The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-14
TRAIL OF THE SERPENT.
Judge Wilson'S Terrible Arraign-
ment of Col. breckenridge.


Washington, April 13.-Judge Jere M.
Wilson today replied to tine attacks
upon Miss Pollard by Colonel Thomp-
son.
Speaking of the statement of the OPP
position that the suit should never
have been brought and the details Civ
en- publicity, he asked if there were no
redress? Poluters of women cannot
be locked up but redress could be had.
He assumed the responsibility and was
proud of the part taken by him. He
stood ready to demand the same stand
ard for men as for women. Would
1.-THE jury admit the defendant to their
parlors and shut the gates against the
woman?
He denied that the womanhood of
the land had been arrayed in behalf OF
the defendant. Americas country
girls needed no chaperons and the
speaker expected to hear that gray
haired men of 40 need a body guard.
Wilson then read a letter, d supposed
imaginary letter, but all could see that
lit was one from a correspondence re-
ceived during the trial, The letter
pleaded for the young girl and set forth
the writer's struggle against designing
men.
Mir. Wilson referred to the statement
of Colonel Thompson that Breckenridge
was no worse than others and his
mention of Biblical characters and re-
marked that the story of lamar and
Amnon, which ended in a tragedy, had
been overlooked.
Mr.. Wilson said the denunciation of
1.-THE plaintiff was ridiculous, considering
that the defendant had made her what
she is Adams plea mad not saved
him, being a man of bad repute. The
secret marriage was no defense against
the subsequent promises. Had the
scene in Major Moore's office occurred
in New York state, it would have
made plaintiff Breckinridge's wife.
Robertson Was u Whelp.
Mr.. Wilson commented on the cir
cumstance that witnesses had been
brought from Kentucky, to testify as
Ito the general character Of the defend
ant, about the man who kept his &C n
tracts and was chaste. On the other
Inland every one from Kentucky or
Washington who has been asked as TO
1.-The charac ter of Miss Pollard, has said
she was a woman from girlhood of the
most refinement and apparently of the
highest character.
The innocent schoolgirl letters written
in the confidence of youthful friendship,
had been raked up. Mr.. Butterworth
had read them; he had pointed to a
word here and said there was sonse-
thing mysterious about them. Mr.. Will
son did not know how those letters had
been secured by the defense, It might
have been by trickery, but if, when
Robertson had given them up, knowing
the use to which they were to be put,
He was whelp,' Mr.. Wilson de-
clared
After the noon recess, Mr.. Wilson
averred he wished to apologize for what
I he had said regarding Owen Robertson
because that person had made depo-
sition for the defense which had not
been read to the jury.
Attorney Stoll interposed that it had
been read, and then, sticking the paper
on the desk, Mr.. Wilson replied: IF you
say it has been read, then I will read
it," and he proceeded to quote from
Robertson's testimony that when these
letters had been written he was not old
enough to judge of Madeline Pollard's
character, as it concerned her relations
with men,
The ShinElebauer story.
The deposition of Molly Shinglebauer
was considered next and in that con-
nection Mr.. Wilson charged that the
defense had resorted to deliberate per-
| Jury. 1t was known Madeline was in
| Pittsburg at the time the Singlebauer
woman had testified she knew her.
| The repentant Shinglebauer woman, as
she had been called. had not talked of
Madeline Pollard, however, bur OF
Mamie Pollard, and 1t was in evil
dence that the plaintiff had a sister
named Mamie. respectable woman
older than herself and married to a
Methodist clergyman.
In this connection, Mr.. Wilson de-
veloped a new point, which seemed to
! impress the audience, and he went on
to say that Molly Shinglebaler had
been principally called to prove that in
1887 Madeline Pollard had been ma
ture woman, and it was conceded that
Mamie Pollard, of whom she spoke, was
matured then. Concerning the engage
ment to Woods, he declared there was
no hint of improper relations.
Pollard and Rhodes.
The relations of Madeline Pollard and