Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-22

Washington Irvings works. and claimed to
find in one of them a Christmas card which
she had left there nearly nine years be-
fore.
The Famous Christmas Card.
This HOW famous Christmas card was at
tached as part of the deposition and was
handed around aad carefully examined by
all of the members of the jury to see wheth-
er the edges were really broken as though
1t had not been stored away III Il book all
these years. The card was Il saily colored
one, with blue silk fringe. Of a style so
popular few years ago and now consider
go rather out Of date. on it was fsaudy
bunch of flowers. with beneath it the to-
ken. With loving Christmas greetings"
The sister said that when sne first saw
the card, in December, 1898. lhe outside
cover of the card was rolled, now IL WAS
nattened out. Since then IL had remained
IN the book, which deponent had locked III
the cupboard. The book had been in the
cupboard during the nine years. They had
been taken out a good deal by inmates to
read them. Nothing was said by Sister
Augustin or Sister Agnes about me Christ
mas card to Miss Pollard. The books could
hardly be said to have been much used, as
the inmates of the house were not, as
rule. OF the class who read and appreciated
lTvingS works DepOnent was sure that
Or. Mary Street had never treated a pa
tienu in the asylum; did not know any such
physician. and did not remember her ever
having come even 10 visit patient. On no
occasion did a woman physi,iln cver off
ciate at childbirth in the asyl I'm. She did
not remember that there was ever a ia
tient who was known by one name AMI re-
ceived mail addressed in another name.
Patients al the asylum always rcIuain
until they are we'll and strong ana rarely
leave within sixteen days. This, she
thought. would be an unusually short time.
She did not remember that any patient
from, the asylum in the of lSS1
went in the carriage. to the house of DIR.
Belle Buchanan in Cincinnati The asy-
lum owned no carriage. The article lay
Miss Pollard in the New York World was
read to deponent, and she contradicted a
number of minor details as to Miss Pol
lard's alleged stay at the asylum, when
she claimed to have gone there yelled and
remained so. As to the chapel being on
the right-hand side of the entrance, the
depOnent said that such had been the case
only for brief period in 1S73-If. Since
1854 II had been in a building attached to
the main building. Visitors u patients
were usually seen in the reception looms,
and. so far she could remember, none
had ever gone to the patients rooms. There
statue of St. Joseph in the chapel,
but she did not recollect that there was
ever one that had a defective eye, as Miss
Pollard described 1t. The statue in the
chapel at the time the deposition was taken
had two good eyes Sister Auyustin was
also asked to the altar In the chapel
to show that 1t was not at all as IL had
been described by MISS Pollard. Some dis
crepancies as to height and size were
brought out. but they were not at all s;rik-
ing.
Mr. Carlisle read the deposition 50 far
as 1t contained the cross-exami1at of
Sister Augustin. She did not remember
Sister Agnes Regina's saying that there
were three women in the asylum who were
yelled. The depOnent admitted that she
was not present when the conversation took
place that led to Miss Pol larl's leaving
the room in evident grief, AMI that this
transpired prior to Mr.. Carlisle's going back
to the rear room TO inspect the books.
Mrs. Schmidfs Deposition.
Mr.. Stoll next read the deposition of Mrs
Lena Schmidt. who had been a nurse in the
Norwood Founding Asylum for eighteen
years. She did not remember any patient
there under the name of Louise Wilson and
had never seen Madeline Pollard there ex-
cept when she came there with Messrs. Car
lisie and Johnson, her attorneys. in Decem-
ber 1893. Deponent was present during a
part of the conversation then held with the
Sister Agnes on some other business and
Sister Agnes told her to come in and see
this lady and see if she knew her" De-
pOnent looked at her and said she did not
think she had ever seen her The deponent
had tried her best to see If she would re-
member such person and could not The
visiting lady claimed that she remembered
deponents face. but could not remember her
name. She heard Miss Pollard say to
why she brought the suit that Il did il for
justice and TO disgrace Mr.. Breckenridge"
She heard her say also that he should not
keep up in society. She heard Mr.. Johnson