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. ESTABLISHED !KBO. IttCORP.) HATED 1888. >
j. H. EsTILL, Pres.cent. )
MISS POLLARD ODER FIRE.
CutUTWorth’s Cross-Examination Fails
to Shake Her.
She Retells the Story of Her Surrender
to the Defendant and of Her Loyalty
to Him During Their Intimacy—Now
She Demands Justice for Her Alleged
Wrongs.
Washington, March 19.—Madeline Pol
lard was taken through the mazes of her
life to-day under the guidance of Maj.
Lutterworth, who. in the absence through
ill m . ss of Mr. Totten, hap taken liis place
as leading counsel for Col. Breckinridge.
Sometimes she broke away from where he
wanted her, and would make a telling re
mark against the silver-haired defendant.
jSlie told how her alleged ruin was ac
complished, how she gave herself up,
lit art, soul, body and mind, to Col.
Breckinridge; how she loved him, and
how vhe acted the deceiver at his instiga
tion, never once allowing a hint of their
relations to fall from her lips during all
tin years preceding his marriage to Mrs.
Wing. Miss Pollard made a good impres
sion. She was tearful at times, but at
other periods, her voice rose until it
sounded loud above the protests of the
attorneys.
One of the most dramatic features of the
very dramatic day was when Miss Pol
lard detailed a conversation with Sister
Amies at the Foundling asylum where
lo r first child was born. She had gone
there last summer with her orother to
get evidence and the sister had asked her
why she wanted to ruin Col. Breckin
ridge in his old age. “He must bear his
share," she said, “as I must bear mino.
He ruined iny life and I will have justice.”
THE COURT ROOM CROWDED.
The court room was crowded through
out the day, and Miss Pollardjs answers
v. re frequently the cause of laughter un
til Judge Bradley administered a severe
rebuke to the spectators.
There was one curious slipiu her letters
which she repeated in tier oral testimony
without correction, aud which indicated
that her literary studies had not made her
text-perfect in biblical matters. She re
ferred more than once to one of her early
associates, of whom she said she was
enamored, but who did not return her af
fe--ti..ii. as her “blind Barnabas,” ob
viously meaning the "Blind Bartiemus,
sun of Timeus,” who sat by the wayside
begging, as recorded in St. Mark.
She did not appear to be nervous or con
cerned over the prospect when she ar
rived in the court room this morning a
few minutes before 10 o'clock. Her ex
perience of Friday had evidently given
her coulideuce in her ability to cope with
the nimble-minded Maj. Ben. Butterworth
whose usually equable temper was some
what miked by the rovert ironv of Miss
Bedard in her meek and lowly answers to
the major's pertinent questions.
Mi>s Co,'lard s repartee on Friday
g.i-- -a h promise of an interesting day
w ith the plaintiff on the stand that the
court room was crowded long before the
I when the court convened. Judge
Bradley's instructions to the bailiffs that
only- rin inbers of the bar, newspaper men
and persons concerned in tlio trial would
i c admitted to the court, had evidently
little effect.
OPBNIKO or THE PROCEEDINGS.
As soon as the court had been formally
called to order Miss Pollard took tho
stand and Col. Breckinridge laid down the
paper he was reading. There was some
surprise when Mr. Carlisle, her own at
torney, began to examine tier instead of
Maj. Butterworth. Mr. Carlisle's ques
tions brought from Miss Pollard state
mi nts that she had never been married:
that Col. Breckinridge was the father of
Ft first child, horn in Cincinnati: that he
also was the cause of her pregnancy
in May, 1898; that Col. Breckinridge had
taken iier to an assignation house in Cin
cinnati, and attempted her ruin there,
but that she had successfully resisted,
and that this was prior to her going with
Pol. Breckinridge to Lexington. Ques
t'l -Tied as to why she went with Col.
Breckinridge to Lexington, after lier ex
) erience at tiie Cincinnati assignation
house, she said: ”1 do not know ! can
not explain the man's wonderful power of
persuasion. I could not resist him;
1 was completely in his power.
Heqsaid he wanted me to go to
! exington with him that evening, and
suggested that he stiuj a telegram to the
principal of the college, signed by my
mother, and calling me homo. He sent
that telegram, and I left for Lexington
on the afternoon train and met him. He
took me to t lie house of tearah (iuest. ”
Fhe also said that she continued her re
lationd with Col. Breckinridge un to May
i nearly a month after Col. Breck
inridge's secret marriage to Mrs. Wing).
TUK CROSS EXAMINATION.
, Mr. Butterworth then took Miss Pol
uir l for cross-examination, and lontin-
:“d the questions ho began on Friday,
inquiring minutely into lior early life;
" ii.it she did, what she read, what she
tuojght. She said, in answer to these
questions, that she was an episcopalian,
had been brought up that way.
buy an episcopalian, always an Epis
copalian.” she said. She had ambition to
' a teacher, she said, and had not given
up that ambition. She admitted, in re
spuiiso to Mr. Butterworth, that she ap-'
pnviated the value of character and
reputation that a teacher must have only
h ' well. “Indeed I do, Mr. Kutter
" u tli,” she said, in answer to another
1 'stion: “indeed I do know what it
! a ins to have a reputation and then have
tt swept away at one blow.”
