Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-02

asking him If he had authorized this de-
NAL, and threatening to make publication
of all their relations, and threatening to
come to Lexington.
The defendant said that on June % he had
written Maj. Moore, stating that she had been
reason, he said In this letter. why she
should destroy herself. H asked him Mai
Meore) to see her and induce her to SO act
az 10 preserve her reputation. He asked
MAJ. Moore to see her. He inclosed in his
a briefer note to show Miss Pollard
The defendant said he had meanwhile re-
ceived several letters from the plaintiff, one
OF them proposing that she would come to
Lexington sna see The defendants daughter
tell her all and leave the matter to her
arbitfament. He wrote again to Maj. Moore
a letter similar to the first. Monday, the
nth of July, he received. at Lexington,
another letter from her of the same general
character. He handed the letter to friend
about the ed 23d of the month. He re-
quested Maj. P. B. Johnson and w. X. Nc
Chesney of Lexington to come to Washing
ton and see Maj. Moore and the plaintiff
He had no knowledge then, he said, that the
plaintiff had suffered a miscarriage. What
ever occurred, he thought did not relieve
him from the duty of taking care of the
pla1ntin until the child was born, and so he
had sent the gentlemen named to Washing
ton, and had given them letter of intro
duction to Maj. Moore, stating that they
could be trusted, and also saving II was
their desire to avoid public scandal He
placed in their hands a check for s1CO, to be
used by them in providing for the comfort
or the plaintiff. The check was returned
to the defendant, and then he did NOT do
anything further. He came here the 9Th of
August and then learned from the suit she
had filed that she had suffered a mscar-
rage, ana this relieved him from further
obligation to contribute to her support
when Improper Relations Ceased
The defendant was here asked by Mr..
ButterwOrth If "a haA ba1
tions with the plaintiff after April 90 the
date of his marriage. The defendant de-
MED this with emphasis. 1T is absolutely
false" he said. He denied that he had
ever had such relations with the plaintiff
aftel he returned to Washington, March
81. He had no such relations with her on
that day or even after The arrangement
made prior to his going to Mrs Black burns
was that their relations should terminate;
that she was to leave Washington; that
her relations with Mrs. Blackburn should
die out gradually. and that he should sup
port her until she could get some honorable
employment. The only change in their re-
latlonS after that was that when she in
formed him that she pregnant and
charged him with being the author of her
condition, he agreed that he should care
for her until the child was born and II
the child was his, he would care for 1t.
The witness was then questioned as to
Miss Pollard'S government employment and
tolu OF ner employment in the census bu-
reau He had, he said, given her the run of
the Congressional Library. He had no recol-
lection of ever giving the plaintiff any adj
vice about her studies before she came to
Washington. She was singularly deficient
in rudmentary education for a woman Of
her somewhat remarkably extensive read
ing. He had advised her to give some at
tention to these studies, to arithmetic snd
other rudimentary branches He did not
know, he said, what books she got from the
Congressional Library. She used to send
the list to him, he would give it to a page,
who would get the books and he would
send them out to her without paying any
particular attention to what the books '; ere
At this point it was few minutes to II
O'Clock. Mr. Butterworth said he tho lght
he was through with the examination, but
there might be two or three more questions
he would like to ask after he had reviewed
He asked, therefore that the recess be taken
at that time, as he thought 1t would save
time. So, as Mr.. Wilson assented, the court
took recess until 12:45 o'clock.