The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-04

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Madeline Pollard through the morning,
| entering many and reiterated denialS of
various statements made by her and re-
| lating his own version Of the interviews
with the Washington chief of police. and
! of the correspondence between himself
| and the plaintiff. He had been testify
ing for nearly two court days when his
| direct testimony was finished, and al
though Mr.. Wilson piled him with ques-
tons all the afternoon the cross-eXami-
| nation seemed to have but just begun.
| 1t had been expected that the colonel
| would be requested to reconcile his posi-
| ton as a church man and a mOralist with
| his course of conduct, and this eXpecta-
ton was not misguided one, for the
| examination took that direction from the
| start.
The carriage ride Of August, 1892.
when Miss Pollard said Col.
| Breckenridge had made the first
/ formal proposal of marriage to
| her, was the first subject to which Col.
| breckenridge addressed himself when he
| took the stand in the circuit court to-
| day. He denied with his customary re-
| iteTa ton that any SuCn roe ndO taken
| place, or that he had made any pro-
posal, that he had talked over family
! matters. Then continuing, he said
It never asked the plaintiff to give up
any child; / never knew plaintiff had
any living child; I never at any time
| spoke Of marriage to the plaintiff before
the death Of my late wife"
| DENYING the conversation which Miss
| Pollard said took place at the Hoffman
! house to the effect that company had
been formed by Whitney and Fairchild,
| which he was to represent, he said that
| he had not seen the plaintiff on the both
| Of April; that he had not been absent
for a moment from the side of his wife
| that day. as he had not been married
| forty-eight hours. He never had any
| business arrangements with the gentle
| men mentioned; rever contemplated a
| visit to Europe; never spoke of intend
| ing marriage
! Then Mr.. Butterworth called his atten-
ton again to the interview in the office
/ of Mai Moore MY recollection is that
| II was a much shorter visit than Maj.
| Moore has said. 1t was rapid and eX-
cited The young woman did most Of
| the talking"
Not n Long Conversation.
This statement Mr.. Breckenridge de-
| sired TO make to correct an impression
Mai. Moore had given that the converse
ton had lasted much longer time. He
| went over the conversation heretofore
given in this interview and which in
| cluded the statement to plaintiff that
II will marry you the last day of the
month if God doesn't interpose." The
was no attempt he said, 10 keep the
| matter of the interview secret from the
| newspapers. Mr.. Butterworth asked the
! witness what interviews he had with
| Miss Pollard prior to the interview of
I'll,
| then related in detail the interviews that
| occurred and the substance Of the con-
| versations as he remembered them
! These included the interview with Mrs.
| Thomas the afternoon of the 18th Of
! MAY when he left Miss Pollard in a
| real or simulated fainting condition. On
| the next day, Sunday, while at the
| Riggs house, in answer to a card sent
! to his room, he saw her in the ladies'
] parlor and had an amiable and friendly
| conversation with the plaintiff. At this
! time the latter expressed regret at what
| had occurred along the street and in
| Maj. Moore's office. Plaintiff gave him
/ a schedule of what she would want in
| the way of underwear and other clothes
| prior to the trip to New York. They
| parted with every evidence Of good feel
| ing and sincerity on the part of the
! plaintiff to carry out the agreement be-
| tween them whereby she was to go to
| New York
The New York Trip.
| That evening boy came to the hotel
and said Miss Pollard wanted to see him
with a message requesting that he take
| her to Mrs. Blackburn's, where she
wanted to stay all night. He took her
| to Mrs Blackburn's house. Monday she
| came again TO the hotel and presented
| to him an additional schedule for cloth
| ing. She wanted a little more money
! to make preparations to go away. The
| next day she sent him a note and they
| took lunch at the ShOreham. They
| talked again of the trip TO New York
| and she told him the name of the physi-
| clan in whose care she was to put her
| self and witness told her that this doctor
was a comrade in the war The next
| day after this the plaintiff came to see
| him again and on the night of that day
| they saw Mrs. Blackburn, who, after
/ hearing their explanation, said she would
wash her hands Of the whole matter
| Mrs. Blackburn approved the agree
nent for the plaintiff to go to New
| York. The following day plaintiff again
| came to the hotel and conversation en-
/ sued between them as to a further con-
! ference. which it was proposed should be
| held with Maj. Moore prior to her go
] ing away. AS he described how he had
| waived her off, Col. Breckenridge gestic-
| ulated very impressively with both
! hands and explained the whole interview
| in pantOmime. There was tragic IN
| Election to his tones as he closed the
| account of the visit to Mrs. Thomas,
| with a then 1 left her." There was a
constant reiteration Of the defendants
denials. He would frame them in every
| possible form of negation of time, place
| and manner.
There was no further explanation to
| give. / could give no further eXplana-
| ton and Mrs. Blackburn said she would
| wash her hands of US. would wash her
| hands of people VINO We're engaged and
| acted in that way and could give no ex-
PLANTATION Of it," was one of the char
acteristic sentences.
| Refused to Acknowledge Seduction.
Continuing the description of the
second visit 10 the major. he said: 1--WE
agreed to say that she was going to
New York to have a child; that / was
the author of her pregnancy. We agreed
| on all but one point. She insisted. cry
ing several times, that l should tell Maj.
| Moore I was the only man who had ever
been intimate with her I declined to
do that. l said I had put myself in the
power of her and Maj Moore already
and / would refuse, to say to any man
| that / had seduced her. Then she said
| she would not go AS she turned her
jacket back 1 saw the CLEAN of pistol
! in her bosom. 1 said, You are sitting