• Butterworth read from a letter
" ritten by .Miss Pollard to her school
b'ot''. Wessie Brown, her account of how
si ' met Mr. Rhodes, who paid for her ed
■ 1 'on on tondition that she should
iry him. Miss Pollard was not satis
u with Mr. Butterworth’s emphasis
- harts of this letter, and she asked him
to have Mr. Carlisle read it. ”1 do not
mean to be rude, Mr. Butterworth,” she
■'--'id. “But I um terribly in earnest about
**-; tins and I want it right.”
'So do I,” said Mr. Butterworth.
BUTTERWORTH HEADS THE LETTER.
Mr. Butterworth read the Wessio
rnivn letter in segments, asking the wit
■ys for an explanation on certain points,
y and Miss Pollard explained them quietly,
II wptii just a suspicion of a tremor in
, ’’ "otee. There were tears in her eyes,
i u ‘d she was r.ot nearly so bright and
nek as sue was on Friday. Her manner
is courteous in the extreme. When
Lutterworth read certain parts of
' letter..of an extravagant school girl
' lyi'acter, Miss Pollard hung her head,
is was the letter in which she referred
”‘ r blind sweetheart ns “My Modern
! -'iriiabas.“ THo recollections brought up
Lutterworth's questions eoncern
- y "assaei s in it overcame Miss Pollard,
’’ sin- broke into tears and Mr. Butter
"°rtli dropped the letter.
Continuing on his line of cross-exami
nation, Mr. Butterworth asked about ,
what Miss Pollard had read —referring to
her answers on this subject Friday—and
he wanted to know particularly about
whether she read any impure books.
Here Judge 'Wilson, of Miss Pollard's
counsel, interfered, and said the ques
tions being put wfere so far remote from
the main question involved that he felt
called ou to ask a discontinuance of them
and a return to matters brought out by
the examination in chief.
BUTTBUWORTH’S OBJECT.
“I have just one word to say,” said Mr.
Butterworth. “This plaintiff has in
every possible wav put forward the claim
of the purity of her character. Shelias
surrounded herself with an atmosphere
of purity. It's the manner, the soul of
this issue.'’
Mr. Butterworth said other things in
the same line and was finally asked by
Judge Bradley whether he had concluded
this line. Mr. Butterworth said he had,
but the next question was so much like
the other that Judge Wilson arose and
protested, in the course of his remarks
he said something about a young girl’s
character depending on the individual in
whose way she might have been placed.
He made some reference to “that individ
ual having a silvery tongue." and the
audience laughed. Judge Bradley threat
ened to clear the court room if such dem
onstrations happened again.
SOME OF HER ACQUAINTANCES.
Mr. Butterworth asked Miss Pollard if
she knew certain persons Dr. Greene,
Mr. Stout, Aleck Julian and others in
Bridgeport. Ky. She said she did not
know any of them except Aleck Julian
and G. B. Roach. Mr. Julian, she said,
was the man she referred to in the Wes
sie Brown letter as “My blind sweet
heart, my modern Barnabas.” Ho was a
schoolteacher and she liked him very
much. But he did not iiko me,” said
Miss Pollard, in explanation and with a
note of surprise in her voice. “He liked
my sister very much—l liked him—he
did not like me.”
Mr. Julian is the witness who has made
a deposition that he and Miss Pollard
went through the form of a mock mar-
Viage, and that she suggested—being in
toxicated at the time— that it was cus
tomary for married people to go to bed
together.
"Do you recollect going through the
form of a marriage with Mr. Julian?”
was Mr. Butterworth's next question.
“Not the slightest on earth, Mr. But
terworth,” said Miss Pollard earnestly.
“I have not the slightest recollection
of it.”
UNABLE TO RECOLLECT THE MARRIAGE.
Miss Pollard was asked to describe a
visit to the house of a justice of the peace
at Bridgeport, Ky., with Aleck Juliau.
Miss Pollard did recollect; she said
she went there cne Christmas
day while visiting her Uncle
George at Bridgeport. There was
quite a party there. “Of course. I have
seen these references in the papers to a
mock marriageat Squire Kinsey's house,”
said Miss Pollard, “but I assure you I
know nothing of it. It could not have
happened, for my uncle George was there
and uncle George was dreadfully strict.
Mr. Kinsey and his wife and all his daugh
ters were there. It could not have hap
pened. I have no recollection of it.”
Miss Poliard said her visit to Squire
Kinsey’s was on invitation from the
squire to her uncle and his family, includ
ing herself, to come there and drink egg
nog. They wont there early Christmas
morning. She drunk too much eggnog
and it made her feel sick, so she went
home. Mr. Julian was there, but she
persisted in her statement that there had
been no mock marriage with him.
A CHARGE OF FORGERY.
Mr. Butterworth handed Miss Pollard
a letter with a deep black border and
asked her if she had written it. She
read it carefully and then dramatically,
pronouncing every word distinctly, she
said: “ I did not write that letter. I did
not write it, however much it may look
like my hand writing. I did not write it,
and no one can know it so well as the man
who is sitting there. An expert has done
this letter.”
“Now, Miss Pollard, don’t talk that
way,” said Judge Wilson.
TUE VISIT TO WESLEYAN.
"When Mr. Breckinridge came to see
you at the Wesleyan seminary the tirst
time, did he say anything about having
any business in Co\ ington,” asked Mr.
Butterworth.
“No sir. he said he had come to see mo
(emphasizing every word) and lie almost
overpowered me with a glance as he said
so.”
