The Portland daily press., 1894-03-15
MADELINE As An AUTHOR.
She Wrote of a Hero With a Heart
Careworn But Loving.
MORE TESTIMONY ABOUT MISS
POLLARD's EARLY LIFE.

A Point Scored for the Defence-Miss
| Pollard Quoted as Saying Her Lover
Had Promised to Marry Her at a Time
When Col. Breckenridge Could Not
Have Done So-Consequently the De
fence Will Claim that She Referred to
Another Person,
Washington, March 14.-Court had
assem- bIed and the clerk was calling the
| jury in the Pollard Breckinridge breach
| of promise suit this morning, when a
door to the left of the judges bench
opened and Miss Pollard Ncame in. 1t was
| her first appearance since her sensational
exit on Monday, when she was borne
from the chamber by friends and fell
| half fainting at the door. Miss Pollard
was pale but otherwise self-possessed.
! The court room was crowded when the
crier raped for order. Col. Breckenridge
| and all his counsel were present. Mr..
Carlisle of the plaintiffs counsel had
| come in moment or two earlier, escort
ing Sister Cecilia and companion.
| Sister Cecilia saw Miss Pollard enter but
! they did not exchange greetings. Mr..
4 Carlisle began the proceedings by con-
tinuing his examination OF Sister Cecilia,
/ which was suspended yesterday.
SISTER Cecilia" he asked, have you
| good memory for faces and names?"
| mot very good for faces, but the
| names, yes, " was the answer.
Can you positively say that Miss
! Pollard was patient at the Norwood
Founding Asylum while you were in
| charger"
II cannot, SIR"
"Can you positively say that she was
| not patient at the asylum during that
! time"
"Now, Sister Cecilia, state the grounds
| for that belief"
IL object" said Mr.. Butterworth. and
| then followed another legal tilt over the
admissibility of question involving an
Judge Bradley held that if the
| question were put to identify the plain
| tiff with some, person. ! in the asylum at a
| given time it was competent, but if it
were put to have the witness draw
conclusions for the purpose of making
| that Identification, the question was not
competent.
The question was overruled and the
| DldIQGlu 1lObCu oil OOJCCblOn.
Then Mr.. Carlisle asked If Sister
| Cecilia could state anything about the
| identity of.the plaintiff with a patient
| in the asylum in the months of May,
June and July, 1855.
"We object" said Mr.. Shelby, and the
| question was withdrawn.
"Now do you know whether, while
you were in charge of the asylum, there
were any patients there who went
vejled?n was Mr.. Carlisle's s s-- next
question, and it was not objected to.
"There were two ladies there who went
yelled because they feared being recog-
nized by visitors"
"Now did you ever send any patients
| back to Cincinnati in carriages?'
Eyes, three or four. was the answer"
The spectators and jurymen became in
| tensely interested at this point, for they
| understood that every point in the de-
scripuion of the asylum given to her
| counsel by Miss Pollard was being put
forward for Identification by the witness.
; In answer to other questions Sister
Cecilia said the name of Bergwyne or
Burgoyne, was on record at the Norwood
Asylum as patient there.
Major Butterworth asked witness a
question or two about when she left
Cincinnati and then said she might be
needed in day or two to answer more
questions. Sister Cecilia said she would
remain Ill w dSulu2tOu blll GuC OOulu w az
through with her, and she was then ex-
cused.
Mrs. Kane's Deposition.
There was sigh of disappointment
throughout the court room as Sister
Cecilia withdrew and Mr.. Carlisle took
up voluminous mass of type-w ritten
man script which was recognized AS one
of the prosy dispositions. The dispositions
was that of Mrs. Kate Perry Kane, a
physician of Cincinnati, and member
of the firm of which DR.. Belle Buchanan
was the senior partner.
Mrs, Kane identified Miss Pollard AS a
young woman who came to the house OF
Drs. Perry and Buchanan in 1885 as a
patient. She boarded there for while
during the warm weather and was
known as Miss Louise Wilson.
as the woman now before you miss
Pollard) the same person that was at
your house?"
Eyes, sir; I SO recognize her. |
recognized her as soon as | saw her this
morning in this room"
This testimony added another interest
ing feature to the efforts the plaintiff s
counsel are making to identify Miss
Pollard with young woman who was
confined in Cincinnati in 1885, and left
several questions of identity to the jury
for settlement Was Miss Pollard identi-
cal with Monica Burgoyne, who was a
patient at the Norwood Fondling
ASYLUM? Was Louise Wilson an alias of
Madeline Pollard?
MI .Stoll read the cross-examinat1on.
DR.. Buchanan had told the deponent
that Miss Wilson was an unfortunate girl
from Kentucky. Miss Wilson, she
understood, was recovering from a con-
finement when she was at the deponent's
house. At one time Miss Wilson had
gone out to meet her betrayer at hotel,
permission being given by her physician.
When she came back Miss Wilson told
the deponent that she had met the man
but 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 disliked him so that she refused.
This last testimony was important in
view of the effort the defence is making
to show that Col. Breckenridge did not
betray Miss Pollard. Col. Breckenridge
was a married man in 1885. while Miss
Wilson, whom the deponent said was
Miss Pollard had said her seducer had