Show VILLIE VENT ff11 O T 1IllIIiS A CHAPERONK k There Is Where the Whole Trouble Came In AN AWFUL WARNING TO ALL GRANDPAPAS Had He Heeded the Curfew He Would Not Have Suffered Never Even Proposed Marriage to the Naughty Girl and She Wan Real Mean and Wicked Besides AVIien She Even Intimate That He Did Had Willies Mamma Been Aliie He Would Probably Hntc Gone Home and Told Her A That Maddle VnK a rile Forward For-ward and He Did Not Care to Meet Her Again But He Didnt Washington March SO Chapter two of the story of the story of the Breck inridge case was told today I consumed con-sumed the whole session of the court and still the narrative remains incomplete incom-plete From the second meeting at t the Lexington house of assignation I kept by Sarah Goss in 1SS4 down to the late spring of 1893 the recital wound its way along a path stormy with pistols illegitimate children clandestine wih iegitmate chidren can destine interviews and secret mar destne riage more of intrigue than one would I suppose could be contained in the life elderly gentle I of such a mildlooking gente man as the one who leaned over the witness box and told it all in a mat teroffact way occasionally dropping into a jest Before him sat the woman who is willing to emulate Samson by dragging herself with the temple find the only disturbing factor in this scene She persisted in growing agitated and once she made an outcry demanding U demand-ing to know why the defendant could not tell the truth but Judge Bradley warned her firmly and kindly that she must exercise control over herself or y leave the room There is a wealth of detail in the defendants story he binds i about him with many extraneous matters and throws an atmosphere of high life over it weaving in with his meeting with Miss Pollard allusions to the many political po-litical events in which he has taken part the hools he has addressed the confederate reunions he has attended at-tended the banquets to which he has been called as an honored guest the ladies le had taken to call on Mrs Cleveland even the dinner of the Reform Re-form club in New York at which MrS Mr-S < Uterwortn observed Speaker Crisp lid not speak HOW I WAS LURED Chapter I of the Romance of a Gii Old nJ Washington March aThe Pollard BreGklhridge case was resumed this nidrning with the defendant again on the stand Butterworth began His examination by Buterworth gan by an exhibition of a work basket which belonged to his wife which Miss Pollard asserted he gave her after the wifes death Breckinridge denied absolutely ab-solutely that he gave i to her or even knew that she had it till the trial was opened The circumstances of their first visit to the house of Sarah Goss the colored col-ored assignation house keeper at Lexington Lex-ington was then taken up Witness said he met her on the train to Lexington Lex-ington and an arrangement was made I to meet at the house mentioned that 4 evening They went there but could not get in Finally I was arranged that she should wait awhile for Sarahs return while Breckinridge should go later and if the home returning i keeper keep-er of the house returned in a reasonable there reason-able time she would find plaintiff After Supper He went Back He returned after taking supper with his family and found her there She made no resistance or protestation protesta-tion there carrying out the arrangement arrange-ment made on the train He left her there as she did not want to take the risk pf being discovered coming out with the understanding that she would slip out during the course of the day i a favorable opportunity was offered I if not she would be there the next T night He returned the next night and found her still there He remained till 10 p I Everything in her appearance and conduct indicated that she was a fully developed and experienced woman Nothing was ever said then or until the filing of the suit about his having seduced her physically or otherwise at the meeting at Sarah Goss on August a Au-gust 2 ind he did not see her again i till the next October at the Sayre institute in-stitute Lexington He declared that if she received any one in her room there at night I was not he While Miss Pollard was absent from Lexington Lexing-ton in the spring of 1885 when she said her first child was born witness de ciared he had no knowledge of her whereabouts and no communication with her He further denied having written the alleged letters to Rhodes and Miss Pollards mother about this time tme tmerclK of n Series of Vihits Breckinridge then in response to further questions detailed the story of his relations with plaintiff declaring they were frequently interrupted for months at a time and once for a year He told of a series of visits to an assignation as-signation house In Cincinnati At Sarah Goss house and elsewhere he paid the expenses aid gave plaintiff mory The first time he was informed in-formed by plaintiff that she was fored plaintf tat pregnant preg-nant by him was in the summer of 1887 The first time he ever heard of her pregnancy he called her to Cincinnati Cincin-nati in he fall of 1892 She afterwards said the pregnancy of 1887 resulted in a legitimate miscarriage in her mothers moth-ers house with her mothers knowledge knowl-edge p0 During this evidence Miss Pollards Triends had difficulty in keeping her eilenL S He denied that it was on account of his Importunities that she came to Washington and dedared that she came in spite of his efforts to dissuadeS S her pointing out the danger to both S from such a course In reply to a question as to the truth of the statement by Miss Pollard that he had on two occasions after protestations pro-testations of love promised to marry her Breckinridge said 5 There is not a scintilla of truth in that ifixtement not a shred Under no clrcunstances at no time was there such a statement Plaintiff never alluded S al-luded to the possibility of It Before S the death of my wife there was no solitary word that could be distorted str t 1 into such a thincr S S He Recognized the Danger He further declared that she never o 0 j C t old him she gave birth to a living hild I she had i would have given him an excuse for breaking off the re ations for considering the time of those relations it was impossible that the child could have been his From November 18S5 to July 1887 there were no improper relations between them They were resumed after that during the time she was in the Academy of Visitation He paid her expenses even when not sustaining those relations recognizing the danger of scandal in view of her temper and disposition Breckinridge declared Some of our interviews were more excessively Unpleasant un-pleasant than