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

1856 he continued, and then told how
he had happened to stop at Miss
HoytS IN Lexington, where Miss Pol
lard boarded He said that the noise
at the Phoenix hotel kept him awake
at night, and that a friend had rec
commended the boarding house to him
as a quiet place. The fact that Miss
Pollard was stopping there had moth
ing to do with the change. He was re-
ceiving large mail Of daily papers.
with some books, part of which was
turned over to the eStimable old lady.
part to Miss Pollard, and part to an
other young lady there. He did not
advise her concerning her reading"
During that time We're there any i'm
proper relations between your
None. whatever
THE plaintiff has said that it was on
account of your opportunities that
she came to Washington. How was
that?"
II did everything I could to prevent
her." said the colonel, impressively
"and to prevent an open breach and
scandal"
''When did you first learn Of her pIlr-
pose Of coming to Washington" Mr..
Butterworth inquired.
'In Lexington" replied the witness.
''From whom?"
From the plaintiff"
when was that?"
about the third or fourth week in
August"
up to that time had there been a
resumption of your improper rela-
tions?" asked Mr.. Butterworth.
None whatever" was the reply
He had seen her occasionally, in the
sense of meeting her on the street
Continuing, the colonel said: "After
my return to Lexington from Nichol
asville our relations were resumed
and I met her at the same house as
before. Soon afterward she came to
me and said she had made up her
mind to leave Lexington because she
could not get employment there and
because she was pursued by gossip
about her relations with Rhodes. She
said she had consulted Senator Beck
about coming to Washington, and that
he had said that it was not a good
plan for her to come to Washington
that it was the worst place for a young
woman to come. / protested against
her coming.
''She said one morning that it was
! absolutely necessary for me to see he1
and 1 met her that night. She said
chn oh 4Ia+
was not at all a matter of certainty
but that if she was, nothing was left
for her to do but to come here"
''Stop there" interrupted Mr.. Butter.
worth. Did she say the trouble was
caused by you?"
"Of course. The conversation was
excessively unpleasant. l refused t.
furnish the money. 1t was a matter
of doubt. Only two months had
passed since our relations had been
resumed. l told her that for her to
| come to Washington might be disas.
trOus to herself and me. Afterwards !
paid the money which she borrowed
to come to Washington. 1t was some
time i'll the month of September, 1887,
that she came. She informed me that
she was in a Catholic Institution, and
said there was no doubt of her con
dition. [ went away and returned to
Washington again the first Sunday in
December, but did not see the plaintiff
for three months. The plaintiff had
moved to the Academy of the Vista
ton, but [ saw her at the capitol
Were these changes made in pur-
suance of your SuggestiOns?'
They We're not. l received several
letters from the plaintiff saying that
her health was very bad. l sent her
money to the general delivery, what
ever she wanted.
''The plaintiff had said that on two
occasions, after protestations of love,
you said you would marry her if it
was poSsible?''
There is not a Scintilla of truth in
that statement The plaintiff never al
luded to the possibility Of it. Before
the death of my wife there was not
solitary word that could be dis
torted into such a thing" The colonel
declared that she had never told him
when she gave birth to a living child.
nor did he believe it until he heard the
testimony of DR.. Parsons. IF she had
told me it would have given me an
excuse to break off my relations with
her, for considering the time of these
relations, it was impossible that the
child could have been my child"
From November, 1885, to July, 1887,
there were no improper relations be-
tween us, although I was supporting
her. | frequently said to her as earn
estly as I knew how that the relations
between US could only result in public
scandal and perhaps destruction Of |
both; that her character, her lack of !
her temper were such |
that some day there must come an eX-
posture. l urged her to go anywhere /
she could to study, offering to pay her !
and saying the burden could
be no greater on me than it then was
''SOme of our interviews We're more
unpleasant than any words
AN describe. She would come to me
1t the capitol in my committee room,
leclare that she was not going to
cave; that she was going to have the
support owing to her. l suppose at
INES [ said things that were hard and
bitter [ knew that the only alterna-
i've was submission or the destruction
f those whose lives depended on me,
nd I let it go on, hoping that ro1nor-
ow would bring a solution of the
'rOblem."