St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-15

tion. al have been married." respond
ed the witness, with the emphasis on
the verb. ~ married James s. Scherer
in 1874, but afterwards secured divorce
and resumed my maiden name" When
Mr.. Stoll went into the degree of in-
timacy between DR.. Buchanan and her
partner, DR.. Street, between 1881 and
1885, Judge Bradley interposed that he
was carrying that too far, whereat Miss
Pollard turned to flash upon the Ken
tuckY lawyer significant smile. DR..
Buchanan was questioned whether she
was the same witness who had made
deposition in Cincinnati in Feb
rnary, answering. that she was,
the deposition. The eross-examination
of DIR. Buchanan was completed after
the noon recess, the doctor inclining Oc-
casionally toward sarcasm in her re-
plies to Mr.. Stoll. An affidavit by Mrs.
Wesleyan Robertson, wife of William
f. Robertson, of Cincinnati, and daugh-
ter of DR.. Brown, the president of Wes-
leyan seminary in 1888 and 1854. was
read by Mr.. Carlisle. The deponent had
been student at the seminary when
Madeline Pollard was there; had been
given by Miss Pollard a letter to be
opened on the night of her graduation
III ouhS, 1900. Oue Hdu laSt Seeii tnS
letter when her husband gave it to Col.
Breckenridge without her consent. Here
Mr.. StOll had said before the notary that
he had the letter; wanted the
COURT TO PROTECT HIM
In the possession of it, and
intended to offer it to the wit
ness for Identification. But you did
not get it honestly" "the witness replied.
The letter was identified by her. In the
correspondence the witness had once,
in August, 1884, addressed Miss Pollard
as Madeline Lillian Breckinridge Pol
lard" Miss Pollard had said that her
father was great admirer of Mir.
Breckinrldge's father; that she herself
admired w. Z. P. Breckenridge greatly,
as he was the ''Star of Kentucky"
statement which, even read by Mr.. Car
Isle At secondhand. stirred a laugh. In
one letter Miss Pollard had spoken of
her deep debt of gratitude to Mr..
Rhodes, and wrote: "How can l ever
marry the old WRETCH" The wit
ness had understood that Rhodes
was Miss Pollard's guardian, and wanted
to marry her. In the contest letter
Miss Pollard had spoken of her love
for Prof. Overman. According to the
witness, Miss Pollard had been an ex-
ceptionally bright and lady-like girl,
smart in her studies, although her ed
ucatiOn in early life had been neglected.
She had never lived in city, appar-
emily, and was very dlffidcnt i'm the
had told of her visit home on account of
the death of her sister. and of meeting
Col. Breckenridge on The train.
II remember very diStintly that she
was very much elated that a man of
bis standing should come to her and
address her." said the witness. "IVe
heard great deal Of this incident. I
thought Miss Pollard as
PURE MINDED A GIRI.
as ever met, with considerably less eX-
perience of the ways of the world than
the average young woman who came to
the college. My first impressio MS were
that she had been taken advantage of,
and L always retained them. She spoke
or Mr.. breckenridge as kind, fatherly
old man. The time referred to in this
testimony was IN the holidays of 1854.
The witness was then eighteen years
old and Miss Pollard was younger.
There had been controversy between
counsel before the commissioner. over
the possession of the letter and the let.
ter had been attached to the deposition.
1t has already been widely published,
and Mr.. Carlisle's reading of 1t, since he
found some difficulty in mastering the
handwriting, did not add to the i'm
preston of the schoolgirl epistle.
She told of the offer of
Rhodes to her, asked how she
could ever marry the old rake. and an
nonnced her intention of telling Mrs.
Brown, as she could not lead a secret
life. There were some verses closing the
letter which Mr.. Stoll read, though Mr..
Stoll cannot be truthfully called a sue
cess in the role of elocutionist. There
was also a literary production, proph-
ecy, entitled destiny" written by
Miss Pollard in school. which MIR. Stoli
read, while the spectators found enter
tainment in the attitude of an elderly
and honest looking juror in the front
row who leaned forward with open
mouth and an expression of profound
but vacuous admiration. While there
was some literary merit in the preduc-
tion, Its relevancy to the case was not
apparent. except as an evidence that
Miss Pollard had been an exceptionally
bright school girl. 1t was particularly
sentimental in its strain. After Miss
Pollard's attorneys had expressed a de-
sire for copies of the letter and prophecy
for purposes OF their own, the court
adjourned.