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, THU MORNING NEWS, i
. ESTABLISHED I(*0 INCORPORATED 1888. V
J. H. fiSTILL, President. )
SHELBY’S GUNS UNMASKED.
Ilie Defease Opens a Hot Fire on the
Plaintiff.
They Will Attempt to Prove Intimacy
With Other Men Than the Defendant.
The Congressman to Plead a Species
of Blackmail to Which He Yielded
Rather Than Face Exposure of His
Relations With the So-Called School
Girl—A Denial That He Ever In
tended to Marry Her—He Also Denies
Seduction.
Washington, March 21.—There were no
exciting scenes, either tragic or comic,
during to-day's hearing of the trial of
Madeline V. Pollard's suit against Repre
sentative W. C. P. Breckinridge for
breach of promise of marriage. The in
terest centered in the disclosure of the
line of defense to be pursued. The de
fendant’s case was opened by Maj. Shelby,
his law partner. He outlined the defense
very fully, telling that Col. Breckinridge
expected to prove and how he would prove
it. Maj. Shelby made known that the
principal point of the defense would
be the production of proof that
Col. Breckinridge submitted to
the demands of the plaintiff
through intimidation and to avoid scan
dal. and that it was under these condi
tions that he stated to Mrs. Blackburn
that the plaintiff and himself were en
gaged to be married when there was no
such agreement between them, and he
cause Miss Pollard had agreed, this be
ing done, to get away and pass out of his
life. Maj. Shelby acknowledged that
Col Breckinridge and Miss Pollard had
maintained illicit relations, but ha made
the fiat statement, which, ho said, would
be supported by testimony, that Miss
Pollard made the advances and told the
defendant that Rhodes, her old lover, had
been unduly intimate with her—thus
placing her in the position of being the
betrayer of Col. Breckinridge.
INTIMATE WITU OTHER MEN.
Defendant’s counsel promised that testi
mony would be produced to show that
Maucline Pollard had maintained crimi
nal relations with other men, and Maj.
Shelb.v asked the jury to take into con
sideration his character for purity when
they were preparing to render a verdict.
The defense, it was said, would also
claim that Miss Pollard made three at
tempts to kill Col. Breckinridge, and
would establish that he did not main
tain illicit relations with her
after the time he became engaged to
Mrs. Wing, and certainly not after his
marriage. After Mr. Shelb.v closed his
opening address, the rest of the day until
adjournment was taken up by reading the
depus.tion of Sister Agnes Regina Brown
of St. JnseplPs Foundling Asylum, at Nor
wood. near Cincinnati, with reference to
Miss Pollard's claim that she gave birth
to a child at the asylum in 1885.
MISS POLLARD’S ENTRY.
Miss Pollard did not show any traces of
her collapse of yesterday afternoon when
she entered the circuit room this mora
ine with her elderly corripaniou. Miss
Ellis. She was early and with her coun
sel speut tho time until the arrival of
Judge Bradley in examining a number of
letters which Judge Wilson had brought
with him. The court had been called to
order when Col. Breckinridge and his
son Desha entered. The defendant was
not as smiling anfl debonair as he has
l ten. and his features had a trace of
gravity strange to him. Maj. Butter
worth and Mr. Stoll were tardy and busi
ness was suspended until they Arrived.
At a word from Mr. Carlisle Miss Pol
lard took the stand. She was cool, but
not so strong looking as yesterday mora
ine when site began the ordeal that ended
with a series of sensational scenes. Maj.
Butterworth, Mr. Stoll and Maj. Shelby
had a conference for a few minutes, the
result of which was that Mr. Butter
worth's first question was whether Miss
Pollard had the contract with Rhodes by
which he agreed to pay for her education
on condition that she should marry him
or pay him back.
No, [ have not; I gave it to Mr.
Rhodes.”
"The contract was settled then?” asked
Mr. Butterworth.
"Oh, no sir. It was never settled. Mr.
Rhodes did not pay nearly so much money
for me as he said he would pay, but what
'lid pay. about $2,500, I was never able
to pay back.”
Did you pay him any of it?”
No sir, I never did have any money to
j’tty anybody anything,” said Miss Pol
lard in a voice of plaintive dejection.
her meekness vanishes.
Hie meekness of the witness vanished
with the next question, and she showed
some of her old time vivacity in the
answer.
_ 'Mrs. Logan (formerly Dr. Mary
btreet. i of Cincinnati, did not recognize
.'■hi when h< r deposition was taken, did
Lc Miss Pollard?” was tho question.
• ot when I was introduced to her,”
J' 1 "' Miss Pollard, ‘ but she would have
• •” so if she had had an opportunity on
'H;' redirect examination, and she cer
hh ! ' was ready to say that the picture
,i ‘ ,l Breckinridge was the picture of
■” !I an who called to soe ine in 1885, at
imr house, and”—
: on. Miss Pollard.”cried Mr. But
*l "'" th and Judge Wilson at oneo. “You
v j'- 1 toll anything but what I ask
jou Mr. Butterworth added.
v :, 'w more insignificant questions were
’ ® K, ‘ < v and then Mr. Butterworth created
•-irprise by saying abruptly: “That’s all,
Miss Pollard.’’
j S: ’ bollard looked astonished. She
■ a.""'! to leave the stand, but was called
b.v Mr. Carlisle. lie did notask her
questions, however, but caused an-
T suprise by saying: “If you please,
j” ;• honor, the plaintiff rests her case
1 he sentence was hardlv ended before
,; ss I’°l lard and Miss Cl Us had disup
vi, through the jurors’ door.
