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th: bride was drugged. PRETTY ANNIE VAN DOR N MARRIED THE WRONG MAN. H!>I!M. LOVE EPISODE. A Young Woman's Confidence Be trayed — She Is Wedded to a Man Who Looks Like Her Lover — The Awful Secret Comes Out Several Months After the Ceremony. Pateusox, N. J.. April 2.— John Mar tin, a well-to-do contractor of this city, met Annie Dorn, ot Pnssaic, in 1898, and in less than a montn they were imaged. Martin betrayed the young womau's confidence, and put off the marriage until the birth of their child, •when he promised to light the wrong he had done. When they talked over the wedding. Martin said tie would have his cousin. John Duncan, of Brooklyn, act as best man. The next night he visited tee home of Rev. George M. Doorwart. rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, and arranged for the ■wedding to take place on the following ' uight. This was oiv Sept. 4, 1S ( and the next day brought Duncan from Brookljn. The cousins resemble each other in height and features. When they got together there is reason to be lieve Martin told Duncan of his love episode, and said it was his desire to get rid of the woman, but how should he do it? Duncan said he would mai:i:y iie'k himself. "Sure she'll not know the difference, as we look so much alike." he added, "and 1 can assume any name but my own." It was agreed that Duncan should be the gjioom. and that they should drug the bride; at least that is an apparently well founded presumption. That night they set out from this city to I'assaic in a coach and got Miss Van Dorn. On the way back Martin stopped the carriage at a hotel, and brought out drinks for all. When they reached the parsonage. Miss Van Dorn complained of feeling ill. She says she felt "as if her senses had left her." She cannot recollect even to this day.shesays, what was said and done at the ministers home. She knows she was married and that is all. Martin returned home with her after the ceremony and they lived together for several mouths. Oie day he had a quarrel with her and told her he was not her husband and had never married her. He added that the marriage certifi cate, which she had not looked at since it was given to her by the officiating clergyman, would disclose WHO HEH 111 -HAM) WAS. She hastily searched for ttie certifi cate, and to her astonishment found she was married to a man named Joiin Powers, and that Martin was only a witness. Martin told her that during the ceremony, Duncan, ins cousin, had taken Ins place at Her side, and given his name to me rector as John Powers— "it was done so quickly no one knew the difference." Martin then deserted her. A few day aero Miss Van Dorn re tained counsel, and Saturday had Martin arrested and arraigned before Justice Senior on a charge of conspiracy. He was released on $1,000 bail, Key. Door wari remembers the wedding, but says lie noticed nothing unusual in the action of the participants. He was not aware that the two men had changed places. The records of the registrar of vital statistics show the entry of the mar riage as follows: ".John Powers, aged twenty-two years, of Brooklyn, N. V., to Miss Annie Van Dorn. aged twenty i years, of Passaic, N. J.. oy the Rev. ' George M. Doorwart: John Martin, wit ness." Filed a Demurrer. ■ - Milwaukee. Wis., April 2.— The Northern Pacific Railway company ha 3 filed a demurrer in the United States court to the complaint in the foreclosure begun by the Fanners" Loan and Trust -company, of New York. Soiid Silver Hairpins for BlaH Regular prices $1.50, $1.7 = s|! W& More £2.00 Belts tomorrow. More £2.00 Solid Silver Belts Get one of our 810.00 Dia mond Rings for $6. 50. They ATT C?TU^A\T WHOLESALE AND RETAIL H MVI 1 1 !\J JEWELRY HOUSE, • li« kJXIfXV/xlt) Cor. 7th and Jackson Streets. MAGIC CITY COUPON. One Coupon and Twenty Cents Secure 2 Parts. I (IT ALOXiTHIS LlNi:. PARTS 12 and 13. April 3. THE riAGiC CITY. Coupon for Parts Twelve and Thirteen. ADDRESS ART DEPARTMENT, DAILY GLOBE, ST. PAUL, MINN. Name Street and Number postoffice State m^" l ™W Send Parts Twelve and Thirteen to above : dlr^ss. Enclosed 20 cents. (IT ALOM. XHIsLIMi. BE SURb- AND FILL OUT THE ABOVE COUPON A PISTOL IN HER BOSOM. * ontinu<Ml From Fi:st Page. hotel and presented to him an addi ] tional SCHEDULE FOII CLOTHING. She wanted a little more money to make preparations to go away. The next day she sent him a note, and they look lunch at the SborebaaL They talked again of