The herald., 1894-04-02
THE BRECKENRIDGE CASE.
1t Will Hold the Boards Two
Weeks More.
Public Interest in the Trial at
Fever Heat.
The Defendants Cross ss-ExaminatiOn
Eagerly Awaited.
Attorney Wilson Expected to Make 1t
Worry Uncomfortable for the
Colonel - More ssnsa-
tions In Prospect.
BY the Associated Press.


WAsmNeToN, April 1.-Although the
Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, which has
dragged through the circuit court for
three weeks to the excluion OF other
cases equally important from a financial
point, it promises to hold the boards for
two weeks more. Judge Bradley has
enlightened the daily session of the court
by sitting until 4 O'Clock in the after
noon, thus breaking the time honoIsd
custom under which the local courts
have always finished work at 3 .. m.
But despite the addition, which means
gain OF one day week, the lawyers
do not expect TO be able to deliver their
valedictories to the jury before the last
of next week.
Congressman Bleckinridge will con-
tinue on Monday the recital OF his YER
sion of his nine years. intrigue with
Madeline Pollard, and he may consume
the entire day in rounding out bis story.
after which he will pass into
The hands of ex-J JHdge Wilson for cross
examination. From this inquisition
the followers ofthe trial are anticipat-
ing their choicest entertainment, for the
jurist and ex-congressman from Indiana
has we'll earned reputation as the
most trying man who ever sat before
the local bar, to rake a witness. He ia
no reepecter of persons in the court
room, following faithfully the rule that
all men are equal in the eyes of the law,
and no h~s unusual fHcuIty at plan
ming traps for witness, leading him
along different lines of inquiry which
seem harmless, and then combining the
conclusions therefrom into one question
which puts the victim on record in an
other light.
Miss Pollard and lawyers have busted
themselves in taking notes throughout
the colonel's testimony, from which they
expect to draw materitl for cross.exRm-
ination.
The Kentucky colony here has been
keyed up to q frenzy of anticipation re-
garding the course that Colonel Breck.
inridge would take in attempting to re-
fute the testimony of Mrs. Blackbur
Had he accused her of miestating facts.
trouble would have been likely to follow.
for that lady has friends of her own
family who intended TO resent any refec.
tions upon her veracity by other than
legal methods.
A'C oANh AOhbihkOhCy hdb nj tobu 50 ldI,
and no provocation has arisen for
breach of the peace. In the most part
Colonel Breckinrid0e's account of the
episodes to which Mrs. Black burn was
witness has agreed with her statements,
only lie declares the representations OF
an engagement formed q part Of q pre-
concerted plan between him and Mics
Pollard, by which the young woman
could preserve her reputation. OF those
passages OF the interviews of which he
has given an account differing from Mrs.
Black burns, he has said diplomatically
that his recollection differs from hers.
No trouble is expected by the Breck-
inridge forces from the writ issued by
Speaker Crisp summoning him to ap.
pear in the house to help to make q
quorum for the Joy.O'Neil contest. A
formal statement. to the house of the
exceedingly important business which
demands his presence elsewhere will
probably lead the house to make an ex-
ception in his case from the order revok-
ing all leaves of absence which were
Issued last week.
There will be but little testimony for
the defense after Colonel Breckinridpe
leaves the stand, and most of that will
be in the form of depositions. The re-
buttal for the plaintiff will come then.
in which Miss Pollard herself will prob
ably take the stand again and the old
principal of the Wesleyan college will be
called to refute the testimony OF Rankin
Roselle, to whom Miss Pollard was en-.
gagged in 1889.
DR.. Brown will testify that Roselle
could not have come to the college three
times week, because the rules of the
school, which we're strictly enforced.
permitted visitors only on Friday nights,
and then only in the presence of a
teacher. and that Miss Pollard was only
permitted to kiss Roselle goodbye under
the teachers gaze.
After the rebuttal there may be wit
nesses for sur-rebuttsl, and finally will |
come the closing arguments of the at
torneys, from whom the city 10 expecting
great etforts.
Since the belligerent outbreak at the
beginning of the triAl, the personal re.
lations between the attorneys have
been visibly strained, although thev |
have for the most part observed scrupu- |
lous courtesy in the court room. Mr.. |
Shelby, the law partner of Mr.. Breckin- |
ridge, at whose expense the papers were |
to make fun because of his |
belligerence. has shown himself one OF |
the most mild-mannered ATTORNEYS in |
the csse. Although he has not expressed
regret for his early action, he has ire.
quently deplored the necessity for it.
which, under the code of honor which |
obtains in his section, made it impera-
tive upon him to resent the remarks OF
Mr.. JOhnaOu