St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-10

f'utc Ike reminded the jury tnaC ali
were fellow citizens Of the district, en-
gased in the persoi nance of a duty 10
the parties i'll the case and to the COM
munity. He claimed to have made good
the temperate promises of his opening
statement, and mOre--to have proved
them by credible witnesses other than
his unfortunate client. That there
were three parties to the case had been
we'll said by Attorney Butterworth
earlier in the case. They were plaintiff.
defendant and community. The jury
had seen in the court room daily rep
resentatiyes of the press of the whole
country. While some of the facts and
the final catastrope had happened in
the District of Columbia. the plaintiff
was resident of Kentucky, who comes
to Washington merely as a temporary
representative OF that state. The
plaintiff was friendieSS woman of
humble birth, the defendant man-of ma
tional reputation. Later it would be the
duty of the speaker to say what the COM
muhlty had right to expect of the de-
PENDANT. and how greatly it had been 10
his interest to find everything he could
against the character of the poor girl.
1t could fairly be assumed that all his
influence, wide acquaintance and family
connection had been used 70 rake up
whatever he could detrimental to her
character. The result had been seen.
Madeline Pollard was the daughter of
humble saddler; a man of good char
acter, of some learning, of taste for
books, which he had endeavored to i'm
part to his daughter until he died. Mr..
Carlisle. who has himself been the mas
ter Of one of the leading Masonic lodges
of the city. reminded the jury of the
Masonic funeral of Mr.. Pollard. Col.
Breckenridge had known her father,
and, according to his version of that
meeting OH the train. had inquired for
him, apol0giZing when he was told that
the father had died. The lawyer
sketched the early life of Miss Pollard,
as disclosed by the testimony; life
free from SANDER or reproach until she
met The colonel.
MIR. Carlisle asserted that all the at
telnDts of the defense to impeach the
character of the plaintiff had failed.
the plaintiff to William Wood, he next
invited the attention of the Jury to a
tintype portrait of Miss Pollard at the
period when she first met Col. Breckin-
ridge, ana said: Lock at that girl and
then look at the plaintiff. remembering
how little the testimony for the de-
Tense says she has changed since
then" The white.haired Kentucky
congressman sat facing the jury.so they
had no trouble in seeing him as they
lifted their faces as though pulled by
one string. Taking up that meeting in
the train, where first the lives of the
two came together, ana when their tes-
timony began to diffe:, as they said, the
lawyer remarked: He has told you
that there was nothing improper then
III her conduct, nothing to alarm him.
Before We come to this meeting, let us
consider
WHO THIS DEFENDANT WAS.
He was from one of the best families
in Kentucky, his father prominent
Presbyterian divine: he was blessed
with all the advantages which training
and education could give; he had great
personal talents; he graduated from
college at the early age of eighteen in
1857; he was admitted to the bar in 1859;
he was married to lady of one of the
best families in Kentucky. VINO early
died in 1861; he was a second time mar
rled to lady so estimable that here Oh
the witness stand, i'll the midst of this
case, he could not forbear a tribute in
his voice to that woman who had been
the mother of his seven children. AS
he tells you, he had happy home. was
beloved by his wife and children; lie
confesses that no man ever had less ex-
Far lNn ri "A tl,aA
had greater advantages; that no words
could point the depth to which he fell.
This was the gentlemen who met the
school girl on the train. From this
point Mr.. Carlisle turned back
TO JAMES RHODES,
who was dead, he said, and who could
not be called. The letters from Made
line Pollard to him had been read, and
disclosed no hint of the relations which
Mr.. Breckenridge had attempted to
charge existed between them More
over. the description given by Mrs.
Brown OF his character and of his defer
ence toward the young girl had been
heard. 1t was not extraordinary that
she should feel ashamed if Rhodes at
tempted 10 compel her to carry out one
alternative of her contract and marry
him. She knew Col. Breckenridge as a
most distinguished lawyer of that Sec
ton, aud, having met him, having been
told by him that he knew her father,
she wrote to him for advice. There
began the second stage of controversy
between them. Col. Breckenridge had
produced letter which he said she
had written him, and Which she pro-
uOunced forgery. Returning to the
disputed letter after the noon recess,
Mr. Carlisle dealt with the testimony Of
Experts Hay and Shaefer. contend
ing that theirs was not an ex-
act science, and that they only
claimed 10 have opinions OH penman-
ship worth more than the opinions of
other people. He displayed the letter
to the jury, and with 1t the fac smile
marriage certificate of Col. Breckin-
ridges secret marriage to Mrs. Wing.
The authenticity OF the letter, lie
claimed, rested wholly on the defend
ani's word, while the testimony of the
experts should not weigh feather. He
thought that the value of tue letter to
the defendant was merely as an OPEN
ing wedge, while the plaintiff would
have no object in denying it. except the
fact that she had not written it. 1t
would have been easy to concOct a let
ter like that, because, for the most part,
it conceded with the statements of the
plaintiff and the defendant. He laid
stress on the fact that of all the hun
dreds of letters written by Miss Pollard
to the colonel this was the only one
which had been found, with the excep-
ton OF little note written in 1889.
While Mr.. Carlisle was reading the tes-
timony of Col. Breckenridge regarding
his first visit to Miss Pollard, the colonel
spoke up in correction OF one of the
statements concerning the Breckenridge
family, saying: That should be Judge
breckenridge, and not Gen. Breckin
RIDGE
The lawyer laid stress upon the selec-
ton of
CLOSED CARRIAGE
for the ride ffom the seminary, COM
pared the story of the colonel that With
out any preliminary encouragement he
had become Intimate with her with her
story of having repulsed his advances;
Of his fiattering tongue, which had
been accustomed 10 sway large audi