The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-14

Cecilia, Former Attendant of tho
Founding Asylum Near Cincinnati,
on the Witness Stand.
WASHINGTON, March 10 The events
OF yesterday in the Pollard Breckin.
ridge trial brought to the door of the
courtroom to-day greater crowd than
ever of people who were looking for
fresh sensations. Under Judge Brad
ley's orders only members Of the bar,
witnesses and working newspaper men
were admitted, but the number Of
lawyers was 80 great that the chamber
VAS filled before the case was called.
The Kentucky lawyer, Shelby, be-.
cause of his belligerency yesterday was
the center OF attraction. Miss Pollard
was not present when the court was
called 10 order, and did not appear dur
ing the day.
Immt diately after the court was
called to order Judge Bradley delivered
a long address in which he said the
court had received inform alton that
some OF the parties representing the de.
fendant had come into court armed.
1t ought not to be necessary, he said,
to remind those who are concerned
in the administration of justice that to
bring deadly weapon into court is a
grievous offense which, OF course, can
not be tolerated by the court
Major Butterworth arose when Judge
bradley had finished and said that, in
viQu nf tho m 4;
had been made against members of the
defendants counsel, he thought it
proper for each of them to make dis
claimer OF his guilt in this respect. He
hoped none of his brothers had been
guilty, and felt sure they had not. Of
an oiTense 30 disrespectful to the court
The was silence for minute, and
then Mr.. Snelby, against whom Judge
Bradlev's arraignment fell with some
| force in view OF his attack upon Mr.
johnson, rose and said that he had
| never been armed in his life and would
not treat the court in SO disrespectful a
manner as to appear in it's presence
with a deadly weapon on his person
Judge Bradley sustained the obiec-
tions OF the defense against the admis-
| sion Of the dispositions as evidence. Mr..
| Carlisle then asked that the deposition
of Mary S. Logan, OF Cincinnati, form
erly DR.. Mary l.. Sweet, be admitted,
but Mr.. Butterworth objected and
another legal controversy began.
The absence of Miss Pollard did not
have the effect of diminishing the at
tendance in the court room, and all the
spectators remained throughout the
dry legal tilt over the admission OF Mrs.
Logan's deposition. The obiec lions to
Mrs. Logan's deposition were overruled
and Carlisle read it,
Mrs. Logan said that while she was
DR.. Sweet, practicing physician of
Cincinnati, she attended young
woman in 1884 who gave her name as
Mrs. Monica Burgoyne Miss Pollard
was present while Mrs. Logan's deposi-
ton was being taken, but Mrs. Logan
said that while there were some things
about Miss Pollard that suggested Mrs.
Burgoyne, she could not identify her.
The young woman had said that she
was pregnant with her first child, that
her husband was dead, and acting as
though there were reasons way the
matter should be kept secret. The
young woman called twice at Mrs Lo-
gans office, and later the deponent
called to see Miss Pollard. "Now, as /
look at her, I begin to recognize her."
said the deponent at this point.
Major Butterworth read the type
written statements of the deponents
cross examinati on. 1t developed moth
ing new or important. At its conclu.
sion the court took recess
After the recess the time until half
past two was occupied in reading the
mass of dispositions taken at various
places. Then two black bonneted,
black haired, kindly faced sisters, who
seemed out of place in the courtroom,
Pntarnd and Of than tnOlr ota
She said she was Sister Cecilia of
Pueblo Colo. Sister Cecilia said she
belonged to the order Of Sisters of
Charity, and in 1885 was in Charge of
Norwood founding asylum near Gin
cinnati.
She did not recall any person by the
name Ct Burgoyne who was at the
asylum while she was there. She did
remember DR.. Mary Sweet, who after
wards became Mrs. Logan. DR.. Sweet
had visited the asylum twice to see
patient.
The four volumes Of Irving's works,
which the defense tried SO hard to have
excluded from the trial, were shown
Sister Cecilia, and, in answer to ques
tions, she said books resem bling those
had been presented to her by fem ale
patient at the asylum.
When the witness went to Pueblo she
left the books with Norwood. In answer
to other questions by Mr.. Carlisle. the
witness said she remem bered female
patient who had been discovered CORE.
spending with another person through
the Cincinnati Enquirer. She had met
Miss Madeline Pollard since coming to
Washington and had once received a
letter from her
Mr. Carlisle asked IL in this letter and