The Laramie Republican

BRECKINRIDGE CASE.
Proceedings in Miss Pollard's Suit Against the Kentucky Congressman.

DE LA FRANCE ON THE STAND
Cousin of Ward McAllister Testifies For the Fair Complainant--A Group of Young Women Ordered From the Court Room by Judge Bradley.

Washington, March 12.--Refreshed by two days of consultation and planning, the Pollard-Breckinridge legal forces bristled with law books and portentous looking documents this morning. Jurors, too, were smiling with just cause, for directly across the room and facing them sat a group of fashionably dressed young women backed by a row of solemn matrons, all brought thither by curiosity. Expectation fairly beamed from beneath their bonnets to be but five minutes deferred, for that space after the appointed hour for court convening entered Miss Pollard, demure and with downcast eyes, wrapped in her black cloak. The congressman defendant followed closely after.

The roll of jurors was called and was no sooner finished than Judge Bradley remarked: "Mr. Marshal, I wish you would request those ladies to vacate the seats unless they are witnesses in the case."

Thereupon Marshal Wilson's portly form loomed before the women waving them out. They went with clouds of disappointment overspreading their faces and such a babbling of anger that the judge was obliged to tap sharply for order.

First in the proceedings Attorney Carlisle, for Miss Pollard, represented to the court that the four mysterious volumes of Washington Irving taken from the Cincinnati convent and ordered on Friday to be produced had been filed with the clerk of the court in a sealed package with the endorsement that they were sealed by agreement of counsel to be opened by direction of the court.

The first deposition offered in the case was by Sarah Gess. Mr. Butterworth raised the objection that no notice of it being taken had been served upon the defendant.

Claude De La France on the Stand.

The matter for the time was deferred and witness for Miss Pollard was called a fashionably dressed, smooth-faced, bespectacled young man who gave his name as Claude de la France, first cousin of Ward McAllister, announcing that his residence was in New York, but that most of his time was spent in Europe.

He had known Miss Pollard in Washington in 1893, when she lived at 25 Lafayette square and 1819 H street. He had been a visitor at the latter place two or three times a week, always seeing Miss Pollard there and frequently Colonel Breckinridge with her in the drawing room.