The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-27

10, when d. Brown was committed 10
bail Breckenridge was in court every
day. Clerk Baiiey's cross examination,
was directed 10 show that Breckuringe
might have attended CO.r, in Versailles
each DAY and driven over tOLcNIngtOn at
night. Clerk Bailey, however. knew that
Col BreCkinridge always stayed IN YER
sailles until late at night
Other deu0SltiOus were read from law
yers and court officers showing that Col.
Breckenridge was elsewhere at the times
when Miss Pollard said he was with her.
ENGAGED TO A CARPENTER.
The deposition Of William G.. Wood, a
carDenter of Lexington. was read next.
This was one Of the dispositions admitted
this morning 10 evidence, sub ect 10
specific objection. tie had met Madeline
Pollard. he said, at the house or Mrs.
Kean at SnicNaway. near Lexington.
about May 1882 and at Miss Pollard
invitation he called again and again,
and within a couple of months he
and Miss Pollard became engaged TO be
married. Il said when we were married,
/ would take her 10 Europe. When 10
cameuear to The date for setting the time
] told her I e.. MI not take her 10 Europe
1t was too far ana l was broke. She
few into passion and took of the ring
gave her and threw il at me. I picked
the ring up. 1t was a gold ring and cost
so"
81 think she said I was rich and could
afford To take her to Europe
ENDED THE ENGAGEMENT.
Ibid the engagement continue long
after that
That ended it,"
The derouent said he was 70 years old
at the time and Miss Pollard was a
yOunE woman.
Cross. examined. Mr. Wood said in an
-, "a .,r7a1f1.v T1af his and
'the old man kicked about the engage
ment. and said If he broke the engage
ment they would help him pay for a house
he wanted 10 buy. Il could not get out Of
it hOnorably. ana told them so, said Mr.
Wood but he practically admitted that
he would have married her If it had not
been for the interference of his brothers
in fact, that be looked for an excuse to
get out of the engagement with Miss
Pollard.
JULIAN's DEPOSITION.
There was a stir in the court room as
Mr. Ston said: II will read the deposit
tion of Mr. Aleck Julian" The deponent
said he was ~ years old. lived near
Bridgeport, KY. and had known Miss
Pollard about fifteen years Mr. Julian is
blind, and Miss Pollard has referred to
him as My blind sweetheart-my modern
Barnabas - He was not blind when he
met Miss Pollard about 1873 The night
months after he became blind, he had
spent at. the house of Squire Tinsley.
Miss Pollard was there too. The next
morning Miss Pollard and the rest of the
company drank egg-nOg. They went 10
the pariOr and began talking about matri-
mony, and some one proposed that he and
Matte should marry. Squire IinSleY
came in just then, very hilarious, and
Miss Matte SAID Here is
man who will marry me- and the
squire performed a mock marriage for
them. Julian and Miss Matte sat in the
parlor alone for a while after this, and
Miss Pollard who had been drinking too
much, proposed that as they were mar
ried they should go to bed. They went
up stairs, and Julian sat down on the side
OF the bed, and Just then somebody asked
for them from down stairs and Squire
Tinsley'5 daughter came running up 10
the room.
A KISS THE ONLY LIBERTY.
Mr.. Julian testified that once Che had
kissed Miss Pollard, but otherwise he had
never taken liberties with her. She was
then about Is years old.
A question as to wheeler MIR. Julian
had ever gone riding with a Mr.. Roach
brought the first specific objection from
the plaintiffs counsel, on the ground of
irrelevancy, but Judge Bradley allowed
il to stand. He had gone to Lexington,
the depOnent said, in 1888, with MIR Roach
and had been invited by Miss Pollard,
In note sent him, TO call on her at the
house of her aunt, Mrs Kean, but he had
not done So Miss Pollard had written
him a note Just after this Mr. Julian
was asked what its contents were, but
Mr.. Carlisle objected TO the answer being
read, as MIR. Julian was blind and could
not know Of his own knowledge what the
note contained. The objection was sus-
tanned.
HOW he LOST his SIGHT.
Mr. Julian was compelled to tell how
he lost his sight. He had gone to the
Shelbyyiile fair. carrying a revolver be
longing to a friend, who did not want to
carry it because his girl was with him
He got to the fair after drinking two
plnts Of whisky and several gillS more
tie had tried To have some fun with a
negro by pulling the pistol on him. and
when the negro begged him not 10 shoot
he said, "Wel, III shoot myself" and
put the pistol i'm front of his face He
thought there was nothing in the cham
Der on which the trigger iell but there
was, and that was how he becams blind
Mr.. julian said on the CrOsS-examina-
ton that Miss Pollard was "as nice a
glrl as there was m the community, so
Jar as her virtue was concerned" and he
had never seen her do, or heard of her
doing anything that was not modest and
chaste, with the exception of the mock
marriage and that the incident
that followed was result of
her intoNication. He had kissed
Miss Pollard but once That was on a
bridge, and the dependent said he did not
know whether he put ms arms about her
or not, Il inst kissed her" he said and
/ kissed her right Laughter
This concluded the reading of the depo-
sition. and the court adjourned until to-
morrow morning