The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-12
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GROWS ELOQUENT.
Tho chilling atmosphere which sur.
rounds n purc woman was painted with
apostrophes to mothcrs, sisters, sweet.
hearts aud wives aud thon tho OCCUR.
rencos in that first carriage ride were
rehearsed. Tho Instinct OF Il virtuoui
woman would dHyo led her to say Got
out, you lcpcr," Mr.. Duttcrworth
shouted, rushing down tho aisle toward
his client ilercely. But no, shc had ar.
ranged to mect him tho mex. day. lilo
pounded ono OF tho jurors on tho knees
rs no reproduced with mixed metaphor,
the still ANAL voice crying loudly In tho
nalnoo Of her mother to shrink back from
this IN Tho next day tho colonel
had taken hor to nh a%ssignntion house.
"Think OF It," the lawyer shouted.
II havO thought OF It," Judge Wilson
romarkod to him. Thon Mr.. Butter.
worth slapped thrco jurors on the knee
In succession rs no retiOarsed Miss Pol.
lard's description Of tho colonel's Hat.
terry.
you lcpcr," hc shouted to tho
colonel. "why did no. she fly away. and
leave you"
Ho told how Miss Pollard, after 70.
sistinr tho colonel In tho carriage aud
tho Cincinnati %assignation house, had
felt ready to tackle him again ut Sarah
Guess, to travel ninety miles with him
IN rn,iaf him Cha Ia So. ,u.n1 -
marry him. She knew OF his wiie aud
children. She knew that 1t would ruin
her aud might ruin him and his daugh.
ter.
Mr.. Buttcrworth said that no was
willing to give Miss Pollard credit for
being u great genius in certain lines,
but the hardest part OF her story to be.
liovc was that part Of 1t which stated
that in that half hour alone in the howell
oil Sarah Guess, while tho defendant
had COMO home 10 his dinner, she had
thought over tho whole mattor, had
given up life, honor, friends aud future,
and had decided I'd enter into Colonel
Brcckinridge's. life. And Mr.. Wilson
would tell that to tho jury as though he
believed it.
The speaker told some funny stories
about Ills boyish escapadea and went on
to compare tho plaintiff to Dolilah, who
had got her hands in the hair Of Samp.
son and then had been willing TO pull
down tho temple over herself 10 accom-.
plish his ruin.
WORKING on SYMPATHY.
Further on he declared that there
was no memcnto OF all those years OF
alleged affection save that little willow
baske. so lately handled by the fingers
OF his dead wife, brought into the case
for no other purpose than to mako his
fault seem more abhorrent. w. G. P.
Breckenridge had mover given to his
mistress the possessions OF his wife be-
fore her grave clothes had crumbled.
II can forgive you for anything else"
said the lawyer to the jury, "but that
he talked to his miscresa OF his dead
wife"
Everybody in Washington knew
what q happy home he had in spite of
these faults, which his family knew.
Yet such were the charges (meaning
the reference to Colonel B~reckinridge's
dead wifc), brought by this woman
who had forgotten her own children
after they had been laid in her arms.
The only way to make n woman forget
her children was to take them away
from her. After she had once clasped
them in her arms sho would follow
them through the gates OF hell.
Mr.. Bu,terworth asked tho court for
an adjournment shortly before four
o'clock. as he was greatly exhausted.
Judge Bradley acceded to the request
and remarking that he had noticed a
largo crowd outside the door, suggested
that Colonel Breckenridge might go out
before the spectators, which the colonel
seemed glad to do.