The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
THE POLLARD CASE.
THE SENSATIONAL SUIT AGAINST
BRECKINRIDGE.
MISS Pollard Takes the Stand md
Relates the Story of Her Shame
She Test1ties That breckenridge
Held Illicit Relations With Her
After His Murriuse. ~

Held Illicit Relations With Her
After His Marriage. u
Washington, March 22.-The cross-ex-
animation of Miss Pollard was concluded |
to-day without bringing out any sensa- /
tional testimony, and the plaintiff rested |
her case
ridge camp of conversation and docu- |
ments, after which Attorney Butterworth |
asked for few moments for his side for |
consultation, and the defendant, his son
Desha and five attorneys trooped out
through the door by which Miss Pollard
had made her exit
'"The delegation from kentucky re-
tired for conference" remarked gentle |
man who had attended political con-
ventions.
The Breckenridge forces were in re-
tilement for twenty minutes. Then Col.
John T. Shelby, the Lexington, Ky,
law partner of Col. Breckenridge, 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, lit in
cludes a wider scope. l am authorized
by the defendant to say" he said, land
it will be corrotorated by his solemn
oath, that he did not seduce her; that it
never was made known to him that she
had any children by him until the filing"
of this suit last August, nor did he ever,
under any circumstances, make any prom
Use of marriage to her.
The defense did not intend, he said,
to condone whatever was wrong in the
relations of the two, and it was only by
the truth the defendant wanted to be
judged.
Outlining what would be the defense, he
stated that Miss Pollard had accosted
Col. Breckenridge on the train, before
which time he had never seen her. She
invited him to call at the seminary.
Having nothing else to do he went to the
college that day and saw her. He saw
rot 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 OF
twenty-one years of age, and it would be
shown by the doctor who officiated at
the birth of her next youngest sister in
1865, when the plaintiff was then Il
little girl of two or three years of age,
running about the house.
When the colonel arrived at the COL
him, explained the contract with Mr.
Rhodes, which was that in consideration
of his paying for the schooling, she was
to marry him. She asked if he could
compel her to marry him-a strange ques-
ton for a school girl-and also said that
she had submitted her person to Mr..
Rhodes. He told her that she was not
obliged to carry out the contract. She
then asked him to take her to an enter.
tainment on Vine street, and he consent
ed.
That COL Breckenridge had called
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
counsel said that during the course OF
that ride and without the use of seductive
means, but in that way which occur!
when woman is not averse to sucl
things, an illicit relation was established
Oh the first night he had been with her.
The defense will be partly denial ant
partly explanatory; denial that Col
Breckenridge seduced Madeline Pollard
tlat she gave birth to child at the Nor
wood convent; an explanation that sh,
trapped him into a promise to marry he
on the mutual understanding that tn,
promise was only devise by which sh,
was to withdraw from his life and b.
able to break off her relations with Mrs
Blackburn. The long-continued illicit re
lations between the two are admitted
without excuse Or palliation except ref
'erence to the inherent weakness of human
nature, but the orator, spokesman, rep
resents that he was often anxious t.
break them off, but was always inveigle,
into continuance by the young woman
that she followed him, demanded none
from him and compelled his promise t
marry her under threats, several times re
pe2ted, and emphasized by display O
pistols. Moreover, it is promised to b
shown that Miss Pollards early life ha
not been one of virtue before the silver
tongued orator crossed her path. Thi:
in substance, is the defense, but it ha
many branches and side issues.
Washington, March 23.-The reading c
dispositions was taken up late yesterda
afternoon. Madeline Pollard was seate
beside her lawyer, Judge Wilson, talki1
to him, with a smile playing across h,
face, and once as she talked she glance
over her shoulder at the white-haired d.
PENDANT Before Attorney Stoll had DR.
Miss Pollard and her company rose an
glided from the room, interrupting for
moment the reading. The first depos
tion was that of Sister Augustine, of IL
Norwood convent asylum, where Mi
Pollard was at first confined. This sist
had been for years at the convent, d
not recognize Miss Pollard, who had BET
Mt the convent, and said there had new
been but one Louise Wilson there, al
she gave birth to child there last ia
The entries on the convent books und
the name of Miss Burgoyne correspond
with the dates which Miss Pollard q,
DR.. Street had given of her admittan
to the asylum, the birth of the child d,
her departure. The name of the Oh:
on the record was NJ Gertrude Burgoyn
According to the recollection of the sist
Miss Burgoyne had visited the >conye
twice after the child was born! T.
child, Marie Gertrude Burgoyne, had di
in July, 1885. When Miss Pollard w
told of this, the sister deposed she b,