Mr. Butterworth and Miss Pollard
went all over the ground, covered so
fully in her previous testimony, about
the call of Col. Breckinridge at Wesleyan
College to see her about the trouble with
Mr. Rhodes, how he turned aside a ques
tion on that subject and said: “Let's
talk about you; how he took you driving
in a closed carriage ou a hot night, to
talk over Rhode's claim, etc., etc.” In
tiie carriage Col. Breckinridge made free
witii her until she took alarm, hut after
wards he flattered her until her confi
dence returned.
• Then you met him the next morning
at tiie public library in Cincinnati!” said
Mr. Butterworth.
TOOK HER TO A HOUSE OF ILL-FAME.
“Yes, he met me there, and said that
that was no place to talk over the Rhodes
matter, and suggested that we go to tiie
house of a lady friend. We went there
in a street car.”
• It proved to be the assignation house
of Mrs. Rose!”
“Yes, sir.”
"You were ushered into the parlor’
How long did you stay there before you
went anywhere else!"
“Several hours. How long was it, Mr.
Breckinridge!” she asked, looking at the
defendant.
A buzz from the spectators followed
this, but it was immediately quieted.
Mr. Butterworth continued until recess
questioning Miss Pollard upon the de
tails of her experience in the Cincinnati
and Lexington assignation houses.
HER RELATIONS WITH ROSELL.
After recess Mr. Butterworth again
took up Miss Pollard s engagement to
Resell and endeavored to learn what de
gree of lover-like familiarity existed be
tween them.
In otic of her answers Miss Pollard
made some reference to Rosell as “an in
ternal revenue collector.”
“What do you mean by that?” asked
Mr. Butterworth.
“You know,” said Miss Pollard, smil
ing for the first time.
• i don't know,” said the lawyer.
“Well, then, he is an applicant for
office in Mr. Bra kiuridge’s district, and
he was influenced by that in making his
de|Mjsition against me.”
"Then lie prevaricated!” said Mr. But
torworih.
“He—has- lied,” said Miss Pollard,
emphatically.
Recurring to the visit to Lexington
witii Colonel Breckinridge, Miss Pollard
was asked what arrangements were made
before she left Cincinnati as to the plan
where she should spend the night.
SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 20,1894.
TOOK HER TO SARUt GUEST’S.
"We spoke of that,” said Miss Pollard,
“and Mr. Breckinridge said I was too
young a girl to spend the night alone at a
hotel, so lie would take me to a private
house. lie took mo to Sarah Guest's.#’
"Did he explain to you that it was an
assignation house before he ran home to
account for himself!”
“No. sir. he did not.”
“Who met you at the door of this
house!”
"Sarah.”
“Was anything said there in the half
hour before Mr. Breckinridge went home
about the character of the house?”
HER SURRENDER.
“I only know,” said Miss Pollard be
tween her teeth, “that during that half
hour 1 gave myself heart and soul and
body and life to that man.”
"Up to that time were you a virtuous
girl?”
“Yes, I was.”
“Did you have any fears for the future
at tiie time!"
“No, people usually don’t on such occas
ions. Mr. Butterworth.”
“Did not you know this was wrong?”
“Yes, but Mr. Breckinridge is such a
man that he can make it all seem right to
live in that way?”
“Did you not know he was married?”
“Yes, (sadly), he told mo that.”
“And you loved him!”
“I loved him then with all my heart
and soul—every word of his was a re
ligion to me—and he has brought me all
this misery, he has ruined my life for
me.”
Miss Pollard's voice had a tremble in it
during all this examination, but at her
last words she broke down and her answer
was interspersed with half formed sobs.
HER RETURN TO LEXINGTON.
Miss Pollard told of her return to Lex
ington to attend Sayre institute at Mr.
Breckinridge's suggession, and said that
Rhodes paid for her tuition and Mr.
Breckinridge for her board Miss Pol
lard said no one knew that Mr. Breckin
ridge was paying her board, he arranged
matters -o wry discreetly.
“Did Mr. Rhodes know anything about
your relations with Mr. Breckinridge?”
asked Mr. Butterworth.
“Indeed ho did not," exclaimed Miss
Pollard, "or Mr. Breckinridge would be
dead.”
Then Mr. Butterworth asked if, while
Miss Pollard was being kept by Col.
Breckinridge, she was engaged to Ros
ell, and had the contingent contract ol'
marriage with Mr. Rhones.
“Yes,” was the answer, “as bad as it
sounds, that was just the condition.”
RE-SIvETCHED HER LIFE.
Miss Pollard rapidly' sketched her life
in response to Mr. Butterworth, while in
Cincinnati, when her first bab.v was born
in 1885. Mr. Butterworth asked ques
tions evidently intended to throw doubt
ou Miss Pollard’s claim that she had been
to St. Joseph’s asylum. He asked if one
of the sisters at the asylum had not ven
Hired to tell her she was not telling the
truth when Miss Pollard and her brother
visited the asylum to get evidence last
year.
“On the contrary,” said Miss Pollard,
“she said I had undoubtedly been there,
although she dill not know me. She un
dertook to give me a little lecture, asking
why'do yon try to ruin this man in his
old age! (Meaning Col. Breckinridge.)
And 1 said, why did he ruin me in my
youth'. She said I should consider liis
little daughter and 1 said. I wanted jus
tice, he had not considered me.”
