The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1875, Page 4

‘ 3 ; . 4 NEW YORK ‘HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. noble features, quite the comely view of any of | fied with this scandal. Dlack, With @ heavy veil, which did not conceal her iuce, She advanced, after a time, to the | centre of the court and sat down beside Mrs. Field, the large female who had been «mistaken | yesterday for Mrs. Ovington. | Still another lady was present yesterday, and | saia to be Mrs. Ovington. Orhers thought her to be a Iriend Of one of the officers of the Court. She | Was a pleasant faced laay and had a special pass. It proved to be Mrs, Shearman. A female correspondent, with white flowers in her hat, came in during the forenoon, seateo her- seif en Jace with Mrs. Tilton, drew out her murder- | ous Implements and proceeded to go to the bottom eS eel a3 of the thing. The doors now veing opened to the THE TESTIMONY BEGUN. | genuier sex tt is presumavie that dry speecnes | Will not be without their relies. Judge Morris, full of his case, arose at the be- ginning of the Court and spoke for the third day, With bis usual long grip on every case where he vakes a hand, as tollows ; MR. MORRIS SPEAKS Tshall not delay you mach louger in what I have to say to you, Atthe adjournment of the Vourt yesterday I was caliimy your atiention to the in- Vesuigation and the | c 1 | “MUTUAL FRIEND” MOULTON. CHARGES OF IMMORALITY | that had been mace agaiust the deiendant by the | members of his Chu No sooner nad a tirea | cei ir ae been ay itd fone trick, by << SON e i ee wc, | SOME device, than unother difficulty arose, and Testifies to Beecher’s } thus they continued accumulate, until at ist . niet ; the “dead secret’ had to be made public. And I Confession. | tad called your attention to the manner in which it was made public, not by any charge made by ‘Theodore Tilton against Henry Ward Beecher, but by simply pubdlisting a part of Mr. letter of contrition, It was accepied by | everybody, almost, as being a confession of guilt, The pubdiication of that portion of the letter ot contrition raised such a spirit of inquiry | that Mr. Beecher was fnaily compelled to take | action in the matter. A letter was then published, | addressed to six gentlemen, and requesting them | te women “TILTON. \S. BEECHER, Eighth Day of the Great Scandal Case. Conclusion of Judge Morris’ Opening Address. | be Naverick Maverick Proves He THE EXCITEMENT GROWING. Crush of People to View the Scenes. Extraordinary to make a thorough examination into tne story. His friends .recetved this letter with intense satisfaction and said, Dow we shall know the truth, we shall bave an investigation and have a settiement forever of this matter. On the 6th of July Mrs. husband, went be/ore the committee and made & The eighth day of the Brooklyn trial drew even | @ greater audience than previous days to the | court room, because it was understood that the | ial At the bare the platuti! knew nothing ey ontinue her presence. | about the appointment of a committee, RENE: wits means, tO, 00 5 ;On the morning of the th of Juy She and Mr. Beecher are, Of course, the sa»jects Of | Mrs, ‘Tilton = leaves. ~=—sher == home — and. all curiosity. Toe audience wriggles and strains to look under her veil, wuich yesterday she wore down, whereas tue day before she sat with anakea dace, as Lf wooing inquiry, The majority of men, | after one peep, exclai “Nonsense! Beecher could never have had any weakness for that little creature.” | Menu of more profound knowledge of buman | errantry see differently. Mr. John Swinton, who as, perhaps, the senior of the press stai! at the Seeks sheiter with the friends of her seducer, and on the same day tnis letter is publisned, but until tuey had secured her the letter Was not publisned. Genuiemen, she but followed out the usual course in such cases, the wile who leaves ber husband Takes up ber residence with the FRIENDS OP HER PARAMOUR, But, gentlemen, I call your atiention to the very fact and circumstance of the appointing of ‘this committee as evidence of the guilt of the deiendant. Had he been innocent What would have been his course * Hé wouid have called upon ali tne regular authorities of the al, regards Bt ton’ ‘ churen “to have mstitated the — proceed- npleh Toward: sae be wna Thon MA Very, puns | ings: he would have invited the — parties and the expression beaming out of 1% as indicat | who had charges to make to appear be: ang a very rare aud versatile mixture of fascina- | ton. As all Katsons are a kind of disease, tt ts not nec- essary to prove Mrs. Tilton beautifal to account | for ber central position in this trial and the appar- | eut distance, mentally and socially, between her- } selfand the deieudant, He is a man to be admired as soon as seen. But the power of @ battercup tO | committee, Had the plainiim been treated with make a giant stoop Gown aud pick it is as true in any regard to fairness beiore tnat committee, human fields as in suler pastures; and there | Sentiemen of the jury, you would not have been ‘were large, rooust men in the court room who | “slled here to day. é could comprehend how the smile of that little MORRIS! HIT. homebody carried more tantalization to the | 48 Judge Morris, the Orst quarter of an hour heart than the charms of more distinguished | ®ttacked toe committee of Plymouth