Show illS TT11U1 T NOT V RTHY OF CREDENCE Carlisles Hot Shot at the WhiteHaired Sinner LOOK ON THAT PICTURE AND THEN l ON THIS No Words Can Paint the Depth of Degradation The Flattering Tongue Which Had Been Accustomed to Sway Large Audiences Conduce to an Audience Audi-ence of One in a Cincinnati Hack Pollard was According to llrock inridges Own Story Merely a Plaything to Be Tossed Aside at Pleasure An Awful Scoring Washington April 9Attorney Car isle who is more deeply versed in International ernational law than in breach qf promise prom-ise litigations consumed today in crim inal court in a review of the testimony before the jury in the PollardBreckin ridge case His statement wa a detailed de-tailed review of the evidence delivered in a clear dispassionate manner although though at times the lawyer referred to Col Breckinridge in very scathing but collyworded terms The silverhaired congressman conducted con-ducted himself very nonchalently chatting chat-ting with his lawyers during the day while Madeline Pollard sat directly in front of him and kept her face shaded by a blackgloved hand most of the time I I Only once there was any interrup ton and that was when Col Breckin I ridge set the speaker right upon a point of family title about which he seemed to be very particular All day the closest attention was given to the speech by the jury and the spectators so that there was a deep silence in the court room Mr Carlisle will continue tomorrow and it is not improbable that the speaking will last until Friday There was a counterattraction in the arraingment of a bigamist of local celebrity so the number of curiosity seekers hanging about the court house were greatly enforced Madeline New Bonnet Madeline Pollard wore a most becoming becom-ing bonnet when she entered the courtroom court-room today The audience was composed mostly of members of the bar and was smaller than customary Judge Bradley announced his decision of the prayers for instructions Nine prayers of the plaintiff were granted in a modified form and five were granted in a modified form or substitutes sub-stitutes granted and five refused Incidentally In-cidentally the judge said that while the burden of proof rested a the plaintiff plain-tiff to shuw that a contract to marry was entered Into if the defendant setUp set-up that the contract was not made in good faith the burden of proof would rest upon him to show there was an understanding to that effect Carlisle Opens Fire Attorney Calderon Carlisle opened the argument for the plaintiff After calling attention to the disparity in the social positions of the plaintiff and defendant de-fendant stated that l the defendants influence acquaintance and family connections con-nections had been used to unearth nectons things detrimental to the plaintiffs character He then reviewed the early life of Miss Pollard free from reproach until she met the colonel Mr Carlisle said that all the attempts of the defense to impeach the plaintiff plain-tiff had failed alluding briefly to the engagement of the plaintiff to William Wood He next invited the attention of the jury to a tintype photograph of Miss Pollard at the time when she first met Colonel Breckinridge and said Look at that girl and then look at the plaintiffremembering little the defendant then says she haschanged since That Meeting on the Train The Avhitehaired Kentucky congressman congress-man sat facing the jury so they had no trouble in seeing him as they lifted their faces a though pulled by a string Taking up that meeting on the train where first the lives of the two came together and when their testimony began be-gan to differ as they said the lawyer remarked He has told you that there was nothing improper in her condlict then nothing to alarm him Before we come to this meeting let us consider who this defendant was He wasof one of the best families of Kentucky His father was a prominent Presbyterian divine and he was Messed Mess-ed with all the advantages which training train-ing and education could give he had great personal talents gve graduated front college at the early age of 18 In 1857 he was admitted to the bar in 1859 he was married to a lady of one of the best families in Kentucky who early died In 1861 he was a second time married to a lady so estimable that here on the witness tand in the midst of the case lie could not forbear a tribute in his voice to that woman who had been the mother of his seven children As he told he was a happy man was beloved by his vlfe and children he confesses that no man ever had Jess excuse tor what ne aid that no man has had greater advantages advanta-ges that no words could paint the depth to which he fell This was the gentleman who met the sohool girl on the train jus Flattering Tongue From this point Mr Carlisle turned back to Mr Rhodes who was dead he said and who could not be called The letters from Madeline Pollard to him have been read and disclosed no hinj of the relations which Breckinridge had attempted to charge existed between be-tween them Moreover the descrip tion given by Mrs Brown of his character char-acter and of his deference toward the young girl had been heard I was not extraordinary that she should foci alarmed if Rhodes attempted to compel com-pel her to carry out one alternative of her contract and marry him She knew Colonel Breckinridge as a most distinguished lawyer of that section and having met him having been told by him that he knew her father she wrote to him for advice There began the second stag of controversy between be-tween them Colonel Breckinridge had produced a letter which he said she had written him which was pronounced pro-nounced a forgery While Mr Carlisle was reading the testimony of Colonel Breckinridge regarding re-garding his first visit to Miss Pollard the colonel spoke up in correction of one of the statements concerning the Breckinridge family saying That should be Judge Breckinridge and not General Breckinridge The lawyer laid stress upon the selection se-lection of a closed carriage for the ride from the seminary compared the stony of the colonel that without any pre J > lJ liminary ouragement he had become be-come intimate with her with her story of having repulsed his advances of his flattering tongue which had been accustomed ac-customed to sway large audiences confined con-fined to an audience of one girl in a Cincinnati auqence Not Worthy of Credence The mere faqt of Colonel Breckin ridge the Congressman coming to take Madeline Pollard the daughter of a Kentucky saddler to ride was 3 compliment com-pliment and flattery to her The statement state-ment of Colpnel Breckinridge to Major Moore that the first night he had taken liberties with her person and the second ond night he had slept with her concurred con-curred his with liter testimony and not with hisTo To show the testimony of Colonel Breckinridge was not worthy of credence cre-dence the attorney referred t his statements that his relations with Miss Pollard continued through nine years and had been entirely without love or fascination a relation so low that I thought he would b afraid to admit Taking his own statement that this woman was merely the plaything of his passions it does not add to his credit that he should have taken such a woman a he claims the plaintiff to be to such a Woman as Mrs Blackburn Black-burn had been shown to be a woman of character such standing such surroundings sur-roundings ConsiderinJ the colonels own statement state-ment of how he had deceived Mrs Blackburn a woman of the highest standing from his own state the attorney at-torney asked the jury to think whether they could trustj him under circumstances circum-stances carrying such weighty inducements induce-ments for him misstate facts Why Pollard Could Not Have Lied Mr Carlisle c led attention to the appearnce of Miss Pollard on the witness wit-ness stand when after two hours of direct examination she had been subjected sub-jected to a day and a half of cross examination without being shaken on a material point I would be easy for the defense to talk of Her extraordinary acuteness but only one of two conditions condi-tions a mind trained by courts and experienced as a witness or an absolute adherence to the truthcould enable a person to do thjs and it was doubtful doubt-ful if the former qualifications could avail in such a ordeal if one was not telling the truth I Canvassing the testimony of Sarah Goss and after the meeting of the pair while Miss Pollard was at Sayre Institute InstI-tute Mr Carlisle came down to the birth of the first child concerning which he said there was not shadow of proof I even to carry out the defendants insinuations I in-sinuations that another man than himself him-self might be its father Before Mr Carlisle had finished speaking speak-ing the hour for adjournment arrived |