The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-28

the suit. but for revenge and to destroy
the power Of the defendant. Again Mr..
Wilson renewed his objection that the
attorney was not only attempting to
state the law instead of facts, but stat
ing the law incorrectly. Mere form did
not constitute a contract, Mr.. Shelby
continued. when the parties both under.
stood that the semblance Of a contract
was created for some other purpose.
| There was merely the semblance of a
contract that Miss Pollard might be able
to terminate relations with the defend
ant, and with this the statement closed.
Mr.. Wilson attempted to reply to the
statement that it would be shown that
| Miss Pollard had visited a. house of as
signation with men other than the de-
PENDANT, but was not permitted TO do so.
Sister Regina's story.
ThereupOn Attorney Stoll, who had
been compared to Bill Nye in facial con-
| tour, started to read the deposition of
Sister Agnes Regina Brown, when the
PLAINTIFFS attorneys interrupted him. in
| sisting upon the exercise of their right
to examine the deposition before it was
read. They had no objection on a casual
glance.
The deposition had been taken at the
Norwood convent asylum near Cincin-
natl, where the sister had been in 1885.
She had seen all the inmates. Some Of
them were yelled when they went on
the street. but none were yelled from
her. There was one who had been yelled
from the physician who attended her.
but this was in 1884. Deponent did not
know Madeline Pollard, but had for he
first time seen her in 1892 in the library
next to the office with Messrs Carlisle
To1nro raff -la-,
Pollard had asked if the sister knew her
but the sister did not remember. Depon-
ent questioned her. but she did not re-
member the sister, nor who had been the
mother superior. Miss Pollard had said
that she went under the name of .ol ise
Wilson, but when the sister had said
that no Louise Wilson had been there,
but that a girl named Burgoyne had
child there at that time, Miss Pollard
had replied: "Oh, that was the name I
went by. There were so many of them
/ did not remember"
Then Miss Pollard had asked what
had become Of the child and had been
told that it died last July and had then
gone into Mysteries. Miss Pollard re-
membered the death of a girl while she
was there. but had forgotten the death
of a sister who had died in room near
! by. The sister said Miss Pollard had
never been there and did not know much
about the house. Miss Pollard had
( spoken of giving the volumes of Wash
| ington Irving to the convent. The sis
ter had said she thought the books were
! given by a girl who had been there and
who thought she had not compensated
them sufficiently for the board. They
found them in the library. Miss Pol
lard remembered having left a Christ
mas card from a man named Davis IN
| one of the books. which she found.
From the question prOpounded by the
attorneys for the defendant at that time
ii seemed they had tried to throw suS-
picion upon Attorney Carlisle of having
slipped the card into the book. The sis
ter said the card had not the appear
ance of having been in book nine
years, but looked as though it had been
rolled up. Miss Pollard had said when
the sister suggested compromise that
Mr.. Breckenridge had no money and that
she was suing to disgrace him.
The sister had said that Mr.. Breckin-
ridge would still be Mr. Breckenridge
after the trial; that his friends would
still receive him, while the woman would
be ruined. Attorney Johnson had SAID:
But he will not be called upon 10 ad-
dress young ladies' seminaries and open
meetings" 10 which the sister had replied
that she presumed there were others al
prayer meetings as bad as Mr. Breckin-
ridge was accused of being.
Miss Pollard remembered having
spoken to the priest at the convent, and
that he was deaf The sister superior
had reprOved her for speaking to him.
| The sister denied that Mrs. Dr. Street
had ever called there TO see a patient.
Mr.. Carlisle had brought a letter of in
PRODUCTION to the sister from Archbishop
Elder. who wrote that they had been
recommended to him by Bishop Keane IF
Washington. Attorney Overmeyer of
Cincinnati had called 1T the convent,
looking for the evidence in the case of
Miss Pollard, but had said that he must
send some startling message to
Miss Pollard's attorneys that they had
been able to find no trace of her
servant named Eliza had not been able
to recollect Miss Pollard at first but
afterward, when the sister cautioned her
to be careful. acted as though she might
remember her. Sister Agnes had said
to Miss Pollard: What a bad girl yOu
have been TO go with a man who had
wife" to which Miss Pollard had re-
piled:
81 have been a bad girl, but a better
woman"
No Inquiries had been made by Miss
Pollard, so far as the sister knew. about
the child she claimed to have given birth
to there. AS the sister remembered Miss
Burgoyne she had been shorter than
Miss Pollard and lighter; had seemed
very fond of reading and spent most OF
her time in the library. Miss Burgoyne
was from an Ohio town and had been
attended by Or. DeCourcey.
The girl who gave the books had said
when She was there that there WAS
enough wrapped up with them TO pay
for her burial If she died, so that no
one would ever know who she was
The cross-examination Of this sister
was read by Mr.. Carlisle, the sister say
ing that the writing on the card looked
like fresh writing though it had been
written about four weeks before
There had been an average number e
100 girls a year in the asylum. most OF
whom were under assumed names. Some
times when Dr. DeCourcey was away
midwife attended at births.
After the deposition was finished the
court adjourned.
WASHINGTON. March %. Counsel
for Col. Breckenridge have decided to fol-
low the example Of their opponents by