The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-22

70 make or carry out such a contract with
her. The defendant does not desire to
condone any Offense of which he NAV be
guilty, but he does wish to be judged by
the facts, and not through other things.
HIS MEETING WITH THE PLAINTIFF.
Maj. Shelby then told what he said was
the true story of the meeting between
Miss Pollard and Col. Breckinridge The
defendant saw Miss Pollard on
train when he was looking for his over
coat preparatory to leaving Good
morning, Col. Breckinridge, she said.
Col breckenridge supposed it was some
person he had met but he could not
place her. so he said: 81 suppose / ought
TO know you, but / do not" Then she in
troduced herself, saying that her
father was great admirer
OF John {. Breckinridge, and had
put breckenridge" in her name. After
feW more words they separated. ''Sev-
eral months later, III 1884, the defendant" ,"
said Maj. Shelby, "received a letter from
the plaintiff asking him to come to Cincin-
natl and assist her by his advice, and we
propose to show by this letter-a second
letter-in which she urged him to come 10
the Wesleyn college to see her"
Hold on said Judge Wilson, don't
read that letter"
II won't read it." said Maj. Shelby.
THE VISIT TO THE COLLEGE.
Then he went on to sketch the other
points in the defense. In this second let
ter, he said Miss Pollard had told him
the nature of her business with him in
reply to one from him saying that he
could not come at that time But about
ten days later he had business in Coving-
ton with Gov Stevenson, and while there
he thought Of the request of this young
girl and decided TO 90 to Wesleyan
college, and did go over to Cincinnati for
that purpose on Aug. |, 1854.
Maj. Shelby then referred to Miss Pol
lard age at the time Col. Breckinridge
met her ana he claimed that she was then
not II, but between 20 and 2l wears old.
and he said he would show the jury by
the testimony of DR.. Williams that when
her sister was born in 1866. the plaintiff
was little girl running about the house.
She was born, he said, in 1868, instead of
1866.
THE CARRIAGE RIDE.
Maj. Shelby told of the first converse
tion between Miss Pollard and Col Breck-
inridge about the Rhodes case, and he
conteuded that Miss Pollard admitted
that she had submitted her person to Mr..
Rhodes. Col. Breckenridge advised carry
ing out the arrangement with Rhodes,
and in the course of the conservation, she,
not he, suggested that they go out in
close carriage that night, and
he consented. q am authorized
to state" said Maj Shelby, that
there was no such remark by the de
fendant about a weak throat which
caused him to bring a closed carriage, nor
about headache which compelled him
to fOrego the concert and suggest that
they ride instead. 1t was she who sug-
gested that they ride instead of going to
the concert. and during the course of that
ride Illicit arrangements were esta blished
between them without objection. but
with willingness on her part. They did
not drive until II o'clock that night, but
were back at the college at 10 o'clock.
There was no meeting at the public
library next day to arrange the Rhodes
case; no arrangement for going to Lex
ington; no bogus telegram sent by the de-
fendant as an excuse for her request that
she be allowed to go home"
THE TRIP TO LEXINGTON.
"When he took the train" continued
Mai. Shelby, "he found the plaintit on
it. They travelled to Lexington together.
and she, not he suggested that he take
her to the assignation house OF Sarah
Guest. He was surprised that she knew
about such place, and she said she knew
where it was located. They STAYED there
from that Saturday until the following
Monday, when she returned to Cinciu-
natl, their arrangement having been com
pleted.
Maj. Shelby said he was also authorized
to state that there were no suggestions
made by the defendant that the plaintiff
go to Lexington, but that she went there
and entered the Sayre Institute without
his knowledge and he should never have
known that she was in Lexington until he
met her on the street The illicit rela-
tiOns were continued for several
months thereafter The defendant
had never visited her at Miss
Hoyt's, her boarding place, but
every meeting was at the house of Sarah
Guest. The defendant did not know
when she went to Cincinnati IN February,
1885, to give birth to a child: he did not
know she was in Cincinnati. He did not
try to trace her up, and II am author
lied to deny absolutely counsel con-
tnued, land we will show that there
was no such arrangement made by the
defendant TO conceal the PLAINTIFF s cOndi-
tion, or that he knew anything about her
being in the city of Cincinnati"
a BIRTH TO BE DENIED.
Mai. Shelby said the defense was pre-
pared to show, and would snow, that the
claim of the plaintiff that she gave birth
to child at the Norwood Founding
L a..
he continued, returned to Lexington in
the fall of 1885 and fell in with the plaintiff
again. He had just been elected to con-
gress and was arranging with the
speaker Maj. Shelby to take charge of
all of his law business. Just before
he came to Washington, he received a
note from the plaintiff asking him to
come to see her, and as a consequence
their rela tions were resumed in a meas
ure. Maj. Shelby claimed that during the
visits of Col. Beckinridge to Lexington
during his first term in congress he had
nothing to do with the plaintiff After
the session ended on March 4, 1887, he re-
turned to Lexington and his family being
away and not liking hotel life he took
board at Miss HOyt's, where the plaintiff
was stoppin z, but there was no sugges-
tion that their relations be resumed, and
it was not until after she had horse
back accident in 1887 that there was re-
and then only after she had /.
been to his office several times to see him. |
HER REMOVAL TO WASHINGTON.
That the defendant was responsible for /.
Miss Pollard's coming to Washington /
Mai Shelby denied, and said that on the |
contrary the defendant advised her not (
TO come.
Mai. Shelby asked the jury to carefully /
the statement he had made that .
the plaintiff and the defendant had main /
tanned no relations for eighteen months I
prior to February 1883, when she claimed Z
she had given birth TO a child Mai. Shelby I
claimed that during Miss POllard's resi- !