Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-04-07
POLAR DIR ECKINRlDGE TRIAL.

L
ington closed yesterday, Miss Made
line Pollard was on the stand. She
was asked:
"Did you tell the defendant that you
had been to Sarah CESS with Mr..
Rhodes %
II could not have said so. l never
saw the place until walked up to the
gate with my hand III his (BrecSin-
ridges arm.
'iDid YOU have intercourse with the
defendant on that first carriage ride 2.
II did not, and he knows it as we'll
as do; not until the night we visited
Sarah Cess"
'Did you talk with him about George
Eliot that night"
ave did not. I did not know Of
George Eliot then. l had never read
her works or anything about her life
until after my first little baby was born,
in that miserable little room in Cincin-
natl, opposite the furniture factory.
Mr. Breckenridge brought me, in a pa
per cover, the first edition of George
Eliot's works l ever read. thank him
FOR it now it has been a great benefit
to me-
did YOU suggest Sarah Cess TO him
as place of meeting? 2"
"Most assuredly not: | did not know
of such place"
"The defendant has sworn that on
that evening he put a ten-dollar bill i'll
your hand. Is that true p
That is as false a statement as even
ne ever made He could net have
done it. No man could have put ten
dollar bill in my hand"
The circumstances Of her engage
ment to Mr.. Wood, The Lexington car
penter, were narrated by Miss Pollard
10 her usual graphic manner. he had
been in the habit of coming to the
house to see her aunt, and one day, at
ter she had sung to him, at his request,
ne asked her aunt if he could not mar
ry her. That's question you ought
TO ask her." the aunt said. She had
told him that she did not want 10 mar
~ anyone Her aunt urged that he
had money. aud that she could con-
tinue her schooling, and she consented.
When he brought her ring, however
she handed it back, telling bin that
lie never could marry him. He fire.
ouently came and asked her TO recon-
slder her decision. Gle was a kindly
old man, and ! could not have been
angry at him., she concluded.
After the noon recess Miss Pollard
stated that she did not know Owen
Tinsley, the brother Of Squire Tinsley;
that he had not been at the 'Squire's
house on The Christmas Of 1883, and
that no mock marriage had occurred on
that occasion, as Aleck Julian had testi-
fed. Some wrangling between the
lawyers occurred before Miss Pollard
was permitted to deny that mock
marriage had taken place or that she
and Julian had gone to bed together.
No, indeed, we were not together at
all that morning alone" she said. 1--WE
were in the family room, where all the
children were playing about, | was
taken i'll, and Mrs Tinsley took me to
her room. afterward went home with
my uncle, and was put to bed there be-
cause | was ILL.,"
When asked if Mr.. Breckenridge had
correspondent with her in 1856, when
she was in Lexington and he in Wash
ngton, she said
II never was separated from Mr..
Breckenridge a day during the nine
years that l was in his life, but"
She was stopped by the chorus of OBJ
jections from the defen'e. He did
write those letters to me addressed
NY Dear Sister Louise, she continu-
ed. His letters were love letters, such
love letters as man writes, and they
made me think he cared more about me
than anybody in the world"
"The defendant has said that when
he lived at Mrs. Hoyt's he never was
with you. How is that 2" Mr.. Carlisle
asked.
"Why, was in his room every single
night that he was under that roof"
ibid you ever before the 18th of
March, 1898, by word or act, threaten
the life of the DEFENDANT"
mo, never did"
"The defendant has testified that late
in February, at the house of Mrs.
Thomas, you presented a revolver at
his head"
No, Mr.. Carlisle, that is not true. /
never did present pistol at tie head
Of the defendant at any house. / show
ed him pistol once at the house OF Mrs.
Thomas, but I did not present it at
him. I gave it 10 him with my own
hand, and there was no struggle
"The defendant hes declared that
some time in February you told him
you intended to commit suicide. Is that
true ?"
sit was on the day of the electoral
count; | told him at the Capitol, and
told him l had given away great
many of my things"
"Did you ever state thatyour mother
had cared for you in pregnancy 2"
Indeed, | did not, and she never
did, and she did not know it until this
suit was filed"
Concerning the time she had commu-
nicated to Col. Breckenridge the fact of
her pregnancy in 1898, Col. Breckin
ridge having said that it was late in
May, Miss Pollard, in answer to ques-
ton replied
Indeed, that was as far from the
truth as even he could get, )" whereupon
Mr. Shelby submitted to the court that
this was not a proper form Of answer,
and the judge sustained him, reproving
her
"Did the defendant in 1898, tell you
that it was impossible for him to marry
you p Mr. Carlisle asked.
ss\O indeed he did not -