The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-11

not he should be punished. 1 have had
my punishment and am trying TO take it
without complaint"
Mr. Wilson asked when the subject
of marriage had been first mentioned
between them, TO which the colonel re-
piled that 1T was in September of 1892
when she first spoke of going to Berlin.
He had told her that FOR many reasons,
among them being disparity in their
ages, that since he knew what he did of
her relations to Rhodes. and that as she
had bled him three years and thrown
him away like spoiled orange, mar
riage between them was impossible.
You held a contract as binding as
hers to Rhodes?"
Much more binding" replied the col
onel. referring to his marriage.
Then Mr.. Wilson got his affirmative
answers to the questions that Miss Pol
lard had associated with the best fami-
lies of Kentucky in the city. had lived
in houses of the highest responsibility
and was brilliant young woman.
Your relations were carefully con-
cealed?" asked the attorney, so that
there were no impediments in this direc-
tion?"
I'VE had endeavored to conceal them,
but they were known to several people"
No Proposal of Marriage.
There was never from you any pro-
posal of marriage?'
Never, under any circumstances, >
most emphatically
Then it was understood that you
were to carry out the semblance of a
marriage contract. which you both un-
derStood was never to be fulfilled?
There was the semblance of con-
tract to be carried out before only one
living person, and that person was Mrs.
Governor Blackburn
After more fencing, the colonel stated
that the contract before Mrs. Blackburn
had been made to enable Miss Pollard
to die out of his life and separate from
Mrs Blackburn.
And with a view to enabling her TO
die out of your life and Mrs. Black
burns you took her to Mrs Blackburn
and said you would place her under Mrs.
Blackburn's care?"
IT did not My recollection and the
recollection of Mrs. Blackburn upon that
point differ as to the meaning OF my
words.
And you went to Mrs. Blackburn
again alone?"
II went to see her several times after
ward"
And YOU caressed the plaintiff in her
| presence, as part Of that deception
Il did not caress the plaintiff. L will
explain that"
but what passed there was for the
Individually"
The Certificate Misleading.
In further cross examina ton Mr.. Will
son brought out the fact that in filling
out the certificate of marriage of Mrs.
Wing to Col. Breckenridge it was made
to appear that that marriage was the
! colonels second, whereas 1t was really
his third; that he had asked DIR. Paxton
| not to make that marriage public. and
/ that after his marriage with Ms. Wing
! he stopped with her at the hotel Logger
can in New York, registering as William
| J. Campbell and wife. Col. Brec Sinridge
could not recall that at that lime he
had sent certain kilograms 10 Mrs
! Blackburn.
| Mr.. Wilson then read the direct testi-
! mony Of the colonel regarding the first
! interview with Mrs. Blackburn, upon
| which the colonel commented that he
| had told the whole truth about it. Their
| Mrs. Blackburn's testimony was read
and Mr.. Wilson asked him if II had oc-
| Cured, to which the colonel replied that
! she had recollected IL differently from
/ the way he had said it; that she had
! construed his expressions of gratitude
/ for what she had done in the past int
! requests for her protection i'm the future
! DO you deny this?' asked Mr.. Will
son; that you said 10 Mrs. Blackburn
| 1 intend TO marry this young woman
when a sufficient time has elapsed after
| the death of my Wife,"
! My recollection Is that nothing was
| said about my wife at that interview
| Mrs. Blackburn seems to have confused
! that with a subsequent interview"
/ Denies Mrs. BIuckburn'S Statement
All of Mrs. Blackburn's statement.
being read to him categorically, the
| colonel said that Mrs. Blackburn's recoI
! lection differed on all those points from
/ his own. He denied that he had sale
/ that he was thirty-one years older thar
/ the plaintiff and was sure that he haC
/ not said that she supposed he was fool
! ish to marry a woman so much younger
than himself. He was sure that Mrs
! Blackburn must have confused thing!
said by the plaintiff about the matter
with what he had said and must hav,
put into her own language her under
| standing Of his statements
Il have no recollection of that" h,
said of Mrs. Blackburn's recital that OF
his second visit he had said that he no
! ticed she was much shocked by the an
! nouncement of his engagement II an
sure / have no recollection of that" h,
| said when confronted with Mrs Black
| burns statement that he was giving :
poor return for all the devotion of hi,
wife
Il deny that that occurred in that
way and in that connection" was the an.
swer when Mr.. Wilson pinned him down
to direct statement regarding his story
to Mrs. Blackburn that, being a man ri
| honor, he had been obliged to propose
marriage TO Miss Pollard on discovering
! her feelings toward him.
Now Mrs. Blackburn says that she
told you you had an unusually high
sense of honor in that connection. DC
! you deny that?" Mr.. Wilson persisted
Il deny that 1 have any recollection OF
ii having happened in that way"
Col. Breckinridge's version of the con-
| versations between himself and Mrs
! Blackburn regarding the trip to Europe
differed radically from that ladys as
did his memory of what she had said