The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-31
Willie WENT OUT
MINUS A CHAPIRONE,
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most immediate revulsion on the part of
the plaintiff. She broke into flood of
hysterical tears and declared that she
had not really meant to kill him.
He had taken the revolver away from
Miss Pollard, and that night she had
come to his house with young man,
and left a note expressing her regret
at what had occurred. When he next
saw her, two or three days afterwards,
she had proposed again to leave the
city and he again offered to pay her
expenses.
In March, 1893, he had met plaintiff
in Cincinnati, in response to telegram
from her. She then had told him that
she had been obliged, under Mrs. Black
burns cross-eXamination, to represent
that she was engaged to him. He told
her he would go right back and say
to Mrs. Blackburn it was not true, but
under her opportunities proposed to
keep his mouth shut if she would leave
the city. Returning to Washington,
March 81, he had received a call from
Miss Pollard before breakfast. He
said:
81 agreed, then, that if she would go
away l would put myself in the power
of the plaintiff and Mrs Blackburn, and
pretend there was an engagement. 1
S1Iu LOU nave put IlS where lueTe
is no alternative, but l put myself in
your power and trust you, rather than
to submit to a scene in the hotel office
or the street-perhaps an attempt on
my life in the street,"
May l interpose at this point" sug-
gested Mr.. Wilson, and he said there
had been no plea of coercion put in by
the defense.
The reply by Mr.. Butterworth was
that there had been no agreement, but
only the semblance of one, to preserve
1T, which was of more value than life,
under a compulsion as effectual as a
loaded pistol He did not care what
the dureSs of coercion was called.
The legal sparring became very warm,
Mr.. Wilson declaring that they might
show, if they could, that an agreement
was made under duress
Thought He '"Toted squar..
Il said there must be no misunder-
standing between u.s." continued Colonel
breckenridge, when the lawyers had
subsidized. Il reminded her that from
the first I had said there could be no
marriage, but anything she thought 1
could do to save those who loved me
woul do; that she could trust me, know
ing the relations L had had with her
while l had such a happy family. She
would always suspect me of familiar
7 relations with other women. 1 remind
eu nef lndt Sne mad not come to me a
maiden; that [ had not seduced her,
After the Good Friday visit to Mrs.
iBlackburn's, where Colonel Breckenridge
was expected to confirm the engage
:, ment, but which he says he did not do
as claimed by Miss Pollard, he and the
e plaintiff had left Mrs. Blackburn
= house together and walked away with
p out word.
= Il put the key into the door, and
. said: You must leave Washington be-
Il fore L do, or l will notify Mrs. Black
f burn of the relations btween u.s. She
said: L can't go as soon as that I was
going to Boston that night to speak al
a banquet. She said: will keep my
promise and go as soon as / can or
= account of a misunderstanding regard
: ing the banquet. / did not go. There
+ was no misunderstanding between us
= the next day. We both knew the char
{ acter of the representations to Mrs
e Blackburn and l left Washington OF
e April Il, with the same confidence il
Il her that l held when 1 left on the 18TH
of March. L had at least two inter
views with Mrs. Blackburn before
left for Kentucky. Several ladies were
Il stopping with her and she asked mt
to arrange for Mrs Cleveland to re
\, ceive them. l called with them upo1
= Mrs Cleveland. In an interview 1 urged
t Mrs. Blackburn to unite with me il
e urging the plaintiff to leave town"
II After speaking of visiting Philadel
! phia as guest of George w Childs
the secret marriage to Mrs Wing il
New York was skipped and Colone
/ Breckenridge went on to tell of hi
l. meeting Miss Pollard at the Hoffman
house on May 1. He was surprised OIL
/ entering his room to find the door t.
e the adjoining room open, and watkins
e in, found Miss Pollard there and bu
It partly dressed. He said:
d She demanded to know where / ha,
e. been the past two days: said she ha,
IS been looking all over New York 70
tt me. L responded, probably, with a Iittl
g more rudeness than | should, that
lie was nothing to her.
Looked Into Sun.
g Then L went back to my room
1t through the short entry between tn
two l heard noise, and when
turned around she stood in the door
way with pistol pointed at me-
shut the door quickly; turned dow
W the catch and touched the electric but
ton. | said L had sent for the polio
and was going to have her put in tn
n Tombs She said she was going t
g, shoot through the door. 1 said, Shoe
m away, and you will only give ME NOR
IN justification for having you put in tn
- Tombs.' She was rafting the doc
y and begging me not to have her pu
as pistol down; go in and fasten YOU
door, and 1 will see what l ought t
to do When the bell boy knocked
M opened the door, Whether he saw tina
a, l was excited, L don't know, but / toll
IL him to bring a pitcher of ice water.
s. don't know whether I was as cool as
ce might have BEEN
Id This was said so curiously tina
everybody laughed
w In answer to question as to tn
as circumstances attending his last MAJ
c. riage, Colonel Breckenridge said h
is had been married at No. III Yves
st. Forty-fifth street about Z o'clock
the evening on Sunday, April %. b
Rev. John r. Paxton, and the ma
rfage was witnessed by Mrs. Paxto
and Mrs. Collier, of Pittsburg. He ha
It's married, he said, his kinswoman. tn
daughter of R. w. Scott, of Kentuck
=, widow of Chauncey Wing, of Kei
Ill lucky, who died abroad some time az
u Colonel Breckenridge related the ci
is cumstances attending the visit to M;
ev Jor Moore, the chief of police, givir
the following narrative:
of My wife and myself formerly Mr.
T1crl |, IL.