' ' ■ Butterworth asked for a few min
v s lo confer, and ho. Col. Breckinridge,
Shelby, Mr. Stoll and Col. Thompson
muu out of the court room.
Shelby’s ofe.viso statement.
Iho conferences lasted over twenty
utiutes, and when the defendant and his
auo'ne.vs returned, Maj. Shelby, Col.
1 ' kiundge's law partner, began the
'1 lung Statement of the defense to the
A which had boon reserved when the
u >al opened.
M U i, ile ‘b's-CMc technically rests," said
I. „ . "on the charge of breach of
“nuse of marriage, other considerations
... 1 1,1 it and effect it strongly.”
am authorized by the defendant to
*t "ill be supported by his testi- 1
w itness stand on his solemn i
‘, h: ;V ie <ild not seduce the plaintiff,
u that he never knew, until it was tes- 1
The morning News.
tided by I)r. Parsons on the stand, that
any living child had been born to her:
and furthermore that the plaintiff never
did have any idea that the defendant
would marry her; that he never intended
to make or carry out such a contract with
her. The defendant does not desire to
condone any offense of which he may be
guilty, but he docs wish to be judged by
the facts, and not through other things.”
HIS MEETING WITH TUE PLAINTIFF.
Maj. Shelby then told what he said was
the true story of the meeting between
Miss Pollard and Col. Breckinridge. The
defendant saw Miss Pollard on a
train when he was looking for his over
coat preparatory to leaving “Good
morning. Col. Breckinridge.” she said.
Col. Breckinridge supposed it was some
person he had met, but he could not
place her. so he said: “I suppose I ougut
to know you, but Ido not.” Then she in
troduced herself, saying that her
father was a grbat admirer
of John C. Breckinridge, and had
put ‘’Breckinridge” in her name. After
a few' more words they separated. “Sev
eral months later, in 1884, tke defendant,”
said Maj. Shelby, “received a letter from
the plaintiff asking him tocome to Cincin
nati and assist her by his advice, and we
propose to show by this letter—a second
letter—in which she urged him to come to
the Wesleyn college to see her.”
"Hold on,” said Judge Wilson, “don't
read that letter.”
”1 won’t read it,” said Maj. Shelby.
THE VISIT TO THE COLLEGE.
Then be went on to sketch the other
points in the defense. In this second let
ter, he said, Miss Pollard had told him
the nature of her business with him in
reply to one from him saying that ho
could not come at that time. But about
ten days later he had business in Coving
ton with Gov. Stevenson, and while there
he thought of the request of this young
girl and decided to go to Wesleyan
college, and did go over to Cincinnati for
that purpose on Aug. 1,1884.
Maj. Shelby then referred to Miss Pol
lard's age at the time Col. Breckinridge
met her and he claimed that she was then
not IT, but between 20 and 21 years old,
and lie said he would show the jury by
the testimony of Dr. Williams that when
her sister was born in 1860, the plaintiff
was a little girl running about the house.
She was born, he sAid, in 1863, instead of
1866.
THE CARRIAGE RIDE.
Maj. Shelby told of the first conversa
tion between Miss Pollard and Col. Breck
inridge about the Rhodes case, and be
contended that Miss Pollard admitted
that stie had submitted her person to Mr.
Rhodes. Col. Breckinridge advised carry
ing out the arrangement with Rhodes,
and in tho course of the conservation, she.
not he, suggested that they go out in a
close carriage that night, and
ho consented. “I am authorised
to state,” said Maj. Shelby, "that
there was no such remark by the de
fendant about a weak throat which
caused him to bring a closed carriage, nor
about a headache which compelled him
to forego the concert and suggest that
they ride instead. It was she who sug
gested that they ride instead of going to
the concert, and during the course of that
ride illicit arrangements were established
between them without objection, but
with willingness on her part. They did
not drive until 12 o’clock that night, but
were back at the college at 10 o’clock.
There was no meeting at the public
library next day to arrange the Rhodes
ease; no arrangement for going to Lex
ington; no bogus telegram sent by the de
fendant as an excuse for her request that
she be allowed to go home,”
THE TRIE TO LEXINGTON.
“When he took the train,” continued
Maj. Shelby, “he found the plaintiff on
it. They traveled to Lexington together,
and she, not he, suggested that ho take
her to the assignation house of Sarah
Guest. He was surprised that she knew
about such a place, and she said she knew
where it was located. They stayed there
from that Saturday until the following
Monday, when she returned to Cincin
nati, their arrangement having been com
pleted.
Maj. Shelby said he was also authorized
to state that there were no suggestions
made by the defendant that the plaintiff
go to Lexington, but that she went there
and entered the Sayre Institute without
his knowledge, and he should never have
known that she was in Lexington until he
met her on the street. The illi- it rela
tions were continued for several
months thereafter. The defendant
had never visited her at Miss
Hoyt's, her boarding place, but
every meeting was at'the house of Sarah
Guest. The defendant did not know
when she went to Cincinnati in February,
1885, to give birth to a child: he did not
know she was in Cincinnati. He did not
try to trace her up, and “I am author
ized to deny absolutely,” counsel con
tinued, “and we will show that thero
was no such arrangement made by the
defendant to conceal the plaintiff's condi
tion, or that he knew anything about her
being in the city of Cincinnati.”
