The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-11

lcss he put 1t up. Wero those tho do
mands OF school girl to generous old
man who was furnishing tho money for
hor education7"
Colonel Thompson, continuing, said
that Misa Pollard had deliberately said
that sho had brought the suit for 70.
vcnge, wheroupon Mr.. Wilson cor
rectod him.
Judge Bradley said: "There is no
evidence to that effect In tho case" md
Mr.. Butterwor!h said: "I think sho did
not say that"
Colonel Thompson said ho hoped the
jury would correct him II no made any
mistakes. as he had not tried case for
fifteen years and did not prctond to be
up in law.
lie told how Miss Pollard had gone
to tho convent last year not knowing
TINT hcr child born several years ago
was dead.
"fho first born OF person that pro.
tonds TO DO human being" ho said.
After eight or nine years whom she
had never raised her inhuman voice,
they tell you she won't into Mysteries.
oh, inhuman woman" no OK.
Claimed. "lnhuman monster. In or
dor to hide her own conduct, shc lays it
on this man. We arc appealed to by
this woman in stage play by tho sacred
name OF mother, trying to coin crocodile
tears over children whose death she
had forgotten, to coin money out OF the
pockets OF tho man with whom sho had
lived in equal disgrace"
PICTUREsQUE ARGUMENT.
He referred to the life Of Miss Pol.
lard at Miss Hoyt's in Lexington when
she played the innocent school girl to
tho landlady. Then he came to Miss
Lowell, tho typewriter at tho capitol,
and produced her memorandum bool,
to show that 1t sRn its ontire from 1887
to 1SSS, 80 that II the transaction had
occurred it had not been in 1856. Tho
charges in the book might havo been to
Clifton Breckenridge. He (Thompson)
found his own namo in the book, al
though ho did not remember having
had any work dono by Miss Lowell, to
whom he referred as 'the old lady"
Colonel Thompson contended in his
picturesque way that at knocked the
stuilin" out OF tho case. The plaintiff
swore that the namo Of her last baby
was "Dietz Carlisle" when the records
OF the asylum showed that the only
baby brought there at the time was
named "Dietz Downing"
The other eide had raised great fuss
about the colonels signing her examin-
alton papers for the civil service, certi.
flying that she had good moral char
acter.
There was not any fussing or slowing
or kicking up dust along about that
time" ho went on, both OF them were
pursuing course OF immortality agree
able 10 both and were telling any little
lies that came along to help each other
out. Every man in the court has told
lies about these little domestic matters.
II there were any who had not they
had better 90 out for q while. because
they wero too sanctimonious for the
place. But the attorneys on the other
side seemed to think this case was like
that OF the old preacher in Kentucky
who was tried for adultery, with one OF
the sisters. The jury, all men, returned
averdics finding the minister guilty and
| acquitting the sister.
Miss Pollurd's testimony, from which
he read, showed that she admitted thoy
both lied. In one instance she had
called him out OF Chamberlain's to helm
her out of a acrape, "and Billy always
camen he snid