The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-03-21

ButlorwOrth devoted his questioning
principally TO tho New Orleans lottors
and tho plaintiff frankly admitted that
sho had never beon In that city.
"Mr. Breckinrldgc knows very well
whore l was ut that timo," aho added,
"But ! was not nsking Mr.. Brcckin-
ridge" Mr.. Buttorworth demonstrated.
Her explanation, when asked again,
was: always whom there was tho
slightest suspicion OF questioning | took
tho first opportunity to cover it up.
Each ono OF these letters bears tho
square mark OF that. Mr.. BrockinridCe
would have given inc money il hO had
dared, but had TO seem to be in need
OF It"
And you got tho money from Mr..
RhodeSW
There would have been no uao in
seoming 10 need money and then not
taking it,"
ibid Mr. Rhodes pay you the $40 you
demanded III the letter OF March 26?
II presume very likely he did, al
though | do not rCcollCct."
did he pay you tho several sums you
asked for in these lottors?'
II have no recollection OF it. uo may
have done so. Things wore pretty well
mixed up then, because my one idea
was not to have Mr.. Rhodes ask any
questions that could not answer. Mr..
Brcckinridge planned it nll."
"Did no dictate those lctters?"
"llo did tho ones dated at Now Or
leans. | was never in New Orleans, and
l did not know there was such place
rs the fish market"
Question-"They wore all written
with purpose. They arc what YOU
hnvo spoken OF as blind or wooden let.
ters2"
Answor-"Yes; theywere, as were all
my letters written 10 Mr.. Rhodes, be.
cause thoro was q great deception bO-
hind them"
"Did your mother know where you
were when you wrote these letters?"
DEECEI%RIDGE a PARTY TO TIE DECEIT.
"Mr breckenridge planned thpm all;
dictated them to me. Some OF them ho
wrote on tho typo writer when was Ill
at the asylum and not ablo to write,
saying i'll explanation that | was learn
ing the typo writer. Some Of them he
wrote in advance aud dated ahead. lIe
would mail them on tho cars or whore
ever they would not be postmarked."
This answer WAS attempted to be cut
off BY Mr. Buttcrworth, but Miss Pol
lard waved him aside with her hand,
saying calmly and impcriously: "No,
l must answer this question:" with her
broad fashionable accent.
The following question in which Miss
Pollards mother was referred to as an
aSentin the deception upon Mr.. Rhodes,
and what she said in regard to carry
ing out the scheme" was objected b.
tho witness, who interrupted him again
with the correction, "Do. not speak of
mamma as the agent in deception, or
qualify 1t by saying unconscious agent"
This also coolly, and with her customary
broad accent upon the last syllable OF
mamma" She had thought that Mr.
Rhodes would certainly follow her UP
and cndeavor to SEQ her had he known
she was near by, Miss Pollard said, after
the scheme had been further explained.
Again came forward the Now York
Worlds article from Miss Pollard's pen
to contradict her, according to Mr.. But
terworth. She persisted in correcting
Mr.. Butierworth's statements; her at
torneys endeavorod to dissuaded her,
and Col. Phil. Thompson remarked:
"Let her argue the case"
Mr.. Butterworth insisted that Miss
Pollard's story that she had forwarded
her letters from Cincinnati to bo mailed
elsewhere under headlines Mt New Or
leans was absurd, which drew forth n re-
ply from Mir. Carlisle, who objected to
Mr.. Butterworth's previous qestions on
the ground that they were hypothet-
ical and involved the proceedings in
legal tangle, from which the defense
pulled out and sailed on new track,
showing tho witness another lotter
which she identified MS "mamma's."
Leaving tho contents OF this letter unre-
rcaled the court took its noon recess.
NECESSARY TO DECEIVE HER MOTHER.
The explanation was resumed after
the noon recess, Miss Pollard represent
ing that she had deceived her mother
regarding the cause OF her absence from
home when tho letter to Rhodes was
written and the first child was born.
Her counsel objected TO questions de-
signed to bring forth tho details OF tho
deception employed by Miss Pollard.
judge Bradley said that it did not
seem to be material, and an exception
was noted. Her mother had not seen
her in Cincinnati, but had known that
she was not in New Orleans nor in Mis-
sissippi. Miss Pollard, continuing, said:
when it became necessary fnr-me to
go to the loundling asylum, it became
necessary also to invent some story to
account iOr my absence from homo.
Just what the story was, Mr.. BrecEin-
ridge could probably tell better than I,
since he wrote the letters"
Questions as to her employment in
Washington brought replies that she
had been in the agricultural department
and census bureau, both OF them having
been secured by Colonel Breckinridge.
"Did you over represent that you
wrote for the ncwspapers?" Mr.. Butter
worth asked.
Il had represented that 1 wrote for
several. Mr.. Breckinridgo aud | had
to make up these deceits to account for
ourselves, because l was young woman
here under his protection with no yis-
ible means OF support. These things
got to bo almost habit in after years"
''Then these dccots or frauds were
practiccd by you and Colonel Brcckin-
ridge TO cover up your relations?"
"Yes, and there was grea. deal
more"
you visited houses OF assig1ation
together in Washington
I'VE did up to the 18th day Of May,
1898, after the secret marriage which is
said to have taken place on the 2Oth Of
April"