Show LURED TO IIUIX I Chapter Three or thc Most SenBU I tioiiul Story of the Age Washington April 2Colonel Breck I inridge was today on the stand He denied the carriage ride in August 1892 and that he asked plaintiff to give I up her child He never spoke of marriage j I riage before the death of his late wife He denied the Hoffman house conversation I conver-sation about representing Whitney and Fairchild In Europe I Breckinridge described as correct the I I impression Major Moore had given that I the conversation had lasted gven much i j longer time He went over the conver j sation heretofore given There was no I attempt to keep gven interview from the newspapers Witness detailed an I I interview with the plaintiff prior to the one with Major Moore The interviews I inter-views were friendly the plaintiff expressing I ex-pressing regret for her conduct on the street and at Moores office On May 13th the witness took win ss plaintiff I plain-tiff to Mrs Blackburns for the night I Later he had an interview with Mrs i I Blackburn who said she had washed i her hands of the whole matter The following day plaintiff again came to the hotel and a conversation ensued as to the further conference which should be held with Major Moore prior to her going away As he described I how he waived her off Colonel Breck inridge gesticulated impressively with I both hands and gave a tragic inflection inflec-tion to his tones as he closed the account ac-count of the visit of Mrs Thomas with a Then I left her Grasping at Straw There was constant reiteration in the defendants denials He would frame them in every possible form of negation nega-tion of time place and manner Continuing she insisted I should tell Moore I was the only man who had ever been Intimate with her I declined de-clined She then refused to go She turned her jacket back and I saw the I gleam of a pistol In her bosom I said Youre sitting too close to me She saldc Well I will use that on myself If on anybody I made a statement about not seducing her with considerable consider-able force even with temper Breckinridge read the telegrams sent I by him to plaintiff and offered by her i I He seemed amused when he spoke of i a Cincinnati paper containing the announcement an-nouncement of his ehgagement to plaintiff To a friend he had denied I the rumor Plaintiff wrote inquiring if i f he denied the report threat nin to1 I i publish their past relations Butter i worth asked if he had any relation I with plaintiff after April 29th the date ofthe secret marriage with Mrs Wing I I He answered he had had no relations with her after April 23th j i I I I At noon Butterworth announced that the direct examination was finished > i I after Breckinridge had stated that he II was absent from Washington when the plaintiff was discharged from the plaintff census cen-sus office because she expressed satisfaction satis-faction at Shermans death 1 < WilMouw Fiat IVoiJc I Jere M Wilson took Colonel Breckin ridge in hand for crossexamination I J after recess The first questions were directed towards eliciting from the defendant de-fendant an admission that In his early law practice his friends were obliged i j i to make good sums of money improperly I improp-erly appropriated from his clients Colonel Breckinridge was compelled to explain his connection with the Presbyterian Pres-byterian chupch which had been pas Ive rather than active He had lived j i n Lexington within four squares of the house occupied by Sarah Goss had known the character of the place for wenty years He also admitted that he had visited the house before he went here with Miss Pollard By further questioning Mr Wilson eliciteil the information that the colonel l ast June had delivered a speech to a womans society in Nashville and had been presented with a basket of flowers He denied that he had said he had no wife to present them to and offered to explain what he had said but Mr bVilson would not permit Are you a member of the Masonic fraternity I am You knew Miss Pollards father was a Mason I did not I knew he was an Odd Fellow Are there any obligations to the widow or daughters of members growing grow-ing out of membership with those orders ord-ers ersMr Mr Thompson objected and was sustained sus-tained Didnt Have Chills The crossexamination then took a turn on the various authors which Mr Breckinridge had read and he was asked what object Mr Butterworth had when he asked the colonel about George Elliott Well the plaintiff said that she considered con-sidered the life of George Elliott with Mr Lewes a protest against mawkish sentimentality concerning what were improper relations and said she had rather live as George Elliott had than sew on buttons churn butter and live the life of a woman in somewhat straitened circumstances on a Kentucky Ken-tucky farm i You mentioned George Elliott to please the plaintiff in the same category cate-gory with her and to compare your relations with her to those of Lewes with George Elliott Oh no very cooly my relations with the plaintiff were much more improper im-proper with her than those of Elliott and Lewes In the course of this examination