the trip to New York, and she told him the name of the physi j ciau in whose care she was to put her i self, and witness told her tiiat this doctor was a comrade of his in the war. The next day after this tne plaintiff came to see him again, and on the night of that day they saw Mrs. Blackburn, who. after hearing their explanation, saui she would wash her hands of the whole matter, ilrs. Blackburn ap- I proved the agreement for the plaintiff j to go to New York. The following day to this plaintiff again came to the hotel, and a conversation ensued between them as to a further conference which it was proposed should be held with Maj. Moore prior to her going away. As he described how he had waved her off. Col. iiieckinridge gesticulated very impressively with both hands, aud ex j plained the whole interview in panlo j mime. There was a tragic inflection to iiis tones as he dosed the account of the visit to Mis. Thomas with "Then 1 left her." There was a constant reiteration lin the defendant's denials. He would j frame them iv every possible form of ! negation of time, place and manner. "Theie was no further explanation to I give. 1 could give uo further explana tion,and Mrs. Blackburn said she would wash ncr hands of us, WOULD wash HUB HAXDS . . of people wliu were engaged and anted iv that way, and could give no explaua- I tion of it,'" wa-> one of the characteristic sentences. Continuing the description of the second visit to the niajor.he said: "We agreed to say that she was going to New. York to have a child; that 1 was the j author of her pregnancy. We agreed lon all but one point. She insisted, J crying sometimes, that I should tell j Maj. Moore that I was tiie only man | who had ever Oeen intimate with her. j 1 declined to do that, i said I had put | mvselt in the power of her aud Maj. Moore already, and 1 would refuse to say to any man that 1 had seduced her. Then she said she would not go. As she turned her jacket back 1 saw the gleam of a pistol in her bosom. 1 said | 'You are sitting close to me,' and she said "1 will use that on myself if I do on ! anybody." " Then describing the scene at the office ) of the chief of police, where they sat on j the sofa, he said: "She seemed to be dissatisfied with the form In which I made th*i statement. She tootc out the j pistol and looked at it. 1 said 'You had | better let Maj. Moore take that and | make me a Christmas present of it." i Then 1 said that nobody could say that I had seduced her. 1 made this state i nienl about not seducing her with con j siderable force, even temper." The account of this interview In Mai. j Moore's office differed from the version I of it given by that officer aud the plaint iff. Continuing his recital regarding the I arrangements for Ml>s POLLARD'S VISIT jto New York for confinement. Col. Breckinridge said she only wanted to | arrive there with ?IO in her pocKet, i because she was afraid if she had more she would come back to Washington. j She was to stop at No. 7 Thirty-first i street, where she would have good care: I she was to study painting on cluua or I in water colors wnen herstrength would ! enable her to, and to continue her studies in English literature. lie said: I "1 considered the problem settled, so far as Washington was concerned, so far as Mrs. JilacKburn was concerned, so far as oui relations were concerned. I The only thing left open was regarding j the child. 1 said to her that if it was ' my child, as 1 only partially believed it | was, 1 wanted to educate it, to take care j of it. to give it every chance possible for a child born out of wedlock, and iv TflE SAINT PAUL D^ILY GLOBE: TUESDAY MOBNIXG, APRIL 3, m*. the meantime she was to have every care and tenderness. J We parted : with out anger and on this understanding." Speaking of the reasons for leaving Washington the last of May, Col.Breck inridge said they were not connected with the case, but were the most urgent possible reasons, relating to his younger son. who attended Washington and Lee university and was in great difficulty. He took the dispatches which lie had sent Miss Pollard during the trip and read them with great elocutionary ef fect. The burden of most of them, which have been already published, was that she should make herself comforta ble. "That was just what 1 meant," he continued, "that she should make her ! self as comfortable as possible. Noth ing more. Nothing less." Two dispatches received in Covington. signed by a Mrs. Thomas, and inquiring if he was in Covington. he said, he sus pected were irum the plaintiff with the name of her landlady a.