A liIBTH TO BE DENIED.
Maj. Shelby said the defense was pre
pared to show, and would show, that tho
claim of the plaintiff that she gave birth
to a child at the Norwood Foundling
asylum iu 1885 was false. Miss Pollard,
he continued, returned to Lexington in
the fall of 1880 and fell in with the plaintiff
again. He had just been elected to con
gress and was arranging with the
speaker (Maj. Shelby) to take charge of
all of bis law business. Just before
ho came to Washington, he received a
note from the plaintiff asking him to
come to see her, arid as a consequence
their relations were resumed in a meas
ure. Maj. Shelby claimed that during the
visits of Col. Beckinridgo to Lexington
during his tlrst term in congress he had
nothing to do with the plaintiff. After
the session ended on March 4, 1887, he re
turned to Lexington and his family being
away and not liking hotel life, lie took
board at Miss Hoyt’s, where the plaintiff
was stopping, but there was no sugges
tion that their relations be resumed, and
it was not until after she had a horse
hack accident in 1887 that there was a re
sumption, and then only after she had
been to his office several times to see him.
HEK REMOVAL TO WASHINGTON.
That the defendant was responsible for
Miss Pollard’s coming to Washington
Maj. Shelby denied, and said that on the
contrary tho defendant advised her not
to come.
Maj. Shelby asked the jury to carefully
consider the statement he had made that
the plaintiff and the defendant had main
tained no relations for eighteen months
prior to February 18S8, when she claimed
she had given birth toaehild. Maj. Shelby
claimed that during Miss Pollard’s resi- i
denee in Washington she came frequently ]
to Col. Breckinridge for assist- |
ance, rand that in her statement j
that sho had been pregnant by him i
and had suffered a miscarriage, he i
acceded to her demands Maj. Shelby.did
not condone or excuse the fault oL tho de
-fendant. but said many men had done the
same thing atul been forgiven. The plain
tiff had it in her power to do him injury:
she knew she had him more or less in her
power and she used that iu getting money
SAVANNAH, GA„ THURSDAY. MARCH 22,1834.
from him and in continuing their rela
tions.
HER INTRODUCTION INTO SOCIETY.
Then Maj. Shelby went on to tell of the
continuance of the relations between Miss
Pollard and his client until tlie winter of
1890-31, when, he contended. Miss Pollard,
through her power over him, tried to
make him introduce her into the houses
of people she wanted to know, and to give
her money which he could iil-afford to
give. He did not introduce her to private
iinuses. She made his life a burden for
him, and he tried to get her to go away,
to take advantage of opportunities for the
development of her talents, and he offered
to pay her expenses for such education, as
little as he could afford to do so. This
state of afljnrs continued until Mrs.
Breckinridge died in 1892.
WANTED TO PASS AS Ills WIFE.
The plaintiff in the fall of that year met
the defendant while he was on a business
trip in New York, and proposed to him
that she should go abroad to Berlin with
Mrs. Willard and stay two years at Mrs.
Willard's school, on condition that she
went as his affianced wife. This proposi
tion Col. Breckinridge refused. He would
not listen to anything concerning mar
riage, but through consideration for his
family in the event of a scandal, he
proposed that she go abroad and that
he would allow her 8125 a month,
which no man in Washington could
less afford to do at that time
than Col. Breckinridge. This offer,
said Maj. Shelby, was refused by the
plaintiff because she could not go with
his permission to tell Mrs. Willard that
she was Col. Breckinridge’s affianced
wife. After this time the improper rela
tions were resumed. Maj. Shelby then
told, of what he contended, was the cir
cumstances in the case last spring, when
the alleged engagement existed. He had
previously denied Miss Pollard's state
ment that Col. Breckinridge had asked
her to lie his wife in August, 1802.
MISS POLLARD AND SIRS, li! VOKBI KN.
Miss Pollard meanwhile had become ac
quainted with Mrs. L. Blackburn,'Gov.
Blackburn’s widow: had been to her
house, and had assisted at one of her re
ceptions. Mrs. Blackburn began to sus
pect something about the relations be
tween Col. Breckinridge and Miss Pol
lard. and had asked Miss Pollard about it.
Miss Pollard told Col. Breckinridge that
when Mrs. Blackburn had questioned her
about the matter she had herself told Mrs.
Blackburn that she and Col. Breckinridge
were engaged. The defendant was angry
and said lie would go to Mrs. Blackburn
to make a frank avowal of tlie illicit re
lations between them and deny the en
gagement. “The plaintiff begged him not
to so expose her,” said Maj. Shelby. "She
begged him to give her another chance.
He finally suggested as a way out of the
difficulty that she should goto New York,
or somewhere, and gradually drop out of
his life, lie paying her ex
penses, and that in time what
she had told Mrs. Blackburn would
be forgotton. There was nothing done
about what Mrs. Blackburn had been
been told, so he dallied with the matter.
Then Miss Pollard told him that Mrs.
Blackburn wanted to see him. and he
went to see her. Ho told her thnt Miss
Pollard was a foolish girl, given to making
foolish statements and to doing foolish
things. Soon after that Miss Pollard
tried to shoot him in Mrs. Thomas' house,
but being stronger, ho disarmed her.
HIS ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF AN ENGAGEMENT.
Concerning the visit to Mr.-. Blackburn,
in which the defendant acknowledged
that he was engaged to Miss l’ollard.