Colonel Brecckinridge continued From what I know of the plaintiff and of what I know of Burns I do not think it hurt the plaintiff to read L Burns After Colonel Breckinridge had admitted ad-mitted that he was in good health on the night of his first ride with Miss Pollard and had no throat trouble or dhllls Mr Wilson asked whether It was not a rather unusual proceeding to select a closed carriage for a drive on a hot summer evening to which the colonel replied that he did not think it was wasWhen you put your arm around her had there been anything of a suggestive sugges-tive nature Has Xo Excuse Well I can not answer that definite defin-ite There was no particular word or act that I could lay my hand on There was just something internally that moved me to I she had reproved re-proved me I could not have said You have encouraged me and yet I would have been surprised if she had resented resent-ed Well it then you drew her to you and how long were you in that position po-sition Oh I can not say And what was talked about Nothing was said Laughter and rebuke from the judge I want to know how long you held her in your arms The transaction could not be rtated as to time It was all one tran actiori L I took her in my arms drew her across my lap drew her to me I was all one action Did you give her any friendly advice I ad-vice on that occasion I did not You were a man of 48 and she a girl of 17 to 21 That is all true and much more No man in America had less excuse for such an action than I with the domestic do-mestic surroundings I then had I have attempted to make no excuse for itit just happened so And the fact that she was a young girl inschool makes i all the worse You can not frame words too strong to characterize it I have not attempted attempt-ed to justify or even defend i und all the hell I have suffered since then I have deserved Then I understand you to say the enormity of the act can not be overestimated over-estimated But One Punishment Not Deserve There is but one punishment which I have not deserved and that is to marry the woman who was concerned with me in the act As a lawyer since you claim you did not seduce her will you tell us what you consider seduction I I mean to say I did not seduce her by any protestations of love or reward that she did not come to me as a mai den nor a virgin that I did not seduce her in the physical sense that she j I came to me a maiden and I left heri otherwise Nor in the lower sense that I I did not offer her money When they met the 1 on train to Lex ington the next day Colonel Breckin I ridge said he had not known Miss Pol lard was to be on the train and sup j I posed she could not know he was sup j Describing the interview on the train i the colonel said I suggested to her i i that if she stay over in Lexington would she not meet me andJ asked if there was any place she could go She said she could go to Sarah Goss house and with some surprise I asked What i do you know about Sarah Goss She said Mr Rhodes had once tried i to get her to go there with him and j she had gone a far as the gate but had refused go in j I J Nothing had been said about you meeting the night before j Nothing had been said only when we met there was some sort of indefinite inde-finite look something more than a forma i for-ma recognition j i Miss Pollard had known the way to the h use the colonel continued and then in response to questions as to his going home to dinner and returning to I I the assignation house he assignaton responded continuously I did I did with bowed head After going over to the house of Sarah Sa-rah Goss on Sunday the lawyer asked if Breckinridge had taken Miss Pollard to the house of Miss Rose in Cincinnati I Cincin-nati and when they went there he replying re-plying I want to be candid and I will say frankly that I did not take her in the sense of going on the same Strain but we had made the arrangements arrange-ments to go to Lexington i Another Perfectly Proper CIINC I j This was in October The colonel j I j had known Miss Rose in Louisville j Louisvie when she kept a cigar store but not Ian in I-an improper way and under the circumstances involving another person i I per-son in his capacity as an attorney I at-torney i I had met her on the streets we I had shaken hands and she knew I tknew certain things about her which t i I had obtained professionally and she i gave me her card 1 When was that Mr Wilson Wison Basked t About eighteen months before t And you kept l her card all that time 7 > 1 timeNo No I knew her name and looked it uu in the directory i Flow long were you there that Iow clay flayPerhaps ahalf hour may be an hoot houl hootWan Was that the only time you two were there Guess not ss How many times Perhaps four or six times during the two years > I Later in speaking of the visits at Sarah Goss he said Every arrangement arrange-ment as I remember i for us to meet was accidentally made When we went to Sarah Goss there was never any agreement to meet there at any uture time but we would meet on the streets and from these accidental meet ngs would come arrangements to visit sarah Goss I From whom would the solicitations to