The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-22
NOT MISS POLLARD
Sister Augustine Denies the
Plaintiff Was at the
Founding Asylum.
SISTERAGNES WOULD HAVEKNOYNHER
The Statue of st. Joseph There
Was Not Cross-Eyed-Madeline
Said It Was.


everybody's surprise Miss Madeline Pollard
there was nothing in prospect but the read
ing of depositions made by witnesses favor
able to Col Breckenridge Miss Pollard
was an early conner and she spent the
minutes preceding the appearance of Judge
Bradley in chatting earnestly with her coun-
sci. She smiled occasionally and seemed in
very good spirits. Miss Pollard and her
companion, Miss Ellis, remained only about
fifteen minutes and then left the court room.
The day opened without indication of in
teresting proceedings, for the spectators who
have attended the trial have found that
documentary testimony, no matter how sem
sational, does not compare in dramatic effect
with evidence given on the stand.
II might as well 60 ahead with Sister
had been called to order Colonel Breckin-
ridge nodded and as the plaintiffs counsel
made no objection, Mr.. Stoll went ahead"
SISTER AUGUSTINE's TESTIMONY.
Sister Augustine was connected with st.
Joseph's Founding Asylum, near Cincinnati,
in 1885, at the time when Miss Pollard
claims she was confined there She testified
that she only knew Of one Louise Wilson
who had been an inmate of the asylum, and
she was there when the deposition was given;
she had never heard of Madeline Pollard as
an inmate. She did not remember having
seen any girl who was at the asylum in May
and June, 1885, who remained yelled and
who gave birth to child, except one and
that woman was not Madeline Pol
lard, This woman, Sister Augustine
said has lived in Kentucky for
awhile, out was from the far North and had
family of children Mr.. Calderon Carlisle
and Mr.. William H. johnson, of the plain
tiff's counsel, had called at the asylum in
December, 1898, with Miss Pollard, said the
deponent, but she could not remember Miss
Pollard 'Sister Agnes" said Sister sAu-
gustine, told Miss Pollard that she was a
bad woman; she said it to her face. Miss
Pollard said she had been a bad girl, but she
was not bad woman. Sister Agnes" con-
tinued Sister Augustine, twas very sharp
and very shrewd, and would certainly have
known Miss Pollard had she been an inmate
of the asylum.
Incidents connected with this visit of Miss
Pollard, which were narrated by Sister
Agnes in the deposition read yesterday.
were told by Sister Augustine. Miss Pol
lard or her lawyers had told the deponent
that Miss Pollard had been in the asylum
under the name of Louise Wilson, but there
was no such name on the books. She found
the name of Miss Burgwynn as having
been confined on May %, 1885, the
day Miss Pollard claims to have given
birth to child Miss Burgwynn, or Bur-
goyne, is one of the names Miss Pollard
says she assumed while pregnant in Cincin-
natl. The entry in the asylum books showed
that Miss Burgwynn had left the asylum
June 80, while Miss Pollard claims she left
the asylum within two weeks after her child
was born. When Sister Augustine read the
name of Miss Burgwynn during the visit of
Miss Pollard in December, 1898. Miss Pollard
said "Oh, yes; that is the name; had SO
many names cannot remember them all"
'Miss Pollard called the name Burgoyne,"
said Sister Augustine.
MISS POLLARD NOT THE ONE.
'sDo you believe that Madeline Pollard is
Miss Burgwynn?n was asked of the deponent.
s'No, sir; believe she is not Miss Bur-
gwynn was much smaller than Miss Pol
1ard.n
During the visit of Miss Pollard to the
asylum, she asked where the child of Miss
Burgwynn was, and was told it died in July,
1885 "Then," said Sister Augustine, sshe
put her hands to her face and ran out of the
room, supposed grieving over the death of
her child"
A number of the questions asked Sister
Augustine by Mr.. Stoll, who was present at
the taking of the deposition, were in refer
ence to visit to the asylum by Mr. Guy
Mallon of plaintiffs counsel; what he looked
like, what he asked, what he tried to find
out, and other pertinent questions.
When Mr.. Stoll read this part of the de-
position, Mr. Carlisle interrupted him and
said that when Mr.. Stol1 began reading
about Mr., Mallon he was disposed to object.
but he did object strenuously to having the
motives and the methods Of representative
of the plaintiff inquired into Mr.. Stoll ex-
planned that the questions were asked merely
to show that the plaintiff had every oppor
tunity of receiving evidence at the asylum.
After some sparring between the opposing
attorneys, Judge Bradley ruled out the OBJ
jectionable questions, but overruled the
objection to a question whether Mr. Mallon
had examined the books and copied from the
records Exceptions were taken.
Part of the deposition was devoted to the
finding of Christmas card in one of the
volumes of Irving which Miss Pollard
claimed to have presented to the asylum
library when she was there. Sister Angus
tine said she did not know whether Miss
Pollard could have slipped the card in the
book; nobody was watching her
The card was produced In corrt and
shown to each juryman. This card, Miss
Pollard claims, was givens her. by Lexing-
ton man, and that she placed it in one of the
Irving volumes while confined at the asy-
admission of the card on the day the trial
began, and in the taking of the deposition of
Sister Agnes, the copy of which was read
yesterday, an attempt was made by the de-
fence to show that Miss Pollard had slipped
the card into the book during her visit to the
asylum in December, 1881
When the trial began the counsel for Miss
Pollard insisted in the production of the four
volumes of Irving which Sister Augustine
had given to Mr.. Stoll of the defense to tax Q
to Washington and there was d legal con
troversy before the matter was
settled by an order from Judge Bradley
for the production of the books. Judge
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