Maj. Shelby said the plaintiff had induced
him, by that influence which 3ueli women
have over men, to fall into her plan and
to go to Mrs. Blackburn and acknowledge
that they were engaged. She held a ter
rorizing influence over him. She had
once attempted to kill him.but worse than
that, she had it in her power to ruin him
completely by an exposition of their rela
tions, and. like many another good man,
he was weak enough to fall into the trap.
Between March 81. when Miss Pollard
and Col. Breckinridge called oa Mrs.
Blackburn together, and April 12, 1833,
when Col. Breckinridge went to Ken
tucky, he saw Mrs. Blackburn twice on
private business, and not in connection
with Miss Pollard.
Ills ENGAGEMENT TO MRS. WING.
He remained away until April 27, and
during that time Col. Breckinridge be
i ame engaged to his cousin, Mrs. Wing,
for whom he had an admiration and affec
tion, and whom he had known for many
years. “And 1 want to say here,” said
Maj. Shelby, "that the intimation that
Col. Breckinridge sustained improper re
lations with the plaintiff after the time
he became engaged to Mrs. Wing is abso
lutely false, and is a piece
of barbarity that should not be in
troduced here. It is an unnecessary, a
wanton attack on a pure and defenseless
lady. Maj. Shelby told tho reason that
induced Col. Breckinridge to marry Mrs.
Wing, on April 23, the date of the secret
marriage in New York. She was going
east; ho was going west. These were the
reasons that induced them to wish lo con
summate their engagement in marriage at
this lime. She had been ill and he wished
to make her nearer to him before
they parted. It was a mistake to keep it
a secret, but Col. Breckinridge wanted
his wife to get in the affection of his chil
dren before they knew that lie had mar
ried her. They were, married then by Dr.
Paxton and the fact of the marriage was
communicated to three intimate friends
of Mrs. Wing.
(UIB PAYMENT TO DR. PARSONS.
Maj. Shelby denied that Col. Breckin
ridge, when ho paid Dr. Parsons for at
tending Miss Pollard, knew that tho
plaintiff had been delivered of a child,
but had supposed there was a miscar
riage. The plaintiff, he said, was in tho
habit of annoying Col. Breckinridge in
various ways, coming to his rooms when
he was there and when ho was not. She
looked over his private papers and
looked into private receptacles and took
things away that did not belong to her.
As to the little basket owned by the late
Mrs. Breckinridge, which Miss Pollard
testified Col. Breckinridge had given her,
Maj. Shelby said that basket was taken
from his rooms and he had not seen it,
nor did lie know what had become of it
until it was produced in court.
THE HOFFMAN HOUSE INCIDENT.
As to the visit to New York, during
which Col. Breckinridge was married,
Maj. Shelby said that Col. Breckinridge
on the Monday two days after his mar
riage went to the Hoffman house, where
he had registered, to get some clothes.
He found on arriving there that Miss
Pollard had registered at the hotel as his
daughter, and had secured a room com
municating with his. When he entered
iiis room, the plaintiff advanced from the
adjoining room with a pistol in her hand
pointed at him and attempted to shoot
him. He saved his life by shutting
the door quickly, and Miss Pollard
threatened to shoot through the door.
Col. Breckinridge asked her to lay the
pistol down in the entry and go back into
her room or he would have hor arrested.
He heard her lay the pistol down, and he
said he W'ould ring for a bell hoy to get it.
ijho went back into tier room and ho then
opened tho door and secured the pistol.
Maj. Shelby said he would show that
this was the same pistol with which Miss
1 Pollard threatened his life in Washing-
I ton.
“WILLIE, COME OVT OF THAT.”
1 After telling how penitent Miss Pollard
was, and her willingness to agree to his
proposition to go out of Iris life,
and aliout a conversation with Mrs.
Blackburn in New York about Miss Pol
lard. Maj. Shelby gave the defendant’s
version of the incident told yesterday on
the stand by Miss Pollard how she had
gone to the house of Mrs. Wing to see
Col. Breckinridge, and that Colonel
and Mrs. Brockinridgo had attempted
to hide from her behind some
curtains, when she said. "Willie, come
out of that--, come with me.” Maj.
Shelby said Miss Pollard forced herself
into Mrs. Wing’s house and demanded
that Col. Breckinridge come with her to
attend to some important business. Maj.
Shelby admitted that Col. Breckinridge
obeyed. He referred to the visit to tho
chief of jiolice and to the alleged attempt
Miss Pollard made on the defendant’s life
at the house of Mrs. Thomas, when Col.
Breckinridge took tho pistol from the
frenzied young woman.
Maj. Shelby acknowledged that Col.
Breckinridge went to Dr. Lincoln's and
ask him to do what tie could to make
Miss Pollard comfortable Ho tried to
do what he could for her comfort, under
her claim that she was pregnant by him,
and if she had a child he intended to pro
vide for that child.
PUBLISHED AN UNO AG EM ENT.
She went to New York in accordance
with her promise to go out of his life
under the arrangement proposed, but she
came back to Washington, and it was at
this time that Col. Breckinridge wrote
tho letters about sending her to a san
itarium or to some place where she might
be comfortable for the summer. It was
at this time that, the desperate woman,
said Maj. Sholby, took further means to
force him to marry her by causing the
publication of an announcement of their
engagement.
"Now, gentlemen of the jury, I have
shown you the relations of this plaintiff
and tliis defendant, without attempting
to excuse or to condone,” said Maj.
