Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29
FoR MR. naEcK1sniDGE.
Additional Testimony Offered in Hts be
hnir---NInint, Mnnrr on The Ntnnh AsAll

again when the circuit court mel inns
morning, to the regret ui many spectators
who had assembled with the expectation
that Representative Breckinrldge woulu
tell his story, Madeline f0llaiu was
seated beside her lawyer, Judge Wilson,
talking to him with y smile playing across
| her face, and once Ms she inlkeu sno
| glanced aver her shoulder ut the whlte-
| haired defendant. Before Attorney Stoll
had proceeded far with his elocutiohafy
effort, Miss Pollard and her compohy rose
and glided FROM the room interrupt'hs
| for Il moment the realizing.
The first deposition was that OF sister
h Augustine at the Norwood Convent
Asylum, where Miss Pollard said she was
at first confined. This sister had been for
| years Mt the convent but did not recognize
: Miss Pollard as one who had been AZ the
convent, and said there never had been !
| but one Louise Wilson there and she gave |
birth to u child there last fall.
During the time Miss Pollard claimed to !
| have been in the institution there had |
been a young woman there yelled most OF
the time.
There was rather an unusual incident
when Mr.. Stoll read out the name of this
young woman who bad claimed to be
from Northern State, then apnlogtZeu
and explained to the court that the sister
had only given the name under the condi-
ton that it was to be kept secret and not
to be repeated.
The sister had been present at the inter
view in the convent between Miss Pollard,
Attorneys Carlisle aud Johnson and Sister
Agnes, whose deposition had been read
yesterday. Sister Augustine also failed to
recognize Miss Pollard Her recollection of
Miss Pollard's explanation OF her motive
for bringing the suit was that 1t would
secure Justice.
The entries on the convent books under
the name of Mrs. Burgoyne correspondent
with the dates which Miss Pollard and DIR.
Street had given OF her abundance TO the
asylum the birth Of the child and her de-
parture. The name Of the child on the
record was NJ. Gertrude Burgoyne Ac-
cording to the recollection OF the sister,
Miss Burgoyne had visited the convent
twice after the child was born. The child,
Marie Gertrude Burgoyne, had died in
July. 1885. When Miss Pollard was told
of this, the sister deposed, she had thrown
up her hands and run from the room, but
when she returned there were no evidences
of grief in her face,
> When in the course of the deposition
! Attorney Stoll began TO read testimony
:, concerning the visit Of one of Miss Pol
: lards attorneys, Mr.. Mallon, to the colt
vent, Mr.. Carlisle objected to it as ire
levant. Whatever one of Miss Poliard's
attorneys might have done at the convent
not in the presence Of the parties to the
! suit but in the pursuit OF his professional
9 duties, he urged, WIS irrelevant. Mr.. Stoll
protested that he wanted to show that all
!, facilities had been granted the plaintiff $
q representatives for securing informa-
ton at the convent. Colonel Shelby
n added that the attorney had gone in the
!. capacity of agent of Miss Pollard therefore
his acts were binding upon her, u construc-
ton of the relations OF client and attorney
Y from which the Judge dssented, SUSTAIN
INN hn ,,hinrtint pf Mr. Carlisle IT. 1p-
velored that Attorney Mallun had exam.
IS iaed the books Of the convent and copied
;, some of the entries, Judge Bradley admit
h ting these statements of fact, but exclud
ing the conversation which had taker
k place between the attorney and the sisters
Ii The Christmas card which had beer
II found between the leaves of one of Thu
$. volumes Of Washington Irving given tt
IN the convent by Miss Pollard was produced
/. with the deposition and displayed to thu
A Jury. 1t was large souvenir, six by eigh
d. inches, with fringed edges, on which wa
caught a pressed faded rose.
:, This Christmas card is expected to play
"a an important part in the case, as proc
& that Miss Pollard was confined in the con
" vent, and the defence claims that wnen i
~ was displayed by Miss Pollard, VIII,
ayerred that she had found it in the book
o. one corner was rolled up in u wa,
W impossible for card that had been eigh
l
nc Augustine, according to the deposition
had declared that the statue OF ST. JOSEPH
Da in the convent had perfect eyes. Mis-
or Pollard had recollected that one eye of til
&c statue was out of line.
in The second deposition read by Attorne
sr- Stoll was by Lena Scmidt, who had bee
employed for Is years in the Norwood cor
", vent who had no recollection of woma
" i'll the convent in 1855 under the nam
ali Louise Wilson and had never seen Mad,
Ter line Pollard until last December. She ha
er then been present at the interview betwee
Sister Agnes and the plaintiff, but, as I'll
he former had testified, failed TO identify Mi:
~. Pollard as one she had ever seen. Accort
No. ing to her remembrance, Miss Pollard ha
Nd said of her motives for the suit, II did
he for justice and to disgrace MIR. Breckli
~ ridge"
The deposition of DR.. w. Il. Decource,
ny physician at the Norwood Convent, WI
y. objected to by Mr.. Carlisle on the grouil
10 of immateriality, but admitted by IL
IL, judge.
ne the physician testified that he did IL
VI know Madeline Pollard or Louise Wilsol
but there had been a girl in the CONVEX
ys named Wilson in 1884 and 1885 whose fir
u.s. name he did not remember and whose fa
ler he would not recognize. He had lookt
ID. over the books of the asylum and four
Ii no record vi Louise Wilson. AT times
I'VE special physician attended patients at Il
hospital if they so requested. Once ri
all who gave birth to q child had her ia
ter velled because she claimed that i
re- Decourcey knew her.
zig, WAsuIHeToN, March 24.-The thr
err, dispositions to which Miss Pollard
WI WI attorneys make their principal obje
80 tons, and the one made by Alet
. of Julian, the young blind man to who
my Miss Pollard alluded in her letter
an "Wessie" Brown as her "blind Barn
the bas,n were argued before Judge Bradlt
aye to-day. Julian asserts in the atfidaN
, sur taken in Kentucky that mock ms
Ae' rage was performed between Miss Pt
of lard and himself at Squire Tinsley's,
lief Bridgeport, Christmas Day, 1883; tn
All, after drinking egg'nogg freely he su
and gested that married couples usual
ing went to bed, and that thereupon thetN
nry went up stairs and got into bed togeth
"a' Miss Pollard testified on cross. examir
was ton that her uncle accompanied her
son Squire 'finsley's on that day and deni
ling the incident OF the mock marriage.
lud- The second deposition was made
IN, w. w. Rossell, to whom Miss Polla
l ll was engaged to be married in 1884 VIII
, a,d she was a student at Wesleyan Semi
ary, at and which time she was intimi
Nc with Colonel Breckenridge. Ross
snce has deposed that he took liberties wi
elec- Miss Pollard in the library of the w
ard. leyan Seminary, and that when
I, oi left that town for Chicago she begp
. a,eJ him to take her with him.
due When asked about this matter
1. cross-examination she denied Il
Bert Rossell had done more than kiss her a
4 mr.. dapfad tbot ahn Nod aslsa1 him tr a,