-> a blind. miss pollai:i> had gone to New York on the IStli of May and re turned the l'Jth. After arriving in Lex ington lie received a telegram to the ef fect that Miss Pollard was coining ttiere. I He returned a message, the principal part of which was."Wait. it will coimV ! referring, he declared, to money: Tins correspondence was review.d at length. An objection was offered by Mr. Wil son that if Col. Breckinridge had de stroyed the letters from Miss Pollard to which these telegrams were answers. I he could not testify regarding their con- I tents. It was replie.d to by Mr. Butter j worth that tne letters had not been de , stroyed with any view of concealing j evidence, but because they were not good things to preserve as family relics, for if found they would compromise botii the recipient and the sender. ••It was. my eu<totr," explained Mr. Breckinridge, "to destroy my letters from the plaintiff as soon as received."' Judge Bradley overruled the objec tion. Referring to one telegram which sadi: "Wholly uncertain, possibly by any train. Wholly certain June the 10th," dated May '27. he said that lie could not recollect to what this was a reply, but apprehended that it was sent in reply to one of many letters inquiring when he would return to Washington. His name, William C. P. Breckinridge, at the end of the telegrams, he lead with an im j pressive inflection. These dispatches had all been put in ' evidence by Miss Pollard's attorneys, j and Col. Breckinridge was given cx ! planations of them, although several he read without comment. He seemed to b<* amused when he spoke of A CINCINNATI I'AI'EU I sent by his son containing "an an i nouncement of the engagement between j the plaintiff and myself.' Meeting j somebody on the street in Lexington, they spoKe of it. he went on, "and 1 de j nied that such a marriage was possible. This was printed in the Gazette, and, being seen by the plaintiff, she wrote me two or. three letters, inquiring if 1 had made the denial, and threatening to publish our relations entire in the papers and republish them at Lexing ton."' "Did you." asked Mr. Butterworth. "have any improper relations with the plaintiff after tiie 29th of April, IS'J3?" This is the date on which the defend, airt was secretly married to Mrs. Wing. Mr. Breckin'ridge— 1 did not. After I the 29th of April, lS'.tt. I did not j have any improper relations with th? plaintiff whatever. It is absolutely false. I never had improper relations with the plaintiff after 1 returned to Washington after the 31st day of March, at any time or any place. I re turned on the Slat of March and had the conversation with Mrs. Blackburn. The arrangement made prior to my going to Mrs. Blackburn's, as a condition to my going to Mis. Blackburn's, as the only reason 1 would go to Mrs. Blackburn's, was that our relations should terminate: that she should leave the city ot Wash ington, and that the relations between nerself ana Mrs. Blackburn be allowed to die out gradually, and I should sup port her until sue should find some honorable vocation. Speaking of tne plaintiff's employ ment in the census office. Col. Breckin ;ridze said that she had lost it during his absence, wiieu he thought she was hardly treated. MISS POIX.ABD MAI»K a remark expressing gratification at the death of Gen. Sherman, as was pub lished at the time, although Mr. Bfeck inridge did not mention it. He had done everything in his power to assist her in obtaining leading matter, but had never advised her about her i studies, except to endeavor to make her take up rudimentary studies, in which she was peculiarly deficient for a woman of her reading. He had assisted j her in getting books from the con i gressional library, sending a list by the j page; had never furnished her with a translation of the "Odyssey." It was ten . minutes before 12 when Mr. Butterworth announced that Hie direct examination had finished, al though there might be a tew more questions, and asked for a recess to en able him to look over his notes, so the recess was announced earlier than usual, until 12:45. THE AFTISKXOOX SESSION. "Take the witness," said Mr. Butter worth at the beginning ot the afternoon session, and Mr. Wilson, reminding Col. Breckinridire of his early educa tional advantages, asked him what pre paratory schools he had attended, and then asked: "You had unusual educational ad vantages'.'" "Very unusual." was the reply. "And unusual social advantages'." "Yes. sir." "You began the practice of law when?" "li^lSsT." "Your practice was interrupted by the war?" "Yes, sir: and 1 returned in 1563." "Was your professional career inter rupted by difficulties with your clients?"' "It was not." "Were your friends not obliged to raise money to help you out of troub le?" "I became greatly involved in trying to save some friends from bankruptcy, but did not have trouble with clients/ "Your friends were not obliged to re turn money you had misappropriated?" "They were not." In relating his connection with edu cational institutions. Col. Breckinridge said that he had been a lecturer for sev eral years.had been nominally a trustee of Sayre institute, the female seminary attended by the plaintiff. "Your father was a minister of the gospel and president of a college of what denomination?" "The Presbyterian." "Are you a member of that church?" "In the sense that lam borne on its rolls. 1 became a member in 1539, and have never withdrawn." "You have taken an interest in the church?" "In the sense of contributing so far as my means would allow and giving legal advice when it was wanted. 1 have no recollection of ever addressing a presbytery or synod, i was never an officer of the enured. In 1888, a; tns centennial meeting in Philadelphia, I addressed the mealing on "Calvinism and Religious Freedom." "Have you taken an active interest in Sunday school work?" "I have never been a teacher since I left the Confederate army. It depends on what you mean by an active inter est." "Have you lectured before young ladies' seminaries?" asked Mr. Wilson. "Oh, 1 have addressed schools, lec tured and delivered diplomas at times." "You were given a public reception at the Norwood institution in this city." . t ITCHING HUMORS Torturing, disfiguring eczemas, and every species of itching, burn ing, scaly, crusted, and pimply skin and scalp diseases, with dry, thin, and falling hair, relieved by 8 single application, and speedily and economically cured by the Cuticura - Remedies, \rhta th* beat physicians fail. • c "Oh, yes." _ . - Thereupon Mr. Wilson handed up to the colonel and requested him to read an invitation which he had sent to ' Miss Pollard in February. 1893. requesting the pleasure of her company at a recep tion to Hon. W. C. P. Breckinridge. at Norwood- institute, which he read. By questions concerning -■-■.-■ .. - TilK COLONEL'S KKSinKNCE in L-xiiigUiu. in . Ltfctt, Mr. Wilson elic ited me information mat Ibis home was | on the same street wit.ii the hou-<e of ; Sarah Guess, tour blocks away. Then j he asked: — -.JI ;;.::• ' .: "How long had you known Sarah : Guess?" . to which Col. Breckinridge | answered: , ri? "Oh,. i . can't . tell. Perhaps twenty ■ years." , ; - .' - .'—■ -j? "Did you . know the character of her ; lious.-?" ,' -: ■'".. ,: >3 "1 did.'.' ...33 "Had you ever been there before you went with the plaintiff?" "1 was." ■ • . :. '"Then I understand that before you met the plaintiff you had lor years | known Sarah Guess, known the char acter of ths house, known the location { of the house, aud had been there before you went there with the plaintiff?" ■ > l: "E ich of these statements is true."' '-'■ Turning to the letter produced oy the '. defense and purporting to have com© j from Miss Pollard, Mr. Wilson asked j where the envelope was, and Mr. Breck ridge replied that it had been lost. It was his general custom to preserve ail j his letters, but the first letter from the ! plaintiff lie could not find. - - : ' "You have received a great many letters from her?" "I have.' "And you arc only able to produce of all of them what is called this wooden or dummy letter?" • "I do not admit that it was a dummy letter. Alter the relations which grew up between the plaintiff and myself on i the Ist of August, ISS4. I did not want to preserve tne letters, because of many references them." "You have received many telegrams from me plaintiff?" "1 never was in the habit of preserv- i ing telegrams." "So that of all your correspondence with the plaintiff, extending over nine years, you have only this letter?" "It seems so." Mr. Wilson requested a specific ac count of all Miss Pollard had said dur ing the hist VISIT OF COL. KRECKIXniDGK to the-; Wesley au seminary, and that interview was again dissected, the colonel denying that Miss Pollard iiad said that it "was part