Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-11
MISS POLLARD SCORED.
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ing, or kicking up a dust along about
that time, he went on. both of them
we're
PURSUING COURSE OF IMMORTALITY
agreeable to both. and were telling any
little lies that came along to help each
other out. Every man in the court has
told lies about these little domestic mat
tiers. II there are any who have not
they had better go out for awhile, be-
cause they are too sanctimonlous for
the place. But the attorneys on the
other side seem to think this case is like
that of the old preacher in Kentucky,
who was tried for adultery with one Of
the sisters. The jury, all men. returned
verdict, finding the minister guilty
and acquitting the sister.
Miss PoIlard's testimony from which
he read showed that she admitted they
both lied. In one instance she had
called him out of Chamberlain's TO help
her out OF scrape, "and Billy always
came" he said.
Concerning Mrs. Blackburn, Mr..
Thompson said that she was lovely
old lady, but she was getting pretty
well along in years. shes no longer
a maiden gay" he said "She would
not tell anything that was not so for
the world, bat the old lazy thought she
had been imposed upon and wanted to
put 1t TO Colonel Breckenridge as hard
as she could. That's only human
nature. don't blame her. admire
her spirit. Why, / was afraid she
would jump down my throat, frizzes
and all, when began TO examine her"
The jury was not to punish Colonel
Breckenridge for immortality. All the
great men of the world had had
THEIR TROUBLES WITH WOMEN.
When julius Cesar was not making
laws, he was making love to Cleopatra.
David had put Uriah in the forefront
of battles because be had looked on the
mans wife and she was lovely. III
there have been any great men who
were not fond of woman they were
great hypocrites. the Colonel declared.
There was Bonaparte, Washington,
all of them, who mad their affairs OF
love, as we'll as of war;" and he added:
81 don't see why this man, who is no
worse than tbs rest Of US, only he has
been discovered and we have not, should
be punished unless we are to be hYpo-
critics."
II Colonel Breckenridge had been dis
posed to lie, he might have kept many
things to his discredit out OF the case,
only because he would not play the
part Of hypocrite and perjurer, he was
condemned. "We are looking at this
thing as men Of the world and men OF
common sense" the Colonel said, going
on to tell how the Colonel had provided
for her. She had said that she had
preferred being Colonel Breckinridge's
mistress to Jim Rhedes's wife, and why?
Because as his mistress she did not have
TO work, went into good society. and
had intellectual companionship. why
l had
RATHER BE THE MISTRESS
of man like Colonel Breckenridge,
good looking and intellectual, than TO
sleep all the days of my life beside an
ignoranus. That was her choice, and /
think it was good one" aYerred the
defendants attorney.
Coming down to the death OF Colonel
Breckinridge's wife, the attorney said:
''Then and there a new ambition sprung
up In her. She said, here is the old
man have swung on TO so long. DE Is
free, and now I'll make him marry me-
Colonel Breckenridge had never intro
duced her to Mrs. Blackburn and the
other ladies in whose parlors he had
met her, and yet it was demanded that
he should go there and admit his rela-
tions with her. No man would have
done 1t. He would have looked pretty,
assuming the role of the Seraphiu and
Cherublm. driving her out OF the Gar
den of Eden when she had got there.
This is q common goiBg-on all the
time" said Colonel Thompson taking
another tack, "only he is exposed and
most of them are not, and it is good
thing. But all of US have these rela-
tions with women; that is all good men,
Just to show that they are men. There
may be some good fellows who have not,
only I never met them. They start IN
to have little fun with woman, and
the first thing they know they have got
into eternal hell with her."
Uara the coprt adjourned,