“Miss Pollard cried a little here. “1
wanted him to have his share of suffering
as I have had mine. The time will come
for justice and I believe the men (evi
dently meaning the jury) are going to
help me.” This remark provoked a mur
mur of disapproval.
“You have never done anything as a
free and independent agent since you
passed under his control?” asked Mr.
Butterworth. i
“1 don’t believe I ever have” said Miss
Pollard with a sigh shaking her head
woefully.
A QUESTION RULED OUT'
“Are you not of very strong will?”
Judge Bradley ruled this question out.
hut not before Miss Pollard had asked if
1 it were necessary to ask it.
Miss Pollard said she came to Washing
ton because Col. Breckinridge said he had
arranged for the concealment of their
relations. He su'd that she would
be as safe hero as anywhere
During her stay in Washington at the
convent of the Holy Cross and elsewhere,
Col. Breckinridge had paid her bills.
Soon after coining to Washington her
second child was born, on Feb. 8, 1888. It
died the following April. Miss Poliard
told of visits to Bread Loaf Inn, near
Middlebury, Conn., to Boston to see the
Eodenhausen Madonna, and where she
stopped at Young's hotel, to Brooklyn
and other places,
“Did you claim while at Bread i.oaf
Inn that you were the author of a poem
called ‘lajvc's Power?’ ”
"No, sir. 1 did not do these things told
in that article.”
“What article?” asked Mr. Butter
worth, apparently surprised.
“That article in the Brooklyn Standard-
Union which you are leading up to, and
which you have been studying so assidu
ously all the morning.”;
“Have you read that article?”
“I have.”
THE PAPER’S STORY.
Mr. Butterworth read this article, pur
porting to be an interview with a Brook
lyn woman who knew Miss Pollard; and
Miss Pollard interrupted him to say that
she had never been an opium eater and
was not now and had not claimed to be Jo
sephine Pollard, the authoress. She knew
Miss Josephine Pollard, she said, but had
not claimed to be that lady, or to have
written her poems. Neither had she
claimed to know James Russell l.owell so
intimately “that she walked hand in hand
through the streets of Cambridge with
him.” She did know Mrs. Howe, the
sister of Mr. Lowell's tirst wife, but she
had never met Mr. Lowell.
She also knew Charles Dudley Warner,
she said, and W. I). Howells had been
kind iu answering her questions about
becoming u writer, but she did not know
him nor any of the other literary men
whom the writer in the Standard-Union
claimed Miss Pollard had said she was on
intimate terms with.
Miss Pollard said she ktew the woman
who wrote the article in the Standard-
Union. The judge said this line of ques
tioning wan improper and stopped it.
Mr. Butterworth gradually led up to
the alleged offer of marriage which Miss
Pollard swore Col. Breckinridge made to
her in August, 1892, tiie day of her
arrival from the south. Miss Poliard
Baid that Col. Breckinridge took her to
an assignation house, but finally said:
“Madeline, this is not the proper place to
tell you what i have to say.” They
walked down Pennsylvania avenue until
they met a cab, in which they were
driven out into the country. While on
this drive, said Miss Pollard, the offer of
marriage was made.
At this point the court was declared
adjourned until to-morrow.
A DIVORCE SUIT MAY FOLLOW.
The final chapter of the Pollai d-Breck
inridge trial, rumor sa\s. will be a di
vorceisuit. The secret marriage between
Congressman Breckinridge and Mrs Wing
took place in Now York on April 29 last,
as shown by the certifii ate tiled only two
days ago by the officiating minister. It
was not until the following July that the
public marriage was celebrated
in Louisville. It was after
the New York ceremony that Mr.
Breckinridge promised, in the presence of
Chief of Police Moore, to marry Miss
Pollard. According to the testimony Col.
Breckinridge continued his relations with
Miss Pollard until May 17, or three
weeks after he was married to Mrs.
Wing, his present wife. This revelation
of unfaithfulness and duplicity ou the
part of Col. Breckinridge, it is ‘said, has
keenly affected his present wife, and it is
now asserted that when the pending trial is
concluded a suit for divorce will follow.
BKEGKENBIDOS’S FRIENDS HOPEFUL.
Lexington, Ky., March 19. The friends
of Congressman Breckinridge in this city
have not lost all hope of seeing the tide of
public opinion turn in his favor after his
defense in the trial at Washington has
been concluded. It is current gossip here
that the political backers of Candidate
Owens have interested themselves in
Miss Pollard's case financially. Col.
Breckinridge’s friends hei'e believe he
can carry the counties of Franklin, Bour
bon, Woodford and Henry. This would
give him the votes of two-thirds of the
district.
DIXIE’S BIG STORM.
A Colored Woman’s Throat Cut by
Flying Debris in Texas.
liallville, Tex., March 19.—Three miles
from here Edward Davis’ house was
blown away by a cyclone Saturday night,
aud five persons were fataily injured.
On the Weils place a colored woman’s
throat was cut by flying timbers and her
house destroyed. Largo boulders were
whirled about, and many cattle and
horses were beaten to death by huge hail
stones.
A DOWNPOUR AT MEMPHIS.
Memphis, Tenn., March 19.—The heav
iest fall of rain ever known in this sec
tion occurred during the past thirty-six
hours, the local office of the weather bu
reau recording nearly seven inches. The
whole country for miles around is flooded,
the rivers are on the rampage and enormous
damage is reported in every direction.
