| Show BRECKINRIDGE l BURNED TO A CRISP I Ask You to Judge Him by His Own Worc HIS LIFE FOR YEARS WAS A LIVING LIE Now He Asks the Jury to Accept His Word as Truth 1 Black at Kcurt He Passed Before tlC Country as a Christian Statesman I States-man I Man High In the Social nml Moral Plane and in the Counsels Coun-sels of the Prewbyterlaii Church I Thompson Retorts by Saying That Iollurd Vas Just as Bad as Breclclnridge I Washington April 10 During the progress of the Breckinridge trial Judge Bradley was engaged in reading a letter let-ter He called Attorneys Carlisle Wil son and Butterworth for a consultation I consulta-tion and finally one juror for further consultation I was probably one of the anonymous letters that have been pouring in by the bushels since the t trial began k Pollard appeared in a most becoming pi hat Breckinridge was paler than r usual Burning Mreelcinrid Attorney Carlisle took up the review of the testimony and devoted himself for the first half hour to the discussion i of Mrs Blackburns testimony commenting com-menting on the testimony of Claude De Laroche Frances a cousin of Ward I McAllister and a nephew of Marquis De Laroche chamberlain of the pope Mr Carlisle laid stress on the fact that I in response for the production of Miss Pollards lett ° rs only those advantageous advanta-geous to the defense were brought forward Later they brought forward a work basket which had belonged to the late Mrs Breckinridge which the colonel had denied giving Miss Pollard and reminded the jury of the testimony of Mary Yancy the colored cook who had seen the pair sitting on a sofa together to-gether with the basket between them Carlisle passed on to the time when Pollard took Breckinridge from the side of his lawful wife with a quotation from Miss Pollards testimony I said come with me will you and he tame and then to the interview in the office of the chief of police where he had sworn closing her hands in his k to marry her on the 31st of May Defendant De-fendant asked the jury to believe his word supported by corroborating testi mony or conduct that the engagement pf marriage hid been a concerted sub I crfuge Judge Him hy His Words The speaker continued I ask you to judge him only by what he has told > ou here on he stand The father Q a family with eight children and a d < A oted wife he tells you that he lived nine years in calm deliberate adultery with this woman not giing away to sudden passion not led by misguided love lust not love was the bond ben be-n on them Diirinc these yeas he was posing before the world as a I Christian statesman a man high in the counsels of the Presbyterian church giving counsel to saints and sinners While his life was a lie he ask you to believe him now on the ground that during half a dozen interviews with Mrs Blackburn a woman of high standing in her state who must have T4on t admiration of every mothers told to her sun in lis box what he i and caned on was a complicated lie I After comparing the social position of the two principals and stating that L SoOftno was little recompense for the I i J harm done Carlisle closed and Colonel Phil Thompson faced the jury Thompson Scores Madeline Colon Tlumpson stated that his client was not responsible for bringing the filth into courL He wanted Pollard fth the bawd and wanton She confessed herself Then followed a terrific arraignment of the plaintiff terrifc arraigment revelations of the testimony in the worst possible colors naming her associates and calling attention and licen tention to her drunkenness lcen tiou less He wanted to known where plaintiff got money to carry on the expensive ex-pensive suit The counsellor had some good words for Tht Hiram Kaufman and John Brandt wioc characters he said toad not been impeached diaracter Miss Pollard denied that she wrote that letter t Breckin 1 ridge sfte lied and had lost the case The letter showed that he had come to the school Iftter on her invitation I had been said this timid little girl would be not approach sd such a b man as Breck Jnndge but she had told how she entrusted en-trusted herself in the same way to Robclle telling she had heard of him from Nellie Oliver and asked him to frm tike her to the school Mrs Brown t had come forward to purify the atmosphere atmos-phere of the school and nobody could blame te because the plaintiff had left a trail of impurity behind her wherever she went Speaking of the plaintiff being under contract to marry Rhodes engaged to 11 man and another mans mistress and bilking another out of IIs money Colonel Thompson exclaimed And a school l gill at that My God i he ever grl Bets out of her short dread wmat a robber and plunderer she AVI 11 be Thompson Oil led Down Judge Bradley here interrupted the stve4h with a remonstrance sang Now Mr Thompson take care not to use such expressions as that What have I used you honor the lawyer inquired You said My G 01 beg pardon that was an in dyer ten < c Colonel Thompson discussed ii e probability prob-ability of the young womui jieccm ranymK Colonel BreckinndKe to an assignation as-signation house in Cincinnati u she claimed the day after a driv when he had made improper advances nJ she had repulsed him After the noon recess Cot Thompson his speech characterising son resum ° d lipa i Pollard as the most skillful ad frituress who ever made a tracK 1Hltlr h a court room He argued worn dates to show that Col Breckin rIdge uld not have been the father of her < first child To give the plain lJst tiff a verdict would fo to convict John Brandt a Hiram Kaufi i TIollie Shin elberger and the defendant of willful gelberger He referred to Miss Pollards itatenifnt to Clause De La Roche Francis that Cot Breckinridge was a lovable and noble man and said the defendant had been the soul of generosity o ity throughout his dealings with the woman Her letters to Rhodes were blind wooden letters to the man who blnd seduced her and she was demand ins money of the poor old man She went at Rhodes booted and spurred and i was stand and deliver telling him he could not come and see her unless T A un-less be put up Were these the e 4 jnands of a schoolgirl to a generous 0 F o j I old