Show LURED TO RUiN V cn Character Appears in Chapter Chap-ter IV Washington April 3 The interest in the Brcckinridge trial was intensified over the presence of two strange ladies la-dies sitting at the table with the Pollard forces I was surmised that one is Louise Lowell the stenographer 1 to whom the alleged letters were dictated I dic-tated by Colonel Breckinridge Judge Bradley does not seem to relIsh rel-ish the testimony of Colonel Breckin i ridge Butterworth opened with a question of the admissibility of the alleged correspondence cor-respondence with Madeline Pollard In 18S6 Judge Wilson assured the court that the evidence was discovered only last Sunday and asserted that he proposed posed to put witnesses on the stand at once so that Breckinridge may have time for explanations A spirited discussion dis-cussion followed as to the admissibility of the disputed letter if found Judge iiradley decided that there was no doubt about the admissibility of the letter itself Louise Lowell took the stand She said she copied letters oa the typewriter type-writer for the defendant returning the letter and copy The envelope were addressed to plaintiff She produced memorandum books showing entries The first communication began My dear sister Louise Wilson asked defendant fc e letter let-ter He replied How can 1 produce I the letter i sent to plaintiff I Witness continued She recollected copying letters for Brcckinridge nearly every week but could only prove flf igen or sixteen SH 1he judge ruled out the examination Cbncerniig the contents of the letter The Cfiampion UCIIJIT Colonel BreckinrSJge made other em tmatic denials covering many of the statements of Miss Lowell After recess Miss Pollard was put on the stand to prove that the Sin S-in question had been received by her and destroyed The defense objected to this line of testimony but it was admitted Miss Pollard described these letters as boglnntng My Dear Sister Louise and My Little Spitfire and addressed address-ed by a typewriter and all signed In lead pencil Then Colonel Breckinridge was back I r on time stand making flat dentals concerning jF con-cerning the letters Having finished this branch of the subject the defendant defend-ant referred to the time when he and the plaintiff met in Washington in Y ij I 18S7 as a woman in her condition and as a man posing himself to be the the author would meet Do you wish to be understood that you supported her in whole or in part during the two years she was at the academy of the Holy Cross on Massachusetts avenue was a ques tionto which the colonel responded I would not wish to be understood as saying anything about it if I could but as a matter of fact my contributions contribu-tions were in irregular amounts and I understood they were to pay her board at the academy Referring to five notes of 100 drawn b > the plaintiff and endorsed by the defendant late in 1892 to pay Miss Pol lads expenses at the school of the Holy Cross Colonel Breckinridge stated sta-ted he did not know what had become of the notes did not know whether they had been protested He was sure that he had not received notice that two of them went to protest Now refresh your memory said Mr Wilson this testimony having been elicited by a succession of questions ques-tions do you not know notice of the Jrotest was sent to you both in Lexington Lex-ington and Washington Not to Hey IVeddiiipr Gowns He did not and the attorney asked Do you know the particular object for which those last notes were drawn I do very well Was it not to enable her to purchase pur-chase her wedding trousseau iMOtmng nice that There is not a bit of truth in it was the colonels an I I wer and he wanted to tell about it but Mr Wilson choked him off with a I reminder that his counsel would examine exam-ine him tomorrow The crossexamination having drifted to the renewal of relations in 1890 in Washington the defendant was asked Did you ever have a room in the northwest section secton We did try that experiment but of all the unsatisfactory experiments that I was the worst I ever tried We had not been there for more than three or four times before i seemed that every window in the block had 11d eyes on us when we went in there and I was sure people were standing on their doorsteps door-steps watching us every time we went out I am a peculiarlooking man so people remember me so we gave that up Now said Mr Wilson a little later alluding to the defendants criticism oU Miss Pollards falsehoods in saying she had been to dinner at his house to account ac-count for her absences You are a fatherlylooking man and she a young girl both of you from Kentucky Can i J you conceive of a better excuse for her I conceve to give for her absence than that she had been to dinner with a respectable I elderly man like yourself No I can not conceive of a keener one to be used afterward for a suit like this was the reply I Take Us to Some Safe Place During a part of March and April 1893 Breckinridge said when his attention was called to another phase of the case he had seen Miss Pollard two or three times a day and one day several times He remembered a time when he took lunch with her and they had had strawberries but he was certain that this was before the first of April and not on the 10th of March after the secret se-cret marriage as Mr Wilson would have it He had frequently met the plaintiff in the house of Mrs Thomas on H street but had never seen her sewing in his life I Did you not meet her there when she was using this basket that haa belonged be-longed to your wife Mr Wilson inquired in-quired Never never under heaven said 1 the colonel striking the witness box Did not a servant come in while you were with her and she was using that basket No servant ever did for I never knew for a moment until it was brought in here that she had that basket I I I j He had met Miss Pollard in New York in September 1892 but not improperly im-properly and met her improperly there in February 1891 j Where did you go then Mr Wilson Wil-son Inquired 1 cant tell the place I simply hjred a coup she got in and I told the driver to take us to some safe place He took us close to the elevated road up toward Fiftythird street I was a large l building that looked like a ho tei Here Mr Wilson suggested that i 1 I was near the hour for adjournment and he desired to take up an entirely I different line of examination it was hardly worth while to proceed further I Then the court adjourned |