Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-11
THOMPSON'S EPITHETS
He Applied a Large Variety to
 Miss Pollard.
HIS SPEECH FOR BRECKENRIDGE
Arraigns Her as an 'Adventuress, a FaIs. Hearted WomaK and an Inhuman Mon. ster'-His Novel Views of Moral Lapses From & Kentucky standpoint.

Hearted WomaK and an Inhuman Mon
 ster''-His Novel Views of Moral Lapse,
 From a Kentucky Standpoint.
 WASHINGTON. April ll.-Colonel Phi Thompson, formerly member of congress from Kentucky and one of the best known men in w aShington, entertained the jury in the Pollard -Breckinridge case with q pyroteChnic speech such as has rarely been heard in this section. The Blue Grass or. ator once had a great reputation as d stump speaker, and Washington had q chance to see on what the fame is founded.
 Colonel Thompson is a thick set, chub- by. red faced man, with scant hair on the top of his head. He talks in free and easy but exceedingly vigorous manner His speech was sprinkled with anecdotes: some of them too broad for reproduction and his views regarding the stability oi the seventh commandment will doubtless provoke response from the pulpits of New England.
 Madeline Pollard did not hear the terms in which her fellow kentuckian referred to her as an adventures and shameless woman because she left the court as soon as Mir. Calderon Carlisle had finished his plea in her behalf.
 The speech of Colonel Thompson will be concluded today. and then Major Butter worth, another eX-congressman, who is a mild spoken Quaker, will follow him.
 MT. Carlisle Finishes.
 Attorney Calderon Carlisle took up his review of the testimony where he had dropped it and devoted himself for he first half hour particularly to Il discussion of Mrs. Governor Blackbu $ testimony. He rehearsed in d manner devoid of rhetorical T,,.l ,,,l a.N1l li.,l f,NIN hnN Colonel Breckinridge had brought to the Kentucky lady the plaintiff in this case, saying hat she was much to him now and would be more in the future, as he intend ed to make her his wife.
 The attorney compared the character Of his client with that of the congressman. What is left now of her life:" he asked.
 "The opportunity has passed for him to make that rsparation which he owed to her and himself When you consider the character of the witnesses on both sides when you think of this man. with power socially, politically and otherwise, who acquired domination over this unfortunate girl who ruined her life. you cannot but believe that he promised to make good to her the ruin of her life: you cannot, with the thought of the mothers and daughters in the land. refuse to make the only possi- ble reparation to this unfortunate plain tiff
 Reminding them of the SJO, UOO which the declaration would allow them to award, NIr. Carlisle closed his plea. and Miss Pol lard and her companion left the room.
 Colonel Thompson's Address.
 Then Colonel Phil Thompson faced the jury. Colonel Thompson started of with the proposition that his client was not re sponsiblt for dragging this case into court; that it was not the province of the jury tC punish his client for immortality, although he asked no leniency at the bar of public opinicn.
 Who was it, he asked, who had brought into court this mass of filth, spreading it through the newspapers before the daugh ters of the family? II want you to try this woman as a bawd and a wanton, as she acknowledged herself" declared Mir Thompson.
 He asserted that the suit had been brought with revenge as its prompting motive, and he told the jurymen that if they had lived with the woman as Colonel Breckinridgc had they would not have taken her into their families among their daughters and placed her at the head of their table. Every decent man would sus tain the colonel in his refusal to do that.
 Beginning with Madeline Pollard's age, since he said, she had Clalmed to have been seduCed by the colonel at the age of r., he inquired why her mother and the family Bible had not been brought forward as the best proof of her age Back at that time when she claimed she was T. she had been associated with Mollie Shinglebauer, and he could not understand why so much had been said about Mollie Shinglebauer. whC was as good as the strumpets she had asso ciatcd with A good deal had been said about so many witne eSSes for the defense having been in houses of prostitution, but Colonel Thompson had no doubt that many good fellow had been in such places and could tell the truth about what hap. pened there as well as if it had happened in meeting house. If people wanted tc find out what happened in these places, they must go after the people who had been there
 Turning to the occasion of the mock mar, riage at Squire Tinsley's, he said that Miss Pollard had been in a state of debauchery and drunkenness. although she claimed that she was sick. People generally said that they were sick under such circum stances. MT Thompson had been there himself. he frankly admitted
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