The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-03-31

woman to come. I protested npainst
her coming. She said ono morning II
was absolutely necessary for me to see
hor and mot her that night whom she
said sho icarod sho was pregnant; that
II was not At all a mattor Of certainty,
but II she was so there was nothing eiao
loft for her 10 do but 20 somewhere" 4
stop thero," interrupted Mr.. But.
tcrworth. "Dld aho say tho pregnancy
was by you?" : M :.
SHE WENT TO WASHINGTON. INV
"Of course. Tho conversation was OK.
cesslvoly unpleasant. I refused to fur.
nish the money. 1t was matter OF
doubt Only two months had passed
since our relations had boen resumed.
told hor that for her to como to Wash.
ington might be. disastrous to horself
and to inc. Aftorward I paid tho
money which sho borrowed to como to
Washington. The conversations were
excessively unpleasant. It was somo
timo In the month Of September, 1887,
that ahe came. J. reached hero on the
evening OF November 8 and returned to
Lexington tho next day. I saw tho
plaintiff on the street near Washington
Circle. She informed mo that aho was
In q Catholic institution at that ond OF
tho town aud said there was no doubt
OF her condition. I returned to Wash
ington again tho first Sunday in Decom.
Dor, bnt did not SEQ tho plaintiff for
thrcc months. The plaintiff had moved
to tho Academy OF tho Visitation on
Massachusetts, avenue, but saw her at
tho capitol"
"Were these changes made in purau.
ance of your suggostions?"
They were not. I received several
letters from the plaiutif saying her
health was very bad. sent her money
at tho general delivery, whatever she
wanted. She controlled that"
Tho plaintiff has said that on two
occasions. after protostations of love,
you aaid you would marry her II it was
possible" &,..
There Is not scintilla OF truth in
that ssatement-not n shred. Under no
circumstances, at no timo was there
such q statement. Tho plaintiff mover
alluded to the possibility Of it. Before
the death OF my wife thero was not n
solitary word that could be distorted
into such thing"
Tho colonel was very deliberate and
emphatic and continuing, declared that
she had never told him she gave birth
to q living child, nor did he believe it
until he beard tho testimony of DR..
Paraous. saying: "She said th at the acc
ond time she had miscarriage result
ing from her poor health. II she had
told me sho had borno living child 1t
would have given me an cxcuse to break
OF my relationship with her, for con-
sidoring the time Of those relations it
was impossible that the child could
have been my child"
In paying the expenses OF the second
confinement Colonel Breckinridgo said
at first he had been represented as Miss
Pollard's guardian.
Miss Pollard had informed him that
at the Academy OF the Visitation che
had arranged with tho good sisters to
teach in return for her board, and she
also would receive instruction In some
ofthe higher classics. That seemed an
eminently desirable arrangement, for it
afforded her protection and namc.
Ni"Dnring the two years that she was
there were there any improper relations
between you and the PLAINTIFF"
"Thero was" 49,
"The plaintiff has said that there was
never any suggestion on your part tina,
tho rotations be broken off,"
From November, 1856, to July, 1887,
there wero no improper relations be.
tween us, although was supporting
her. The entanglement between US
really began when she came to Wash.
inston against my will. I frequently
said to her as earnestly as I knew how
that the relations between us could
only result!iu public scandal and per-
haps destruction OF us both; that her
character. lack OF self control and her
temper was such that some day there
must come an exposure. l urged her to
20 any place whore she could study,
offering to pay her expenseg, and saying
tho burden could be no creator on me
than it WAS. Several times though.
she had agreed to 80. once to Cam
bridge.
UNPLEASANT SCENES.
"Sho was there somo time and left
against my will. Then sho told me she
had arranged to 90 on tho papor OF the
proprietor OF Broad Loaf Inn, Joseph
Battell, in Vermont. Some Of our inter.
views WAS more expressively unpleas.
ant than any works can describe. She
would come to mo at tho capitol, in my
committee room, declare that she was not
going to leave, that she was going to
have tho support owed her. sup.
pose at times became excessively angry
and said things that were hard md bit.
tor. ! knew that tho only alternative
was submission or tho destruction OF
the lives OF those who depended upon
INC and let 1t 80 on, hoping that to.mor.
row would bring solution of tho pro.
blem. I would tell hor in every way,
from gentle 10 tho most severe that sho
was becoming moro and moro disin.
clined and unable to caro- for herself.
Her manner was ofton times extremely
disagreeablo.
MORE DESIALs.
All the persons Of tho drama wore
back in their seats after tho noon recess
when Mr.. Buttorworth quoted tho testi-
mony OF Miss Pollard that Colonel
Brcckinridgo was concealed in tho
room when she broke hor engagement
with Rosell.
Colonel Breckinridge denied this, OK.
planning that ho had never been in Miss
lloyts house during tho spring in qucs.
ton. Nor had ho known OF the exist
cnco Of Rosell until ho aaw tho Wossio
Brown letter. Much OF tho testimony
regarding tho visit to Sarah Guests