The record-union., 1894-04-16
VERDICT FOR MISS POLLARD.
Judgment of Fifteen Thousand Dollars
Against Breckinridge.


WASHINGTON, April 15.-Jury Fore
man Charles r. Cole of the Civil Court
yesterday announced verdict for the
plaintiff, Madeline Pollard, for $4,000
damages from Congressman w. C. p.
Breckenridge for breaking his contract to
marry her, thus ending the long and ex-
citing Breckinridge-P Pollard breach of
promise trial.
Miss Pollard is the most talked of per-
son in Washington to-day. AS might
have been expected with woman of her
temperament, the long strain of the trial
eliminated in nervous prostration. She
was taken last night to the Providence
Hospital. situated in quiet part of the
city. The attending physicians do not
anticipate any serious effects from her
illness.
During the trial several communca-
tionS came to Miss Pollard and to her
lawyers from managers of theatrical and
opera companies, offering high salaries if
she would appear in almost any capacity
under their auspices. Acting under the
advice of her lawyers, she has paid no at
tention to any of these communications.
Since the verdict was rendered Yesterday
afternoon the theatrical managers have
redoubled their opportunities, and sew
eral kilograms have come to Miss Pollard
offering her astonishing sums to go on
the stage at once. Her friends decline to
give the names of the theatrical managers
or to discuss the offers, saying that no
attention viii be paid to any of them.
An Associated Press reporter called at
the hospital to-day, and, being informed
that Miss Pollard was unable to receive
callers, sent to her note inquiring her
plans for the future. The note was an
swered in person by her brother, John
d. Pollard, who said:
"My sister has made no plans for the
future, and we can not tell yet what she
intends to do. She asks me to say to
you most emphatically that she never
entertained any intention of going on the
stage. Nothing could be farther from
her intentions. Ii is absurd. All she
asks for now is rest and quiet.o
Judge Wilson'S defense of the rights of
woman to an equal plane with man in
the professions was so appreciated by
many OF the Washington ladies that a
party of them sent him magnificent
bunch of La France roses, which adorned
his parlor to-day. They were accom-
panied by note saying they were in
tended as an expression of appreciation
for his championship of the cause of
women in the professions. One of the
signers was Mrs. Dan Waugh, wife of
the Indiana Congressman; another was
Miss Louise Lowell. the stenographer
who wrote Colonel Breckinridge's love
letters while he was at the capital, and
another was Miss Mary Desha, sister of
Colonel Breckinridge's late wife. The tri-
bute of Miss Desha is significant OF the
feelings of the relatives of the late Mrs.
Breckinridge. for the Colonel.
Hardly had the verdict been rendered
when meeting of prominent Washing-
ton women was called. Representative
of several leading female oroari zatious
met, and after an interesting conference
adopted resolutions calling upon Congress
to consider the qualifications of Repre-
sentative Breckinridge for mem bership
in that body. Some of the organizations
represented were the Women's Suffrage
Association and the Women's Christian
Temperance Union. Mrs. Sarah La Fetra
of the latter organization, and Mrs. Ellen
S. Murphy, the widow OF the late General