Washouts have occurred on t,he Tennes
see Midland, Louisville and Nashville.
Illinois Central and the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern railroads. Freight
traffic has been suspended and passengers
are transferred in boats at the breaks.
A freight train on the Illinois Central
ran into a washout to-day in Medon
swamp, twelve miles south of Jackson.
Tenn., and four cars were wrecked. The
locomotive and ten cars had passed over
safely when the bridge collapsed.
In the immediate vicinity of Memphis
the damage has been very large. One
hundred feet of the bluff at the foot of
South and Georgia streets caved into the
Mississippi river, carrying with it one of
the tracks of tho Kansas City, Ft. Scott
and Memphis railroad. The streets were
flooded with water, and traffic in tiie city
was suspended during the forenoon.
RUIN ON THE WIRES.
Lightning wrought ruin witii tho street
railroad trolleys and electric light, tele
phone and telegraph wires. For a time
during the storm the air becamo so
charged with electricity und the trolley
wires were struck so often by lightning
that the street cars had to be stopped.
The rains and floods have weakened
the levees, and grave apprehensions are
felt for the safety of the planters in the
valley. The Mississippi river has passed
theglanger line at Memphis, and it is
feared the levees cannot be repaired and
strengthened in time to resist the flood
coming down from the upper rivers.
At Forest City. Ark., the sewers burst
and flooded the town duringtbe storm, do
ing great damage.
At Madison, Ark., the White river has
reached the flood stage stage, and is still
rising at the rate of one foot an hour.
A CYCLONE NEAR NEW ORLEANS.
New York. March 20, 1:80 a. m.— It is
reported that a cyclone has swept over
the country in the vicinity of New Or
leans. At this writing, 1:80 a. m., all the
wires are down and no details can bo ob
tained.
CALM ON CRIPPLE CREEK.
The Miners to Arbitrats and the
Troops Withdrawn.
Denver, Col., March 19.—Gov. Waite
this morning ordered the troops back
from the Cripple Crock district to their
respective armories. This action was the
result of a telephone conversation had by
the governor with Adjt. Gen. Tarsney,
who reported that the miners were ready
to arbitrate and would not go out in bat
tle array in any event.
Asked if ordering the troops back to
their respective armories meant that the
militia would disband Gov. Waite smiled
und said: "We will wait and see." The
improssion is that he will await the deci
sion of the supreme court before disband
ing his soldiers.
The hearing before Judge Glynn upon
the application for warrants for the
arrest of Waite, Van Horn. Orr, Martin
and Rogers for contempt was continued
until Tuesday.
THE SITUATION STII.L STRAINED.
Cripple Creek, Cos!., March 19.—Unless
the governor countermands his order tho
troops wii be in inarching column to-mor
row morning on the way to take the train
at tiie Midland terminal to-morrow after
noon. reaching Denver that night.
The sheriff is procuring warrants for
the arrest of certain men whom
it' is alleged w#re numbered
among those who shot one of
the deputy sheriffs and mutilated
another on Friday night. The situation is
not a little strained, and conservative
men are : ;\ rehensiveas to future results.
A committee, who alleged it was dele
gated by the miner's unions, visited Pros
pect to-day, where the force is small,
and notified tiie workmen that oight hours
must be the rule hereafter, or they would
be buried in the hole they were sinking.
Justice Sutherland Sentenced.
Brooklyn, N. Y., March 19.—Suther
land, the convicted Gravesend justice of
the peace, was this morning sentenced to
one year s imprisonment and lined SSOO,
the extreme penalty. Sutherland did not
put in an appearance. His tonds were
declared forfeited, aggregating $9,000.
Ratliffe Not Guilty.
Jaekson, Miss., March 19.—The jury in
the Ratliffe-Jackson killing case at Kosi
usko brought in a verdict this morning
that Ratliffe is not guilty.
Commodore Whiting Dead.
New York. March 19.—Commodore
William D. Whiting, U. S. N., retired,
died at 7 :84 o’clock this morning at his
city residence.
MADELINE IN A CONSPIRACY
A Bevy of Beauties Who Set Their
Nets for Men of Means.
A Cincinnati Paper Publishes u Stoi’y
That Reads Like a Romance A Sen
sation in a Medical College One of
the Chapters The Conspirators Said
to be Furnishing the Money for the
Expenses of Miss Pollard’s Suit.
Cincinnati, 0., March 19. —The Tribune
will to-morrow publish a story of Miss
Madeline Pollard’s life while a resident
of this city, ot which the following is a
liberal resume:-
The Breekiuridge case is simply the
last chapter in a conspiracy, tactically
formed, and up to tho beginning of the
present litigation at Washington tacti
cally carried out. It was a conspiracy
of girls brought together by cir
cumstances in this city in 1888
and 1884. Thej r were, in the language of a
prominent gentleman who is familiar with
all the circumstances, but does not wish
to have his name mentioned in connection
with the matter, all bright, pretty, com
panionable girts, who hail no means of
support and who resolved among them
selves to marry, and marry well. Only
those men who possessed such attributes
as wealth aifd social stunding were eli
gible.
THE LAST TO DRAW HER NET.
Madelino Pollard is the last of theso to
draw in her net. All tho others have been
successful, but the last and the youngest
of the party has failed, at least so far.