Shelby, "and 1 have been frank and we
will be frank in all we have to do here
aud on the stand. We wish to conceal
nothing and wiil not do so.”
HER MORAL CHARACTER.
There was another aspecwif this case,
said Maj. Shelby. No matter what sort
of action this plaintiff had instituted, the
question of the plaintiff's moral character
should be taken into consideration. She
claimed she had never been int imate with
any one but the defendant, hut it would
be shown that such was not the ease. He
sketched various events that would
bo testified to. The plaintiff
had denied that she went
through the form of a mock marriage
with Aleck Julian, and that she had ever
wanted to go to Chicago with Mr. Resell.
Depositions from these persons would be
introduced to show the contrary. It
would also be shown thnt she had visited
assignation houses with other persons
than defendant, and that she maintained
some sort of Jntlmite relations with Mr.
Rhodes, Mr. Rosell and Prof. Obermoyer.
It would be shown that she was not a
young innocent school girl of 17, but an
experienced woman of 20 or 22.
Judge Wilson o re ted to a reference
of Maj, Shelby to what had been dis
closed by Miss Pollard’s testimony, sat
ing Maj. Shelby was going beyond the
bounds of an opening statement, and
Judge Bradley told ivlaj. Shelby to keep
what he expected to show.
REVENGE HER OBJECT.
Continuing, Maj. Shelby said this action
had not been brought for any other reason
but the plaintiff's expressly announced
purpose of breaking t own this man, of
destroying his character and influence,
and of disgracing his family, and all be
cause she had failed fo force Him to com
pliance with her scheme to make him
marry her.
Maj. Shelb.v maintained that mere
words did not constitute a contract when
the parties to it knew there was to be no
compliance with that contract, and this
he claimed to be the case concerning Col.
Breckinridge and Miss Pollard. There
was in point of fact no contract of mar
riage between them, but merely a sem
blance of an engagement in order that
Miss Pollard couid go away and in time
allow Mrs. Blackburn to have diverted
his suspicions concerning the plaintiff and
the defendant. On this state of facts,
said Maj. Shelby, tho defendant submit
ted his case.
A SISTFJi'S DEPOSITION.
There was a buzz when Maj, Shelby
sat down, and then, after a consultation,
Maj. Stoll for the defense offered iu evi
dence the deposition of Sister Agnes
Kegina Brown, of the St. Joseph Found
ling asylum, at Norwood near Cincinnati.
Sister Agnes discredits all of Miss Pol
lard’s statements concerning the asylum,
and asserts that Miss Pollard had never
been at the asylum until she
came to secure testimony in her
behalf. She deposed that during April,
May and June, 1885, when Miss Pollard
claims she was there, there were no pa
tients whom she did not know, and that
none of the patients wore veils all the
time, as Miss Pollard testified that she
did. Sister Agnes deposed that Miss
Pollard said she had been in the hospital
under the name of l-ouise Wilson, but
that no person of that name had been in
the hospital at tho time stated. It was
Sister Agnes who suggested that "Miss
Burgoyne might have been Miss Pol
lard's alias, and Miss Pollard promptly
claimed the name.
In regard to the four volumes of Wash
ington Irving in the library, one contain
ing a Christinas card, there was much
in Sister Agnes' testimony brought out
by Mr. Stoll, when he took her deposi
tion, intended to connect Mr. Carlisle,
Mr. Johnson amt Miss Pollard with hav
ing placed tho card In tho book while
they were in the library.
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THE LITTLE LECTURE.
Sister Agnes described what Miss Pol
lard termed “a little lecture” Sister
Agnes had delivered to the plaintiff. Miss
Pollard had told Sister Agnes that she
did not expect to get money from Col. I
Breckinridge because ho had uone. hut i
she did expect to disgrace him. Sister I
Agnes then said “When this is over, he 1
will still he Mr. Breckinridge and will hold
up his head aiuoiif' his friends, while
you will ho disgraced forever.”
She said: “Yea, but lie will not address
any more young ladies’ semlnuries nor
open any more prayer meetings.” Sister
Agnes deposed that sho had never seen
Miss Pollard until she came with Messrs.
Carlisle and Johnson. Miss Pollard bore
no resemblance to Miss Burgoyne. Miss
Pollard described things in the asylum
that had no existence, and some of the
events Miss Pollard mentioned had never
occurred.
BACKED lir A RICH WIDOW.
Lexington, Kv., March 21.—Maj. Hor
ace Means, who is one of tho leaders of
Col. Breckinridge's political opponents
here, declares that a wealthy widow re
siding iu Washington went to Mr. Wilson
at the time Miss Pollard was begging him
to take her suit and told him to go ahead
with the case and that she would
bin k Miss Pollard to the amount of
$6,000.
“I will not call the lady's name,"
said Maj. Means,” but Miss Pollard has
been introduced to her at a summer re
sort by Mrs. Blackburn and she took
quite a fancy to tlu> young woman.
When theseandal came up she wrote Miss
Pollard, telling her to call, and assured
her that financial assistance would be
given her.” Maj. Means could not be pur
suaded to disclose the name of the woman
tie referred to, but was confident that
this was tho source of Miss Pollard’s
funds. Many here have wondered where
the money was coming from with which
this suit was being pushed.
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
Senator Colquitt’s Recovery Prayed
For- Several Bills Passed.
Washington, March 21. The very seri
ous illness of Senator Colquitt, of Geor
gia, from a second attack of paralysis yes
terday, at his residence in this city, was
referred to in Chaplain Milburn’s opening
prayer in the Senate this morning.
