The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-27
DISPOSITIONS AGAINST Her.
Testimony Concerning Miss
PoIlard's Character introduced.
The Third Alleged Engagement of Mar.
riage Announced In Court Yesterday.
Some of the Dispositions Excluded by
Judge Bradley-Her Blind Barnabas
Gave Her Better Reputation Than
Was Anticipated.


WASHINGTON. March 90 The trial of
the Pollard Breckenridge case dragged
YEARLY to day. 1t was a day of deposit
tions mostly intended to establish an
alfbi on behalf Of the defendant as to
certain dates testified to by the plain
tiff.
Uninteresting as the dispositions were
as a rule there was one NEW point
brought out. and that was that Miss
Pollard had been engaged to another
man not previously mentioned in the
case. This makes the third engage
ment contracted by her that mas been
brought TO light
The time when Colonel Breckinridge
will take the stand, If he does so at ali,
appears still somewhat rem )te. he is
not likely to be called uoon TO testify in
his own behalf before Wednesday after.
noon. Governor Mathews. of Indiana,
and his staff, and mem bers of the
Princeton baseball team were interested
listeners at the trial to day.
Mas Pollard was not in court at the
opening, but Colonel Breckenridge was
Judge Bradley's decision wa. rendered
promptly after the court was called to
order.
deposition of one Kaufman was
admitted, but Judge Bradley said If he
could have suppressed the dispositions
of Brand Coffin and one Hawkins, on
the ground that they were too filthy to
be read, he would have done so, but
unfortunately he could not overlook
their legal rights.
The depositions of Mrs. Miller and
w. w. Resell were not overruled, but
were admitttd subject to objections to
specify questions when they were read.
Mr.. Carlisle took exception to tho
ruling of Judge Bradley with reference
to the dispositions that were not over
ruled.
The first deposition read was that of
Jos. G. Bailey, OF Versailles, Ky, who
is clerk of tho Woodford county court,
who produced his records to show that
w. G. p. Brec9inridge had been an
attorney for R. r. and o. D. Brown in
their trial for murder in 1884. The
record showed that the Brown case was
up in court on August S, 1884, at the
time when Miss Pollard testified that
Colonel Breckenridge had met her at
the house of Sarah Guest in Lexington
a few days after the alleged betrayal.
The deposition Of VIM. G. Wood,
carpenter OF Lexington, was read next
This was one of the dispositions ad-
mitted this morning to evidence, SUBJ
ject to specific objection He had met
Madeline Pollard, he said, at thes house
OF Mrs. Kean at Snykoway, near Lex
ington. about May, 1882, and at Miss
Pollard's invitation he called again and
again, and within q couple of months he
and Miss Pollard became engaged 10 be
married. The deponent said he was 40
years old at the time and Miss Pollard
was young woman.
There was stir in the courtroom as
Mr.. Stoll said: 81 will read the depo.
sition of Mr.. Aleck Julian" TIL, de.
ponent said he was 42 years old, lived
near bridgeport, Ky, and had known
Miss Pollard about fifteen years Mr.
Julian is blind, and Miss Pollard has
ferred TO him as MY blind sweetheart-
my modern Barnabas" He was not
blind when he met Miss Pollard about
1879. The nigh, Of December "a, 1889,
Christmas eve, four months after he
became blind, he had spent at tho
house of Squire Tinsley. Miss Pollard
was there too.
The next morning Miss Pollard and
the rest OF the company drank egg
nogg. Then they went into the parior
one proposed that he and Matte"
should marry. Squire Tinsley came in
just then, very hilarious. and Miss
Matte said: Here is a man who will
marry me-" and the squire performed
mock marriage for them. Julian and
Miss Matte sat in the parlor alone for
while after this. and Miss Pollard,
who had been drinking TOO much, pro-
posed tina, as they were married, thew
should go to bed. They went upstairs
and Julian sat down on the side of the
bed, and just then somebody asked for
them from down stairs, and Squire
Tinsley's daughter came running UP to
the room.
Julian said in cross examination that
Miss Pollard was "as nice a girl as
there was in the community SO far az
her virtue was concerned" and he had
never seen her nor heard of her doing
anything that was not modest and
chaste with the exception Of the mock
m arriage, and that the incident that
followed was a result of her intoxica-
ton.
This concluded the reading OF the
deposition, and the court adjourned
until to morrow morning.
Admiasion with ice cream check or mask
20 cents, at the Guards Carnival this week