The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-16
MISS POLLARD ILL
Nervous Collapse the Result of
Her Fight for Legal Rights.
Recipient of Numerous Flattering Offers
to Go on the Stage Which She
Will Ignore.
CAPITAL SOCIETY SCORED
Mrs. McClelland Brown Charges
ScandalOus ROttenness.
Reported that Miss Pollard Has Deter
mined to Take to Newspaper Work
Mrs. Wing Deceived.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Miss Madeline
Pollard is the most-talked-of person in
Washington to-day. Since the outcome of
her long breach-of-promise suit against
Congressman Breckenridge, as might have
been expected of a woman of her tempera-
ment, the long strain of the trial culmi-
mated in a nervous collapse, and to-day
Miss Pollard is suffering from nervous
prostration. She was taken last night to
the Providence Hospital Catholic institu-
ton in quiet part of the city on Capitol
Hill, where she is attended by the Sisters
Of Charity. The attending physicians Go
not anticipate any serious effects from her
illness. Sister Ellis of the Episcopal
House Of Refuge, who was the constant
attendant of Miss Pollard during the trial,
and to whom Judge Wilson paid a beautiful
tribute in his final plea, was her companion
part OF the day. Her brother Mr.. J. d.
Pollard, OF Lexington. Ky.,. was also with
her.
During the trial several communications
came to Miss Pollard and to her lawyers
from managers of theatrical and opera
companies offering high salaries If she
would appear in almost any capacity under
their auspices. Acting under the advice of
her lawyers she has paid attention to
any of these communications. Both Miss
Pollard and her attorneys state that she
has never sought newspaper notoriety. She
has made but one newspaper statement,
said Judge Jere Wilson to-day, and that
was when a representative of a New York
paper came to her last summer with clip
pings from a hundred papers giving denials
from Colonel Breckenridge and his friends
Of the truth of her charges. Then she de-
termined to present to the public a circum-
cta Of hnV fr,.a.
with the silver-tongued orator, and did so
Since the verdict was rendered Saturday
afternoon the theatrical managers have re-
doubled their opportunities. and several
kilograms have come to Miss Pollard offer
ing her astonishing sums TO go on the
stage at once. Her friends decline 10 give
the names of the theatrical managers or 10
discuss their offers, saying that no atten-
porter called at the Providence Hospital to-
day, and being told that Miss Pollard was
unable to receive callers, sent to her a note
inquiring about her plans for the future
The note was answered in person by her
brother. Mr.. J. D. Pollard, young raaa
of about TWENTY-FIVE years
'+Ay sister has made no. plans tor the
what she intends to do. She asks me to
say to you most emphatcally that she
never has entertained any intention of go
ing on the stage. Nothing could be fur
absurd However. 1t is true that kilograms
on the subject have come 10 her to-day
out no dtIenIlOD VIII De pdlu 10 lneIn. All
she asks now is for rest and quiet"
''Will Miss Pollard continue TO live in
Washington or return TO Kentucky?' the
reporter inquired.
THAT has not been decided yet. She will
remain in Washington for a time, of
course, but has no settled plans"
Judge Wilson's defense of the right of
woman TO an equal place with man in the
professions appreciated by many Of
the Washington ladies that a cOterie of
them sent 10 him magnificent bunch of
La France roses, which adorned his parlOr
to-day. They were accompanied by a note
stating that they were intended as an eX-
pressions of appreciation for his cham
pionship of the cause of woman in the
professions. One of the signers was Mrs.
Dan Waugh. wife Of the Indiana Congress-
man. Another Miss Louise Lowell.
the stenOgrapher who wrote Colonel Breck-
inriuge's love letters while he was at the
Capitol and another was Miss Mary
Desha, sister of Colonel Breckinridge's
late wife. Miss Desha is prominent in the
organization of the Daughters of the Rev
olution. and was one of the ladies who in
spired the project of the liberty bell
Gently cast at Troy. The tribute Of Miss
Desha TO Miss Pollard's lawyer is signifi-
cant of the feeling of the relatives of the
late Mrs Breckenridge toward the Colonel.