any words can describe She would come to me at the capitol in my committee room declare she was not going to leave she was going to have the support owing to her I suppose sup-pose at times I became excessively angry an-gry arid said things hard and bitter I knew the only alternative was submission submis-sion or the destruction of a wife whose life was depending on me and I let it go on hoping that tomorrow would brIng a solution of the problem I would tel her in every way from the gentle to the most severe that she was becoming be-coming more and more disinclined and unable to care for herself Her manner oftentimes was extremely disagreeable I Endorsed Her Moral Character At the afternoon session Breckin ridge denied that he was concealed in her room when Miss Pollard broke the engagement with Roselle Then two applications by the plaintiff for a position In the civil service at Washington endorsed by defendant who vouched for her good moral character char-acter and reputation were identified by witness Breckinridge then detailed the substance stance of a long conversation he had with old man Rhodes who undertook to educate Miss Pollard on the condition condi-tion that she would marry him After stating these facts and declaring that he was very much in lovewith her he told the witness that he Rhodes ought to marry her that things had occurred between them that made it necessary for him to marry her and he intended to do so though she seemed to have taken a dislike to him Why Cant He Tell the Truth Miss Pollard broke forth sobbing and exclaimed Thats not true why cant he tell the truth about something Breckinridge continued saying he told Miss Pollard of this talk with Rhodes declaring t her that after Rhodes revelations rev-elations it would be impossible that any other relation could ever exist between them In refutation of Miss Pollards statement that at his request she returned turned from New York to Washington in August 1893 and that he met her at the depot kissed her took her in a carriage and promised to marry her he declared he was not in Washington at that time and she was not there either so far as he knew No such occurrence happened He saw her in New York on September 20 for the first time during the summer They met at the Hoff man House She said she had an opportunity op-portunity to go abroad and study with young ladies of a good family i Breck inridge would represent that she was engaged to be married to him in two rears This was the first time the subject of marriage had been broached he continued I said I had not enough money but wpuld not let that stand in the way that under no circumstances circum-stances would I consent to any representations repre-sentations of an engagement Not Open to Negotiations I S She said she could go abroad study modern languages and come back in I two years fitted to be my wife I said that could never be that I was not open to negotiations of that sort Witness and Miss Pollard nad looked over his offices together She had figured fig-ured that the cost would be 100 a month but he had expressed his willingness lingness to give her 125 and her traveling trav-eling expenses The witness added Her final answer at our next meeting meet-ing at the same house was she would I never go except as my affianced she would go back to Washington and be there when I arrived I We parted with considerable anger At our next meeting she said she did not want to part in that way that I must not think her a devil or a fiend I put her into a cab saying You know there can be no such thing a i marriage between us and this affair if you persist can only < nd in public ity and that will destroy us both When did you first hear that the i plaintiff claimed you had engaged yourself t marry her ingge In a communication to hat effect In the Washington Post which I understood was inspired by her and thereafter I received several letters from her to the same effect Now interposed Mr Wilson aris ing we want those letters I have destroyed them retorted the defendant I have orocured all the letters I have from her to my knowledge Wanted to Get Rid of Her The testimony then drifted into the circumstances and conversations concerning con-cerning the efforts of the defendant to induce the plaintiff to leave the city to prevent the scandal which would certainly come sooner or later if Miss Pollard remained in the city Then he related a conversation when Miss Pollard had come to him in dis tress because Mrs Fillette and another lady had been talking about her the witness saying I told her that this was what I had always expected that such affairs always must come to an end and urged her to go away a she had promised so many times and let the scandal blow over My name was not coupled with that but I said I would be if the thing went on Mrs Fillette had not mentioned my name I was other parties She said that she could not have such scandal against her name that she had a revolver re-volver with which she had intended to shoot herself If such stories ever came out I made light of them She told me afterwards that she had gone to Mrs Blackburn that Mrs Blackburn had talked with Mrs Fillette and found the charges did not effect the chastity of the plaintiff that she was charged with being an adventuress that it was said she lived by her wits had no means of support and did not pay her debts She insisted that I must go to Mrs Blackburn and tell her the relations between us were such that Mrs Blackburn must stand by her Colonel Breckinridge said he had refused re-fused at this time to do soOn so-On several occasions the witness said the plaintiff had declared her intention in-tention of committing suicide saying she had destroyed all her detroyed al manuscripts including the manuscript of a novel she was writing and that she had given away her clothes She had once said to the witness that if he did not help her out in the matter she did not intend to allow him to live that she did not intend to bear the disgrace alone He had told her there would be no difficulty about It if she would leave Washington as she had promised and that he would pay her expenses wherever wher-ever she went In one of these conversations con-versations when she was apparently consoled she got up and went into the I library and came back shortly and pointed a pistol at him threatening to kill him S The Colonel Uses Stratesry By strategy he had been enabled to take i away from her before she could do any harm He kept the pistol and it was the same weapon she had taken from his valise with which she attempted at-tempted his life in New York That scene he said was followed by an al Continued on Page 3 il |