Still, notwithstanding the fact that she
has endangered the ixisition of her sister
conspirators, they are loyal to her. The
names of some of the conspirators are
known, but aro not given because of their
standing here and tiie uselessness of ex
posure at present. Most of the facts
herein givem are in possession of Col.
Breckinridge's attorneys, and some of
them will be used in his defense.
A MBDICAL COLLEGE BENBA i mV.
Many of the citizens of this city remem
ber a sensation that arose in a certain
medical college which, at the time, 1834,
admitted female students. Three of these
conspirators were studying medicine at
this college at the time mentioned. Two
were girls earning their own living in
various ways, and tho third was tiie
daughter of a prominent physician, who,
though not interested in tho movements
of the girls, or their purpose
individually, was at least aware of what
was going on. it is alleged further that
when the time came for the dosing of the
examinations, their professor gave cer
tain students the questions before hand.
The faculty learned of this and refused
to issue diplomas to them, but suit
was entered to compel the faculty to
issue the diplomas. The suit was
successful, but tho occurrence was the
means of leading the faculty to refuse to
admit any more lady students, and of its
refusal also to reappoint the professor
mentioned.
A PLAN OF EXECUTION.
It was about this time that the con
spiracy of tho ladies, some of whom had
re elved diplomas and Koine of whom had
not reached the graduating year, ripened
into a plan of execution. One of the
ladies opened an office on Garfield place,
in addition to this sho kept a boarding
house, which was used as the headquarters
of the conspirators. It was a quiet, un
ostentatious place, and it was there that
the ladies met the gentlemen of their
choice.
JOSEPHINE HOLMES.
One of these ladies was {Josephine
Holmes, who was at the time quite well
known here. During the time of the sen
sation in the medical college, she was
private secretary to a well-known and
very wealthy physician. Later, when
the physician died, sho filled a situation
of similar character for I',. L. Harper, of
the Fidelity bank. Shortly after
the Fidelity failure, Josephine
Holmes loft for Washington,
where, through the influence of
other fellow conspirators who had suc
ceeded in marrying men of place and
power, she secured a government situa
tion.' It was not long after she arrived in
Washington that sho became engaged to
a capitalist of wide reputation. Nubse-
I quently sho married him and is now in
California.
MADELINE’S APPEARANCE.
It was just after tiie sensation in the
medical college that Madelino Pollard
made her appearance in this city. She
had been acquainted with the lady who
kept the house on the Garfield place and
it was here that sho was quar
tered during her stay in Cincin-
I nati. Miss Pollard was young and ill.
I It was in this house that she was treated
j by those who had received diplomas from
the medical college. It was in this city
that she met the Mrs. Buchanan who is
j now in Washington with her. Mrs.
i Buchanan is conducting the patent medl
! cine business of the prominent physician
i mentioned above, now deceased. She is
j conducting this business at tiie old loca
tion. The gentleman who does not
; wish to have his name connected
with tiie affair mentioned at tiie
■ head of the article, says tic remembers
| Miss Pollard and her being here under tiie
; circumstances well. During tin- visit to
this city she went under the name of
i ijiuise Wilson. She and Miss Holmes
| were friends at the time. Another of tho
fair conspirators opened up an office on a
[ prominent street, and practiced for sev
| oral months. She set a cap for a genlle
! man who was at that time and is now,
j one of the best attorneys in this city.
Slie married him with tho assistance of
the members of the clique.
WHERE MISS POLLARD’S MONET COMES
FROM.
The daughter of the deceased doctor
married in this city also, and it is said
| that Mrs. Buchanan is conducting tho
! patent medicine business referred to for
i her. It is a matter of record that over a
million dollars lias been made in this bus
iness. This, it is said, is tho secret of the
source of Miss Pollard s funds to carry on
her case against Col. Breckinridge. It
also accounts partially for tho haste ex
hibited by Mrs. Buclianau in leaving
Cincinnati at the tirst intimation of
trouble and hurrying to Miss Pollard’s
side. The other ladies ure also married
prominently.
The gentleman who is the authority for
this article was importuned several times
by Col. Breckinridge's attorneys to come
to Washington, but so far lias refused.
His de|Kjsition setting forth some of these
facts is in the hands of those attorneys,
however. The prominent attorney men
tioned has several times, without
the knowledge of what he was
, doing, given legal advice to the
j members of the conspirators through ins
: wife. As may be judged, all of those who
1 were a member of the party years ago,
and who have sin. o succeeded in marry
ing well, are interested in keeping as
much of the history of the affair con
cealed as possible. They will do all they ■
can to assist Miss Poliard in the way of
advice and financial help. All of the par
ties referred to have been received in tho
hi st circles in Washington and are well
known throughout Kentucky.
TENNESSEE'S BANK TAX.
The Federal Supreme Court Sends
Two Cases Back.
Washington, March 19.—Tho suits in
volving the validity and cope of the gen
eral tax law of the state of Tennessee,
which have been pending in the supreme
court of the United States for several
months, w.u-e sent !> n-k to the state co its
to-day for disposition, without an expres
sion by the federal bench upon tiie merits
of the statute. There were three of the
cases, in two of them the state of Ten
nessee and tiie county of Shelby sued tiie
t niou and Planters’ Bank and the Bank
of Comm, roe, of Memphis, in the circuit
court of tho United States for tho west
ern district of Tennessee, to recover taxes
on the capital stock of the
corporations alleged to be duo
under the statute referred to.