"Hearken to our earnest cry, O Lord 1"
he prayed, “in behalf of our beloved
friend and brother, the senator from
Georgia. Stretch fortli Thy hand and
draw him back to the duties of the life
of this world, so that he may once more
take his place in this chamber and rejoice
ttie hearts of all who know and lovehitn.”
There was very little routine Morning
business, and after it was disposed of the
bills unobjected to on tho calendar were
taken up. Among those passed were the
following:
Tho Senate bill appropriating SIO,OOO for
the improvement of tho road to tho na
tional cemetery near Pensacola, Fla.
The Senate bill for the restoration of
the books of the Beaufort library society,
of Beaufort, S. C. 111 provides for tho
duplication front the library of congress
of books equivalent in number and value
to replace those taken by a United States
officer in 1862, and subsequently destroyed
by Are).
The Senate bill appropriating $40,000
for equestrian statute to Francis Marion,
of the revolutionary army, in Columbia,
S. C.
Twenty-five bills in all were passed and
at 2 p. in., the unfinished business was
taken up, being the Senate bill to sim
plify the form of deeds of conveyance,
trust and release of land in the district of
Columbia. No action was reached on the
bill, which still remains the unfinished
business; and after a short executive ses
sion the Senate at 3:! 0 o'clock adjourned
until to-morrow.
NEW JERSEY’S SENATE.
Chief Justioe Beasley Decides in Fa
vor of the Republicans.
Trenton, N. J., March 21. In the sena
torial case. Chief Justice Benslc.v decides
that the Senate is not a continuous body,
and that Adrian is not entitled to be
president. He says Rogers’ title is valid.
This is a victory for the republicans. The
democrats have almost entirely capitu
lated. Gov. Wert gave State Controller
elect Hancock and State Treasurer-elect
Swain their commissions as soon as the
decision of the supreme court was ren
der id, and they are already in possession
of their offices. The democratic members
of the Senate will probably join their re
publican colleagues tomorrow morning.
The governor has filed all the hills passed
by the legislature, and they are now laws.
A SCHOOL IN FLAKES.
Six Panic Stricken Pupils Leap From
Third and Fourth Storv Windows.
Chicago. March 21.—The four-story
public school building in South Evanston,
thirteen miles north of this city, caught
fire from some mysterious cause shortly
before noon to-day and was completely
destroyed. Six of the panic stricken
I Ujiils. surrounded b.v smoke aud fire,
took the desperate chances of jumping
from third and fourth story windows to
escape what seemed to bo certain death,
and were severely, but probably not
fatally, injured. The remainder of tho
children retained enough composure to
listen to tho pleadiugs of their teachers
and the firemen, and were marched
through tho thickening smoke to fresh
air and safety. Tho loss on ttio building
is $50,000.
HUNGARY'S DEAD PATRIOT.
Turin Offers to Provide a Tomb to
Receive His Remains.
Turin. March 21. —The municipal conn
ed has offered to provide a suitable
tomb for the burial of Louis Kossuth in
in this city, and accompany tho inter
ment with apporpriate honors. The
family of the patriot have replied that
they cannot accept tho offer until they
have learned tho wishes of the Hungar
ian party as to what honors that body is
disposed to pay Kossuth's memory. The
question will lie taken up in Pesth to
day and a decision will be given this
afternoon.
Wayne MacVeagh, the American am
bassador to Italy, has intimated to the
family of Kossuth, that the United
States will tie officially represented at
the funeral.
MOURNING AT BODA-PESTH.
Buda-l’esth, March 21.- The mourning
for Kossuth is general in this city. Every
man has crape on his hat. Women wear
only black garments, Black flags hang
over the fronts of the houses of parlia
ment, the banks, the university buildings
and the clubs. Many provincial towns
have gone into mourning as deeply as has
the city. A dispatch from Vienna says
that the police there have forbidden the
Hungarian club to display the black Hag.
A GODDESS OF LIBERTY.
Coxey Wants to Dross His Daughter
in the Stars and Stripes.
Canton, 0., March 21.—“ Mrs. Caroline
Coxey,” was an entry on the Hurrford
register to-day. She is the divorced wife
of "(lood Hoads” Coxey. She has a 17-
year-old daughter of whom she was given
the custody when divorced from her hus
band.
“The father," said Mrs. Coxey, “had
my child meet him at a hotel in Massilon
yesterday. Lieut. Browne was with
Coxey when the girl arrived. They pro
posed to dress her in the stars and stripes,
mount her on a white horse and have her
ride to Washington ahead of the army of
peace. He presented the project in such
glowing terms that the girl was en
chanted with the plan and promised to
go if her mother would consent, but 1 put
a damper ou that plan aud told them if
tiie child was induced to go I would have
both Coxey aud Browne arrested for kid
napping.”
CALL IN HIS WAR PAINT.
He Will Make a Big Fight Against
the Florida Appointments.
Washington, March 21. To-morrow's
executive session of the Senate gives
promise of causing some vigorous argu
ment behind closed doors, it will be held
iu accordance with Senator Call’s notice,
it being liis intention to make a tight
against the appointments for tho state of
Florida at large. These nominations are:
George VV. Wilson, collector of internal
revenue for the district of Florida Will
iam 11. Milton, Jr., surveyor general;
Henry W. Long, register of the lund
office, and Newman D. Wainwright, re
ceiver of public moneys. All these nomi
nations were tiinile in opposition to Sena
tor Call’s protests and in the face of his
recommendations of other applicants. It
is said that Senator Call takes this as a
declaration of war. and lias arrayed his
forces for the contest in the Senate. At
all events the battle is to he fought out
to-morrow.