church and Deauties, In it were waywardnesses and | #ccUsed them of falsifying the records, Halliday, comforts, faith and mischief, no torethougnt, | Cleveland, Mr. Beecher and the large group of @ desire to be appreciatea and perfect willingness | P!ymouth people who were listening, looked ser to spend the money for the family. A literary ous, but did not smile or speak. As Morris called man, himself unmethodical, had no business to MF phe ‘the sedacer a carry the frail but mortitying load of such a mer. | ¢fred to “our broken home,” Mrs. Beecher simtled curia! little woman, To offend her sensitiveness | *#!f it touched her rigiblities more than her was to do the last of crimes, and to lft her toa | SOF, and turned to her son, Colonel Beecher, to Cistinguished consideration, Nowever unreal, was | S@¥ Something. Mr. to put the maggo: of vanity in her brain immor. | @UFMg the morning session. tally. Itisevident that sie bas no intention of /enwe of morris rebuilding her family altar and rooftree. Her | CUF c@use is Just, and God ts with the right,” Mr. eldest daughter has gone tor good to her father’s old residence, aud is tue housekeeper and mis- tress there. The other little children are stul the | mother’s brooad. The court room kills a day or @ week, and toere—as in ten thousand cases | of domestic rage—the wife watches the husband | prosecu‘e her pastor, aud, as he claims, his in- jJurer—the same pastor who united them for better | or for worse, for richet or for poorer, for iif OF | ger, put they declined. The defendant finally pro- for death. None, alas! are poorer than they at | cared an indiccaead agaist fue platnticr for bel, he ms | Eve: " ave Came; of the woman, taking about i and, at | Deen imploring them to bring on ihe ease, til at last, Weary Of Waiting, we Dave had to vring on present, figuring as a show-piece in it, What | the case ourseives. fore you we will bring our brought her to the trial 1s guessed on all sid fore that committee and attend its investiga- tion. Mr. Beecher selected voice in the matter, not even that of the church, except when called upon by tue delenaant to Sanction his action. Beiore these friends of Mr. lawyers, but Mr. Tilton was pot present, There- Jore, I say that @ searching and honest investiga: tion into the matter was not the purpose of that and read with rapidity. The jnry was 4 little less very warm and too crowded, and ‘orty jets of gas were burning in the reflector. THE PLAINTIFF'S COURSE. nothing left to the plaintiff but to oring the de- jendant before this ponorable Court. He even tried to get the committee to indict him for sian- Beecher’s | Tilton, without the knowledge of her | the committee ) from his persqual iriends, tne accuser having no | Beecher appeared a number o! learned and astute | Beecher was very serious | At the loud chal | ‘We shall get your verdict; for | Beecher proceeded to drop nls head into his book | attentive than previously, and the court room was | But, as such course was not observed, there was | wrongs, the bald ok poe “woe To jou we will present our br: ome. but probably it is the result ofa position rather | Wea See ees eee pone ae twuan @ motive. She told a lady iriend that, ber | husband having forced this thing to an issue in | court, she would act with Mr. Beecher; and | she has kept ber word. She sits among Mr. | Beecher's coterle—ner husband has no coverie— | and she talked and smiled with Beecher yester- | day, while periectly silent and regardiess of ner Dusbaod. og has not made a suggestion in the trial except to-day, while Beecher holds a daily reception at noom and at adjourument, Alter Judge Samuel Morris had called bim the ‘Various names attributable to people who are | Yound guilty on such charges as concern this trial, | and shouted toat he personally beileved tn Tilton’s honor apd suterings, Mr. Beecher walked up to Morris, shook his hand and spoke jestingly upon the easy way he had been let off. He also spoke to Judge W. A. Beach, who is expected to adminis- ter a less genial dressing wuen ne sums up In his sual tornado styie. Human mature can get as swell accustomed to living in court rooms as in private lodgings. The fat woman had no tran- quillity when they discharged her from the me nagerie. Still, under all the parade which blunts the sen- sibilities for a littie while, there are sick hearts In tuis court. ihere are at least two such, and prob- ably three. What is the world to do with some ‘who are there woen tle trial is done and the ver- Gt recorded? The Tilton amily used to be the recipients « ‘oi $15,000 to $18,000 @ year, and more. How can the husband earn it hereafter? What corporate or sadividual pity will do nearly 80 great a charity for any long period to the wife? | She and he may be deluded with the idea tnat some Vague supporting Iriendship 18 to keep the wolf irom the door after this panorama of human 1nfrmity 13 roiled up; but the years are long before the, and youth and purpose are long behind, Frank Moulton referred to this subject ‘@) the HERALD representative some Months ago. aid he, inquiriv “Don’t you think Tuton will reappear strong as Re used to be ¥”" Then, beiore the question could be answered, — Moulton said:— | “think he will reappear. All his faeulties and purposes are as strong as they were. He must @et that litte wilful woman out of bis head, But She