The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-31

o'clock this afternoon, with an inter
mission Of forty-five minutes, Col. w.
c. p. Breckinridge told more about his
relations with Madeline Pollard.
He denied that he had ever promised
to marry her. Miss Pollard and him.
self, he said, mad made an agreement
that he should pretend 10 Mrs. Luke c.
Blackburn, tho widow of the Kentucky
governor, that he and the plaintiff were
engaged 10 be married, in order 10 avert
the suspicious which Mrs. Blackburn
entertained; but this agreement, he said,
was conditioned on the plaintiff going
out Of the lives of both of them.
Stories OF three attempts 10 ade by the
plaintiff to take his life were told by
Colonel Brec 1inridge with interesting
detail How Miss Pollard pursued him,
how she threatened him with making
public their relations, how she gave him
the choice Of marriage or death after
his secret wedding in New York, and
how he had N ado unsuccessful attempts
to send her away from Washington,
were all narrated by defendant in
simple and direct language.
During all this recital Miss Pollard
sat looking at Colonel Breckenridge and
he occasionally turned toward her and
seemingly addressed himself to her
Only once did she openly resent his
words and this WAS when Colonel Breck-
inridge said he told the defendant that
she was certainly bound in gratitude
and by nearer tie than that TO marry
Mr.. Rhodes
Miss Pollard cried out at this point
that Colonel Breckenridge was not tell
ing the truth, and Judge Bradley was
obliged to admonish her Again the
plaintiff noarly created scene when
Colonel Breckenridge said she had told
him that her mother knew Of her I'M
chastity and had attended her through
miscarriage.
The indications were, when the court
adjourned at AIS o'clock, that the direct
examination of tho defendant would
close during the morning session on
Monday, to which day the court ad.
journed, and that the cross examination
OF Colonel Breckenridge would then
begin.
Proceedings in the courtroom began
promptly. Both plaintiff and defendant
were early In reaching court Major
Butterworth opened by showing the
defendants little decorative basket
which had belonged to Breckinridge's
first wife and which plaintiff asserts
breckenridge gave her. Breckenridge
denied that he gave Miss Pollard this
basket or that he knew she had it until
after this suit was filed. He did not
know how it came in Miss Pollards pos
session. He only knew that he had
no. given it to her.
The examination then REQUIRED to the
trip from Cincinnati to Lexington and
WlLpnaQ QaiH M ho d.
In the train but not by prearrangement,
and arrangements were made to meet
at the house Of the colored woman, Sarah
Guest. Ho had expressed surprise that
she should know CT such place but she
SAID that she had gone there on one oc-
casion with Mr.. Rhodes.
He stopped with the plaintiff until
1880 that evening, she electing to re-
main the night. There were no prot.s-
tations of love or affection on his part.
lie went back the next evening with
some expectancy that no might find her
gone but she was there.
What was there in her conversat ton
or manner that made her appear an i'm :
mature young woman?"
"She appeared to be young woman
fully grown and matured, aud under :
stood matters that a young girl would
80 ~-AAO". hCiO uOfCE WAS dnYGQlDR
in her conversation with me, and never
heard it told differently until the filing
of this suit, and there never had been
any claim ON her part to mo that had
seduced her"
when, IL a: any time or place prior
to the bringing of this action. did she
state to you or claim to you that you
had seduced her, or she you? | believe
there have been some statements made
as 10 that.
las to the last claim on her part, of
course that never was claimed. AS to
the first part of your question there
never was any time, under any circum-
stances, In any presence in which the
plaintiff claimed in any way that had
seduced her or betrayed her?"
Breckenridge, in the further course of
his testimony, said he did not know
Miss Pollard was Attending Sayre Insti
tute at Lexington until he saw her with
her books on the street in COMPANY with
girl pupils Of that school whom he
knew. She then told him she was at
school there and boarding at the house
of Miss Hoyt and Mrs. Ketchsm.
AS to Miss Hoyt and Mrs. Ketcham
the witness said no never know two
women who were more highly estima
Bile He denied the statement Of Miss
Pollard that she received him at night
in her rooms in Miss Hoyt's. "If she
received anyone in her room" he said,
sit was not l."
Ibid you know that she was awav
from Lexington in the spring Of 1852"
(rhis was the time Miss Pollard said she
was in the Norwood Founding Asylum
VI knew she was away, but where she
mad gone or when she went did not
know. Tho statement OF the plaintiff
that she wrote to me fron, ST.. Joseph's
Founding Asylum, and addressed her