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deposition was made in this case"
Did you ever meet him on the street and
take ride with him.
! NO l certainly did not" This with
much emphasis.
Did you ever know or hear of a woman
named Lena Singleton"
Never" said Miss Pollard. until she was
brought into this case"
! Did you ever know a man named Hiram
Kaufman?
No, Mr. Carlisle. 1 never heard Of him
until his deposition was taken by the de-
/ Tense"
Did you at the Wesleyan University, on
| the LIST Of August 1854, or at any other
! time or place, tell this defendant that you
had improper relations with James C..
Rodes?"
I never did," said the witness. There
never could have been any circumstances
that would warrant the telling of such a
lie on that poor old dead farmer"
Did you ever have improper relations
with James c. Rodes?"
mo, Mr.. Carlisle"
Some Emphatic Denials.
did you ever tell this defendant that
you had gone with Mr.. Rodes to the gate
/ Of Sarah Guests house. Is that true?"
! mo- did not" said the witness. land I
never heard of Sarah Guests house or saw
that gate until went with my arm in his
through that gate" Counsel were here OBJ
jecting, but Miss Pollard finished her SEN
terce. and said: Let me say that"
She denied emphaticaly any improper re-
lations with the defendant in the carriage
on the nighi Of their drive from the Wes-
leyan College. She said he did not take her
on his lap. He did not talk with her on
that trip in reference to George Eliots
works and life.
She said she had not known anything of
George Eliot until afterward, when she
was in the room in the mattress store in
Cincinnati, when Mr.. Breckenridge brought
her the books, and asked her to read them.
D hn hn hnh Ia oiyN
the way to Lexington suggested that they
shoul1 go to Sarah Guests She denied
other statements of the defendant regard
ing the first visit to Sarah Guests which
differed fiom hers. Mr.. Carlisle then asked
her II at the end of the carriage ride when
they returned to the Wesleyan College, the
defendant put ten dollars in her hand.
mo, Mr.. Carlisle" said the witness, with
indignant emphasis That's as false q
statement as any that even he ever made"
Miss Pollard put tremendous stress on
the word he. Then she went on: He
did not. He couldn't have done 1t there
No man could have put ten dollars in my
hand"
She denied the defendants statement
also as to when they first went to the
mouse or Mrs. Rose in Cincinnati.
The Engagement With Wood.
Mr.. Carlisle referred then to the deposit
ton of Mr.. Wood, who said he had pur-
chased for the plaintiff an engagement
ring, and when they parted she threw the
ring into his face The plaintiff described
Mr.. Woods attentions to her. She never
saw him except in the presence of her
aunt. He had asked her repeatedly to
marry him. and she had said she would
not marry him. Finally her aunt and
others persuaded her to consent to marry
him. So. when he came again. she told him
she would marry him. He brought her q
ring; she did not let him put it on. When
he came again she told him, not in an
angry way. because he had done nothing
TO make her angry, that she did not love
MIN, and could not marry him. She had
the ring In the palm of her hand, and gave
1t back to him. She said that, as she had
stated to Mr.. Butterworth she was M
mere to blame fo- that engagement than
Mr. Butterwo-th was At this point the
usual recess was taken.
Afternoon Session
The plaintiff preceded her counsel thu,
AFTERNOON resuminS the witness stand
several minutes before they entered the
court room The defendant. however pre-
ceded both the court and the plaintiff,
busying himself with examining the great
mass of testimony taken in the case While
waiting for her counsel she sat back in her
chair. dropping her eyes before the almost
unceasing gaze Of the throng who faced
her. The defendant, however was one who
did not glance toward her
In answer to questions from Mr. Carlisle
Miss Pollard said that she did not know a
MI owen Tinsley, a brother of Squire
Tinsley, between whom and herself q mock
marriage Is alleged to have taken place
She was asked as to whether such a cere-
mony had taken place. and the question
was objected to. and argued at length by
Mr.. Carlisle and Mr. Shelby Mr. Carlisle
said that the original denial was as to
Alex. Julian, and the question was allowed
as to Owen Tinsley.
Miss Pollard denied that there had been a
mock marriage, and she denied empha tically
all the statements made in a deposition nv
Julian as to the details of that occasion.
when she is said to have gone upstairs with
Tinsley.
AS to the defendants denial that he had
had any communication with her in 1856 a
question that was allowed, NOTWITHSTANDING
Mr.. Shelbys objection, she said that in that
year, when she was in Lexington and he
was away, he wrote to her constantly, and
his letters were love letters couched in the
most endearing terms. They were such as
to make her believe that he cared for her
more than any one else in the world. AS
to his statement that when he returned to
Lexington in 1887 the rela tions were not
resumed that spring, Miss Pollard stated
that he was at Miss Hoyt's for the purpose
OF maintaining such relations, and that they
were kept up without interruption, she be-
ing in his room every night. She also denied
that he was ignorant of her pregnancy In
the summer of 1887 until after her fall from
a horse, as he testified.
Denials as to Threats and Under
Htanulnss.
The witness denied that she ever threat
ened the life Of the defendant prio- to
March 81, 1893, and also denied his story
that she drew a pistol on him at Mrs
Thomas in the last of February o. the first
of March, and she fatty contradicted u
number of Mr.. Breckenridge statements
as to what occurred on that occasion. She
also said that his statement that she ex-
pr essed her intention of committing suicide
was true, and that it occurred in February
on the occasion OF the electoral count
She was asked as to his going with her TO
the express office to get out the box in
which she had sent away some of her be-
lorgngs but an objection to the question
was sustained, on the ground that such
evidence would hn Nrt- cola tnrnl
Mr.. Carlisle, reading from Mr. Breckfn-
ridges testimony, Intercepted the witness
as to many different statements all of
which she said were false. She never was
cared for by her mother in Cincinnati when
she was in pregnant condition, and never
told him that she had been. The defendant
never did state to her after July 10, lSJ2.
that a marriage between them was i'm
possible, and prior to March 81, 1893 there
was no understanding between them that
there should be no marriage. They did not
go to. Mrs. Blackburn's with the under
standing that what he was to say as to
their marriage should be false and rot true
she further stated, most empha tically that
all that was said on that occasion vas
said in good faith, and that she firmly be-
lieved it. There was no agreement tha.
n hn