for
nearly an hour as to his knowledge of
hand writing, Judge Wilson said he was
satisfied that Dr. Shaeffer did not have
tho ne cessary qualifications of an OK
pert, but Juoge Bradley thought other
wise, and allowed the witness to remain
on the stand
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