The evening world., 1894-03-22
The POLLARD SUIT.
Reading of Dispositions Resumed
at This Mornings Session.
Sister Augustine Disputes the
"Louise Wilson" Story.
She, Like Sister Agnes, Failed to
Recognize the Plaintiff.
my Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON. March 22.-The read
ing of dispositions was taken up again
this morning. when the court met. in
the Pollard case to the regret of many
spectators who had assembled with the
expectation that Representative Breck-
inridge would tell his story. Madeline
Pollard was seated beside her lawyer,
Judge Wilson. talking to him with a
smile playing across her face. and once
as she talked she glanced over her
shoulder at the white-haired defendant.
Before Attorney Stoll had proceeded far
with his elocutionary efforts Miss Pol
lard and her companion rose and glided
from the room. interrupting for a mo-
ment the reading.
Augustine, of the. Norwood Conven,
Asylum. where Miss Pollard was a,
first confined. The Sister had been for
years at the Convent. did not recognize
Miss Pollard as one who had been at
the Convent, and said there never had
been but one Louise Wilson there, and
she, gaves birth to child there last
Fall
During the time Miss Pollard claimed
to have been in the institution there had
been young woman there yelled most
of the time.
There was a rather unusual incident
when Mr.. Stoll read out the name of
this young woman, who had claimed 10
szed BE fTom and st sa tSe then r pTo
the, Sister had only given the name
under the condition that It was to be
kept secret and not to he repeated.
This Sister had been present at the in
terview in the Convent between Miss Pol
lard. Attorneys Carlisle and johnson,
and Sister Agnes. whose deposition had
been read yesterday. Sister Augustine
recollection of Miss Pollard's explanation
Of her motive for bringing the suit was
that 1t would secure justice.
der the name Of Miss Burgoyne CORE
sponded with the dates which Miss Pol.
lard and DR.. Street had given Of hel
admittance to the asylum. the birth Of
Of the child on the record was NJ. Ger
| trude Burgoyne. According to the rec
ollection Of the sister. Miss Burgoynt
had visited the Convent twice after the
The child Marie Gertrude Burgoyne
had died In July. 1885. When Miss Pol
lard was told OF this. the Sister deposed,
she had thrown up her hands and run
from the room, but when she returned
face.
The Christmas card which had been
! found between the leaves of one Of the
volumes Of Washington Irving given to
the convent by Miss Pollard, was pro.
duced with this deposition and displayed
six by eight inches. with fringed edges
on which was caught a pressed and
faded rose.
This shristmas card is expected tc
play an important part in the case, as
proof that Miss Pollard was confined
IN the convent, and the defense claims
that when 1t was displayed by Miss
Pollard; who averred that she had found
1t in the book, one corner was rolled
up In way impossible for a card tha,
had been eight years pressed in a book
sister Augustine; according, to the
of st. Joseph in the convent had perfect
| eyes. Miss Pollard had recollected tina
one eye of the statue was out of line
Ihe I second ep3sition read by Attorne,
been employed for eighteen years in tn,
Norwodo Convent, who had no recollec
tion OF woman in the convent in 1888
ahd never seen Madeline Pollard unti
last December. She had then been pres
ent at the interview between Sister Ag
nes and the plaintiff, but as the forme
had testified, failed to identify Miss Pol
lard as one she had ever seen. Accord
Ing to her remembrance Miss Pollart
had said OF her motive for the suit: :.
did Il for justice and to disgrace Mr.
The deposition OF, DR.; W. F., De Cour
cey, physician al. the Norwood Convent
was objected to by Mr. Carlisle on tn,
ground of immaterality, but admitted
by the Judge. The physician testified
tha: he did not know Madeline Pollard
nor Louise Wilson; but there had been
| girl in the Convent named Wilson, II
| 1884 and 1885, whose first name he die
not remember and whose face he woulC
| not recognize.
| He had looked over the books Of tn,
| asylum. and had found no record o
Louise Wilson. At times a special ply
sician attended patients at the hospital
| II they so requested. Once a girl VIII,
| gave birth to child had her fac,
veiled, because she claimed that DR.. d,
| Courcey knew her.