The banks claimed that under their char
ters their capital stock was exempt from
taxation. Counsel for the stato and
county contended that the capital stock
and the shares of stock were separate
items and subject to taxation. Judge
Hammond hoard tho case and hold that
the United States courts had Jurisdiction,
and that both the capital stock and the
shares of stock of the corporations were
exempt from taxation.
lu tho other case, that of the stato
of Tennessee and tiie city of Memphis,
against the Bank of Commerce, proceed
ings were begun in the local and state
courts and the case was then removed to
the United States court on petition of
the defendants, wiio averred that ques
tions arising under the constitution of tho
Unitgd States were involved. Tho same
disposition was made of this caso by
Judge Hammond as of the other two and
the state and county authorities appealed
to the supreme court of the United States
Justice Gray delivered the opinion of
the court, reversing tho decision of the
circuit court on the ground that as the
rase was not originally tiled in the United
States court. It had no jurisdiction, and
that in tho other cases the petition for
removal from the state court should have 1
been denied on tiie ground that it pre
sented no federal question. The cases
were, therefore, remanded, with instruc
tion to dismiss the bills tiled and overrule
the petition for transfer. In the latter
case Justice Hurkind dissented on the
ground that tho petition for removal was
well founded.
SAILING AWAY FROM RIO.
All the Foreign War Vessels Leaving
the Infected Port.
Washington, March 19. —Secretary
Herbert has ordered all tho American
war ships away from Rio.
Tho Now York will go to St. Lucia, W.
1., to await further iustructious by cable
from the navy department.
The Charleston will go to Montevideo
to join the Newark.
These orders were dispatched on re
ceipt of the following cablegram from
Capt. Phillip, commanding the Charles
ton :
Kio Janeiro. March 19.—Rio harbor Is clear
of foreign men-of-war except the New
York and Charleston. To-day tho Detroit
will sail for Hampton ltouds. The Portuguese
vessel was tho last to leave. It is reported
here that Du Oamu was a passenger on her.
The fever Is Increasing and has reached the
epidemic stage, so that the British steamers
coming northward will not touch at Kio. It
does not appear that there remains any
further necessity for keeping an American
man-of-war here, us tho Insurrection has been
put down and a longer stay of the vessels
would be Injudicious. Phillip.
The navy department has received the
following dispatch from Admiral Bon
ham: "The San Francisco sailod from
Rio yesterday, and will make her first
stop at St. Lucia. W'est Indies, where sho
will take a little coal aud go to Blue
fields.”
DA GAMA’S FLIGHT.
London, March 19.—A dispatch from
Rio Janeiro confirms the report that Ad
miral da Gama and about seventy of his
officers are on board the Portuguese war
ships Mindello and Alfonzo de Albuquer
que, which left Kio yesterday afternoon.
No protest or other opposition was made
to tiie vessels leaving tho bay with
the insurgent leader and his followers on
board. While it is not definetaly known
that Admiral da Gama and his officers
are to be taken by the Portuguese ships.it
is generally believed that they will be put
ashore at Montovedio, and it is possiblo
that they will proceed to Santa Catho
riua or Kio Grande do Sul to join the still
active insurgents there.
TO MARCH ON WASHINGTON.
A Populist Orank Cries for Bloodshed
in Preference to More Bonds.
Topeka, Ivan., March 19,—A1l the state
officers to-day received a copy of the Kan
sas Commoner, a populist paper, contain
ing a marked article, which is regarded
as most revolutionary in its tone. The
article reads in part as follows: “Secre
tary Carlisle is reported as secretly nego
tiating with a Lombard street syndicate
for the sale of $50,000,000 more bonds.
The nation demands a sufficient currency
lor the transaction of its business without
the issue of bonds and the people will stop
this bond business with ballots or bullets.
I Ait our rulers make their choice, and
make it soon. If Secretary Carlisle dares
to make another issue of $50,000,000 of
gold bonds, not 100,000, but 1,000,000 men
should go to Washington; not with a
paper petition, but with steel Winches
ters.”
The circulation of the paper containing
this article has created a sensation in
official circles, and it is regarded as the
most inflammatory of any declaration yet
made by any populist.
SAVANNAH’S POSTMASTERSHIP.
Representative Lester Urging tho Ap
pointment of Mr. Haines.
Washington, March 18. Representative
lister called at the postoffice department
to-day to urge the appointment of George
S. Haines. Col. Lister says bethinks
the administration is getting very tired of
the policy of retaining republicans in of
fice. and that tiie office at Savannah will
vervgjoon be iu the hands of a democrat.
Postmaster General Blssell, while con
servative. is not looking for chances to
favor republicans. Representative Lester
says little, but looked very much pleased
after his interview witii the postmaster
general.
Henry B. Ives Dead.
New Haven, Conn., March 19.—Million
aire H. B. 1 vOs, who recently became
violently insane, is dead.
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r> CENTS A COPY. !
I WEEKLY, *1 2 A YEAR.)
CUT OPEN BY AN EXPLOSION
A Contractor Meets a Horrible Death
While at Work.
The Explosion Follows an Attempt t
Melt Nitro-Glycerine at a Black.
smith’s Forge The Victim Rushes
From the Shop With a Hand Blown
Off and a Huge Hole in His Throat.
Another Man Wounded.