NEW YORK POSTMASTERSHIPS.
Forty-Eight Nominations Unaoted
Upon by the Senate Committee.
Washington, March 21. Since tho be
ginning of the present session of congress
only eight nominations of Now York post
masters have been confirmed by tho Sen
ate. There are now pending boforo the
committee to which they were referred,
forty-eight nominations, ten of which
were sent to the Senate on the as
sembling of congress. For this rea
son Postmaster General Bissell has been
unwilling iu many instances to recom
mend nominations to offices in New York
state on the expiration of the commis
sions held by republican postmasters, un
til he lias some intimation of the fate of
those already sent in. Neither of the
New York senators ever visits tho post
office department or recommends the ap
pointment of any candidate, notwith
standing the fact that the department
lias invited them to make known their
wishes regarding postoftico appointments.
Confirmed by the Senate.
Washington, March 21. The Senate
has confirmed tho following nominations:
George M. Adams, ponsion agent at
Louisville, Ky.
James (1 Mulligan, of Kentucky, consul
general at Apia, Samoa.
Postmaster Alabama: Albert Stcln
hart, Greenville.
Postmasters Nominated.
Washington, March 21.—President
Clove.and to-day sent to the Senate tho
following nominations of postmasters:
W. T. Cheatham, Jr., at Henderson, N.
U.; W. P. Anderson, at Palatka, Fla.
POISONED BY A LOVER.
A Rejected Mexican Suitor Kills Two
Others aud Himself.
Durango, Mox., March 21. —Thero is
much excitement among the people of tho
little town of Caeararia. situutod about
sixty miles nortli of here, over a terrible
tragedy that lias just been enacted there.
The perpetrator of the deed was a well
known man of the town named Uuf.vl
l-opez. Ho was engaged to marry Miss
Forina, the pretty daughter of Martin
Pnrnn/.a, a wealthy ranchero, of that
section. Having recently heard reports
very derogatory to tho character of
Lopez the young lady wrote him a letter
breaking their engagement. Shortly
after he received the letter Lopes called
upon her and pleaded to be reinstated
into her affections, but she refused.
The father of tho Kiri, with true
Spanish hospitality, invited the discarded
lover to remain for dinner and the invita
tion was accepted. The throe sat down
to eat, and Lopoz, in a secret manner, put
poison iu several dishes of food and then
partook of the fatal mixtures. In a few
minutes all three wore taken deathly ill
and all died before a physician could be
summoned.
TEN KILLED BY DYNAMITE.
Santander tho Scene of Another Ter
rible Explosion.
Santander, March 21. —Another fatal
accident occurred hero to-day, caused by
an explosion of dynamite. Kver since tho
awful disaster that occurred In this city
on the night of Nov. 8 last, when the
Spanish steamer Cabo Machiehaco was
blown up by tho explosion of part of tho
largo consignment of dynamite aboard
of her, the wrecked hull of the
vessel has been lying at the
bottom of the bay. It was discovered by
divers who went down in search of tho
bodies of some of those who were killed at
the time that a considerable quantity of
dynamite was still in the wreck. This
was considered a menace to shipping
and the authorities determined to have it
removed. To-day while a number of men
were engaged in the work of taking the
dynamite out of the hull, an explosion oc
curred and ten of tho workingmen were
killed and thirty injured.
ASA OUERNEY ACQUITTED.
He Was Accused of Stealing $22,500
From an Express Company.
New Orleans, March 21.—The case of
tho American Express Company, or the
State vs. Asa Gurney, charged with em
bezzling $22,600 of tho company’s money,
which has occupied the attention of the
superior court for tho last seven days,
was concluded this evening. The exami
nation of witnesses occupied several days,
but not a siutilla of evidence
elicited against the accused-
The Jury made short work of
the matter by returning a verdict of not
guilty, and when it was read by tho clerk
a great shout went up from the hundreds
of spectators who were gathered in the
building. Gurney thanked the Jury for
the attention, which they had given the
case and the judge of the court also re
turned thanks for tho manner, in which
they had treated the matter. The case
has attracted as much interest as any
every tried in this city.
THREE KILLED IN A DUEL.
Two Desperadoes and a Sheriff Shot
Dead In Alabama.
Birmingham, Ala., March 21.—This
afternoon about 3 o'clock one of theblood
iest street duels that has taken place in
Alabama for years took place at Eutaw,
in Green county, in which three men
were killed and one wounded. Sheriff
Ilcrmagiti had a warrant for two destier
ate characters named Reid and Russel,
who were wanted for safe cracking.
The sheriff went to arrest these two char
acters, who resisted. They began firing
at the officers, who returned the fire.
Twelve or fifteen shots were exchanged,
and when the smoke cleared away It was
found that the sheriff and the two men
for whom he had warrants, had been in
stantly killed, and a bystander badly
wounded.
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EVANS MEETS ATKINSON.
A Joint Debate at Griffin Heard by a
Big Crowd.
Atkinson's Opening Largely Devoted
to an Attempt to Show That Evans
Has Never Done Anything for His
Party—He Explains His Indorse
ment of the Ocala Platform and His
Voto Against the Soldiers' Home.
