The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-23
cRINGING AND CRAWLING.
Endeavor to Prove That Pollard
Was a Bad Woman.

Endenvor to Prove That Pollard
Was Bad Woman.
Washington, March 22.-The Pollard
Breckenridge trial was resumed this
morning with the reading of the aff1da-
Wits in behalf of the defendant.
The first read was that of Sister
Augustine, of Norwood convent asy-
lum, where it is alleged Miss Pollard
was first confined. Sister Augustine,
like Sister Agnes, whose affidavit was
read yesterday, failed to recognize
Miss Pollard as ever having been an
inmate at the asylum. The only Lou
Use Wilson ever in that institution
gave birth to child there last fall.
During the time Miss Pollard alleged
to be there, there had been a young
woman yelled most of the time, claim
ing to be from a northern state. The
attorney read the name by inadvert-
ence and then explained that Sister
Augustine had only given the name
on the condition that it be kept secret.
The entries of the convent book On
der the name of Miss Burgoyne, cor
respond with the dates which Miss
Pollard and DR.. Street gave of her ad-
mittance to the asylum, the birth of
the child and the departure. Miss Bur-
goyne visited the asylum twice after
wards. When told of the death of the
child she threw up her hands md ran
from the room, but when she returned
there were no evidences of grief en-. her
face.
The second deposition read was by
Lena Schmidt. employed eight years
in the Norwood convent, who had no
recollection of a woman in the convent
in 1885 under the name of Louisa Will
son, and had never seen Madeline Pol
lard until last December. According
to her remembrance, Miss Pollard said
of the motive for the suit: 81 did it
for justice and to disgrace Breckin-
ridge
DR.. W. F. DeCourcy, physician at
Norwood convent, deposed that lie did
not know Madeline Pollard or Louise
Wilson, but there had been a
girl in the convent named Wilson in
1884 and 1885, whose first name he did
not remember, and whose face he
would not recognize. He had looked
over the books of the asylum and had
found no record of Louise Wilson. AT
times special physician attended ra-
tents at the hospital, if they so re-
quested. One girl who gave birth to
child had her face yelled because she
claimed DeCourcy knew her.
Five Hundred Waits.
There have been 500 children born at
the asylum. DIR. DeCourcy had not
been cross-examined.
The deposition of O.. NJ G.. Brown.
president of the Quinn Valley Cottage.
Ohio, son of the president of the Wes-
leyan seminary, which Miss Pollard
attended, was read. He was a Young
man in the years of Miss Pollard s
schooling and from the records If the
school testified that her bills had been
paid by James G. Rhodes. One note
by Rhodes for $125 given in 1885 had
been paid only in a small part.
The deponent often visited Rhodes
! to press for payment, but the latter
begged off, representing that he was
hard up; that the expenses were great
er than he expected, etc Miss Pollard
was in the habit of Calming relation
| ship or friendship with most of the
prominent people of Kentucky, omong
them Breckenridge and Blackburn,
This had grown into joke at the
school, SO that the visit Of 3racISjn-
ridge being unexpected, impressed it
self upon him as corroborative of her
claims. Witness remembered Brack-
| inridge had taken Miss Pollard driy-
| ing. BY the scholars Miss Pollard was
| Jokingly called Madeline Vivian Bill
breckenridge Blackburn Pollard
Consumed with Undying Love.
AL the afternoon recess, Judge
Brady announced the court would ad-
1ourn tonight until Monday on account
of Good Friday
Browns evidence was continued. He
! said Rhodes looked like an honest old
| farmer. Witness never heard any
| thing of the relations between Miss
Pollard and Professor Overmeyer, ex-
cept in a letter to, Wessie Brown, that
| she Miss Pollard) was consumed by
undying love for him. Witness testi-
| fed that according to his recollection
| based on his. memory, that Breckin-
ridge did not visit Miss Pollard on