The record-union., 1894-04-14
DEFENDANT SEVERELY ARRAIGNED
BY JUDGE WILSON
A Schooner Wrecked on tho Coast of
Massachusetts and All on Board
Believed to Have Been Lost-Many
workmen Employed In the Glucose
Works at Buffalo Missing, and are
Thought to Have Perished in the
Flames.
to the REcoRp-UyIoy.

Pollard -Breckinridge case was surpassed
to-day by the argument of Judge Jere
Wilson, who began the final summary
for the plaintiff.
''The defense of Adam" is what he
called Breckinridge's position, and to the
credit of humanity, he said, Adam had
always been deemed coward and
craven. He did not attempt to assert
that his client was free from fault, but
that just as far as she had strayed from
the path of womanly virtue she had been
led by this man. On two or three i'm
portant points he drew logical deduc-
tions from the evidence which surprised
even the lawyers. Wilson has long
right arm, topped with an accusing in
dex finger, which served to drive his de-
nunciations home. That long and bony
forefnger was several times leveled IN
denunciations at Colonel Breckenridge,
which made the kentucky orator shift
restlessly in his chair. Ii was terrible
arraignment to which he was subjected,
and he would have been something more
or less human should he not have shown
the effect OF it as he did,
Mr.. Wilson commented on the circum-
stances they have been brought from
kentucky to testify as to the generalchar-
acter of the defendant. about the man
who kept his contracts and was chaste.
"On the other hand" said he, everyone
from Kentucky or Washington who has
been asked as to the character of Miss
Pollard has said she was woman from
girlhOOd of the most refined and appar-
emily highest character. The innocent
school girl letters, written in the conf
dence of youthful friendship, had been
raked up. MIR. Butterworth had reach
of them: he had pointed 10 word here
and there, and said there was something
mysterious about them. | do not know
how these letters had been secured by the
defense. 1t might have been by trlckery,
but if owen Robertson had given up,
knowing the use to which they were to be
put, he was whelp."
After the noon recess, Mr.. Wilson
averred he wished to apologize for what
he had said regarding owen Robertson,
because that person had made deposition
for the defense which had not been read
to the jury.
The deposition of Molly Shinglebauer
was considered next, and in that connec-
ton Mr.. Wilson charged that the defense
had resorted TO deliberate perjury. 1t
was known that Madeline Pollard was in
Pittsburg all the time the Shinglebauer
woman had testified she knew her. The
repentant Shinglebauer woman, as she
had been called, had not talked of Made
line Pollard, however, but of Mamie"
Pollard, and it was IN evidence that the
plaintiff had sister named Mamie, re-
spectacle woman, older than herself and
married to Methodist clergyman.
In this connection MIR. Wilson devel-
oped a new point, which seemed to i'm
press the audience and he went on to say
that Molly Shinglebauer had been princi-
pally called to prove that in 1887 Made
line Pollard had been mature woman,
and it was conceded that Mamie Pollard,
of whom she spoke, was matured then.
Concerning the engagement TO Woods,
he declared there was no hint of I'M
proper relations. The relations of Made
line Pollard and Rhodes were discussed
next, and Mr.. Wilson emphasized the
fact that there was no testimony OF the
defendant to the effect that the dead man,
who could not speak for himself, had sus-
tanned improper relations with the
plaintiff. Rhodes. however, was man
who unlike the defendant, kept his let
ters. Those letters had been raked up,
and throughout them there was no sem
tence to hint of improper relations be-
tween the parties to the correspondence.
Discussing the testimony of Hiram
kaufman and John Brandt, the speaker
said some good wader had waded through
the filth of the back alleys of Lexington
tob ring forward this known perjury,
which had greater significance because IL
showed the character Of the defense. Mr..
Wilson went on to speak of the testi-
mony of Rankin Roselle. He might, he
said, have passed by that testimony as
famous attorney who handled "a most
unique liar'' by simply dismissing him,
"May God have mercy on your SOUL"
He then characterized Roselle's testl-
mony as ''black-a damnable falsehood."
m laa RI nff
the credibility of the defendant. "He has
been equally guilty with my Client"
declared the lawyer, ''even more so; for
he had taken solemn VOW to heaven,
and she had not. He had broken that
vow by his own confession before he ever
met Madeline Pollard. He had lived a
lie for ten years; his life has
been that Of faithlessness to the
obligation of his life. He has led a
life of duplicity, of hypocrisy such as
I cannot coin words to express the
length and breadth of He tells you he
went to Mrs. Blackburn Intentionally
to deceive her: he tells you he went to
Moore to tell him lie. When he at
tempted to blacken the testimony OF my
client, / wanted to measure his testimony
by the rules of law. How do you know
he is telling a story to deceive? The
probability is that he is doing it, for he is
now in toll; he is now brought to bay,
and in his extremity he asks you to be-
lieve such story on his unsupported
word. This man is stepped and soaked
in depravity and original sin. want the
world to know that whatever OF slime
is on her comes from this defendant. 1t
is the trail of the serpent over life.
wish all the mothers of the land could see
this woman in her true light. They
would open their hearts to her; their
sympathies would swell up for her; she
would be, if not excused, understood as
not being the seducer of this unprotected
man. but as injured by his machina-
tions."
He closed for the day. He will speak
for an indefinite time tomorrow, and
Judge Bradley will give the case to the
jury when he finishes.
THE BUFFALO FIRE.
Many Men Missing. Supposed to Have
PeriShed.
BUFFALO. April 13.-The burning of
the glucose works probably caused many
fatalities. Inquiries are now being made
for the following men, who are missing:
John Blume, John Casper, Michael Gin
tig, John Huber, George Jepka. Tony
Hoffman, James Lobiak, Michael Ma
leski. John Odeska, Stephen Sinski, John
Trube and John Zanger.
About forty workmen were on the
sixth floor, and half of them must have