The Portland daily press., 1894-03-29

the position of gauger in my district and
sent it to Washington with my endorse
ments. When l ran for superintendent
of county schools, the application was
virtually withdrawn. Later l withdrew
it,n
"Was this before you gave your deposi.
tom"
"Yes, sir"
"Do you live
In Col Breckinridge's District"
mo, sir; do not. never knew him
before / made application for the place
of gauger."
To Judge Wilson, Resell admitted that
he had withdrawn his application for
the gaugership the day he made the
deposition; in fact, he had the letter of
Withdrawal in his pocket on the day lie
gave the deposition.
Judge Wilson asked Resell to describe
the location of the rooms where he said
he saw Miss Pollard at Wesleyan college.
Mr.. Resell had testified that he called on
Miss Pollard two, sometimes three times
every week. Judge Wilson asked the
witness if he did not know that visitors
were allowed to see pupils only once
week.
Resell said he did not. II only know
I told the TRUTH" he added. Ii 4
You mean to say, as testified in your
examination, that you sat in the parlor
and reception room with Miss Pollard on
your lap an hour and half to two hours
at time and nobody interrupted you.
That is your statement, is it not?"
ayes, sir: that is it, positively" said
Mr.. Resell. Resell said that he first told
of his experience with Miss Pollard to
Dr.. C. Mahoney, who came to him from
Col. Breck inridge. He also said to DR..
Mahoney that Miss Pollard told him
that she and Aleck Julien had gone
through mock marriage together. The
witness insisted that he had withdrawn
his application for the internal revenue
position without suggestion from Mr..
Breckenridge or anybody else.
F" How long was Miss Pollard absent
when she went up stairs to get ready to
go to Chicago with you," asked Judge
Wilson.
"Fifteen or twenty minutes" said
Rosell."
s.Aud in that time she fixed herself and
packed her trunk did she!"
"Yes, sir"
What time of night was it?"
Between nine and teD."
And was no one there?"
"No, SIR"
"That's ALL" said Judge Wilson.
Mr.. Stoll began to read the deposition
VI I1lTdlu hdululdU. hdulIioh 10 a
butcher, thirty years old, who lives in
Lexington. He said that when he came
to Lexington, twelve years ago, he went
to a disreputable house in Lexington,
kept by Lena Singleton. In May and
JuEe, 1888, he had seen Madeline Pollard
there. This was year before Miss
Pollard met Col. Breckinridge. He had
seen Madeline Pollard and Jim Rodes
(James C. Rodes) at the house of Lena
Singleton. He had also seen Madeline
Pollard, he said, enter private room in
this house with John Grant. AT another
time she went into this room with an
other man. Rodes referred to Mss
Pollard AS his girl. The witness deposed
that Miss Pollard made advances to him
and he rejected them on account of his
friendship toward Rodes, with whom he
WIS associated at the insane.asylumsn
Lexington. On cross-examlnatlon,
Kaufman said he had seen Rodes give
Madeline Pollard S25. Rodes presented
him to Miss Pollard, saying: Let me
introduce you to my girl Miss Pollard. !"
He had also seen another girl at Lenas
Singleton's called "Little Lena" and he
had been there with Rodes, Brant,a man
named Shindlebauer, - fellow from
Texas and others. The witness said he
had not gone back to Lena Singleton s
house because he had quarrelled with
the Pollard woman. He went on to tell
all the details of the conversation be-
tween them that
Out Bi1Iingsgated Billingsgate
in which Miss Pollard was represented
as using language it is hard to credit
when compared with her refined manner
and appearance. kaufman said he had
seen the Pollard woman frequently at
the house of Lena Singleton.
John A. Brant deposed that he met
Madeline Pollard at the house of Jim
Rodes, where Lena Singleton acted as
his housekeeper. The house was an
designation house. He went to the house
with Rodes and Miss Pollard lodged
him, said the deponent, meaning that
she would not see him. She appeared in
1888 to be full grown woman. Lena
Singleton, said Brant, was Jim Rodes's
mistress. Brant testified that he had
taken Miss Pollard riding three or four
times. He was a married man at the
time. Brant said the woman he knew
at Lena Sipgleton's as Madeline Pollard
was about five feet high or less. Miss
Pollard is much taller than that. Miss
Pollard seemed to be visiting Lena
Singleton when he visited there in the
summer of 1888. Brant said that when
he met Miss Pollard in 1883 his suppose
tion was that she attended school either
at Sayre institute, Lexington, or Cincin-
natl. The last time he had taken her to
ride was il July OF August, 1885. Brant
was asked if he had immoral relations
with the young woman. and said he
thought he should not be compelled to
answer that question. He was not forced
to answer.
S.L.Lusby of Lexington, deposed that
he had heard of Lena Singleton as the
Keeper of disreputable house. Lusby
had been employed by the Adams Ex-
press company at Lexington. He was
asked if, during the time he was in the
company's service, James c. Rodes had
expressed money to any persons outside
of Cincinnati. Mr.. Lusby said Rodes
paid money frequently to some young
lady whose name he could not remem Der
at Wesleyan college, Cincinnati. Rodes
said she was his niece.
W.T.. Jones,a member of the Lexington
board of aldermen, deposed that he
knew the family of P. r. Brown of
Wesleyan college and visited them
frequently in the fall and winter of
1888. where he met Madeline Pollard.
The deponent said Miss Pollard told him
that Rodes was paying her tuition, but
that she did not intend to marry him.
He was an ignorant old farmer, she said,
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