The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-03-30

the jury might examine IT and determine
whether the plaintiff wrote IL or not.
Colonel Breckinridge sat down during
this argument and listened intently.
AS he sat there in the witness stand he
looked older than he did when the trial
began. His white hair. mouse-colored at
the ends. and his white mustache. and
short white beard made him a picturesque
figure. He was cool and dignhed.
Judge Wilson argued against the ad-
mission Of the letter as evidence. and
threw ridicule upon the expert testimony.
The Letter Admitted.
Judge Bradley decided to admit the
letter to evidence on the statement OF the
defendant that he had received 1t, and
had mentioned IT to the plaintiff with
out contradiction or correction on her
part. and also on testimony of experts.
He would have admitted it, he said. on
testimony Of experts alone. The compari-
son of the disputed letter and the letters
ACKNOWLEDGED to have been written by
Miss Pollard might be made by the jury.
IL seemed to him that all this cOntro-
versy was more a shadow than a sub
stance. because this letter had been pub
lished in the newspapers and had been
probably read by the jury. News
paper enterprise was very good thing.
but It was sometimes carried too far.
That was enterprise with a vengeance.
Anywhere else IL would be punished as a
contempt OF court. IL was a contempt OF
court committed within the very pre-
cincts OF the court. where the copy was
made. He did not think that the news
paper men who secured that letter knew
they were doing harm, but II was an act
Of gross improperly. and he hoped II
II h.
would punish the offender It's publlca-
ton might cause the case TO be decided
one way or the other, and the wrong
thus done could not be- righted.
Major ButterwOrth then read the dis
puted letter as heretofore published
The Interview Mt the College.
Colonel Breckenridge resumed his in
terrupted story of his meeting with Miss
Pollard az Wesleyan College
II was standing in a window when she
came in. She shook hands and said sne
supposed she had rather astonished me
by her statement of the gravity OF the
case. / said. jokingly. that | presumed
1t was not so grave as a divorce suit
We sat down near a window looking out
into the streets, she on a divan and 1
on chair She then told me the cir
cumstances Of her trouble with Rhodes,
and that was the first | heard Of 1t. Up
to this time / did not know who the
mother of the plaintiff was. but / knew
who her father was. She told me that
she lived with her aunt. who married
York Keen / knew who she was then.
| said / had known York Keen at school,
and subsequently as a soldier in the regi-
ment of my brother, Robert Breckin-
..tl loo. ND i'm GI. tn1I "a
about Rhodes. She said she liked him
and respected him. They had made q
contract by which he was TO pay for her
education on condition that she should
marry him. She said Rhodes was press
ing her for the money she owed him, and
that unless she paid him he would COM
pei her to marry him, and asked If
Rhodes could compel her to marry him.
II told her that I knew OF no law which
would compel her to marry Rhodes. |
asked her why she did not go TO her
mother about it, and she said'the contract
had caused much unpleasantness in her
family. and she could not bring IL be-
fore her mother. / asked her why she
did not go 70 her grandfather or her
uncle. but she said she could not She
spoke with such grave face that |
suspected something more serious was the
cause OF her refusal to marry him. She
drew out her handkerchief and acted in
a very nervous way, and | walked over
10 the window. She came over TO the
window and after she was standing there
a minute. i made a motion as If to go.
Then she said: "Oh, | have nobody 20
tell / don't know anybody except you
/ paused, and then she said, with an ef-
fort: L don't want to marry him; /
don't want 10 have a whole house full
Of children like Mamma and Aunt Lou,and
i refuse TO marry him"
Should Marry Rhodes.
Then, with great effort. she said:
There is another reason why / should
marry Mr.. Rhodes | have given him a
higher proof that | intended to keep my
contract" / looked at her and then,
after a pause, told her that she should
marry Rhodes. She said she could not
do it-she had now an education and did
not want TO bury herself | said that
Rhodes had her in his power. and that
unless she married him this thing might
come up against her at any time. she
insisted that she could not marry him,
and said "Oh. well, he will always want
10 marry me. anyhow, SO there Is no use
for hurry
The conversation then drifted to other
things She said she had an ambition
To be an authOress. and thought she had
some talent in that direction. Mention
was made of some concert where some
cornetist was 10 play that night, and
she said she would like 10 go. IL was
al a place on Vine-Street Hill, and as
had never been up there and wanted 10
see the inclined railway, l said l would
take her. and asked II she could get per-
mission. She said she could, and after
asking me TO bring carriage iett the
room and a minute later a young man
came I'm who said he had met me, intro
duced himself as Mr.. Brown, the son
OF the president Of the college lie gave
the required permission and went away.
That evening after dinner l ieft the hotei
and going to a hack stand picked out
carriage without any care whatever, ana
went TO the college. II was a closed car
riage. but / did not get IL purposely.
When got 10 the college there was
quite a little group on the porch.
The PIaintiff's Statements Denied.
"Now. | want to ask you right here,
said Major Butterworth, was anything
said bv YOU about throat affection as
YOUR reason for bringing closed car
riage? ..
Not a word" was the answer. 'Noth-
was said by me to that effect.
Continuing, he said that MISS foharu
had asked him several times about Wheh
ne would return to Lexington, anu ne
,old her the time He denied that they
vent TO Lexington by prearransement'
and that he had met Miss Pollard the
next day at the public library In cincin-
nati. that he took her the next day 10
The house of Mrs. Rose and that ne had
sent a bogus telegram 10 Miss Pollard