Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-22
WHEELING w. VA THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH %. 1894

was enormous. ono WAS AHOWh lHS-
mately by Mrs. Blackburn as young
and agreeable woman from the same
State. There was talk as TO why Miss
Pollard was seen so much with Colonel
Breckenridge. She told him this
and that she had explained TO Mrs.
Blackburn that they we're engaged. He
told her that it was his purpose to tell
Mrs Blackburn frankly the relations
which had existed between them. She
implored him not to make known their
relations, not to expose her then, bat 10
give her one mere chance TO make a
place for herself in the world, protect
her so far as to admit the engagement
TO Mrs. Blackburn, then she would 60
to New York and gradually die out or
his life. By the aid Of his admission in
that way she could get out OF his life,
out of Mrs. Blackburn's life, and out OF
Washington. 1t seems as though any
man might have seen the danger OF
such an arrangement, the lawyer said.
In the latter part OF March she had
told him that Mrs. Blackburn wanted
20 see him. He had gone and they had
talked her over, he telling Mrs. Black
burn, in
HIS DESIRE TO SHIELD HER,
that she was an imprudent girl. During
this time, at Mrs. Thomas's house, %
Lafayette Square, she had attempted 10
shoot him and only by the merest OF
accidents, had he been able TO disarm
her. He went 10 Kentucky without ac-
ceding TO her demands. According 10
his best recollection the interview be-
tween himself, Mrs. Blackburn and Miss
Pollard, occurred the third or fourth OF
April. Then she induced him to fall
into her hands. She had made an at
tack on his life and held over him what
was worse than death-the happiness OF
his family. In moment OF weakness,
in order to give this woman a chance TO
begin life for herself, he permitted this
woman to assume a relation which never
did exist and could not have been toler-
ated by him.
Resuming his statement after the
noon recess, Col. Shelby declared that
Miss Pollard had claimed that her first
confinement had resulted in miscarri-
age, and that she never intimated TO
him that she had a child by him. The
basket which had belonged to the
colonel's first wife had never been given
10 Miss Pollard, but had been taken by
her from his room. Returning to the
events In New York following Colonel
Breckinridge'S marriage, Mr.. Shelby
asserted that Miss Pollard had come to
the Hoffman House, found that he was
stopping there, secured a room next TO
his and
REGISTERED AS HIS DAUGHTER.
When Colonel Breckenridge entered at
noon on Monday, May 1, she attempted
TO shoot MIN, standing in the gassage
way between the two rooms. BE had
slammed the door, He had threatened
10 have her arrested, ringing Cor bell
boy, but on her entrance had told her to
place the revolver against his door,
close her door, and he would have the
boy take the revolver. He took the re-
volver, after he heard her lay it down,
and in the interview which followed she
had made all sorts Of protestations and
promises to leave him. The next day
they left the Hoffman House. Mrs.
Blackburn arrived in New York, sent
for him for consultation about law
suit she was interested in, and Incl
dentally Mrs. Blackburn asked an ex-
panation of the presence Of himself and
Miss Pollard in New York, TO which be
replied that ne could not give an ex-
PLANTATION then.
The circumstances Of Miss Pollard's
visit to the Jefferson Place house, where
Colonel Brecklnridge'S wife was with
him, was explained. 1t was declared
that Mr.. and Mrs. Breckinridge were
leaving the room because she was in her
wrapper, when Miss Pollard told him
that she wanted TO see him on import
ant business. They went out together.
Miss Pollard again threatened his life
on the street. The visit to Major Moore
followed. Colonel Breckinridge, SAID
the attorney, was then about to reveal
all the circumstances Of their connec-
ton, but
SHE AGAIN DIsSUADED hin.
Again at the house on Lafayette Square,
Miss Pollard attempted TO shoot him,
but was foiled, and strange though it
might seem, even then Colonel BrecEin-
ridge had been again induced, under
her renewed promises, to go TO New
York to visit Mrs. Blackburn and Major
Moore with her.
On the visit to Or. Lincoln, he had
told the doctor to do when he could to
make her comfortable, assuming, as she
had told him, that DR.. Lincoln knew OF
her condition, because the day after the
interview, Miss Pollard did do as she
had agreed and did go TO New York
Colonel Breckenridge began to carry
out his agreement TO do what he could
for her, had written her letters implOr-
ing her not TO do what would make 10
impossible for him TO do what was best
for her, To further force him, she had
given an announcement Of the alleged
enQapement 10 the papers, had
written him that he must renew his
promise ia a letter, to which he had Of
course paid no attention. Then fol-
lowed his public marriage to Mrs.
Wing in July. In such case, the
character of the plaintiff was necessarily
an issue, and particularly where she
claimed that the defendant had
seduced her. No man was liable
morally or legally for not doing
a thing which was morally i'm
possible. When Miss Pollard met Colo
mel Breckinridge she was q matured
woman at least 81 years OF age, She
had denied the fact OF mock marriage
with Alex Julian, had explained the ma
ture Of her relations with Mr.. RoSell,
but aflidavits from these men would be
read with evidence that before she met
Colonel Breckenridge she had been seen
AT AN ASsIGNATIoN HOUSE.
The "WssSie" Brown letter showed she
had been in soma sort Of relation with
Rosell and othsrs.
AT this point in the statement the OBJ
lection was offered by Mr.. Wilson aud