of her agreement with Rhodes to repay the money he had | advanced for her schooling if she dm not marry him, but explained that she had askvd if it would not be alt right if she repaid the money. In his most pathetic tones the colonel repeated all the details of the interview; how she had insisted upon telling him all, and he had remonstrated that there were things sue probably did not want to say to a stranger, advising her to go te her grandfather, mother or uncles. ••There is an impression on my mem- I ory, although 1 cannot remember.: her language after the ten years, that she said she had given hi even a higher proof of her intention to marry him.: Then 1 told her that she could not afford not to marry him." "And that same rule would apply to a man under the same circumstances?" "Well, tiiat is a question of casuistry or sociology. I would not care to an swer. If you ask me whether 1 would advise a young woman who had had improper relations with a man to marry him, i would say yes, but with a man it I would be different, for the knowledge^ of it by the public would destroy ttte* woman, and would only injure the man." { "Would it not hurt the man?" "On. ii would not injure him so much j as the woman. Society looks upon these; I things differently, if a i: young mm | should come to me under certain cir- j ' cumstances, I would advise him to marry a woman; under other circum stances, 1 would say to him, belter- j death or hell. lam not talking of the j justice of — -" ' ■ ;,.'■• j w "Oh, no," interrupted Mr. Wilson, , with a contemptuous air. "1 was nut asking you about justice." :; 3il "Are you a member of the Christian Endeavor society?" ..:>!!";? "No, Sir.".. ;:;.. ' "Did you take the Christian Endeavor, pledge?" ■•*-"-?"--'.;:. r" "Never. To be candid, 1 will say that. I was twice invited to deliver an ad- j dress at the annual meetings in New. York and Montreal on The Possibili ties of : v£ji.-1: v-v.- -.-. THE PRETEXT AGE.' 1 wanted very much to deliver that, but was prevented." By further questioning Mr. Wilson elicited the furtner information that the [colonel had delivered a speech before a woman's society in Nashville and been presented with a basket of flowers. 11" denied that he had .said that he had 110 wife to present them to in his response, aud was anxious to explain what he had said, but Mr. Wilson would not per ■i.ii. "Are you a member of the Masonic fraternity?" "1 am." - "Did you know that Miss Pollard's father was a Mason?" "1 did not. 1 kuew that he was an Odd Fellow." i "Are there any obligations to the I widow or daughters of members grow- | ing out of membership in those organi- j zations?" Phil Thompson objected to this ques tion, and the objection was sustained. . "You are a wide reader?" "Without vanity 1 think 1 can say yes." "You are familiar with the history of Louis XIII. and XIV., Henry VIII. and George IV?" "in a general way I am as well acquainted with them as most men of : our profession." He had read Thackeray and Dickens, ■ so Mr. Wilson found on cross-examina- i tion; was not so well acquaiuted with Addison, and he wished he had been, because bread winning prevented; had read all of Fielding and Smollett, but not Zola and Dumas, because the war \ Dioke in on his French. Considered George Eliot the greatest literary wom an, with the exception, perhaps, of Mrs. \ Browning; was not custodian of the mails; but had never heard that George Eliot's works were excluded from the ' mails. "1 assume," explained Mr. Wilson, : "that when Mr. Butterworth asked you about George Eliot he had some object in view. 1 want to know what it was." t "Well, the plaintiff said." continued \ Col. Breckinndge, "that she considered : the life of George Eliot with Mr. Lewes j a protest against MAWKISH SENTIMENTALITY, - ; concerning what were often considered' improper relations, and said she had. j rather live as George Eliot did than to i sew on buttons, churn butter and live, i the life of a woman in somewhat strait ened circumstances 0:1 a Kentucky: farm." "And when did the plaintiff first broach the subject of the life of George Eliot?" "I remember that distinctly. It was on the first day of August, ISS4. Sue said that George Eliot was the author ess of whom she intended to pattern, in speaking of her aspirations." "You mentioned George Eliot to place the plaintiff in the same category wits her, and to compare your relations with her to those of Lewes with George ■ Eliot?" "Oh, no. Mv