Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-04-05
PAID ALL THE BILLS
COL. BRECKIyRDGE CONTINUES
HIS TESTIMONY.
He said That He Paid Bills at Asstg-
nation Houses and Gave Miss FOL
lard Monsy-The Plaintiff Makes 70
Scene in Court and Ii ebuk

Washington, March I.-There was an
audience awaiting the second appearance
Of Col. Breckenridge on the witness stand
whose interest in him and what he would
have to say was more intense than that
Of any of the audiences he a ever
fa6ed before. Foremost in il sat the
plaintiff and her elderly companion, Mrs.
Ellis; back Of them in double rows, the
lawyers in the case and also Desha
Dre.Ainridge, the son 10 whom the de-
PENDANT had referred in affectionate terms
while detailing the members OF his family
yesterday. Further beyond were two
long rows of newspaper men and sketch
srs waiting to transfer 10 paper the diff
ferent attitude OF the congressman Wit
Less, and then the ranks of spectators,
most of them members of the bar. Nc
time was lost in sending Col. Breckin
ridge to the stand. He began by testi
flying that he had often given and sen,
Miss Pollard money.
When Col. Breckenridge said Mr..
Rhodes told him he had been intimate
with Miss Pollard, the plaintiff burst out
crying and said: That is a lie. Why
can't he tell the Truth about some
thingsf" She was reproved by the
Judge.
THE plaintiff has said that on two &C
S~asions, after protest1tions of love, yot
said you would marry her if il was posi-
ble," the lawyer queried.
There ia not a ~scintilla of truth in
that s~tatement-not a shred. Under nc
circumstances, at no time was there such
a statement. The plaintiff never alludet
TO the possibility of it. Before the dealt
Of my wife there was not a solitary wore
that could be distorted into such a thing
He related how he went to Mrs. Guess
designation house and other places with
the plaintiff, paid the bills and often CAV,
Miss Pollard money. He continued:
Prom November, 1885, to July, 1887,
there were no improper relations between
Us, although | was supporting her. The
ENHANCEMENT really began when she
CT me to Washington against my will. !
frequently said to her as earnestly as l
knew how, that the relations between US
eculd only result in public scandal and
perhaps destruction of US both; that her
character, her lack of ~self-control, her
temper was such that some day there
must come an exposure. | urged her
to go anywhere, where she could study,
Offering TO pay her expenses and saying
the burden could be no greater on me
han il was. Several tines l thought she
had agreed TO go, once to Cambridge.
Some of our interviews were more ex-
cessively unpleasant than any words can
describe She would come to me at the
capitol at my committee room; declare
that she was not going to leave; that she
was going to have the support owing to
her. / suppose at times, being excessive.
ly angry. / said things hat were hard
and bitter. / knew that the only al.
tentative was submission or the destruc.
ton of the lives of those dependent on
me, and let it go on, hoping that tenor.
row would bring a solution of the prob
lem
Mr.. Breckinridge related how the
plaintiff had threatened to shoot him and
herself. He finally consented to permit
ting Miss Pollard to tell Mrs. Blackburn
that they were engaged, with the under
standing that the marriage was never to
take place. This, he said was done to
prevent q scandal and to keep Miss Pol
lard from carrying out her threat Of
killing him. He admitted the secret mar
riage to Mrs. Wing. but denied that he
promised, In the presence Of Maj. Moore,
TO marry Miss Pollard.