don’t know whom to tle to.” | ‘The counsel for the defence ascribe Mrs. Tilton’s | ‘appearance to the efforts of Mr. Tracy. He ad- vised it, they ay, wo show the jury that the wie “was @ veliever in her husband's opponent, If this was the case it has been Sad advice. The | jury have scarcely glanced at her, and she is @ fifth wheel in the wagon of justice, a conunarum in crinoline. Men look at her, exchange optnions, generally jocose, and then watch the proceedings ‘without farther interest. ‘The salient points yesterday were Beecher’s conversation with Mrs, Tilton; Mrs. Beecher’s ex- cited, doomfal look at most times and at otuers her ghastly smile; the conclusion of Judge Morris’ speech, and the introduction of “Our Mutual Friend,” biut, agricultural Francts D. Moulton. Mr. Talmage, the Tabernacle orator and Spur- geon of tue New World, sat beside Rev. Mr. Buck- Jey, of the Washington street Methodist Episcopal church, @ pale, Suarp featured Scotch-looking man, Mr. Buckiey 1s one of the most celebrated trav- ellers of the Methodist Church, aod is bald and hardy. They both watched the proceedings criti- cally. A, M. Cleveland, Mr. Beecher’s most ardent sup- porter, sat at his side yesterday for the frat time, | @ bearded man, with @ vroad forehead and a | Rowan nose, te listened with a sover face, Next to him sat Mervert Beecher, tue best looking of ‘she family and quite a poet in appearance. Michael Chauncey, of Brooklyn, appeared at the wicket leading to the bar just after the Snry bad vecn polled. accomunamed by a tall, | this desolation, -snd trom | sould be made known to that committeee when | | and having w take some step he had selected we | move a muscle. | contrition, What does be doy | Christian w: | cent and such a proposition had been propo | wonid bave turn We arraign the seducer of our wives. Before you we arraign the man who has brought upon as all you we expect the | Justice tuat has heretoiore been denied. Ay, we know tbat we shall recetve it, | because our cause is just, and God ia with the right. But, gentlemen, notwithstanding | the committee were appointed by deiendant in thts action, it was not the purpose that the facts it was appoluted. As the defendant declared that Was not @ sicp of his own choosing, but he was | riven to it, as tne Church had to do something, | men himsel', whom he declared he managed and | | controlled, and in his estumation on that point | be was not deceived, But again, in the hour of | bigs extremity, be turns to his frienas and | another device was hit upon, but pot successfully | carried out. Afterward Mt. Moulton prepared @ | statement for Mr. Beecher to Make to his cougrega- tion, and in that proposed starement he ac- Knowlevged that he had committed an offence against ‘Iheodore, but no crime, and if this society wish me to reopen this painiul case | shai resign. That staiement was made on the advice of a clever lawyer as in common law. ADULTERY 18 NOT A CRIME. Mr. Beecher then began to consult with Mr. | Moulton. Gn the 10tn of July be wrote him a let- ter and said he was waiting to see him, and on the | same day Le requests him to come to fis house to assist nim. On the foliowing Monday he wrote another letter, and on July 13 be also writes: — My Dean Fuank—I will be with yon at seven, or a | as you hi | Mysterious young lady, with lovely hair and ! ne sata on the ist of January, 1871, that he had superior in every identi- The lady was dressed in | sinnea and transgressed with Mrs, Tiiton he con- fessed his crimiality; ani when on the 7th of had tied up the storm in t of his lie Ehzavetm K, Tilton; and when be said that he lived 0 the suarp and RAGGED EDGE | of anxiety, remorse, tear and despatr, he con- lessed his criminauty with Elizabeth R. Tilton, And when contemplating suicide for the crime that he gad committed he coniessed his criminal. ity, Jor suicide is con/ession, and the contempla- tiok of suicide 18 confession, When he wrote to Moulton-that Theodore had enjoined upon him not to betray his wife por leave his chilaren to the biignt it Was a confession that he had been guilty | ol crime. But, gentlemen, we do not rest our case upon the testimony furnished by Mr. Beecher him- self alone; we go further than that, We will put upon the stan Mr. Carpenter, whose veracity | ap- prenend Will not be questioned in this Court, and to whom we say Mr. Beecher made bis coniesaion. | POINT AGAIN. | When Judge Morris announced that he would | put the artist Carpenter on the stand, that Lis character could not be questioned, and that he | Would swear Mr. Beecher bad conlessed bis | guilt to him, Beecher looked up with interest, then smiled and whispered to Mr. Hill, Ae the Judge | proceeded to eulogize Mr. Tilton as one kind to { jis family and children, and chivairoug all his life, thé {Wo grinning faces were Mr. Ovington and | Mrs, Beeciier. Observing this, Morris quoted from | Beecher’s letters to bear him out, and then Mr. Beecher’s Jace grew darker, splotched with red Nushes, and he read his book with something o! that mental distress he had so vividly depicted. Mor- Tis’ speech Was destitute of the salient powers of an istant advocate; as, jor example, when he was comparing the two men, he might have re- sponded to those satiricat smiles by reference to some of Mr, Beecher’s egotiams and hyperbole, It was all exhortation however. Morris