man who was furnishing money for her education The Judge Contradicts Him 1 Col Thompson continuing said Miss Pollard had deliberately stated that she had brought suit for revenge whereupon Mr Wilson corrected him Judge Bradley sad There is no evidence to that effect in the case and Mr Butterworth said I think she did not say that Col Thompson said he hoped the jury would correct him if he made any mistakes as he had not tried a case for fifteen years and did not pretend pre-tend to be up in law He told how Miss Pollard had gone to the convent last year not knowing her child born several years ago was F deadThis This firstborn is a person that pretends pre-tends to be a human being he said after eight or nine years when she had never raised her inhuman voice had they tell you she went into hysterics Oh inhuman woman he exclaimed inhuman monster In order to hide her own conduct she lays it on this man We are appealed to by this woman wo-man in stage play by the sacred name of mother trying to coin crocodile tears over children whose deaths she had forgotten to coin money out of the pockets of the man with whom she had lived in equal disgrace He referred to the life of Miss Pollard at Miss Hoyts house in Lexington when she played the innocent schoolgirl school-girl on the landlady Then she came to Miss Lowell the I typewritist at the capitol and produced her memorandum book to show that i ran its entire contents from 1887 to 18SS so that if the transaction had occurred oc-curred it had not been in 1S86 The charges in the book might have been to Clifton Breckinridge He Thompson Thomp-son found his own name in the book although he did not remember having had any work done by Miss Lowell to whomhe referred as the old lady I In n Picturesque Way Colonel Thompson contended in his picturesque way that i knocked the stuffing out of the case The plaintiff swore the name of her last baby was Deitz Carlisle when the records of the asylum showed that the only baby brought there at the time was named Deitz Downing name The other side had raised a great fuss about the colonels signing her examination papers for the civil service ser-vice certifying that she had a moral character There was not any fussing or sweating sweat-ing or kicking up a dust along about that time he said both were pursuing pur-suing a course of immorality agreea ble to each other and were telling any little lies that came along to help each other out Every man in the court had told lies about these little domestic matters I there was any who had not they had better go out for awhile because they were too sanctimonious sanctmonious for the place But the attorneys on the other side seemed to think this case was like that of the old Kentucky cae preacher who was tried for adultery with one of the sisters The jury all men re turned a verdict finding the minister guilty and acquitted the sister Miss Pollards testimony from which he read showed that both had lied led in one instance she had called him out of Chamberlins to help her out of a scrape and Billy always came he said v Concerning Mrs Blackburn Colonel Thompson said that she was a lovely old lady but she was getting pretty well along in years She was prety a maiden gay She would not tell any tel thing that was not s for the world but the old lady thought shehad becalm posed upon and wanted to put it to i 10 Colonel Breekinridge aa hal as she could Thats only human nature r dont blame her I admire her spirit Why 1 was afraid she would jump I down my throat frizzes and all when I R began t examine her al No worse Than the Rest of Vs I The jury was not to punish Colonel Breckinridge for immorality All the great men of the world had had their troubles with women When Julius Caesar was not making laws he ulus was I making love to Cleopatra David had I put Uriah in the front of battles because j be-cause he had looked on the mans wife and she was lovely If there had been great men who I were not fond of women they were great hypocrites the colonel declared de-clared I There was Bonaparte Washington all of them who had their affairs of love as well as of war and he added T dont see why this man who is no worse than the rest of us only he I has been discovered and we have not should be punished unless we are to i be hypocrites I I Colonel Breckinridge had been disposed dis-posed to lie he might have kept many things to his discredit out of the case only because he would not play the I part of a hypocrite and perjurer he was t condemned We are looking at this man of the world and men of common sense he said going on to tell how the colonel had provided for her She had said she preferred being Colonel Breckin ridges mistress to Jim Rhodes wife and why Because as his mistress she did not have to work went in good society and had intellectual companionship shipWhy Why I had rather be the mistress of a man like Colonel Breckinridge good looking and intellectual than sleep all the days of my life beside an omnibus i That was her choice and I think it was a good one said the defendants attorney I I I Never Met Any Good Men I Coming down to the death of Colonel Breckinridges wife the attorney said t Then and there a new ambition sprung up in her She said Here is the old man I have hung on to so long he is free and now Ill make him marry mar-ry me Colonel Breckinridge had never introduced her to Mrs Blackburn Black-burn and the other ladies in whose parlors she had left her slime and yet it was demanded that he should I jgo there and admit his relations with them No man would have done it Hew He-w uld have looked pretty assuming the role of the seraphim and cherubim driving her out in the garden of Eden when she had got there This is a common goingon all the time said Colonel Thompson taking I another text only he is exposed and most of them are not I is a good thing I But all of us have these relations rela-tions with women that is all men just to show that they are men There Imay be some good fellows only I never met them They start in to have a lit tIe fun with a woman and the first te frst thing they know they have got into eternal hell with her Here the court adjourned |
