The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-04-12

the lawyer inquired.
You said "My God"
II beg pardon, that was an inaoVer-
tence
Colonel Thompson then resumed
and discussed the incomprehensl-
biIity of the young woman accom-
0anying Colonel Breckinridge to an
designation house in Cincinnati after
a drive when she claimed improper
advances were made and she repulsed
him. C-,,
After the noon recess Colonel
Thompson resumed his speech,
characterizing Miss Pollard as "the
most skillful adventures VINO ever
made track through court room"
He argued from dates that Colonel
Breckenridge could not have oeen the
father of her first child. 70 give the
plaintiff a verdict would be to convict
Mollie Shinglebower, John Brandt,
Hiram Kaufman and the defendant
of wiIful perjury. He referred to Miss
PolIard's statement to Claude De La
Roche Francis that Colonel Breckin-
ridge was a lOvable and noble man,
and defendant had been the soul OF
generosity throughout his dealings
with the woman. Her letters TO
Rhodes were blind, wooden letters,
to the man who had seduceu her
when she was demanding the money
of the poor old man. She went at
Rhodes boots and spurs, and II was
stand and deliver with her, telling
him that he could not come and see
her unless he put up. Were those the
demands of school girl to generous
man who was furnishing money for
her education?"
Colonel Thompson, continuing, said
that Miss Pollard had deliberately
said that che had brought the suit for
revenge, whereupon Mr.. Wilson cor
rected him.
Judge Bradley said: "There is no
evidence to that effect in the case"
and Mr.. Bulterwortn said think she
did not say that.
Colonel Thompson said he hoped
the jury would correct him II he made
any mistakes, as he had not tried a
case for 10 years and did not pretend
to be no in law. He told how Miss
Pollard had gone to the convent last
year, not knowing that her child,
born several years ago, was dead.
"The first born of q person that pre-
tends to be a human being" he said,
CATER eight or nine years, when she
had never raised her in human care,
they tell us she went into Mysteries.
Oh! inhumen wOman," he exclaimed,
"inhuman monster, in order to blde
her own conduct, she lays 1t on this
man. We are appealed to by this
woman in stage play by the sacred
name of mother, trying to coin Croco-
die ears over children whose death
she had forgotten, to coin money out
of the pockets of the man with whom
she had lived in equal disgrace"
He referred to tie lite of Miss Pol
lard at Miss Hoyt's, when she played
the innocent school girl to the land
lady. He came to Miss Lowell the type
writer at the capitol, and produced
her memorandum book TO show that
| it ran in it's entirety from 1887 to 1888
so that if the transaction had occurred
it had not been in 1886. The charges
| in the book might have been to Cliff
ton Breckinlidge. He (Thompson
| found his own name in that book, al
| though he did not remember having
any work done by Miss Lowell, tt
whom he referred as the "old LADY,
| Colonel Thompson contended, in his
picturesque way, th9t sit knocked the
stuffinu out of the case. The plaintiff
swors that the maine of her last baby
was "Lietz Carlisle" when the rec
ords OF the asylum showed that the
only baby brought there at the time
was named "DietZ Downing"
The other side raised great fuss
about the colonel signing her exami
nation papers for the civil service, Ger
tifying that che had good mora
character. "rhere was not any fuss
ing or stewing or kicking up a dus
along about that time" when both o
them were pursuing course,of immor
ality agreeable to both and were tell,
ing any little lies that came along t.
help each other along. Every man il
the court has told lies about thes'
little domestic affairs. But the at
torneys on the other side seemed t
think that the case was like that o
the old preacher in Kentucky wht
was tried for adultery with one OF TIT
sisters. The jury, ali men, returned
a verdict finding the minister guilty
and acquittiDg the sister. MISS Pol
lard's testimony, from which he read
shows that she admitted that botf
lied.
In one instance she had called hin
out of Cham berlain's to help her ou
of scrape, land Billy always came,
he remarked. Concerning Mrs
Blackburn, Mr.. Thompson said sh'
was lovely old lady but was getting
pretty well all ng IN years, "she's NJ
longer a maiden gay" he said. Sh
would not tell anything that was no
80 for The world, but the old lady
thought she had been imposed upor
and wanted to put it to Colone
Breckenridge as hard as che could
That's only human nature. L dom
blame her. | admire her spirit. Why
was afraid she would jump dow
my throat, triz and all when | begal
to examine her.
The jury was not to punish Coione
Breckenridge ior immortality. All tn
great men of the world had thet
lrOu olee with women. When JuIiu
Caesar was not making laws be wa
making love to Cleopatra, David ha
Uriah sent to the forefront OF battI
because he bad looked on the IN n
vie and she Wae lovely. "If ther