Connecticut western news., 1894-03-29
BRECKENRIDGE CASE.
SOME INTERESTING DISPOSITIONS ARE
 READ BY THE DEFENSE.

READ BY THE DEFENSE. Miss Pollard's Blind Lovers Story of the
 Mock Marriage-wood's Account of His Engagement to the Plaintiff and Why It
 Was Broken
 WASHINGTON, March 2.-A miscellane- ous aggregation of celebrities was attract ed to the Pollard -Breckinridge trial In a front row opposite the jury sat the govern or of Indiana and several members of his staff, who had come to Washington to see the sights and who gazed ecstatically upon the silvery beard of the Kentucky orator newly cropped over Sunday, with expres- sions which betokened that they had not tjourneyed here in vain. Behind them was Captain Philip King of the Princeton uni versity baseball team, supported by his warriors-athletes whose names are known throughout the land. Further in the back ground was the usual mixed audience with select sprinkling of congressman, who come and go with every day of the trial.
 These little accessories were the most striking features of the day, for there were hours devoted to arid dispositions intended to prove an alibi on certain dates when
 
 was with her at night in Lexington, and others casting a shadow of suspicion upon her maiden character.
 The deposition of William c. Wood oi Lexington, a carpenter, was one of those admitted by the court, subject to specific objections. In the fall of 1882, while at the house of a Mrs. Keen, who pastured some stock for him, he had been intro duced to Madeline Pollard, who played for him on the piano. When he started to leave, the young lady called him back. Afterward he called on her nearly every Sunday for some time. Two months after they were engaged GO be married.
 Her Engagement to Wood.
 "She told me she loved me and all that, !" was the remark of the deponent. When we came to fix the time, I told her I could not take her on trip to Europe, as l had promised, because was broke. She got mad, threw my ring at me and ran up stairs. She said that I was rich, insinuat- ing that had not told the truth when said I was poor. I went back the next Sunday, but she would not see me"
 How old was she?" was the question. Well I could not say"
 "Was she child or woman"
 ''I should say she was a young woman.
  The engagement ring had the initials of himself and Miss Pollard engraved on it. The question whether he had ever talked about Miss Pollard with James Rhodes was objected to, and all that conversation was ruled out.
 In the cross examination the dependent said that Miss Pollard had seemed at that time to be nice, virtuous girl, and he had heard nothing against her. His brothers had objected to the proposed marriage, threatening to keep property away from him, and he had gone to see her on the night in question, intending to break the engagement.
 You were in love with the girl, were you notf" he had been asked. 'Yes, sir," was the answer. "And would have married her but foi the interference of your brothersS" "Yes, sir"
 Madeline's Blind Lover.
 Perhaps the most interesting of the depo sitions was that from Alec Julian, the blind lover of Madeline Pollard, who fig ured as substitute husband in the mock marriage at Squire Tinsley's house on the Christmas of 1883. The announcement by | Attorney Stoll that he would read this dep 1 osfion created sensation.
 Julian stated that he was 40 years old had always lived in Bridgeport, Ky; be | came blind in August, 1882, and had known | Miss Pollard three or four years before | that. He said:
 .She was young lady the first time | met her; must have been 15 or 16 years old | was receiving visits from young men That's how l came to know her."
 "Where did you spend the night of Dec 24, 1892"
 l "At Squire Tinsley's, about quarter oi mile from Graffensburg. "On Christmas morning did they have anything to drinkf"
 '.All they asked me to have was Tom and Jerry understood that they had eggnog"
 "Who were they"
 Squire Tinsley and his family and l Madie-Madeline Pollard"
 Continuing, Julian testified: "Aftel breakfast we were talking about matri mony, and somebody suggested that | should marry Madie. Owen Tinsley, the squire's brother, was pretty hilarious. H. said he would marry her, and they stood | up, and married them. After awhile b, left, saying he would leave her in my I charge. We were talking, and then one o us suggested that when people were mar l ried they usually went somewhere. Tn, other one consented. We went up stairs She had been drinking, and I had not. helped her lie down and sat down besid, | her"
 Squire Tinsleys eldest daughter had dis covered the absence of the two and cam, bounding up stairs. While relating how he had once before that kissed Madelin, Pollard the witness had been asked if h, put his hands on her and replied: 'I s'pos, if was kissing her I must have just nat urally had my hands on her. I s'pose | did"
 At the time of the mock marriage h, I thought, Miss Pollard was about IS year. old "A.