St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-17

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MY Dear Willie" and Accom-.
panied Him on His Travels.
- WASHINGTON. March 16.-Two dis
tinct sensations were furnished tojay
in the Pollard Breckinridg breach of
promise trial. The foremost was the
appearance of the slender plaintiff on
the stand as witness i'll her own be-
half. But the one of the greatest inter
est to legal circles was the corro3ord-
ton of the rumor which had been for
several days atioat that Col. Breckin.
ridge was secretly married to Mrs.
Louise Wing in New York last April,
three months before the public cere-
mony IN Cincinnati. When Col. Breck-
inridge was shown the dispatch from
New York he refused to admit its truth
or to contradict it. His counsel, how
ever, confirmed the report, as did At
tOrney StOll. The latter said. when
asked if the defense would be based Oh
this earlier marriage: ut will not be
proper to forecast our case at this stage,
but will say that Col. Breckinridge is
to take the stand very sooI. and it
will all be made known. Until then
neither Col. Breckinridge nor his
counsel will be free to discuss
the defense. As for the marriage GER
titicate filed by DR.. Paxton. of course
that speaks for Itself" 1t is improbable
that this secret marriage will constitute
new legal phase to The case. In giving
her testimony today Miss Pollard was
decidedly nervous at first. bit. notwith-
standing the strain under which she
lab0red. was remarkably self-poSsessed,
and careful in her choice of words. She
looked directly toward Col. Breckin-
ridge, seldom lifting her eyes from his
face. Her language and manner were
those of well-bred lady. She sounded
her vowels broadly, with the accent
heard in the drawing rooms of the"Four
HuudIed," and her answers to the
discrimination of Maj. Butterworth
were often turned back upon him
keenly, making boomerangs of his ques-
tions. While she sat III the witness
stand her companion, Mrs. Ellis, from
the house of refuge. occupied chair
but an arms length away, keeping
Watchful eye upon her charge.
Those who managed to run the gaunt-
let of the d0Orkeepers into the circuit
court this morning were unusually nu-
merous and disting guIshed in appear
ance. They were able to get an early
sight of the
PRINCIPALS IN THE CASE,
for Miss Pollard and Col. Breckinridge
appeared earlier than has been their
custom, the plaintiff looking somewhat
worn by the strain of the trial, the stall
wart congressman beaming with his
perennial freshness and shaking hands
with the array of lawyers and relatives
around the tables of the defense. while
his slender antagonist busted herself
with her morning mail, which seemed
to include great variety OF episuleS,
the import and sources of which can
only be cOnjectured, though most of
them appeared to be written in feminine
hands. Once Miss Pollard turned to
flash quick glance from her black
eyes iu the direction OF the Kentucky
statesman, but did not catch his atten-
ton. for he was absorbed in the com
ments of the morning papers upon his
case. After the lawyers had rustled
their papers for a quarter of an hour,
there was ripple of great surprise, for
no less a parsonage than the plaintitf
herself walked around to the witness
stand. took a seat directly facing COL
Breckinridge and the whole room full
of men.
My father was a saddler." said she
cOolly, in response TO an Interrogation.
He died in 1876"
Did anything impress his death upon
your mind?" inquired Mr.. Carlisle.
My father was an Odd Fellow and a
Mason; members of the grand lodges of
the state attended his funeral. He left
no estate,i she continued. 1.-TWO of
my sisters were taken to live in the
ODD FELLOWS HOME.
MY mamma said L was born on the
30th of November. 1866" She had
always supposed that to be the date of
her birth, and had attached it to all
her papers on file in the civil service
bureau"
"Mr. Breckenridge indorsed all those
papers," she said, gazing directly at
him.
when did Mr.. Breckinridge meet
you in 1922" asked Mr.. Carlisle.
In one of the last days of August,
1892. He met me at the Baltimore Il
Ohio depot in Washington. He put
both arms around me, kissed me, drew
my arm through his. and led me to a
carriage. He told me that all his chill
dren had grown up, that he had de-
termined to marry me, and l said l
would marry him."
She had stopped at 25 Lafayette
square for few days during that visit.
had seen Mr.. Breckinrldge every day,
and added: ''He said that he had mar
ried his second wife fourteen months
after the death of his first wife, and a
year after the death of his second wife
would not be too soon to marry me- l
told him we ought not to marry for two
years, and proposed to go with Miss
Willard on school trip for young la dies
in Europe. He said must not 90 and
leave him living in rooms, thing he
had not done for thirty years. He put
it on the ground that would be selfish
to go, and l did not" A letter dated
Gray Gables. Buzzard's Bay, Mass, in
October. 1892, from Miss Catherine
Willard. and which referred to the pro-
posal that Miss Pollard join the Eu-
repean party, was read to the Jury.
Col. Breckenridge had paid the ex-
penses of Miss Pollard on her New
York visit, in the fall of 1892. When
! the colonel was in Washington she saw
him every few days.
THE QUESTION OF MARRIAGE
was resumed at this time, and, although
no date was fixed, the colonel always
insisted that year after his wifes
death, which would be in the spring of
1898. would be the time most suitable to
him. Miss Pollard said that once on a
lecturing trip to New England she had
| ACCOMPANIED Mr.. Breckenridge. During
| her stay at Mrs. Thomas, at 1918 b