was wholly serious, | TILTON’S INTEREST. | But, gentlemen, we shall not stop there. No man in this case has so deep an interest as the | defendant, They are both and, gentiemen, let me call your attention to the fact that when you weigh the testimony Oo! a wit- | hess you Will look to the motives that may in- fuence him. Jendant has for concealing his crime; but what mouve can the other side ig to show that ‘Theodore Tilton would make a charge falseiy | agaist his wile of such infamy. No, gentlemen of | the jury, you bave seen in the recital] nave made, so far from his wanting to make a false accusation, and notwithstanding the wound | he had= received in nis | was willing to conceal the wrong that | had been done to him. Those who know nim best are sure {nat he 1s nogest, that he is manly, that | he is straigutforward, he is generous, he 1s & | Christian, large hearted, lorbearing and long suffer- ing’—this is |he introduction that the deieudant gives to tue plaintiff when he goes upon the siand | Lo tell bis sad story to you of the past four years, | But, gentiemen, we go still further when we | shall put upoa the stand Mr. Moulton, that you have hear 80 much about, the iriend whom whe defendant said 4 | GOD HAD SENT | to preserve him, and who stood by the defendant | lor four years with @ constancy and firmness unparalieled. You must recoilect that alter the appointment of the committee the committee | wrote Mr, Moulton a note requesting him vo pre- sent certain Jacts before them. ‘the press then | said:—Now we will have trutn. Here isa man in whom both parties have confidence—one wuo has | Stood the mutual friend of both parties; he is tue friend of both. Let him speak and the trath will be declared. by the whole country as an arbiter in tue matter, | and had he spoken when the public were waiting | to hear nim you would not bave been here to-day, and Mr. Beecher would not be the pastor of Piy- mouth church to-day. But Moulton, as @ loyal friend, withbeld his statement, and then the law- | yers got the defendant to make a | CHARGE OP BLACKMAIL. _After throwing this cloua over the eyes of the | people they let the matter drop; but, finding this | did not satisfy Mr. Moulton, they proposed to set | Dim right and leave Mr. Tilton to fignt the batule | alone. INTERRUPTION. At twelve o'clock a flerce policeman shoved out of tbe door a legitimate shorthand writer for one | of the New York aailies, just as Morris was say- | ing, “No, Francis D, Moultun is nota black mailer.”’ | Only Mrs, Beecher seemed not to withdraw her gaze from Morris while all the rest were looking toward the door. She drank in the testimony all | day yesterday, and once Judge Morris whispered to Roger A. Pryor:— “Did you ever see a darker face than the de- | fendant’s wife wears to-day ?”’ MANY EFFORTS WERE MADE to suppress tnis case, but, thank God, we are now before tis tribunal, and we wul have the tacts and an honest condemnation of the crime that , has been committed against my client ME, MOULTON. Moulton was sitting directly behind Judge | Morris, between Puilerton and one of Beecher’s reportorial sons, when Morris, turning around, | gesturing over bis head, exclaimed that they were | reaay to prove that Beecher tried to treat with | him alter Beecher had denounced Moulton, send- ing down from Boston to overhaul him. Moulton listened, perfectly sober in his manner. He bas been, in a civil capacity, directeur général of his case. Mr. Beecher has, tn general, bebaved toward Moulton as if he ‘elt toward him more in sorrow than in anger. ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE. Why, gentlemen, tf you want any additional evidence that Mr. Moulton was iotrugted with toe secret I will give it you—at least a smal portion of it. He says to Fevruary, 1871:— I send you a book, not as a repayment of a by love, which I give you treely. Many, many friends has God raised up to me, but tono one of them has He tbe opportunity and wisdom so toserve me My trust in you ts iumplicit, The same date,—The friend whom God has sent me, Mr, Moulton, has proved the best of friends that I havé nad. able and willing to help me in this terrible emer- Genoy of my lite, His hand it was tas ted up the storm Sury 3) s/t hy heurt warms tovea, and you might have known that would be here it you loved meas much as Ido you. Iam, my dear Frank, truly and cor- | dially you! rs. any 5, 1872.—During all this time you were liter- ally my stay and comfort, I should have fallen on the Way but for the courage you inspired and the hope which: you breathed. I am well nigh discouraged. If You cedse to trust. love me. f am alone. 1 have not ‘nother person in the world to whom | could go. With | Sincere gratituie for your heroic friendship, and with sincere conviction tat you love me, 1 am yours, though unknown, Feeuvany 16, 1°73.