The Portland daily press., 1894-04-05

simply to let him think / thought
enough of Miss Pollard to marry her and
offset the impression he had that I in
tended to turn her over to the police. 1t
Was Merely to Relieve Her Mind
that made the statement"
will you say that you did not deliber-
ately clasp the plaintiffs hand to con-
summate the agreement"
II did not do so deliberately. 1t was
merely an Interpolation on her part"
"Col. Moore" said Judge Wilson, "said
it was the most impressive scene he ever
Witnessed"
Il will say he probably never wit
messed such scene before. I trust he
never will again
did she want to marry you them"
"She wanted me then. not to marry
her, but to continue our relations"
"You were desirous of pushing her
out in the world with some support from
you?"
out in the world. She was already in
and promised to give her reasonable
support" ,
"Don't you remember she spoke to you
about your relations with colOred
women?"
al never heard of that until she testi-
fed to it on the stand" said the Colonel.
1.-The plaintiff rests the cross-examina-
tion here" said Judge Wilson and Col.
Breckenridge heaved a sigh of relief.
Major Butterworth took up the re-
direct examination. He made Col.
Breckinridge tell about Miss Pollard's
call at his room last year. Col. Breckin-
ridge said Miss Pollard told him that
some one had sighted her; she had no
friends, and she wanted MIN to marry
her. He refused, and she said she was
willing to go on as his mistress if he
she wanted him to give her tYpewriting
work, that they could continue their re-
lations under cover of that. TO this. the
defendant said he replied that for that
very reason she was the last person to
whom he could give such work. "She
then said," he continued, that she in
tended to go wherever / went. said she
was TURNING into backmailer, and ssshe
said I had no right to call her such
name. Then I opened the door aud said:
If YOU are going to make a scene, for
gracious sake make it a loud as you can,
80 everybody else can hear Then she
began to cry, and said we had better
take a walk. We went to her apartments
and I sat on chair and she on the floor
with her head resting on my~knee. She
said I should promise to marry her be-
fore I left the house and
She Proposed to Make a Scene
unless l did,"
After further refusals on his part, the
plaintiff went to window and threw it
up and said she would scream. just then
somebody knocked at the door and said
their voices were very loud and disturb
ing people. "The information was i'm
parted to me-" said Col. Breckenridge
that your voice is so peculiar there's
mem ber of Congress here who will know
you." (Laughter.)
Judge Wilson complained that all this
was gone over before and Judge Bradley
said he did not see any use in telling
these stories over again.
Major Butterworth responded that as
Judge Wilson had tried to show
the defendant up as gully of brutal
conduct toward the plaintiff, he wanted
to show the opposite. After an explana-
ton by Col. Breckenridge that he meant
his daughter and not Miss Pollard in re-
ferring to zone who is now the head of
my house, after the death of his wife,
Major Butterworth said, that 10 all,
Colonel Breckenridge"
The court adjourned. a.