The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-28

wander from Ine subject. protesting that
he was anxious to treat her with per-
feet fairness.
Il beg your pardon. Mr. Butterworth,"
she replied. Il know you treat me fairly
and am very grateful. I am full
Of things want to tell you can't keep
them back
There was a short little tilt between
Lawyers Butterworth and Wilson over
the answering Of questions after this
which Judge Bradley answered by de-
claring that the witness vas net obliged
to answer question Just in the form de-
sired by the examiner.
Back to the autobiogra ply in the New
York World came Mr.. Butterworth. OBJ
lection was made by Mr.. Wilson that it
had been threshed over TO WEAKNESS and
the same opinion was held by the judge.
What was the fact about your adopt
ing the name Of Breckenridge? asked
Mr.. Butterworth.
when I first used the name Mr..
Breckenridge and I talked it over. He
said 1 might use the name and I had
my card plate made with it in 1889 or
go" was the answer in explanation of
the statement in the newspaper article.
Il am very weary this morning and
hardly able to go on"
Mistress of the situation.
Nevertheless. the plaintiff continued to
be mistress of the situation. for when
she had been asked about the trunk she
had at DR.. Streets in Cincinnati during
her first confinement and Mr. Butter
worth read from his manuscript she in
sisted that he should give her his undi-
vided attention before she would con-
tinue. Great stress has been laid by the
defense upon the description of this
trunk. which seems to be important to
their case, That's all. Miss Pollard, 4"
said Mr.. ButterwOrth, 10 the surprise of
the court.
The plaintiff, in black. and Sister FL
lis disappeared through the side door.
her attorneys remarking that they had
no questions for her Then Mr.. Carlisle
said: THE plaintiff rests her case here
The plaintiff had been under cross fire
for two days and over, during which
every phase of her case had been re-
viewed from every light, but her attor-
news did not consider it necessary to
strengthen or explain any Of her state
mentS by redirect examination. They
had in reserve other witnesses and aft
davits. but these they did not use.
There was rustling in the Breckin-
ridge camp Of conversation and docu-
ments, after which Mr.. ButterwOrth
asked for a few moments for his side to
hold a consultation, and the defendant.
his son Desha and five attorneys trooped
out through the door by which Miss Pol
lard had made her exit
The delegation from Kentusky retires
for conference" remarked a gentleman
who had attended political conventions.
The Defense Opens.
The Breckenridge forces were in re-
tirement twenty minutes. Then Col.
John T. Shelby, the Lexington lawyer
ard partner Of Col. Breckenridge, a short,
pale man with light mustache. partly
bald head and spectacles faced the jury
to outline the defense.
While the case was technically one for
breach of promise, he said, it included a
wider scope.
Il am authorized by the defendant to
say" he said, "and it will be cCrrOb-
GRATED by his solemn oath, that he did
not seduce her; that it never was made
known to him that she had ever had any
children by him until the filing of this
suit last August, nor did he ever, under
any circumstances, make any premise OF
marriage to her"
The defense did not intend, he said. to
cOndOne whatever was wrong I'm the re-
latiOns Of the two, and it was only by
the truth the defendant wanted to be
judged
Outlining what would be the defense
he related that Miss Pollard had ac-
costed Col Breckenridge on the train
before which time ne had never seen
her; that he had supposed he ought to
know her Chaving reached that time Of
life when he was forgetful of faces.
she introduced herself: said her father
was a great admirer of John G. BrecIin-
ridge and had named her after him.
Several weeks afterWard the letter ask
ing advice as to her relation with Rhodes
had been received. He had answered
it, telling her the aspects of the contract
TO which she had replied fully. After
that he received the letter. the authan-
ITCHY Of which Miss Pollard had denied.
but which would be fully proven ask
ing him 10 come to the seminary. He
had written that he could not come.
She had written another letter urging
him to come to the Wesleyan college to
see her which ne had declined to do.
On the LIST of August. 1884 friday, he
had been in Cincinnati on business 1t
occurred TO him that he had received
the request 10 go TO the Wesleyan col
lege. Having nothing else TO do he went
TO the college that day and saw her:
saw not an ignorant girl, Unacquainted
with the ways Of the world, for if there
was one fact that would be established
it was that the plaintiff was at least
twenty or twenty-one years of age Srd
it would be shown by the doctor who
oficiated at the birth of her next
younger sister in 1863, when the plain
tin was then little girl of two or three
years of age running about the house
Poor, Weak Man.
"When the colonel arrived at the in
stitution." continued the attorney, she
came into the parlor and saw him. e.
planned the contract with Mr. Rhodes.
which was that in consideration of his
paying for her schooling she was to
marry him. She asked if he could COM
pei her to marry him-a strange ques-
ton for an innocent school girl. and
also told him that she had submitted
her person TO Mr.. Rhodes. He told her
that she was not obliged to carry out
the contract. Then she asked him to
take her to an entertainment on Vine
st. and he consented"
That Col. Bseckinridge had called in
a closed carriage that night was denied.
1t was declared that Miss Pollard had
made the proposition that they ride in
stead of going to the concert and the
lawyer said: In the course of the ride
that night and without the use OF Sc
ductive means. but in that way which
occurs when a woman is not averse to
such things, an Illicit relation was es-
tablished on the first night he had been
with her. He did not take her TO any
designation house in Cincinnati the next
day" 1t was denied that Col Brec<in-
ridge had sent telegram TO Miss Pol
lard in the name of her mother to go
to Lexington, but when he boarded the
train that Friday he found her on it:
without any articles being exercised on
his part, a meeting had been arranged
and she herself had proposed that they
should go 10 the house of Sarah Cess.
she explaining that she knew the house.