—Remember how deeply I feel your littie before. Iam ashamed to patastraw more upon agi: t i and friendship, your long continued k ndness yom and have buts single, comolaiuan that thus mavter | and your ailection, 1 conde everything to your wisdom, anxieties about the future whatever there may be about | *% Ihave always with such success litherto that i fully the past. He expressed no anxiety then to defend the fair name o1 zaveth R. Tilton, and I repeat it is too lave to play the rode of defender of the fair name Of Elizabeth L Tilton tn this case. MORRIS AGAIN. “It Is too late to play the réle of defender of the fair name and home of Eligabeth Kk Tilton,” said Morris, looking around upon the happy church family and the plaintiff's wife. They did not Mrs. Beecher’s tace was at times | grim, yesterday. Her personal beauty ts somewhat | marred about the mouth and chin by a hurd-ser, immobile way of setting the jaws She lang! without opening her lips, as if she was grumbling | alaugh. Once, when Morris, jour orflve times | successively, called Beecher the seducer of a child | of Wis congregation, Mrs, Beecher’s face took somewhat Wiid lights, and she twitched ber mouth trust for the future. “PHB PAIN OF LIFE.” Joxx 1, 1873—The pain of life is out a moment; the glory of everiasting emancipation ts wordless: Incon- wiory! Ob! my beloved Framk, L and forever hoid fellowship with d smile at the past. ANOTHER POINT. Reading the letter from Beecher to Moulton, saying that in the beautiful world beyond the gtave they should renew their friendship, and | walk together, Mr. Beecher looked toward Moul- ton and janghed almost audibly, but sne dark countenance above almost belied the smile. Per- baps Mr. Beecher was sensitive before a practical audience to the recitation of his enthusiastic sen- tences written in the private bower. Moulton did not look round. He sat, leaning his great shock of dark red hair on his white hand, and grasping the handle of a silk umbrella upon bia lap. Hus face was serious and attentive, and scowied. Her husband leaped over and | ALSTTER whispered in the ear of Mr. Hil He was deeply STE in te beantirnd oes B73, ly Dean Faawx—The coun’ a it The Interested ait Gay yeaverdey, | come to mess David's harp, {omy waut some ‘one to BUT THIS 18 NOT ALIA talk to, aud that one as you. When Mr. Beecher was injormed that Mr, Tilton was preparing @ statement to make belore tue committee, presenting the facts im his letter of Again he urns to bis (riend Moulton for ald and assistance, and, waking counsel togetuer, anotuer device was hit upon. Alter the appointment of a committee Mr. | Beecher, with his own hand, wrote a statement for Mr. Tilton wo make bejore that committee. | The statement proposed by Mr. Beecher for Mr, Tilton to make suostantially thus:—"1 have | been three years acting under the conviction that luave been wronged, under the impatation of being the mjurer; but I iearn irom 4 friend that Mr. Beecher in his statement to you has reversed this and has done me justice. 1am willing, should be consent to appear vefore you with me, to Settle this patnfu! aimicuity finally and amicably.’ | ‘This is the disposition that the de to make Of this case, Is that the disposition the id haa Tight to expect would ve se? The name of @ minister stand- ing sO nigh suliied, bis garments soiled with the most Injamous charges made against him, having seduced the wife of his lieiong Iriend, a member of his church--and she # member of bis cunreh— @ child having grown uy under hiseye. Andis it | possibie—is it possibie to explain that consistent With innocence? And ia tt possible to explain that Mr. Beecher, if ap innocent man, would have sub- mitted to such a disposition of the case’ ii inno- Tmade of this with indignation and asked, “What do you mean? | am charged with aauitery; | my iar NAMB 18 SULLIED, ; Jouy 14, 1873. My Dean Fraxe—Fot a thousand enconragements, tor the services (hat none can avpreciate who has not been as sore hearted ag i have been: for the fall and honora- abe Lg vey for contidence and adfection. | owe you #0 m . that) Can neither express nor say it cannot siop to call your attentwn to all. My dear Frank, | have horning coine back, and want to send 3 love to yowand yours God help you, my dear old 0 w. keferring to him again, he says :—He 1s worthy Of ail confidence; he 1s worthy of all trust.” Decemnxn, \873.—This will be handed to you by. m: friend, Frank Db. Moulton, whom [ believe to be hig minded and honest, and Whove siatements woul ceived by all who Knew him with linplictt contideuce. Decamnen 3, 175.—[ velleve him to be honest to the core; I would trust him with life aod proverty wittout seruple. Pawenn 90, 1873.—Mr. Frank Moulton I have known and | would a4 soon believe that t myvelt had se on foot stealing and cheating as that ne has, or have the siurntest saspicion of him. Juxy 16, 1874.—My dear Frank, I need to see you. WHO SAVED THE DEFENDANT ? Ths, gentlemen, is @ portion of the testimony of Mr. Beecher in reference to Frank Moulton, the man who saved the defendant to Plymouth church and made him take back the letier of resignation that he had writtea when he feared | the exposure of his crime. I will not attempt to portray the heinousness of that crime, but I will read an extract or (wo from @@ author much more capable \o judge of the question and to draw the piare much more vividly than I cf ‘rhe Scducer, playing upon the most sacred passions, | betrays Innocence, How? By ite tenderest fac- | ulules, by ite trast, by its unsuspecting iaith, by | its honor. The victim often and oiten ts nov tye and I propose to have 4 compiete investigation accomplice so much as the sufferer, betrayed by into this matter, and now you come to cover ttup. | an exorcism which bewitcnedaher hoblest affec- Away with you!’ That would have been tie action | tions and became the suciae her virtue. Tue of an honest man, How stanas the case how? betrayer, from the moat intense selfishness, with- Is it necessary that I should delay you still further out one novle motive, wituout one pretence of in this case in order to prove to you the truth of | honor, by es, by devilish juggiery, by the Charges that we bring against mim? If itis I | traud, by blinding the eye, coniusing tne ‘elu to desbair Of unaninity among you. When | conscience. tmisicadine the juaement aud Fevruary he said that it Was Moulton's hand that | terrible emergency | he confessed his criminal intimacy with | interested parties; | You can see the motive the do- — heart, te | fle was looked upon and regarded | 1d be re- | | institing the dew of sorcery upon every | Hower of sweet affection, deliberately, heartless! dooms the conkiding victim, The accursed sorcerer opens the door of the world to puss ber lorth; she looks Our shuddering, jor there 18 shame an sharp toothed hatied, Tuere is the world spread out, she woes, fatier and mother heartiessly aba douing her, @ brother’s shame and a sister's anguisi; 1018 @ vision of desolation, a plundered home, an altar where honor, purity and virtue | and peace had been rutulessiy sacrificed to the | foul Moloch, All ia cheerless to the eye and her | ear catches the sound of sighing and mourning, | writhing and iamentation, and far down at tne | Norizon oO: the Vision the murky clouds lift, and she sees the very bottom of infamy, the ghastli- | mess of death, the last spasm of 4 horrible depar- ture, the awful thunder of finaidoom. The pol- ishea scoundre| betrayed her to abandon her. | Surely society will crusa nim. Rg f Will smite t! | woll and seek out the bieeding lamb. On! my soul, believe it not, What sigh ia that? The drooping victim ts worse used than the tnierval | destrover. He is tondled, courted, passed irom honor to honor, and she is crusned and mangled in tue iaturiated tramp of pubiic indignation, REMINISCENCE. As Mr. Morris read from a sermon of twenty | years ago Beecher’s account of the ‘accursed sor+ * cerer,” the seducer, the latter’s face took on @ smiling sensibility, Mushing repeatedly, and he | put a pook to his face and whispered to his wile that he recognized his old sermon Of 1854. | The points Morris tried to make impressive in | this excerpt were the sentence, “the victim 18 Often the suflerer and not the accomplice,’’ and to compare this with Beecher’s apology. “She is | Suiltiess”—ineaning Mrs, Tilton, The jury caught this more than the spectators, Twenty years ago that was the utterance of the deiendant in this case, and ob how true le drew | the picture. Gentiemen of the jury, I fear I have | delayed you already too long, | certainly have too long jor my own strength and my own health, | but I considered 1t my duty to present thia case | asl bave done. You will pardon the time I have | consumed when | tell you that I came here with | @heart worn with grief at the suiferings and wrongs of my client. What a scene is this Of vast prosperity, surrounded vy puwerlui friends, with unlimited resources, in the other side yousee 4 inan powerless and poor, coming to you rom a desolate home. Already he has been made the victim of @ joul slander, and then again the victim of @ foul persecution, uvpar- aLelied tor power and reientlessness, And what has he done? way, he was the charmed possessor of a loving apd beloved wife, of @ happy and inne | cent home, which his bosom iriend, his life long bosom friend, his pastor, bis spiritual ad\ taking advantage of that friendship, | Vantage of his avsence, and taking advantage of his sacred calling, bas dispossessed and despoiled it. Oh, gentlemen, you who have homes, you wio have children, you who know what it ts to return from your daily labor to the bosom of your happy family, you can appreciate the wrong and whe suffering whicd my unhappy client has endured, | And itis with our Case, as you jove your home, as you love your lamily and your children, as you | Tegard the sacredness of your homes, as you rev- | erence virtue and respect the sanctity of the | famny altar, 1 call upon you in the name of all that has been violated, I call upon you in | the name of Christianity, by the teachings of the Saviour upon the Mount, by the law thun- dered from Mount Sinai, by every consideration | that is near and dear to us on earth I call upon | bee to brand the seducer as his crime deserves, | Let it be written on everv aoor throughout the | land, death and destruction to the seducer, aud | When you hav. rendered that verdict you will | recelve the prayers and the blessings of every vir- tuous mother, of every virtuous daughter in the | land, and a peaceiul countenance will lollow you | through life, will be with you in the last solemn , Scenes on earth to console you when at last you nd with your life record before the ever living | God. (Applause and hisses.) anaes Neilson—The audience will please be quiet. | "Mr. Pullerton—If it please Your Honor tt will | subserve the convenience of all parties concerned 1p Unis controversy if Your Honor will now take a recess. Judge Neilson—Unttl what time ? Mr. Fullerton—Unul two o'clock, when we will be prepared with our evidence. Or we may be able to go on betore that, Judge Netisen—I think it should be earlier than two o'clock. Mr. Evaris—We would suggest that such an ar- rangement of the tables