relations with the plaintiff were much more improper with her than those of Eiiot and Lewes." [Very coolly.] "Mr. Butterworth was very careful to ask the plaintiff whether she had read Byron. Now, have you read Byron?" "If there is anything by Byron's pen that I have not honestly endeavored to read, I don't recollect it." " 'Child Harold,' 'Don Juan.' " "Yes. but I don't pronouace it in that way." [Laughter.] -Uo* you know of any reason why ladies should not read Byron?" *'Oh, 1 suppose there Is a great deal of Byron the purest giri could read." Coi. Phil Thompson objected to thi« line of examination, and. after the same strain had been followed conceruiug Bums, objected again, and Judge Brad ley.: said ■it - was Immaterial. In the course of i thin examination Col. Breck in ridge said: "From what i know of the plaintiff ; and of Burns, 1 don't think it would hurt the plaintiff to read Burns.", 93 Col. Breckinridsre again declared,-re ferring to his father, "1 i cannot overes timate the irreat advantages 1 had when a you man uy constant contact with one of the greatest minds I evtr knew." After Col. Breekinridge had admitted that he was in good health on the uiaht of his first ride with M:ss Pollard, and Had no throat trouble, nor chills. ** Mr. Wilson asked,- he was -asked whether it was not; a rather unusual proceeding to select a CI.OSKD c\i:i:ia<;e " tor a drive oil a hot summer evening, to which the .' colonel replied, "Oh, no, 1 don't think so," and the ~ audience laughed. Of the conversation or the ride he could only remember, that Miss Pollard did most of the talking. •' : "You were not inclined to talk?" Mr. Wilson commented.". ■ m "Oh. that depends on the company I am in,", replied the colonel. Continuing, lie descrioed how Miss Pollard had talked of her aspirations to be an au tV.oress. and how he had encouraged Iter. telling., her that- other, women had been authors, but that it was a matter '-»( work any other vocation." .""When you put your arm around her had lher>! been anything of a suggestive nature?" "Well, I can't answer that definitely. There was no particular word or act I bat I could- lay my hand on. If she had reproved me, 1 could not have said she had encouraged me.and yet I would have been surprised if she had resented it." "Did you give her any friendly advice on thai occasion?" . ;- :-. :-jt-v --"I did nut." "You were a man of forty-seven; ana she a girl of seventeen to twenty-one?" "That .was all true, and much more. No man in 'America had less excuse for such an action than 1, with the domestic surroundings 1 then had. I have at tempted to make no excuse for it. It just happened so." "And the fact thai she was a young girl in school maKes it all the worse?" "You cannot frame words too strong to characterize it. 1 have not attempted to justify it or even defend it. aud ALL THE HKLL I have suffered since then I have de served." "Then I understand you to say that the enormity of the act cannot ba over estimated?"' " I'nere is but one punishment which I have not deserved, and that is to marry the woman who was concerned with me in the act." "As a lawyer, since, you claim you did not seduce her, will you tell us what you consider seduction " "I mean to say that 1 did not seduce her by any protestations of love or re ward, thai she did not come to me a maiden or a virgin, that 1 did not se duce her in the physical sense that she came to me a maiden and 1 left her otherwise. Nor, in the lower sense, that 1 did not idler her money." "l>o you uot know that a dumb man can seduce a woman?" "I am not prepared to attempt under oath to give a definition of seduction." "Do you not . know that a married woman can be seducrd?" "1 suppose in a moral sense that is possible." \.*-. "Now, you went , there .as her at torney," asked Judge Wilson, alter go ing over the giving of the ten-dollar bill to Miss Pollard. "Oh, no. There was no thought of my going in the capacity of attorney. There's the letter, if speaks for itself. 1 11- expected no fee. i supposed she wanted to talk to me about some ' LITTLE CHILDISH TROUBLE [which she had gotten into, and which she greatly exaggerated when she said it was worse than a divorce -suit." "You had never-seen her but once be fore and you came nt her request?" : : "The letter speaks for itself." ; When they met on the train to Lex ington the next day. Col. Breekinridge said, he had not Known that Miss Pol lard was to be on the train, and sup- I posed.