The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-11
And Makes Several Efforts to Impress
the Jury that All Men Are as
Wicked as the Defendant.
HE DEFAMES MISS POLLARD
And DenOunces Her as an Adven-
tureSs and Shameless Woman.
Once Called to Order by Judge Bradley
and Another Time Corrected by COun-
sel-ClOse of Carlisle's Argument.

WASHINGTON, April 10.-Colonel Philip
Thompson. formerly a member Of Congress
from Kentucky, and one of the best known
men In Washington, entertained the jury
in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. case, to-day,
with a pyrotechnic speech such as has rare
Iy been heard in this section. The Blue
Grass orator once had a great reputation
as a stump speaker, and Washington had
a chance to see on what the fame is found
ed. Colonel Thompson is a thick-set, chub-
by. red-faced man, with scant hair on the
top OF his head. He talks in a free and
easy but exceedingly vigorous manner. His
speech was sprinkled with anecdotes. some
of them too broad for reproduction, and his
views regarding the stability of the seventh
commandment would doubuess provoke re-
sponses from the pulpits Of New England.
Madeline Pollard did not hear the terms
in which her fellow-Kentuckian referred TO
her as an adventures and shameless wom-
an, because she left the court room as
soon as Mr.. Calderon Carlisle had finished
his plea in her behalf. The speech of Col
Thompson will be concluded tomorrow,
and then Major Ben Butterworth. another
ex-Congressnian, who is a mild spoken
Quaker. will follow him..
When court opened this morning there
was something on foot of which the spec
tators did not receive the benefit. Judge
Bradley held a letter in his hand, in which
he seemed deeply interested. He called up
to his desk three of the counsel, Messrs.
Carlisle, Wilson and Butterworth, exhibit
ed the letter to them, and the four put
their heads together over the document for
ten minutes. Then one of the jurors was
90 He'd mr. and the conSu1fafi On WAS nrO-
longed for ten minutes before Mr.. Carlisle
rested his argument. II is thought that
the cause of the conference was one OF the
anonymous letters which nave poured in
by the busheI on all the court officers.
and every person interested in the trial.
Tn Judge receives dozens of them every
day, making all sorts of suggestions.
Dark skies were overhead and a drizzling
rain made the day one OF the most uncOm-
Portable of the trial. so that there were few
people in the court room this morning.
Among the first TO arrive was Madeline
Pollard, with the most becoming bonnet
her antagonist, somewhat paler than usual.
his paleness noticeable because OF the usual
rudy flush in his cheeks.
Attorney Carlisle took up his review of
the testimony where he had dropped il last
night and devoted himself for the first half
hour particularly to a discussion of Mrs.
Governor Blackburn'S testimony. He re-
hearsed In q manner devoid of rhetorical
attitudes and in a colloquial tone how Col.
DTSCklHTluSe ndQ DTOuBlI 10 the heltuckN
lady the plaintiff in this case. saying that
she was much to him and would be more in
the future, as he intended 10 make her his
wife. In commenting on the testimony of
Mr.. Claude De La Roche Francis, cousin
OF Ward McAllister and nephew of the
Marquis DE La Roche, chamberlain to the
Pope, Mr.. Carlisle evoked the smile which
for some reason always fits across the
court room at the mention of that young
person.
THE LETTERS AND BASKET.
NJ ~ rliIo 1of1 ckro.o ,,,ou A. e.. IT.
In response to the notice for the production
OF Miss Pollard's letters only those two
which 1t would be advantageous for the
defense to read were brought forward.
After recalling how a murderer had once
been convicted because the furnace into
which he had thrust his victim had failed
TO consume the victims false teeth, the
lawyer brought forward the work basket
which had belonged to the late Mrs. Breck-
inridge, which the Colonel had denied hav-
ing given to Miss Pollard. and reminded
the jury of the testimony OF Mary Yancey,
the colored cook. who had seen the pair
sitting on the sofa together with the basket
IN which he flashed the basket upon the
jury. Mr.. Carlisle passed on to the time
when Miss Pollard took Colonel Breckin-
the house in Jefferson Place, with the quo
tation from Miss Pollard's testimony: II
said. Come with me, WILL and he came"
to the interview in the office of the chief
OF police, to which the Colonel had said he
was taking the young woman to place her
In the hands or the law. and where he had
sworn. clasping her hand. to marry her on
the 31st of May. The history OF similar
cases did not show a more complete chain
OF evidence. Mr.. Carlisle c%ontended.
The defendant asked the jury, said Mr.
Carlisle. TO believe, on his single word, and
unsupported by a shred of corroborating
testimony or conduct on his part. that the
engagement of marriage had been a con-
cocted subterfuge; to disbelieve the testi-
Nnnr - % Me- - - -
Of Francis, of Mary Yancey and many 9TH
ers, and against all these take his own
word for a story utterly and altogether i'm
probable a story which he had every pos
sible fnducement to ~contrive and stick to.
That defense stands wholly and solely
upon his unsupported word" continued the
speaker. Il ask you to judge of him only
by what he has told you here on this stand,
a standard by which every witness can be
judged without complaint. A father of a
family, with eight children, a devoted wife,
he tells you he lived for nine years in calm.
deliberate adultery with this woman. not
giving away TO sudden passion, not led by
a misguided love, but that lust, and not
love, was the bond between them. During
these years he was posing before the world
as a Christian statesman, a man high in
the councils of the Presbyterian Church,
giving counsel TO saints and sinners, while
his life Itself was a lie. He asks you TO be
ieve him on the ground that during those
half dozen interviews with Mrs. Blackburn,
a woman high in the standing. of her State,
who must have won the admiration of ev-
cry mothers son in this box. he told her
and carried on a complicated lie
The eXigency now pressing the Colonel
was greater. far greater. Mr.. Carlisle said,
than any which had hung over him before;
the inducement for him TO lie was geater
then ever, yet he asked the jury 10 believe
his uncOrroborated word now on the sup
position that he had always lied before
when he made statements controverting
his present position.
This young woman does not come be
fore you stainless" the attorney began, in
comparing the character OF his client with
that OF the NfOnRrAESmnn sNNhaf iG taff nOVr
OF her hfe?" he asked. The opportunity has
passed Tor him to make that reparation
which he owed TO her and himself. When
you consider the character OF the witnesses
on both sides. when you think of this man
with power, socially. politically and other
wise, who acquired domination over this
unfortunate girl, who ruined her life. you
cannot believe that he promised 10 make