should now be made as | would give more accommodation to counsel. ‘The recess, we think, wili aiford the officers an | opportunity to make the alterations. Judge Neilson—Tue officers will attend to that matier for you, sir. Tne Court is now adjourned until half-past one o'clock. THB RECESS, At the recess the domestic performance of Tues- day again took place at the centre of the court, in- tensified by the act of Mr. Beecher himself walking up beside his wife, and after speaking some time to Mra. Field, conscious of Mrs. Tilton’s presence, but not looking at her, he suddenly looked down @t the proper place for the littie wile’s iace and put out his hand and spoke in a cordial way, con- tinuing the talk fora long while. Spe smilea from under her chin to the cords of her temple. He | talked in @ manner of badinage, as if he were | merely exhaling a breath from the effervescence of bis mind, She seemed elated with the atten- tion she received, and wore a beaming expres- sion t$il she left the court room. Mrs. Beecher had lite to say, but heid a big bouquet in her band all the whil Judge Morris’ speech was effective with she Jury, tn that he got in a complete statement of his case and kept their attention all the while. Mr. Beecher said to him, when he was done— “Judge Morris, let me introduce myself. We have never met, I believe? Isee that others be- side preachers can make long sermons, If you bad done me the favor to have called upon me I could have given you several hints for sour speech. Mr. Morris replied :—-Mr. Beecher, 1 have beea gratified with your attention, and tried to say as little of unnecessary harshness as [ could.” Just before the Court was called to order Judge | reporters for baving too much room, Mr. Evarts | reinforced them, and said that he had never been go inconventently placed. It was very apparent that much of the crowd arose trom the display of church people, iriends, females, &c., at the miadle | Of the court, who made @ crater, 80 to speak, and, | being too frail and delicate to be crowded, assisted the many reporters’ tables to squeeze the lawyers into @ small shelf between the spectators and the | Jury. THE FIRST WITNESS, Judge Fullerton then calied Augustus Maverick, PROVING THE MARRIAGE. The witness, sworn, stated:—I have resided in | Brooklyn avout filteen years have been ac- | quainted with Theodore Tilton about twent years; he was married on the 2d of October, 18: at Mr. Beecher’s church, by the defendant in this case; | was not very intimate with tus family be- fore his Marriage, but iately I have been very in- timate; I do not know how many children they hav donot know where they resided directly after their marriage, but when I visited them they were living at No. 174 Livingston street; I was in the habit of making occasional calls there; he married Elizabeth Richards, who was a resident of Brooklyn. MR, MAVERICK was aman of delicate muuid and a professional appearance, wearing spectacles and a mustache and goatee, with long brown hair nearly covering his e knowledge of the plaintiff and his tamity from the inside to convey an immense amount of informa- tion to the people through tne press. He believes in Tilton’s case and gave his evidence in a deep voice and plain articulation. The crowd was even greater than in the forenoon, and the animal | heat engendered by everybody bolting a luncn and then rushing back to the court room occa- sloned peevishness and disquie' TESTIMONY OP FRANCIS D. MOULTON, | ‘Frank Moulton’s name was called at ven min- | utes of two. “Now,” ran the whisper, “the fight 1s to opap at once." Mr. Moulton had been tn conrt since early in the day. At junch he took Judges Fullerton and Beach to bis residence, where they go daily in his carriage, and, after @ hasty repast, returnea to | court just in time to observe that Mr. Moulton _ bad forgotten some documentary testimony. “There,” exclaimed criticism, “he will throw himself into a heat and begin flurried.” In ten minutes Mr, Moulton was back, @ little heated. He came into court with a red morocco bag and a slik umbrella, wearing what he humor- ously calis his State Prison sult, @ gray with a | dark stripe running through it. He took the chair, kissed the book, pat his hands | im bis pockets easily, and answered in a@ ciear, | sharp voice, prompt as an inquiry could be put. | He did not change nis position except to told nis arms occasionally aud wipe his jorehead with a white handkerchier, , Mrs, Beecher, hoiding a big bouquet of Octvers, looked at him without the morning’s comparative volatility. Mr. Beecher also grew very serious, The Piymouth people buddied together and looked up soberly atthe young man. Even Ovington's | smile devarted, Mrs. Tijton did not look up for now before you? On the oue side yoo see a man | Porter, assisted by Mr. Morris, made a raid on the | He has been enabled by his intimate | some little time, but finally followed the eyes of we other auditors, Frank Moulton, sitting there, three or four feet above the audience, was a dark red man, His large red mustache and red hair were so strongly, darkly red that they seemed to have their roots in some saturated oxide of tron. Both hair and mustache were thick and indicated a high vitality in the region of the brain, His eyes were gray and strong and bis skin was weather bard, and | exuberant Dervous activity was