Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-31
MAKING n PLAIN.
Continuation Of Col, Breok-
inridge's Testimony.
THE CELEBRATED SCANDAL
Lacks Nothing to Make Ii
Complete.
The Eioauent consressmnn Tells OF
t,1sai,a; ,IntriEue- win the rlainun.
Hsiorn tempt- once 10 Respond
Him During the Trial.


By Associated Press.
Washington, March so.-rhere was
an audience awaiting the second APP
pearance Of Col Breckenridge on the
witness stand today whose interest
in him and what he would have to say
was more intense than that Of any
audience he mad ever faced before.
Foremost Init was the plaintiff and her
elderly companion. Mrs. Ellis. back OF
them in double rows the lawyers in
the case and also Desha Breckenridge.
the son to whom the defendant had
referred in affectionate terms while
detailing the members OF his family
yesterday. Further beyond We're two
long rows OF newspaper men and
sketchers waiting to transfer to paper
the different attitudes OF the congress
man-wltness and then the ranks Of
spectators. most of them members Of
the bar.
No time was lost in sending the Wit
ness TO the stand. and then Mr.. But
terworth handed up the work-basket
which had belonged TO his second wife
and which Miss Pollard said he had
given her with affectionate words He
recognized it.
"My wife was a Miss Desha. She
died in July, 1883" he said. Il last
saw the basket in my room on II
streetI have no recollection when. The
statement made by the plaintiff was
that when left Washington after the
session Of congress | went with her
to the train; that gave her the basket
then with affectlonate words. did not
ride with her In the herdic to the de-
pot. I did not gee her the basket
under any circumstances.
The voice OF Col. Breckenridge as he
made this denial was soft. cool and
measured as carefully as It had been
throughout his testimony the day be-
fore. Miss Pollard was sitting very
straight in her chair with her eyes
fixed sharply on him, but he directed
his replies entirely to his questioner,
who sat between Miss Pollard and the
Jury. Mr.. Butterworth then asked
when did you first learn that the
basket was in the possession OF the
plaintif?'
81 learned day or two before
the trial that basket was In her pos
session. what basket did not know
nor did have any knowledge where
the basket was until it was produced
at the trial"
Have you any knowledge how TINS
basket got into her possessionY
u cannot say from personal knowl'
edge how the basket came into mel
possession, nor did she receive It win
anv knowledge or consent or comm
vance on my part"
Mr. Butterworth then left the cues
,Ion Of the basket and directed M
Questions to the details Of the meet
Inc between the witness and Miss pol
lard and the circumstances of the Yisi
10 the house OF Sarah Guess.
81 wish you would give an account I
o,,orcis said Mr.. Butterworth' %
',onr ,r,n 10 Lexington on the after
noon Of August ?. of which you spok
,esterday, when the plaintiff was o.
the train" -. ,ghs
cot into II. ! found the car wa.
orouded and found the platinum 81
e ,,ng near the door at which enlere'
/, snok. 10 her, and the conversat lp
res,,ted in an arrangement by wnic
: we were TO meet that evening IN -
ington." .,..,,or \
In answer to further question !,
..a,oa. AN arrangement Was MAD
: 10, weshouid meet at the house
sorah Guess. The arrangement va
carried out by going in the street Gar
Estate what took place between ~
Is and the plaintiff then ".
..rhe statement in the New iol
world was substantially correct. "
l. ,nooked at the dopr several tns
d when no one responded, a ntlle "a
N ,ook place between Tie plainvi y
N 'o,se,f as to what to do one ausse
lie ,or VAS that she should go 70 me 81
lie Of a friend where she eSreeieo 70 ~ 81
lie he night. Another susses'l9 EN-. !"
y mat che should walt a iiils w .,,' =,
n he,nr saturday and it ee'nE w y, =
N ,om to do a little marketing tha' . n,s,
r ~, conclusion was that she snou
n vail and I should 80 TO my nom ,.a 4
II sarah Guess returned u ~ :
BE time / would find her there bern. i,
II led supper with my ~, 49,, 800,
night. Their, was a tarei T., nsI sIa 4
+. 10. 10, and some speeches. pu. 90 y
n r n's,,s 1 speech myself. Na'sea ,.' ~
= ~ s.,rah Guess and ious g. p eieeti
shere ghere was 70 ps - ~. q.
;, sns z, mopday. and there was some is
u ms on bo:h sides ....,senent