- that she could not know he was tbere. While this was being related. Miss Pollard, and. Mrs*: Ellis rose and ; threaded their way troin the -.court room. ■•-. : ''.' -. -. .' ■ ". Describing the interview on the train, the colonel said: "1 suggested to her that if she stayed over in Lexington, would not she meet me, and asked if there was any place she could go. She said she could go to Sarah Guess' house, and with some surprise 1 asked ' What do you know about Sarah Guess?' She said that Mr. Rhodes had once tried lo get her to go there with him. ana she hud gone as tar as the gate, but refused to go in." "Nothing had been said about your meeting the night before?" \ "Nothing had been really said, only when we met there was some sort of in definite 100k — something more than a formal recognition." "You knew of places in Lexington where people could go?" : "1 knew of no particular place where I could take this person." "How many places did you know of?" "Do you mean in the sense of having been there?" "No: that you knew of." "Lexington was a place of 20,000 in habitauts. There were such places. But 1 would not have put such a girl as 1 supposed the plaintiff to be in the power of such a woman as I supposed Sarah Guess to be." MISS POI.LARD HAD KNOWN . the way to the house, the colonel con tinued, and then in response to ques tions as to his going home to dinner and returning to the assignation house, he responded continuously: "1 did, I did," with bowed head. "The next morning, did you go to church?" Mr. Wilson persisted. "No." "To Sunday school?" "No." "To Bible class?" "1 was not a member of any Bible class." responded the colonel, lifting his head and tossing back his silvery inane. After going over again the visit to the house of Sarah Guess Sunday night, when he was uncertain whether he would tiud the plaintiff there, his pay - men tot money to her at the close of the evening before his departure, the con veisation with Rhodes on election day, Monday, wag touched upon, and he de clared that he had not considered that he was acting in the capacity of attor ney in that talk. "Afterward the lawyer astced if Breckinridge had taken Miss Pollard to the house of Mrs. Rose in Cincinnati when they went there. He replied: "1 want to be candid, and 1 will say frankly that I did not take her in the sense of going on the same train, but we had made- the arrangements to go in Lexington." This was in October. The colonel had known Airs. Rose in Louisville, when she kept a cigar store, but not "iv an improper way," ana under circum stances involving another person, in his capacity as attorney. "I had met her on the streets; we had shaken hands, and she knew that ; • I KNEW CERTAIN TtITNGS about her which 1 bad obtained pro fessionally and she gave me her card." ! "When was that?" Mr. Wilson in quired. ; ~..~~.7 j "About eighteen months before." ! "And you Kept her card all that time?" Awarded Highest Honors— World's Fair. PFRlqls ftoaEßaßinf IRjiPowdef TT T^. o*^0 *^ ™* Cream of Tartar Powder.-^p Ammonia; No Alum. Used in Millions of Homes — 40 Years the Standard. '■' "No, 1 knew her name and looked it up in the directory." =-■'. "How lone, were you there that day?" : "Perhaps half an hour, perhaps an hour.' T ; '•Was that the only time you two were there?'.' I "Guess not." "How many, times?".-' . "Perhaps four or six times during the two years."' - Later, in speaking of the visits to Sarah Giles's, he said: very arrange ment, as 1 remember it, Jor us to meet >vas accidentally made. When we went to Sarah Guess' there never, was any agreement. to meet there at any future ilme. but we would meet on the street, and i from these accidental • meetings would come arraugemenls to visit Sarah Guess." "From whom would the solicitation to meet there come?" Mr. Wilson asked, "from you or the plaintiff?" "There were no solicitations. We would meet, walk along the street to gether, and the matter would be ar range<i." "Did you have a sister in Lexington by the name of Louise?" asked Mr.Wil son. after Col. Breckinridire had de clared that he had not corresponded with Miss Pollard in ISSti. "1 never had a sister by the name of Louise," was the reply." "Do you know a woman in Washing ton by the name of Louise Lowell?" Col. BrecKinridsre looked puzzled, and declared that he knew no such person. Then to Mr. Wilson's inquiry whether he remembered a typewriter whose ma chine was in the COKHinoii OF THE CAPITOL, between the rooms of the