Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05

as maiden or virgin; that | did not
Seduce her in the physical sense that
she came to me a maiden and / left
hef otherwise; nor, in a lower sense.
that L did not offer money!
DO you not know that a dumb man
can seduce woman: that by taking
l.er IN your arms and exciting her pas
sion, without opening your mouth or
WlhklHS your eye. you can seduce:"
I nj not prepared to attempt under
oath to give definition of seduction
l onlE know that what happened in
the carnage that night was not seduc-
ton"
10 you not know that a married
Woman can be seduced?"
I suppose in q moral sense it is
possible"
Nhen they net on the train to Lex
1n2ton the next day Mr.. Breckinridge
sail that he did not know that Miss
Pollard was on the train and supposed
tEat she could not know that he was
there. While this was being related
Miss Pollard and Mrs. Ellis arose and
| threaded their way from the court
roCm.
Describing; the interview on the
train the colonel said Il suggested to
! he" that if she stayed over in Iexing.
ton, wouldn't she meet me, and asked
| II there was any place where she could
! 60 She said that she could go to
| Sarah Guess house and with some SUI.
| prise asked. What, do you know
| about Sarah Guess? She said that
Rhodes once tried to get her to 90
! there with him and that she had gone
as far as the gate but refused to 90
! in
Nothing was said about your meet
ing the night before?''
Nothing was really said Cnly wber
we met there was some sort of indefi
mite look; something more than q
formal recognition"
You knew places in Lexington
where people could go?''
L knew no particular place where ]
could take this person.
How many places did you know OF?
Lexington is a place of 10000 in
habltantS. There are such places: bu
L would not put such a girl as l sup
posed the plaintiff to be in the power
OF such woman as l supposed Saral
Guess to be-
Miss Pollard knew the way to thu
house. the colonel continued, anC
then, in response to questions as t.
his going home to dinner and returnins
to the designation house, he responded
continuously, Il did, 1 did" will
bowed head
Next morning did you go tC
| church, Wilson persisted.
! NO"
Afterward the lawyer asked if Mr.
Breckenridge had taken Miss Pollard
to the house of Mrs. Rose, in Cincin
MAJ when they went there
II want to be candid and I will say
frankly that did not take her in the
sense of going on the same train, but
! we made arrangements to go in Lex
ington"
did you have a sister in Lexington
! by the name of LOuiSe?" asked Mr.
Wilson after Breckenridge had de
clared that he had not corresponded
with Miss Pollard in 1856.
II never had a sister by the name OF
Louise" was the reply
Finally, having secured a state
ment that he had written no letters
| to Madeline Pollard in 1886, Wilson
! sprung something like a trap by drop
ping into a line of questioning which
indicates that he has in reserve tes
! timOny to show that the member from
| Kentucky dictated underground letters
/ through his typewriter at the capitol
Then for the first time the defendant
seemed to lose his temper and made
most strenuous denials. The type
writer, whose testimony is next in
order is Miss Louise Lowell, now q
clerk in the treasury department.