The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-04

SILL TESTIFYING.
Congressman Breckenridge Undergo
ing Rigid Examination.
He Continues to Tell OF His Relations
With Miss Pollard, Apparently With
holding Nothing Even in self-Defense


stepped 10 the witness stand THIS
morning. The first question which Judge
Wilson asked him was whether he had ever
been In Goldsborough, 10 which ne re-
piled that he had been i'm the little hamlet
once to make a speech at a barbecue,
which he thought was in 1886 or 1883. Dld
not think it could have been in 1888 as no
campaign was In progress.
He did not remember the colored woman
who opened the door at 1919 III street the
day after he took luncheon there in April,
as heretofore testified to, nor having com
plimented her on the luncheon.
ssDid you not say 20 her that when you
and Madeline went to keeping house you
wanted her TO come and cook Tor your"
THAT is entirely faneiful. never said
anything of the sort TO any colored wo-
man."
.'Did she not say that she had been in
service in that family long time ana did
not want to leave?"
"No such conversation occurred"
"Referring to the Colonels statement
that he had made no protestations OF love
TO Miss Pollard on the occasion OF that
momentous carriage ride when seduction
is alleged to have occurred. Mr.. Wilson
asked him when he had first began TO
talk to her affectionately.
81 never did make protestations OF love.
spoke solicitously TO her, particularly
Il
nant by me, having the interest
In her which a man might for young
unmarried woman, who had such circum-
stances in her life, for which he felt that
he was in measure responsible since
their lives had become interviewer"
"Were there expressions which might
be understood by her TO be expressions OF
lover
Colonel Breckinridge wished to
draw the distinction carefully between
expressions and demonstrations. lie said
there was nothing but perfect understand
ing on their part OF their relations that
they went to q house Ola certain character
for certain well understood purpose,
they stayed thera such time as sneir
pleasures or necessities demanded.
~ took her in my arms and kissed her.
There were all the accompaniments oi
such relation, which was carried out
not coldIy or brutality he explained.
sThere were no demonstrations OF love
on her part?"
al would not say that. She was at times
very demonstrative, at times, otherwise"
''Your relations were those of impure
desire rather than lover"
~ would not say that, for we met often
at times when physical intercourse was
impossible. She was young woman OF
talents, sprightly and interesting"
Again Mr.. Wilson led the Colonel to
repeat the distinction between the injury
to the young men and the destruction of a
yonng woman from Illicit relations.
Sand do you think, " he asked, "that
man Is under obligations to prevent the
destruction of young woman?"
"Most assuredly / do, and il he dos
not he should be punished. / have had
my punishment and am trying to take 1T
without complaint"
When Marriage Was Suggested.
Then Mr. Wilson asked when the sub
ject of marriage had been first mentioned
between them, TO which the Colonel re-
piled that it was in September OF 1892
when she first spoke OF going TO Berlin
He had told her that for many reasons
among them the disparity between their
ages, as she was young woman and he
an old man and that since he knew
what he did OF her relations to Rhodes,
and since she had bled him three years
and thrown him away like sucked orange,
marriage between them was impossible.
"You had contract as binding as hers
to Rhodes?N
Much more binding" replied the
Colonel, referring TO his marriage.
Then Mr.. Wilson got his affirmative
answers TO the questions that Miss Pol
lard had associated with the best families
of Kentucky in this city, had lived in
houses OF the highest respectability and
was brilliant young woman.
"Your relations were carefully con-
ceaiedf" asked the attorney, $50 that
there We're no impediments in that di-
rection?n
awe had endeavored TO conceal them,
but they were known TO several people"
"There was never from you any proposal
OF marriage?" "Never under any circum
stances" most emphatically.
s'Then il was understood that you were
to carry out the semblance of marriage
contract which you both understood was
never be fulfilled?"
eThere was the semblance OF contract
to be carried out before only one living
person, and that person Mrs. Governor
Blackburn; and everything that took place
in her presence was for the purpose OF
carrying out that deception.
MIR. Wilson next handed to the witness
a fac simile of the certificate of marriage
between himself and Mrs. Wing in New
York, April %, and made him point out
his handwriting upon it.
s'How many times had you been married
before this?n Mr.. Wilson asked.
"Twice"
isBut you have written here that il was
your second marriage?"
II will tell YOU how that happened.
When came 10 that, ! turned TO Doctor
Paxton and asked him II lmust fill that out.
He was an old friend aud knew all about
1t. He said might say IL had been mar
ried before, that il was my second mar
riage and did IL. lie was suffering from
. nervous headache, and had asked me TO
ill out the certificate"
Wanted Marriage Kept Secret.
In answer to further questions Colonel
Breckenridge said that he had asked DIR.
Paxton to Keep the marriage secret until
the next fail. After the second
public marriage in July he had
written TO the Doctor not to make the
secret marriage public.
"Where did you stop In New York after
your marriage7"
"At the Logereau, a family hotel at 18th
street and Broadway"
"And how did You register?"
Gas VIM. j. Campbell and wife,
"Where did Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell pur-
port TO come from2"
81 do not remember whether / registered
from any place"
"Miss Pollard was then In New York;"
cannot undertake to say whether she
had arrived then"
"You saw certain kilograms to Mrs.
Blackburn then2"
81 do not remember having sent those
kilograms. ] will not say that did not.
would have sent them IL 1 had been
asked to-"