house com mittee on postuffiees and the committee on printing, he said that there had al ways been a typewriter and stenog rapher there, but he could not remem ber he name. If sue was produced he might recognize her. "You have said you wrote no letters to her in 1886." continued Mr. Wilson. "Now, did not you take 10 that lady in February of ISSo" a manuscript letter beginning, '.My Dear Sister Louise,' and ask her to render it into typewrit ing ?" "1 decline to answer that unless you show ma the paper you are asking the question from. 1 have given you notice to produce all the letters you have from me. and you hive said you bad none. ' The colonel was for Hie first time get ting somewhat excited. It will be re membered that he had denied the state ment of Mis* Pollard that he had ad dressed letters to her under the name of Louise Wilson. His attorneys. Maj. Butterworth and Col. Pnil Thompson, backed him up in his refusal, but Judge Bradley decided that the question was a fair one. "Since i ha\e no recollection of a woman named Louise Lowell, 1 cannot remember having sent a letter to her." was the reply. "Of course. I have a very large corre spondence. I have a sister-in-law named Louise, the wife of Gen. Breckinridge, but since she is called Lou in the family, 1 don't total: I could have written in that way " The sparring became warm. "Let me see the letter." persisted Col. Breckinridge. "That will come out in due time." remarked Wilson, coolly. "Now, to refresh your memory, did you not in that communication refer to THE DISPARITY OF AGES between yourself and your dear sister Louise?' . More protests that the letter should be produced, to which Mr. Wilson said: "For the comfort of yourself anu your attorneys, I will say that the manu script was returned to you." "WelL, now you need not make such statement, for 1 don't cans anything about it either way," interposed Col. < Breckinridge, visibly nettled. "And to further refresh your mem ory," continued Mr. Wilson, "did you not say how anxious you were to get back and meet your dear sister once more?" "I have not the faintest recollection of any such letter, and I don't care to discuss it," replied the defendant. "If you will bring the Lowell woman here, if there is such a person, aud let me see whether 1 have ever known he for her testimony is a base fabrication like that of. Sarah Guess, I can tell you." : "That will be something for the jun to pass upon," remarked Judge Wilson, and then asked him it he had not, after two or three mouths of this correspond ence, cautioned his dear sister. Louise not to leave the letters around, as curi ous persons might search bureau draw ers. ; "I never under any circumstances wrote any such letter." replied the colonel, and then he tapped the witness box sharply as he said: "If any such letter is in existence it is a forgery, aud if notes of any such, they are per juries." More arguments from Messrs. Butter worth and Shelby against tin: right of Judge Wilson to catechise the witness line upon line retarding the substance of a letter not in evidence, to which Mr. Wilson replied that since the defeudaut has denied having ever WBITTEN TO MISS POL.I-AED he has a right to lest his memory on that point, ana added: "1 will say frankly that we have not the manuscript here, and 1 don't mind telling the court upon what evidence 1 base questions." "Now my brother Wilson is geiting into au argument, as he always does," said Mr. Butterworth J "Well, if you object I will drop it," said Mr. Wilson. "No\v,lhat is not a fair way of putting it 1 insist," said Mr. Butterwortii, "to say that I object." "1 will pass it until tomorrow morn ing," said Judge Wilson, turning from the point, "ana 1 will ask yo i whether that lady addressed envelopes in the year ISW3?" "1 can only say if you bring the lady here 1 can tell you wnether she ever did any work for me. Several women or females have done typewriting in Washington, but 1 don't remember this particular one." "1 will ask you whether you did not bring to her in the spring of 1635 a package of a dozen envelopes, some what yellowed by age and of different dates, and have her address them to Miss Madeline Pollard, 7 Upper street, Lexington, Ky.?" Col. Breckinridge was very strenu ous in his denial. "I never under any circumstances had any such envelopes addressed, aud I do not care who the woman is who says so," he asserted positively. 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