Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-03-15
POOR MADELINE.
She Seems to Have Had a
Very Checkered Career.
May or May Not Have Had Several
Lovers Before Breckinridge.
She Certainly Doesn't Seem 10 kavs levsd
Him lll the Time.

w ASHINGTON, MaIcu 1t Ill tuc DIcCA-
enridge- Pollard breach of promise suit this
morning. Mr.. Carlisle began proceedings
by continuing his examination of Sister
Cecilia. and he asked: "Can you positive
" say that Miss Pollard was patient at
the Norwood Founding Asylum while you
were in charger"
81 cannot, sir"
"Can you positively say that she was
not patient at the asylum during that
time?'
"No, SIR"
Now. Sister Cecilia, state the grounds
for that belief"
II object" said Butrefworth, and the
question was overruled, plaintiff noting the
objection.
In reply to questions the witness said
when she was in charge of the asylum there
were two women who went veiled, be-
cause they feared being recognized by Wis
itors.
"Did you ever send any patients back to
Cincinnati in carriages!"
"Yes, there were four" was the answer.
Major Butterworth asked the witness q
question or two about when she left Cincin-
natl and she was then excused.
There was a sign of disappointment
throughout the court room as Sister Celilia
xithdrew and Mr.. Carlisle took upa vol
luminous mass of typewriter manuscript
which was recognized as one of the prosy
dispositions. The deposition was that of
Mrs. Kate Perry Kane, physician of Gin
cinnati. Mrs. Kane identified Miss Pollard
as the young woman who came to the
house of Drs. Perry and Buchanan in 1885
as a patient. She boarded there for q
while during the warm weather and was
known as Miss Louise Wilson.
"Is the woman now before You Miss
Pollard) the same person that was at your
house?"
"Yes, sir, 1 so recognize her; recog-
nized her as soon as / saw her this morning
in this room."
This testimony added anothet interesting
feature to the efforts the plaintiffs counsel
are making to identify Miss Pollard with q
young woman who was confined in Cincin-
natl in 1885,. Miss Wilson, the deponent
understood, was recovering from confine-
ment when she was at the deponent's
house.
The witness said that at one time Miss
Wilson had gone out to meet her seducer at
hotel, permission being given by her
physicians. When she came back Miss
Wilson told the deponent that she had met
the man by that it was impossible for her
to marry him; she loathed him, she said,
she had steeled her heart against him,
loathed him, and would not marry him, she
disliked him so; he had ruined her.
Miss Wilson also said that the man had
offered to marry her to clear things up, but
she dislik ed him so that she refused. This
last testimony was important, 10 view OF
the effort the defence is making to show
that Colonel Breckinridge did not seduce
Miss Pollard.
Colonel Breckinridge was a married man
in 1885, while Miss Wilson, whom the de-
ponent said was Miss Pollard, had said her
.educer offered to marry her. Mrs. Kane
said she thought that at the time Miss Viii
son was at her house che appeared to be
about "a or 25 years old, and she showed
much knowledge of the worldand had many
womanly ways.
Miss Pollard contends at this time she
was Is years old. DR.. Buchanan of Gin
cinnati then took the stand. She said she
was practiclng physician in Cincinnati in
1885. She and DIR. Perry Mrs. Kane)
rented the house jointly where they lived.
The witness first knew the plaintiff ia the
summer of 1888, when she came to her
house in Cincinnati from S.. Joseph's
Founding Asylum. "She was very weak
when she came to our house."
.sDo You know from what she was suffer-
ing?"
II do-she had given birth to child
obviously"
"Can you state how long prior to coming
to your house the child was born!'
ct ahor,ld otouf t~0 WookA
During this part of DR.. Buchanans tes-
timony Col. Breckinridge busted himself
reading newspaper. DR.. Buchanan said
Miss Pollard, or Wilson was about Is when
she was at her house.
The deposition of Mrs. Wesleyana Rob-
inson, taken in Cincinnati, was read. She
knew Miss Pollard, she said, at Wesleyan
college, of which her father. w. X. Brown,
was president, where Miss Pollard was
pupil. Miss Pollard sent the witness let
ter to be opened on the night of the wit
ness graduation in June, 1885, and she had
last seen it just before her husband, W. F.
Robinson, gave it to Col. Breckinridge,
without her consent.
Deponent corresponded with Miss Pol
lard, and remembered writing q letter in
August, 1884, addressed to Miss Madeline
Vivian Breckinridge Pollard. The address
was written merely because sit was . good
long name and would create smile." Miss
Pollard told her that her father admired w.
C. P. Breckinridge, or John Breckinridge.
or some Breckinridge, and had given her
that name. Miss Pollard also said that she
admired the defendant, Who was then, to
quote the witness, 'sthe Star Of Kentucky"
In letter the witness received. TO be
prlI I'D Yo-