The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-03-31


Of going away by daylight. remained
unui aDont 10 O'CLOCK that night !,
Was there any References 70 tthoucSl''
- can not recall any. Possibly lnefr ;
was In those two evenings.
ytl ypu see her Monuay mornlaEr
~ lld not"
What was there IN her conduct Or ep-
nonr8ncc to indicate that Sno vas nut
d malufed young womanT
Nothing whatever she was tui,y
developed young woman with nothins
to Indicate that she was not. experienced
In the relations OF the seNes
WAS anything ever said about her W
ing scduced BY You, or as y mas peen saio
iAis Question Stirred ansn, st
which Judge Bradley looked UP from his
writing and raped sharply; LIZ, c,,s.s,
BrerlSnrldge, smilins ia an empargasseu
way. Hof course nothing was saio, nor
until the Hing q shis suat Was anSsn nes
physically or otherwise 49,
The witness said that from that time
" rs met nsr T " onss se eSt
October. he. had net seen or heatA 81
s' ..Tbe Y tMe ladies' xsth whom Aho boarded
there were perfectly proper--fnoAt cstlmnr
BILE and respected persons. IT the plAin-
TN received any one IN her room there
al night as she has said. know noshans
white Mis- Pollard was absent from thc
Lexington school during the spring q IN.
KUrn
born, witness declared that he had no
knowledge OF her whereabouts. and nal
no communication with her, sue nAn
Margaret Dillon, he had not repclNed the
letter nor any box No. a.
Did 20 pay the plaintiff anything Emep
you parted from her ait Sarah Guess 4
Il Gun not use the word pay replied
the colonel. II paid the expenses at SAtnn
Guess and presented her with q sum, not
very large. hut enough 70 pay her ttase,,
ing EXPENSES" Continuing. he denied al
knowledge Of the correspondence whitn
Ind been alleged to have been written,
In Mo South. by Miss Pollard under his
direction. nor had he over written lot
ter pprnorting 70 be from her 70 hyr
Irlers were 81 aIssi,riiiar that It would have
been out Of the question: The letters from
Miss Pollard to Rhpdes which were read
Of Rhodes Through Attorney Tcrny OF
Lexington. He had never seen Or, Mary
street oc Clncinnat now MIS- LoEan,'
a small fnnn. he said Il was no more
OF plemy Than am now. He de-
scribed IN general way his nnovements
In the year 1855, when he mot Miss Poll
lard in Aueust Or septcniber, asscrtinE
that ne had knowledge Of where she
Ind been or the reason for her apsense;
In his boyhood he had been acqug.intod
with Rhodes Instead Of being IN Cineins
natl on Saturday August III, 1854, when
Miss Pollard had testified they met \
The. pubic library ana afNtlWNfuH lldttfrl
IN asslsnhison house he had been en-
gagged IN court at WineheHter In tne trlNt
or Ollie Brown for murder Tlic next
week and all that month he had been ems
gagged.
ibid you meet Miss Pollard after that
first meeting IN the fail OF 1882 funan
lnprcperlyzan nsslgnauons asked Mn.
ION tfe nth OF October met her IN a
house IN Cincinnati She came from the
western. part Of the STATE and from sile
East, met her at the Grand Central
depot IN the morning and we went 70 Mrs.
| Roas' house where we were some time
! went out on business and returning after
supper remained several hours. ! re-
turned to Lexington IN the morning and
! she went there by another train.
Did YOU present her any money"
paid the expenses. Whatever they
| The congressman wis able to nx 90
! thai date pecansc there was o great re-.
| publican messing that night at which
1 John a. isognn spoke
You did not have the advantage OF
| ettending The republican meeting ~ sald
1 1T might have been an advantage 10 at
/ tend q republican meeting. ! cav the
| plaintiff occasionally, but not frequently, I
1 OF November and December. 1894, and jan
| uar2'. 1885, SAW her both on the street
and IN the house After the .4th OF March
| trodnce TO the president some gentlemen
] who We're willing TO serve their country.
4 My wife's mother was IN poor hehlth and
returned On her account. She died on
.iThe fifst time / ever had any iurorrna-
don from the plaintln that she had been
/ pregnant was IN the summer 81 1857, The
| iirsf time that I ever heard that her ires-
4 nancy HAD carried her 10 Cincinnati wat
! In the Fab Of 1892, when she desired me g
obtain an office for q lady on the. ground
i on the occaainn.H
when dd you learn that sle WAC preg'
naut on the occasion by you r.
That was IN Cne summer Of 1851, wher
\ she first told me OF her pregnancy - -
4 "pid she tell the result Of it,
Her information TO me was that II had
! been n legitimate miscarriage; that II
had occurred With her mothers knoxl
edge, under her mother's supervision, thu
It was through. her mother that ioss o
During this passage Miss PoIlardi
friends had great trouble IN preventing
her from fnnking an cutlery
afr. Rutterwoi1h continued How otter
do you see the plaintiff n kile fan o
eoccasIcrallg, but not often; how offer
Describing his movements IN 1855. Colo
mel Breciinf1dge spoke Of Dis connection
with tae aofgieou blll ~ congress-,
and his Attendance upon Confederate re
y ana unable 10 RECALL 4 single instene.
when saw the platntin In the year lhSe
he continued and then. telling how b
hapnened 10 stop at Miss H0yt's In Lex
4 inkton. where Mas Pollard boarded b
kept him awake at night and that frieni
Ind recommended the boarding house &
him as quiet place The fact thnt Ais
Pollard WIS stopping fpere had nptnini
receiving = iarse mail NJ daily nailer
with some hooks, q part of which. h
4 Misc ballard and ii fiffOfifcf Hrtftf lad