The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-03-20
When She Wanted Money from
Mr.. Rhodes.
HER LETTERS READ.
Madeline Wanted "That Forty
Dollars Badly,
And Asked Rhodes to Get 1t at
Once.


WAsHrNeroN. March 2O-BIiss Pol
lard when did you first meet Mrs. Black
burns" was the first question asked by
ex- Congressman Butterworth to the plain
tiff in the Pollard Breckinridge breach
of promise suit.
Miss Pollard said she had met the
widow of the ex-governor of Kentucky
in the winter of 1890 when she lMiss
Pollard) was stopping in Washington
with Mrs. Fillette. Mrs Blackburn had
called at the house and the hostess had
presented them.
Next after the question about Mrs.
Blackburn, a letter was handed TO the
plaintiff, which she said had been written
Ey her to her protector Air. Rhodes.
After looking at it she inquired
why the heading had been torn
of AIr. Butterworth replying that he
did not know, her lawyers cautioned her
that it was not her place to ask questions.
bIr. Butterworth read the letter to the
jury. 1t was dated Lexington, Novem-
Der 20, 1884 "AIrs. Hoyt has just asked
me for the money for my board, IL
said. "PIease, dear, get me that forty
dollars before Saturday without fail.
know any one with AS many friends as
you can getit You come Saturday even
ing at 2 and stay until half past eight
BE careful in talking, and we can have a
pleasant time. Put the money IN an en-
vel0pe and hand it to me at the door as
you 90" Yours truly, Madeline. was the
signature.
The was a reference in the letter to
people who lived across the street and
whom she did not want TO know or be
known to.
There was also reference to her
pleasure at receiving SO fine d birthday
present and promise TO remember him
On his birthday. With explanations that
the boarding house was not like "a school,
al H
they owed a coal bill for which they
were being dunned. Other letters were
identified and read. One was signed
yours with love-
This was just before Miss Pollard was
going away for the birth Of her first
child.
Among the letters were two dated at
New Orleans and pOstmarked I0Ies bOrO.
Ky. ia which the writer told Rhodes of
her arrival in New Orleans. of the
things. Other letters. some dated at
Cincinnati and others at Lexington,
asked Rhodes for money, the sum vary
ing from SO to $40
Mr.. Butterworth devoted his question
ing principally to the New Orleans let
ters. and the defendant frankly admitted
she had never been in the city.
"1Ir. Breckenridge would have given
me money if he had iared,' the witness
said. But I had to seem to be ia need Of
money
And you got money from Mr.
Rhodes9"
aThere would have been no use in
seeming to need money and then not
take it,
sDid NIr. Rhodes pay you the $40 you
demanded in the letter of March 26T"
81 presume very likely Ike did, all
though / do not recollect MIR. Breckin-
ridge planned it all"
did he write those lettersG"
sHe did the ones dated at New Or
leans
Mr.. Breckenridge planned them alls
dictated them to me. Some Of them he
wrote on the typewriter when ] was i'll
at the asylum and not able to write, say
ing in explanation that I was learning
the typewriter. Some of them he wrote
in advance and dated ahead. He would
mail them on the cars or wherever they
they would not be postmarked7
This answer was attempted 70 be cut
off by Dir. Butterworth but Miss Pollard
waved him aside with her hand, saying
calmly and imperiOusly. "No, / must
answer this with her broad fashionable
air.
The following question in which
Miss Pollard's mother was referred
to as an agent in the descrip-
ti0n of Mr.. Rhodes, was objected to
by the witness, who Interrupted with
the correction "Do not speak Of mamma
as the agent in deception, or qualify it
by saying unconscious agent" This
was said coolly and with her customary
broad accent upon the last syllable Of
mamma