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


riculum to teach girls what sort of treat
ment they should expect from gentle
men,.
When this matter was to be gone into
at further length Miss Pollard's attor-
ney objected and Judge Bradley exclud-
ed it, renarking. that's expert testi-
mony," thereby stirring a laugh.
MadeIine's Age.
The deposition of DR.. L. B. Williams,
who had lived in Bridgeport, KY, in
1865, was objected to, but admitted with
the exception of one question and an
swer. In that year he had attended
Mrs. Pollard. mother of the plaintiff,
who gave birth to a child. There were
then three other children. one of them
a little tot called Matte" or Made"
and the child born then was also called
Made" The doctor, it appeared on
oIoss-examination, is a member of the
board of pension examiners.
DR.. j. Owen Robinson Of Lexington,
whose deposition was read. knew Miss
Pollard, considered her not a beautiful
girl, but one attractive because of her
intellectual ability. He first met Mad
cline at the house OF her aunt and she
impressed him as being between six
teen and seventeen years old. More of
what Judge Bradley considered expert
testimony was excluded.
field OF Frankfort, formerly a black
smith of Bridgeport. met objection from
the plaintiffs attorney. The blacksmith
had known Miss Pollard's father in 1863
ard testified that he had three children
then, the youngest of them being Mad
cline, who looked like a child of three
years.
Before adjournment Attorney Carlisle
gave notice that there would be objec-
tions TO some other dispositions and sug-
gested that arguments should be heard
Saturday, Judge Wilson added that
some of the questions would make it
necessary to refer to the dispositions
themselves so that the presence of the
jury would not be proper. With the
understanding that if Mr. Butterworth
is able to attend the arguments will be
heard Saturday. the court adjourned.
WASHINGTON, March 24-Judge
Bradley executed a bit Of strategy on the
newspaper men who had gathered today
to hear the arguments over the admissi-
bility of certain dispositions taken for the
defense in the Pollard-B Breckenridge case.
Since nothing sensational was expected,
the general public had scarcely any
representation, only newspaper men and
lawyers appearing in the court room.
Just before the hour for court to open
a whisper passed among the lawyers
and they slipped one by one into the
judges consultation room adjoining the
court room. A uniformed bailiff stand
ing at the door denied admission to all
but the legal forces, Col Breckenridge
and his son, Deshal. The party was
closeted in the judges room two hours.
There are three dispositions TO which
Miss POllard'S attorneys make their
principal objections. the point involved
being the relevancy Of testimony bear
ing upon Miss Pollard's character. One
OF these dispositions was made by Alex
Julian, the young blind man to whom
n NIL
'Wessie' Brown as her blind Barna-
bas.' He asserts in the affidavit taken
in kentucky that a mock marriage was
performed between Miss Pollard and
himself at Squire Tinsleys in Bridge
port on Christmas day, 1888; that after
drinking eggnogg freely, he suggested
that married couples usually went to
bed, and that thereupon the two went
upstairs and got into bed together.
Miss Pollard testified on cross-ex-
animation that her uncle accompanied
her to Squire Tinsleys on that day and
denied the incident of the mock mar
riage.
The second deposition was made by
w. w. Rosselle, to whom Miss Pollard
was engaged to be married in 1884, when
she was a student at Wesleyan seminary
and at which time she was intimate
with Col. Breckenridge. Rosselle has de-
posed that he took liberties with Miss
Pollard in the library of the Wesleyan
seminary and that when he left that
town for Chicago Miss Pollard begged
him to take her with him.
When asked about this matter on
cross-examination Miss Pollard denied
that Rosselle had done more than kiss her,
and denied that she had asked him to
take her to Chicago.
In one of the most characteristicallv
spicy dialogues between herself and At
torney Butterworth she attributed
Rosselle's motive in opposing her to the
fact that he is a candidate for the posi-
ton of collector of internal revenue IL,
Representative Breckinridge's district.
The other deposition 10 which the
plaintiff is particularly opposed, was
made by DR.. Lewis of Lexington who
affirms that the late Col SwOpe once
approached him with a request that ne
perform criminal operation on a wom-
an whom he called Miss Pollard. The
doctor did not see the woman, nor could
he identify her with the plaintiff so the
objection was made that there is moth
ing to connect the deposition with the
principal in this case Col. Swope was
the republican candidate for congress
against Col. Breckenridge and was
killed in a duel with Cash Goodloe. who
also was fatally wounded. Parts of
other dispositions are also objected to-
The reason for a secret hearing regard
ing these dispositions is TO keep their
contents from the jury in the case till
the court decides upon excluding them
Although the jurors have been cautioned
not to talk with any one concerning the
case, nor to read the newspapers the
judge probably thinks that the head
lines of newspapers would be too much
for human curiosity to resist if spread
before them Sunday morning and in the
discussion of the affidavits their con-
tents are naturally threshed over. These
underground proceedings are not an in
novation in the district court as some
months ago a precedent was established
by Judge Bradley Of keeping from the
public the details Of a scandal
. The arguments before Judge Bradley
continued for five hours, and he took
the questions submitted under considera-
ton to decide them Monday morning
when the court meets again. Most of
the talking was done by Attorneys John
son and Carlisle for the plaintiff, and
Butterworth and Shelby for the de-
PENDANT.
Miss Pollard's counsel surprised the
defense by making sweeping objection
to all their dispositions on the ground
that they had been taken in an irregu-
lar manner. Mr.. Johnson made this
point and argued that the mere notice
given to opposing counsel that deposit
lions were TO be taken at a certain time
and place did not constitute sufficient
legal authority to give them standing in
the case.
This practice has always been followed
by the circuit court, and before the at
torneys had finished their arguments
Judge Bradley told them that he did not
care to hear more on the question, so
that his opinion upon it is evidently