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April 14, 1894 ended this ‘Trial of the Century’. It had begun on March 8, 1894 and took just over a month. The case was a Breach of Promise case between Madeline Pollard and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge. When they first met on a train, Pollard was a 17 year old student at Wesleyan CollegeContinue reading “April 14 ‘The trial of the Century’”