The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-29

according to their agreement, but before
the evening was over Miss Pollard in
adertently Gale him Rankin" which
led Mr.. Rhodes to remark that she
seemed very familiar on frs. acquaint-
ance but by some means or other"
said the witness. "she made him think
she had spoken to young lady"
Wanted to go to Chicago With Him.
The witness said he had decided to go
to Chicago, and when he went to say
good bye to Miss Pollard, she expressed
regret that he was going and asked why
he did not take her with him.
81 said, well, if you want to go, you
come along and she went up stairs and
came down with her hat and cloak.
That put me in a hole, and told her
that 1t was inconvenient for me to take
her then, and that we had better wait
atil next June"
"Were you joking when you spoke
about going away?"
Eyes, sir"
Ibid she say she had her trunk
packed?"
"Yes, sir; she said that"
"How old was she st that timer"
'She ALWAYS represented herself to be
3 years my junior, I was born in 1860,
and she said she wac born in November
AOOc' khAoo OiihIQ ooyo QUO was OOTu
November 80, 1866
She had told him, he said, about o
mock marriage between herself and
Aleck Julian. This alleged incident
Miss Pollard denies. After going to
Chicago Miss Pollard had written him
only once, and the engagement mad
been allowed to drop
What were the reasons on your part
why the engagement was allowed to
drop" asked Major ST. elby.
81 object" said Judge Wilson.
"object'on sustained" said Judge
Bradley.
Then Major Shelby put the question
in another way, asking il there was
anything in Miss Pollard's conduct that
caused him to let the engagement drop
~ lost confidence in the womap,"
said Resell, ~ did not like tho way she
allowed me to kiss her and hug Der. 1t
was not the way I wished to love the
woman | wanted to marry and to be
loved by her"
After recess Resell was again on tho
stand under cross eXamination by Mr..
Shelby. Several question were ruled
out, but others were answered to the
point that in 1885 Miss Pollard had
the appearance of q mature woman.
The witness was then asked rela-
tive to his application for the position
of guager in the internal revenue SER
vice, saying that he did rot live in
Colonel Breckinridges district.
On Judge Wilson's examination he
said he had Withdrawn his application
for the position the day he made the
deposition.
Mr.. Rosells was the last verbal testi
moDy given, and when he stepped down
Mr.. Stoll began to read the deposition
of Hiram Kaufman. Miss Pollard and
Miss Ellis left the courtroom as the
reading began.
Kaufman is butcher, 80 years old,
and lives in Lexington. He said that
when he came TO Lexington, twelve
years ago, he went to a disreputable
house in Lexington. In May and June,
1888, he had seen Madeline Pollard
there. This was a year before Miss
Pollard met Colonel Breckenridge.
He had seen Madeline Pollard and
Jim Rhodes DANES G. Rhodes) at the
house. and Rhodes referred to Miss
Pollard as his girl. The witness de-
posed that Miss Pollard had made
advances toward him, but he rejected
them on account of his friendships
toward Rhodes, with whom he was
associated at the insane asylum near
Lexington.
John A. Brant deposed that he met
Madeline Pollard at the house referred
to by Kaufman. She appeared then,
in 1888, to be full.grown woman.
Brant testified that he had taken Miss
Pollard riding three or four times He
was married man at the time.
The deposition of Letcher Lusby,
chief of police in Lexington, was read
next. MIR. Lusby had been employed
by the Adams Express Company in
Lexington, and he was asked if, during
the time he was in the company's ser
vice, James G. Rhodes had expressed
any money to any persons outside OF
Cincinnati. Mr.. Lusby said Rhodes
shipped money frequently to some
young lady, whose name be could not
remember, who was at Wesleyan Col
lege, Cincinnati. Rhodes said she was
his niece.
w. L. Jones, member OF Licking.
toms board Of aldermen, deposed that he
knew the family of President Brown, OF
Wesleyan College. and visited them fire.
quently in the fall and winter of 1883,
whore he met Madeline Pollard. The
deponent said Miss Pollard told him
that Rhodes was paying her tuition,
but she did not intend to marry him.
He was an ignorant old farmer she said.
and she expected to pay him back.
This was all of Alderman Jones' depo.
sition. and the court adjourned until to-
morrow morning.
FIRE AT FARMvILLE.