New-York tribune., 1894-04-07
THE EVIDENCE ALL IN.
NO MORE TESTIMONY TO BE TAKEN IN
THE BRECKINRIDGE CASE.
MISS POLLARD CoNTRADIcTs THE KENTUCKY
coLoNEIls ACCOUNT or THEIR FIRST IN


this morning besides the newspaper men ana 'he
interested parties 10 the cause.
Mrs Minear who was the last witness on the
stand yesterday afternoon, was to be the hrst VIII
ness this morning. but after waiting about twenty
minutes for her to appear the Court decided 10
call Dr. Mary Parsons the physician who says she
attended Miss Pollard at the birth OF her chld On
February g. 1SS6.
Dr. Parsons said that she went to the founding
asylum In a cab. and that Aunt Mary Mckenzie
colored midwife. carried the baby into the asylum
The baby said the witness, the one born to the
plaintiff.
Mr. Carlisle showed the witness the slip Of paper
pasted in the founding asylum book with the name
"Dietz Downing" written on it.
do you recognize that handwriting| asked MI
Carlisle
THAT is my handwriting said DR.. Parsons
To Major shelby she said that she had given the
slip to Aunt Mary to pin on the child she eN-
amined the slip and said that there were pnholes
in it, Indicating that it had been pinned to some
thing.
Aunt Mary Mckenzie the next witness
She is Old colored woman. and she testified tha'
she knew the plaintiff in February. 1855 as Mrs
Hall" when she gave birth to a child at the house
of the witness. In Sccond-st., in this city. MIS-
Hail." she said. was also suffering from heart Tou-
bic. Aunt" Mary said that DR.. Parsons attended
Mrs. Hair in her confinement ana described tdA-
ing the child to the asylum.
Mrs Minear was then recalled TO dsprove the
testimony of Colonel Breckenridge that Miss Pollard
was not in Washington 'one Of the last days IN
August 1892" the time fixed by the paintiH wheh
the first alleged promise Of marriage was made.
Mrs Minear produced her clearinghouse account
book which showed that Miss Pollard had returned
10 Washington on August 81, 1892 The plaintiff as
serted that she reached Washington during the last
week in August of that year from a trip North and
that Colonel Breckenridge met her at the station ana
proposed marriage.
~ slno1V he
ness was Calderon Carlisle, Miss Pollard's Junior
counsel He took the oath and asked by Judge
Wilson to tell the circumstances relating TO the
discovery of the Christmas card which it is asserted
was found by Miss Pollard in books she had given
TO the Norwood Founding Asylum. The deposition
of Sister Agnes which read some days ago, con-
veyed the inference that Miss Pollard or one OF tbs
attorneys who with her when she visited the
asylum last December had put the card in the book
more clearly to identify her with the asylum ana
to help the plaintiffs case.
Mr.. Carlisle said that when he went to the asy-
lum with Miss Pollard and Mr.. Johnson. only he
and Sister Agnes touched the books in which the
card was found. Miss Pollard and Mr.. Johnson
about ten feet away from the table where
the books were. Mr. Carlisle said he opened one
of the books and found the Christmas card. II
nclosed in pasieboard cover with an inysi-
bic net, which Miss Pollard recognized one she
had worn, and some dead flowers. The defence
had tried to show. by expert testimony. that the
words written on the card written within a
few years, and surely not 50 long ago as 1888. In
reference to this Mr.. Carlisle said: Il swear to
you oath that these words Compliments of W.
S. D. written this card when l took it
from that book. and that no one but myself could
have put the writing there during the time were
In the library"
William S. Johnson Mr.. Carlisles law partner
who was at the asylum when the card was found
corroborated the testimony of Mr. Carlisle. He also
tsi,pn
brary she said she thought she had left Christmas
card at the asylum when she there in 1885, and
she asked that search be made for it. The card
she said. from William Seymour Davis (the
initials on the card W 5. D..
Miss Pollard took the stand after Mr.. Johnson
She said she had never known and had never
the named Mollie Shuglebauer, or Miller
neither did she know Brant or Kaufman, the men
Pollard also denied knowing Lena Singleton the
keeper Of the house IN which Mollie Snuglebauer
kaufman and Brant sworee they saw her. ,.s.,...
IN Wes4yan Coer ,b % dV he ee ca That yo
had been Improperly intimate with Mr. Rodes?''
Il never did. There could never be a circumstance
which could warrant Inc telling such d lie that
poor old dead farmer" and Miss Pollard emphasizec
Did you ever have any such intercourse with
"No~Mr Carlisle-no-no-no." each negative as
distinct could be in its emphasis.
to YGH he 'HS Of Ra h Of M
Rodes as stated by the Defendant? o-
went to her house, nor saw her gate until went
with my in his through that gate--let me say
that, she cried, raising her hand as Major Shelby
''The defendant says your improper intimacy with
him commenced on August l. The day he came 10
see you at the college,
when he took 10 Sarah Gess's-and he knows
It as well as l." said Miss Pollard. fairly kissing
He says that during the carriage ride on August
Indeed he did not was the emphatic reply
He also says you mentioned the name of George
Eliot as your ideal the night of that carriage ride
Her name was not mentioned. did not ever
speak of George Eliot until l there. in that
miserable over the mattress store. before my
baby was born when he brought me "a set Of
has been a great benefit TO me-. with bow to the
hand at the eohcu0n Of he carrage @
That's as false statement as ever he made; "
said Miss Pollard. with emphasis on the he" AT
no time could any man Put $40 PIN IN m, my hand hand
Breckenridge was away from Lexington and Miss
Pollard in Lexington. in 1886. CORRESPONDENCE passed
There never day in the nine years knew
Mr.; breckenridge when he and were separat-
please conflne Yourself to the question Miss Pol
'.He wi1tc 10 me ali the time He did can me
nv Dear Sister Louise; he did call me- My Dear
spi Ire, and he did use terms that were loving
THE defendant ssys he did not have any TGa, 2a
Hoyi's fS%i S'sh While ~ You ~ We're wei Stopping there
THAT Is not true. spent every night Of those
Miss Pollard also denied the statement OF Colonel
Breckinrdge that he did not know OF her condition
in 1851 "Why. Of course he knew" she said. He
did know. OF course he did
The defendant had never told her at any time
she said. that q marriage between them was i'm
possible. "No. indeed quite the contrary" was her
answer a question whether she had ever agreed
with the defendant that there should be mar
riage between them.
Mr. Carlisle asked II there was any agreement
with them to pretend they were engaged to deceive
Mrs Blackburn. and Miss Pollard answered: "No
indeed. That was made in solemn good faith. and
believed him. and
1--WE object said Major Shelby. and Miss Pol
lard did not answer Then. to the defendants
statement that she had gone with him TO Major
Noore's Office under agreement to have herself
set right with Major Moore. she said:
mo. no. no: there never was such an agreement
and never heard of II before the defendant tod
OF IL on the stand. There could not have been
such agreement. No. no., no." each negative