New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-23
DID NOT KNOW MISS POLLARD
SEVERAL DEPONENTs SAY SHE WAS NOT
AT THE FOUNDING ASYLUM IN 1884
EVIDENCE TO SHOW THAT SIZE WAS OLDER
, THAN SEVENTEEN WHEN SHE NET

, THAN SEVENTEEN WHEN SIZE MET
COLONEL BREcKiNRIDGE-AN INN
TEREsTING DAY IN COURT.
WASHINGTON. March 22.-The Greary reading Of
documentary evidence. the noting and arguing or
objections and the taking Of exceptions made this
the uninteresting day of the Pollard Breckn-
ridge trial since it began, two weeks ago num-
Der of dispositions taken by the defence were read
70 the jury. and a great deal Of the cVdence IN
them was objected to by the paintiNs counsel 80
many were the objections and the exceptions noted
that at the request of dr. Carlisle Judge Bradley
set Saturday next for hearing argument on thelr
adnissibllity.
Miss Pollard was in court for Few minutes and
seemed in good spirits.
The dispositions read to-day were al taken in Cii-
cinnati and in Kentucky ana they related 20 Miss
Polards claims that she had given birth 10 a. child
IN St Joseph's Founding Asylum. near Cincinnati
in 1881: 10 her school life, and the first VISIT OF
Colonel Breckenridge to her and to her age. TWO
Sisters and others connected with ST. Joseph $
Asylum made depositions tlat they did no, recog-
nzc Miss Pollard Inmate OF the Asylum AT
any time and several persons who knew Miss Pol
lard in childhood and grihood testified that she
was apparent in the neighborhood of twenty or
twenty-five years In iSH when she met Coionei
breckenridge and when she claims her age was
seventeen.
The physician who attended her mother at the
birth of a daughter named Rosalnd. In october or
November 1865. deposcd that another daughter
called Matte" then running about the mousse
and looked two three years old.
Orvn c. Brown. president of the Quinn NaHey
College the son Of DR.. ". *. Brown, president or
Wesleyan College, in Cincinnati where Miss Pol
lard was a student, was of the Opponents, and
said that he first knew Miss Pollard in the ran OF
lSsS when she came to Wesleyan CciieGe where
he was then Iier beard ana tuit:on-i-,o- wa 10
be paid by Mr.. Eodes. but all Of i had rHt pcel
paid Miss Pollard while at the college, had Said
according the deposition that she was related 10
or knew nearly all the prominent peope Va , m,
lucky. once, when she returned from Vi:i 10
some relative in Kentucky who wa III MiSS ~
lard said Mr.. Brown, had told he; schoo; -le!0hs
she did not Know what to Go. She mentioned
those who called Colonel brechlIiHsg o r,i
Senator BLACKBURN and there W. 80 i,,' ~ -is
named that it became quite Pike aincAs th1 s,a,E
these people. Mr. Brown said there vas away t;t
these Drorninent men and out OF this the girls nick
named her Madeline Vivian Bill BTeckrrlusc JOG
Mr. Grown found that ne had entered Miss POI,
ards name on his books as m p n torIes
II was in June 1881 Gust subsequent TO ;he meetLne
Of Colonel Breckinridee ard the pai n5 ,b ss
Miss Pollard began Calming KiisAlp VIZ" '''''0
Mr. Brown was questioned concerning the c rsa-
never Of ihe college and answered that they sus,
1ansl h of any nj guR
recently had Miss Pol.ards letter 10 McsSie
Brown, saying she consumed with an undy S.i
love for the Professor. Conc rning the nr"i WISH
OF Colonel Breckenridge 10 the college. MI BroWn
said he remembered that ne was severely cr.tcisei
at the time for allowing Miss Pollard to 50 out
alone with the defendant. . -
Mr. Brown testified that he was absolutely cor
tain Miss Pollard had received no teiegrams sum
monng her home August 8, 1854 for he was IN
charge OF the college at the time AMI Miss Po,ard
would have come to him for PERMISSION MISS
Pollard testified tia; Colonel BreckinridEe n f hcr
mothers name sunmoning her home on the date
named in order that she might so to Lexington with
him. ,.l .,u
Saturday 49, ,eo
lawyer here was at the Rev. DR.. Paxtcns mousse
in New-York the evening of the secret InarrlaSe
81 C'ongressnnan Brcckinridge Mrs. Wing. He
had accompanied his sister Kate Insolvency. 10 me
Paxton house 10 return call On entering the
house the first person he recognized was Cot0hcl
Brecknridge whom he had met in Wooster when
the Colonel lectured here. DR.. Paxton introduced
to the callers strange woman present as my
COUSIN from Kentucky ard laughingly said they
had lust been having little meeting In reference
u reunitins the Presbyterian CnurcA. North ana
South" The woman was evidently Mrs Wing.