The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-28
Miss Po11ard's Alleged In
discretion Dissected by
an Expert.
FOUND BY THE PRIVATE SECRETARY
A Young Man on the Witness
Stand Who Rugged the Plain
tiff at School.

| July ~, 1854, signed with MISS IonS1u
name and which she claims is forgery
This is the letter in which Colonel Breckin-
ridge is invited to call on Miss Pollard at
Wesleyan College and in which the alleged
writer says the defendant has such nice
face and in which she also makes this signi-
ficant remark, 81 think have prepared you
for divorce case, but listen, it is worse
than that"
! When the court was convened this morn
ing Mr.. E. B. Hay, who was on the stand at
adjournment yesterday. was recalled, ana
his cross-examinatlon as an expert In hand
writing was continued by Judge Wilson for
| the plaintiff. The geniaity of Mr.. Hay per-
| vaded the whole court room, and served to
make less prosy his technical answers about
detecting forgeries. Specific comparison OF
letters was the best test. he said.
| sNow, Mr. Hay said Judge Wilson, did
| YOU testify before an investigating commit
| tee of Congress as to the authorship OF
| letter addressed to Congressman Springer,
of Illinois?"
| ssYes, sir,r said Mr.. Hay.
| 81 was on that committee" said Major
| Butterworth.
| ssYes, / know you were,' said Judge Will
son, ssand you wrote the report
| "No, didn't write the report said Major
Bntterworth, but it was good one"
"Yes, it was splendid report" answered
Judge Wilson. s'and if you didn't write 1t
you signed it."
| The reason the introduction of this invest1-
CATION into the trial was apparent from
| what followed. Judge Wilson wanted TO
show that the expert on the stand, Mr.. Hay,
| had given an opinion directly oppoSlte TO
| that given this morning. Judge Wilson
| x <.ff fef,f,f
investigating COMMITTEES which, he said,
| was appointed to determine, among other
| things, whether the letter written to Mr..
| Springer was genuine or forged. 1t was
| supposed, !" said Judge Wilson, that man
named Findlay had written the letter"
| Judge Wilson read the following question
| and answer from the report
| Ouestion-Do you rely more on general
| characteristics than on specific compar1-
sons2
/ Mr. Ray-I do
This was apparently direct contradiction
Of what Mr.. Hay had said this morning The
printed CODY of the testimony in the Springer
| investigation showed that Mr.. Hay had said
| that a test by general characteristics was the
| first test, if not the best test. Mr.. Hay made
an explanation tending to reconcile the two
| statements.
ERRORS OF EXPERTS.
| Judge Wilson had Mr.. Hay tell how he
| detected forgeries and as to methods pur-
sned by initators. He asked Mr. Hay if he
! had not testified in court that certain
paper, which turned out to be genuine, was
a forgery Mr.. Hay said he did
testimony. Later on Judge Wilson
| refreshed his mind by reference to the
| case of Carrigan and others. who were
| charged with forging vouchers for medical
| supplies for the Navy Department. Mr.
| Hay said, in answer to Judge Wilson, that
| he was sure he had not testlfled that one OF
| the vouchers was forgery when it after
| wards was proved to be genuine 1t turned
| out that Mr.. Hay was not concerned in the
| instance cited by Judge Wilson
! Judge Wilson asked if it were not fact
! that experts were brought from all parts of
the country to testify concerning the dubious
| Findlay letter before the Congressional Com
mittee and that they differed greatly as to
| its authenticity or its spurlousness. Mr..
| Hay admitted that this was so.
| ssHow many experts were thereg asked
| Judge Wilson.
Il don't know, said Mr.. Hay, "but if you
| ask me whether ever got my money for
testifying, can answer you. l worked
| twenty-five days and Congress has not paid
the bill yet"
| Congress never does pay bills when it
can get out of doing 1T, said Mr. Butter
worth, who ought to know.
| There was considerable byplay between
| Judge Wilson and Major Butterworth over
the testimony and findings in the Findlay
case and Major Bntterworth finally ex-
| claimed I'VE Republicans wrote q report
SAYING that Findlay wrote the paper, while
| the Democrats wrote report saying it was
| q forgery-that's all there was to it
Judge Wilson wanted Major Butterworth
to explain how he came to his conclusions in
/ the Eindlay investigation, but Judge Brad
| lev would not allow this 'sThat won't do,n
he said to Judge Wilson.
| THE PRIVATE SECRETARY.
| Mr. Worthington, private secretary to
Colonel Breckinridge, was the next witness.
He said he resided in Lexington and prior
| to coming to Washington in December
| last he had been acting as stenographer
in the Office of Breckinridse 81 Shelby.
Major Shelby, who examined the
| witness. showed him the alleged forged
letter and asked him to tell where and
| when he first saw it. Mr.. Worthington tes-
| titled that he found the letter in bunch of
\ correspondence in an old file case in Col
onel Breckinridges office. The bundle was
on top of desk which had been used by
| Colonel Breckenridge. The pile had the
| the desk for long while. He found no
other letters puTporting to be written
| by Miss Pollard The search for the letter
was made during the first or second week in
| September last, after the breach OF promise
\ suit had been filed. The search Mr.. Worth
bOAi S<AAA3 S<NpSAtASN~ StS4 e-<~ " ~ AS>taA
days.
1Yes, SIR said Mr. Worthington
/ The witness said he did not know whether
or not Colonel Breckinridge's personal cor
respondence was contained in the file where
| the package was found. His recollection
was that .s1S84p appeared on the wrapper
which enclosed the bundle containing the dis
puted letter.
he HUGGED BIER AT SCHOOL.
The defence introduced veritable sur
| prise, almost sensation, when it called Ran
| kin II. Rosell as the next witness. He is the
young man who said in his deposition that
Miss Pollard wanted him to take her to
church when they were engaged. Miss Pol
lard admitted the engagement. Resell is a
| young looking man. He was dressed neatly,
| and wore the conventional black string tie of
Southern rural parts
( He testified that he was employed in dry
goods store at Cincinnati when he first met
| Miss Pollard. She introduced herself to
him, saying that she had often heard rela-
tive in Kentucky speak of him. He accom-
panied her to the college, where he obtained
permission to call upon Miss Pol
lard. He did so two Or three
times week. On most of the
occasions he saw her alone. They became
engaged and Miss Pollard was very affection
ate She would sit on his lap and caress
| and kiss him At this point Of the testimony
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