shown in every voluntary muscle, Otherwise it was a square set, solid face, broad in the brows, the nose decided and blunt, The address was more refined than the physiognomy, which bore marks of out-of-door life, Moulton’s stature, joints and limba showed him to be roughly hewn, Compared to Tilton, who was looking up beneath him, Moulton was & precipitate, combative, executive man of the outer world, Tilton looked like a middle-aged woman under Mouiton’s country boy’s face. Mr. Moulton’s testimony was deliberate, but rapid, He fixed his eyes almost from the com- mencement on Mr, Beecher’s face and kept them there, not flercely, but inquiringly, as if to say, “Isn't that sof” Mr, Beecher responded witha glance, but no resentment, and after awhile changed his seat to the side of his lawyers. MOULTON'S EVIDENCE. The witness testified:—I reside at No. 49 Rem- | Se Street, in this city; 1 have resided here about | ten years, perhaps longer; before 1 came to reside in Brooklyn I was @ resident of New York, at Forty-ninth street; I resided in that neighborhood Jor a long time after 1 was born; 1am engaged in | business in Brooklyn and in New York; I ama member of the firm of Woodruff & Robin- son; I baye been connected with chat frm 1854; _ 1 for six gare; ten I got an interest in the business, and have been a partner in the firm since 1864; ] am & married man; [ believe [ was married in 1861; my wile’s name 18 Emma Moulton; I am aoc- quainted with Theodore Tilton, and became ac- quainted with him in 1849 or 1850, when he was a | student in the Free Academy of New York; Ldo not know where he was then residing. . Were you a scuoulmate of his? A. I was, State whether you bave been on intimate terins with bim from that time? A. I have, with | the intermission of a few years, wnen we lived apart; he lived in New York and 1 lived in Brook- n e i Are you acquainted with his family? A, Yes, Q How many children has he? A. Four or five, Can you give us their names? A. Florence. How old is shef A. I believe, sixteen, Q. Is she the oldest? A. She is the oldest, 1 be- eve, . Who ta the next? A. Carroll. How old is he? A, A boy about eleven years IT guess, . And the next? A. Alice, Her agey as near a3 you can recollect? A. I think Carroll is younger than Alice; Alice 1 think is thirteen or jourteen years. Q Still another, I believe ? A. Yes, sir; 1 don’t } Know the name of that child, sir; it was called | Frank at one time, but I understand that the Dame Of the child has been changed since then. Mr. Evarts—You knew it as Frank? A. I knew it as Ra!pn and as Frank; it was Ralph first, and toen it Was changed to Frank by Mr. Tilton, as @ sense Of my fidelity to his interest, Mr. Evarts—Never mind about that. Mr. Fuilerwon—Have they lost any children? A. I believe one. Q. Do yon recofleet when that occurred? A. I don’t reinember precisely the date; somewhere in 1869, I think, or im 1868, ee youngest child you have spoken of, Ralph or Frank, what is its age as near as you can recol- lect? A. Five or s1x years o! age, I think. Q. Have you been on terms of intimacy with the ‘yeah ee Mr. Tilton? A, Lhave; yes, Q. What was the relation existing between The- odore Tilton and his wife up to the vear 1870 6o far as aflection was concerned? A. Well, sir, I never knew of any difference in that time. ne ee knew Of no estrangement? A. None, ir; m Do you know Henry Ward Beecher? A, I do. . How long have you been inted with him? A. Intimately since the 80th of December, 1870. Before that did you know him? A, Not very ell; no, Bir. g. Have a speaking acquaintance with him? A. Before that? Yes, sir. Q For how longa time? A. Tho first time I met to speak with him was in 1868, in bis church. Q. Under what circumstances? A. In his church; 1 was 10 the church with Mr. Tilton and bis wife; Mr. Tilton and myself nad just returned from an excarsion into the country, and Mr. Beecher came to the pew and greeted us; that, | think, was tue first time, i Q. Afier that and up to 1870, when your intimate acquaintance commenced, you were on speaking | terms wiih him—did you meet aim in the mean- | | time? A. Yes, sir, at Pa, stadio, New York. Q. Under what circumstances? A. He was Lav- ok his portrait taken and I was having mine. How frequently did you meet him there? A. Not to exceed three or' four tames, Q You may state the time when you met him at Page’s? A. i think, 1869, Q Did you know where Mr. Beecher resided at that tume? A. I understood he resided in Brook. D. if I want to call your attention to the month of December, 1870; did you meet Mr. Beecher during the latter part of that month? A. The latter part of the month of December?—Yes, sir. Where? A. At his house. Did you have any conversation with him? A. Yes, sir. Q. State, if you please, what that was? A. I said to him—I met him tn his parlor— Q (Interrapting.) Do you recollect the date? A. December 30, @ Now you may narrate the conversation be- tween you. A. Any of the incidents preceding Is? & Just narrate the conversation first and then I will come to what induced the conversation. Mar. Evarte—Mr. Moulton. you will be 80 good as to give it in the language of the speaker, so tar as ou can. | v Mr. Beach—That 1s not the way unless you undertake to repeat tne precise language; give | be substance U you don’t recollect the precise age. ‘itness—I said to Mr. Beecher in bis parlor:— «mr. