Show MIGHT BE MISTESS 131T B T NOT illS VIFR Willie Was So Much Better Than Madeline Pollard MRS BLACKBURN WAS VERY MUCH SHOCKED Poor Return for the Devotion of Mrs Brecliiiindge Eid cot Marry Her IJeuuusc His Moral Nature Revolted Agraiii the Idea of Putting Uhf Mistress Jt the Head oC His Talile Mrs BLackburn He Says sever Told Him That i He Was Pa > inK At 4 tcntiou to Mrs Wins and Living with Madeline Pollard He AViis si VJllalii nrnillcy Reads the Riot Act to the Spectators Whom He Likens Unto Buzzards Sitting on n Fence Waiting for a Sick Horse to Die Washington April 4The inquisition suffered by Representative Bieckinridge H At the hands of Judge Jere Wilson regarding I U garding the testimony of Mrs Governor Blackburn would be the talk of the j city tonight but for some remarks from Judge Bradley which enlivened the close of the days proceedings and have obscured ob-scured all other features of the case For days past since the case reached the zenith of its sensationalism crowds of men boys and women many of them well dressed and respectable of appearance appear-ance have thronged the court house I corridors the sidewalks even the stre tin t-in front of the offices of the attorneys j of the case at the hour of adjournment waiting for the principals to appear I elbowing for vantage points bandying personal comment and making things to generally disagreeable that the objects E ob-jects of their attention have been driven to make their escape through side doors adopting various maneuvers to avoid the unpleasant notoriety Judge Bradley has meantime been smothering a growing feeling of disgust Tonight his emotions passed the safety gauge and he gave some of these people such a pointed tonguelashing as has rarely bpen heard in a court room After contracting con-tracting to hold the court room spectators spec-tators In check until their prey could get away he held the usual crush at bay until he told them their conduct g was characterized by indecency that A they reminded him of buzzards around carrion and other things not pleasant for the crowd Colonel Breckinridge averred Mrs Blackburns description of nearly r everyone of the material eye occurrences when their paths were crossed were wrong but qualified his denials by the statement that she had confused dates and places had put constructions not intended upon his utterances had attributed at-tributed to him things said by Made line Pollard but asserted a a saving clause that she had no doubt honestly endeavored to give her recollection of events Tomorrow the defense will close their case ce The plaintiff has several witnesses in town for rebuttal Mrs McLellan Brown of Cincinnati the wife of the former principal of Wesleyan Institute registered at the Riggs house yesterday Other Kentucky Ken-tucky witnesses who are stopping at the same place are G H Keen and G 1 Kelly of Lexington and H E Queen of Covington Besides these people Mr Wilson laid the foundation for the appearance of several witnesses to impeach Cot Breckinndge one of them the colored cook at Miss Pollards swell H street boarding house another the lady of the house where she was confined in 1SS9 for the birth of her second child |