Buffalo, N. Y., March 19.—Olin n,
Stevens, contractor of tho Sycamor*
street sower, was killed by an explosion
of nitro glycerine this morning.
Jacob Collins, a blacksmith, was serfc
ously injured b.y tho same accident.
Stevens was trying to melt some glycol*
ine over the blacksmith’s forge. With
one hand ho worked the bellows and with
tho other stirred the paste. The smith
looked on. He says ho had just taken a
step backward for caution’s sake when a
terrific explosion rent tlio air.
Stovens was not Instantly killed. Ila
ran out of the shop blackened with soot,
blood pouring from a stub of a wrist and
a huge hole in his throat. A piece of tlio
pail had ripped him open from breast to
chin. He fell into tiie arms of a groceu
across the street and expired.
Collins was taken to the hospital,
where his side from hip to shoulder wao
found full of coal chunks. He is painfully
but not fatally injured.
MILL PROPERTY BURNED.
A Loss of $240,000 in the Mill Dla.
trict of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Pa.. March 19.—Fire this
morning destroyed tho big mill property
owned by Frederick Ruinp & Bros., man#
ufaeturers of tablo cloths and counter*
panes, fronting on Huntingdon street, and
extending from Palethorpo to Haneocls
streets, in tiio heart of tho Kensington
mill district. The total loss is estimated
at $240,000 Tho building was five stories
high and comprised throe separate mills.
The tire originated in the drying room
of tiie knit, goods mill of Brown Bros. .Is
Aborlo. This firm sustains a loss of s4o,*
000 on stock and machinery. Tho ma
chinery in J. P. A. Klaiider A Co.’s mill,
which bus been shut down for a year, is
damaged to the extent of $50,000. Rump
& Bro. owned the building. They lose
SIOO,OOO on the building, and $5q,00(1 on
stock and machinery. Nearly 400 poopla
aro thrown out of employment.
A WOMAN IN MALE ATTIRE.
She Carried a Pistol, and Said She
Was Looking for Her Husband.
Atlnrita, Ga., March 19.—Policeman
Mercer made an interesting "catch” be*,
tween 12 aud 1 o’clock this morning. It
was a pretty young woman rigged out in
pantaloons and other accessories of mala
attire witii a loaded pistol In her hip
pocket. Besides the pistol tho giddy
young creature was accompanied by a
“Jag” that would have done credit to tha
owner of the masculine raiment she wore.
When taken to police headquarters
the young woman gave herself the rather
fancy name of Josie Roy, am’ said sho
was out looking for an estray husband.
He had deserted her, she explained, and
would not allow her to get within hailing
distance if he know it. Therefore alia
donned tiie disguise so as to get at him,
unawares. The police think she meant'
mischief to the alleged husband on ac
count of tiie prosonoo of tlio pistol. Sho
was fined $5 by tho recorder.
BISHOP WHIPPLE BEREAVED.
His Wife Dies After Being in Feebla
Health Several Months.
Richmond, Va., March 19.—Mrs. Emily
Fairfax Whittle, wife of the Rt. Rev.
Francis M. Whittle, died at her home ia
this city this morning at 8:15 o’clock.
Klio had been In feeble health for tha
past several months.
Mrs. Whipple was the daughter of Wil
son Fairfax, a civil engineer, who was
identified with the construction of tha
James river and Kanawha canal. She
was born in Richmond in 1824. and was
married in 1848, her husband then being
rector of St. Paul’s church, at Louisville,
Ky. She camo to Richmond with tha
bishop in 1870, and had lived here sinca
that time.
SCRAMBLE FOR A SENATORSHIP.
A Covey of Candidates Already In tha
Field In tho Thirty-Fifth.
Atlanta, Ga., March 19. —Fulton county
will select the state senator for tha
Thirty-fifth district this year under tho
rotation system. The election of a suc
cessor to Senator Colquitt has brought!
out a covey of candidates already. Hon.
E. W. Martin, ex-legislator; 001. W. D.
Ellis. Hon. It. H. Hill and W. 11. Knoblo,
who was defeated fourteen years ago by
Senator Todd, are the entries up to date.
All four are prominent men, and the fact
that their candidacies represent tho vari
ous candidates for Senator Colquitt’s seat
will make tiie contest ari interesting one.
PASSENGER AGENTS TO MEET.
A Special Train Carries Them to
Palm Beach.
Jacksonville, Fla., March 19.—About
fifty members of the General Passenger
Agents’ Association, many of them ac
companied by their families, passed
through hero to-day en route to Palm
lieach, whore the annual convention of
the association convenes to-morrow. They
were on a special train and will go through
to Palm Beach by rail, the first train to
pass over the entire length of the East
Coast line.
SURVEY OF THE COAST.
Representative Enloe Introduces a
Bill for Transfer of the Work.
Washington, March 19. — Representative
Enloe, dom., of Tennessee, to-day intro
duced in the House a bill to abolish tho
const and geodetic survey and to transfer
the work of tho bureau to the hydro
graphic office, in tho navy department,
and the geological survey in the interior
department. The bill is the result of Ills
failure to accomplish the same object fly
amendments engrafted upon the sundry
civil appropriation bill.
Gladstone's Plans.
London, March 19.—The Westminister
Gazette says that Mr. Gladstone will oc
casionally make his appearance in the
House of Commons and will return ilia
old scut ou the treasury bench.