Gen. Evans Declares His Candidacy
a Response to a Popular Demand.
His War Record Known to Every
Veteran of Georgia.
Griffin, Ga., March 21.—This has been
one of the greatest days in Griffin’s his
tory, although the crowd was not half as
large us was exported. Atlanta sent down
100 men, Newnan 200. the Georgia Mid
land 150 and tho Macon train 100. A poU
of these trains showed the voters largely
for Atkinson on the average. Tho crowd
present at the speaking has been gener
ally estimated at 2,000, and it is acknowl
edged by Ordinary Calhoun, of Atlauta,
and other Evans men that it was strongly
for Atkinson. There is no doubt that the
Evans strength in this section has beta
weakened by the debate.
Mr. Atkinson opened tho debate with
the statement that it was a somewhat
noteworthy coincidence that tho first of
the series of debates should bo Held in tha
city of Griffin, where as a wagon boy ha
made his first dollar hauling
cotton, and stopped at tho ware
house of tho gentleman who
now presided over tho meeting,
while ho had becomo a candidate for gov
ernor. He urged ttiat tho utmost good
fooling should prevail in this campaign
between two democrats and that all who
at tend should determine to stand by tho
old party and support tho nominee, who
ever ho might bo. In tho field of politics
every man loft his every (lay calling be
hind, himself as well as his competitor,
and mot on a fair and equal field. Every
issue that belongs to legislation is to ha
made in these Joint debates, and all should
bo fairly met.
NOT TO INDULGE IN AGRIMONY.
“If any man had como expecting to
hear acrimonous and bitter discussion, ha
will be disappointed.” Ho recognized tha
lvigii character of his opponent and would
do and say nothing harsh or unjust. “Wo
aro here for more than personal reasons,
here to strengthen the whole Democratio
party.” He reviewed briefly the work of
the democratic congress, and said tha#
wliilo it had not dorm all that was ox
expected, it had done much. As demo
crats there was much in which wo might
be disappointed, but nothing to make us
hang our heads in shamo.
TUB TARIFF.
On tho main question, that of the tariff,
the House, Senate ami President bad
worked hand in hand and battled for low
taxes The House had passed tho tariff
bill and the income tax. The seigniorage
bill bail passed both houses and is wait
ing the signature of the President, and
the idle silver will soon bo in the pockets
of the people. The election laws have
been repealed. He demanded that very
plank, and requirement of the platform
should be carried out, and thoughfrevery
body out to stand by the old party. It
some go wrong let us repudiate them, bua
lot us stand by the principles of tho party.
HIS OWN PI.ATFOKM,
But It is not enough for a man to say
that lie stands on tho party platform; ha
must say what lie understands by it and
lay down a speeitie iwlicy. As for him
self ho was in favorof a tariff for revenue
only, witli the highest tax on luxuries
the lowest on necessities, taking taxes
from the shoulders of tho producers and
placing it on thoso of the millionaires. I ,
am as much in favor of sound money as
any man, and want every dollar of equal
value. But Ido not belong to that class
who believe that gold is the only honestk
dollar, but believe that the government!
can float gold and silver side by side amV
free of charge for mintage.
FAVOIIS A STATU CURRENCY.
The repeal of the Shorman law
an increase of tho currency necessary,
and we should return to the right of thd
state to issue its own money and repeal
the state bank tax. More than that, £
am in favor of not waiting for an inter
national agreement; It is too remote, but
gi vo us free coinage on a parity at once,
and make gold and silver tho money of
final payment. lam in favor of bi metals
ism, not simply as a theory, but somo*
thing we want right now.
STATE AFFAIRS.
In state affairs, Mr. Atkinson declared
in favor of the enforcement of the law,
keeping up the military for the preserva
tion of peace, the maintenance of the rails
road commission, but to see that personal
property iu railroads is not wrecked!
while the people are protected from ex*
orbitant rates.
Knforce tho contract with the lessees
of tho convicts and see that convict labor
does not come in competition with free
labor. I'reserve tho common schools and
foster and encourage their growth. No
farmer should have the excuse that ho
must move to town to educate bis child
ren. He would encourage tho building of
public roads, economic and low taxation.
We should look to the future and move on
a practical line, guided by wise and broad
statemanship to develope our mines, in
crease our factories and double the yield
ing capacity of our farms.
HIS VOTE AGAINST THE HOMS.
Coming down to personal matters, tlio
speaker defended his vote upon the Con
federate Soldiers' Home, and expressed
himself in favor of pension*. Ho asked
his opponent whether ho indorsed the at
tack upou his (Atkinson’s) vote on the
soldiers' home. Ho had not made, it an
issue, hut since it had become one, he
wanted each candidate to take his stand.
THE OCALA PLATFOHM.
S'
It was charged tbut he voted for tho
Ocala resolution, Resolved, That our sen
ators and representatives in congress bq
and uru requested to use their inllueneo
and votes to secure legislation which will
correct the evils complained of by the
National Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union in convention in Ocala, Fla., and
the evils complained of by the Democratic
party, especially those that relate to tho
present financial and taxation jxilicy of
the government.” He voted for it because
he was in favor of correcting every one
of the evils complained of, and ho chal
lenged his opponent to say where he stood
on the matter, let him either avoid the
change or slap his friends in tho face who
made it.
HIS WOBK FOR HIS PARTT.
The speaker wanted to know, if this
people is ready to say that a man who
serves his parly is to be placed at a dis
advantage. if Cleveland had applied this