meet there come Mr Wilson sked There were no solicitations We would meet walk along the street together to-gether and the matter would bd arranged Did you have a sister in Lexington by the name of Louise asked Mr Wilson after Mr Breckinridge had de cared he had not corresponded with Miss Pollard in 1886 I never had a sister by the name of Louise was the reply Do you know a woman in Washington Washing-ton by the name of Louise Lowell Caught in ti Corner Colonel Breckinridge looked puzzled and declared he knew no such person Then to Mr Wilsons inquiry whether he remembered a typewritist whose machine was in the corridor of the cap tol between the rooms of the House committee on postoffices and the committee com-mittee on printing he said there had hfd always been a typewritist and stenographer sten-ographer there but he could not remember re-member her name I she was produced produc-ed he might recognize her You said you wrote no letters to her in 1886 continued Mr Wilson Now did you not take that ladyin February 1886 a manuscript letter beginning My Dear Sister Louise and ask her to render it in typewriting I decline to answer that unless yru show me the paper you are asking the question from I have given you notice to produce all the letters you have from me and you have said you had none The colonel was for the first time getting somewhat excited I will b remembered he had denied the statement state-ment of Miss Pollard that he had ad dressed leters to her under the name of Louise Wilson His attorneys Mr Butterworth and I Colonel Thompson backed him up in his refusal but Judge Bradley decided I the question was a fair one Since I have no recollection of a woman named Louise Lowell I cannot can-not remember having sent any letter to her was the reply Of course I have a very large correspondence I have a sisterinlaw the wife of General Gener-al Brecklnridge but since she is called I Lou in the family I dont think I could I have written that way The Simrriiijr Become Warm Let me see the letter persisted I Colonel Breckinridge That will come out in due time remarked Mr Wilson Now to refresh your memory did you not in that communication refer to the disparity of ages between yourself your-self and your dear sister Louise There were more protests that the letter should be produced to which Mr Wilson said For the comfort of yourself and your attorneys I will say the manuscript was returned to you Well now you need not make such statements for I dont care anything about i either way interposed Colonel Colo-nel Breckinrulge visibly nettled And to further refresh your memory mem-ory continued Mr Wilson did you not say how anxious you yere to get back and meet your dearsister once more morI I have not the faintest recollection of any such letter and I dont care to discuss it replied the defendant If you will bring the Lowell woman inhere in-here if there is such a person and let me see whether I have ever known her or her testimony is a fabrication I youThat like that of Sarah Goss I can tel That will be something for the jury to pass upon remarked Judge Wilson I and he then asked him if he had not after two or three months of this cor resnondenne naiiMnnprl his fRT sigttr Louise not to leave the letters lying around as curious persons might search bureau drawers The Cry of Forgery I never under any circumstances wrote any such letter replied the colonel col-onel and then he tapped the witness box sharply as he asserted If any such letter is in existence it is a for sg gery and if notes of any such kind are out they are forged also There were more arguments from Messrs Butterworth and Shelby against the right of Judge Wilson to catechise the witness regarding the substance of a letter not in evidence to which Mr Wilson replied that since the defendant had denied ever writing to Miss Pollard he had a right to test his memory on that point I will say frankly we have not the manuscript here and I do not mind telling the court on what evidence we 1 base the questions I Now Brother Wilson is getting into argument as he always does said Mr Butterworth Well i you object I will drop i sad Mr Wilson Now that is not a fair a way of presenting pre-senting i I insist continued Mr Butterworth to say that I object I will pass i until tomorrow morn ing l j said Mr Wilson turning from the point and I will ask you whether the typewritist addressed envelopes for the defendant in the year 18S6 I can only say that if you bring the lady l here I can tell you whether she I ever did any work for me Several women or females have done my typewriting type-writing in Washington but I do typ remember this particular one I will ask you whether you did not bring to her in the spring of 1886 a package of a dozen envelopes some what yellowed by age and of different dates and have her address them to Miss Madeline Pollard No 7 Upper street Lexington Lxington Ky Very Strenuois Denial Colonel Breckinridge was very strenuous stren-uous in his denial I never under any circumstances had any such envelopes addressed and 1 I do not care who the woman is who says so he asserted positively I The court here adjourned I |