Show 7isiiii l Jfflh1SF E AND A LiTTLE SPITFIRE t The Parts They Played in the Breckinridge Scandal HOW THE COLONEL WfiOTE TO MADDIE Damaging Eridence of a Washington Typewritist BrccUinridKcs Denials Flatly Contradicted Con-tradicted Did Not Give Pollard Money to Buy Wedding Gowns but to Pay Her Board anti School I HillK Hoiv They Created a Sensation Sensa-tion in the Northwest Section r Cool Calm Statements of a Path Lined with Intrigue Passion Vice and xjrimc Washington April 3There was a variation of the order of testimony today to-day in the PollardBreckinridge trial to permit the introduction of evidence that Colonel Breckinridge had carried on a typewritten correspondence with Madeline Pollard from the House oft of-t Representatives in 1886 The demurrer demur-rer of the defendants lawyer against t the admission of this evidence brought a delicate case of law before the judge I was conceded that documents might be brought into use and a wit ness questioned upon i in crossexam ination from which to lay the basis for I contradiction but whether the existence exist-ence of a missing document could be asserted and the defendant asked whether he wrote i was another question question which Judge Bradley decided in the affirmative I after listening to the argument and consulting authorities He held however how-ever that the witnesses could not be asked to give their recollection of the i contents of the letters Accordingly Miss Louise Lowell who conducted a business in typewriting and stenography at the capitol in the Ji year 1886 and had been discovered by s ji the plaintiff last Sunday stated that < she had copied the mysterious letters apon a typewriter for the colonel and had also addressed for him a package of emelopos to Miss Pollard 74 North Upper street Lexington Ky keeping i keep-ing the address in a note book which she produced but which did not entirely en-tirely substantiate her statement because j be-cause it seemed to have been used in j seeme 1887 and 18S8 1 Mnddic Hard to Control Miss Pollard appeared in a speaking rart once more to testify she had reed re-ed the letters in question fart her brief appearance the law 3ers had their hands full endeavoring to make her confine herself to questions ques-tions directed for in her untrammeled utterances when questioned before she scored some of the most telling points for her side Thereafter the programme was a continuance i con-tinuance of the fencing between the congressman from Kentucky and the excongressman from Indiana Both Colonel Breckinridge and ex Judge Wilson are lawyers of brilliant parts and no exhibition of its kind approaching ap-proaching the thrust and parry of the two when pitted as examiner and witness wit-ness has been heard for years I was enjoyed by an audience worthy wor-thy of its merits for besides the usual us-ual varying corps of congressional members mem-bers and lawyers there were well known Methodist clergymen in the audience au-dience and a retired judge of the dis trit court in a seat beside Judge Bradley Brad-ley Colonel Breckinridge made denials of the testimony of Miss Lowell besides contradicting Miss Pollard on many point < Judge Wilson was disposed to drop f into a vein of sarcasm at times speaking speak-ing of the defendant as a fatherly looking and perfectlyrespected gentleman gentle-man He laid the foundation for more testi molly in rebuttal by explaining a denial de-nial that a servant at the fashionable boarding house where Miss Pollard had lived had ever seen her using in his presence the work basket formerly belonging be-longing to his dead wife which the colonel swears he did not give the plaintiff plain-tiff Everybody is guessing tonight the nature of the new line of examination which Mr Wilson announced he would take up in the morning |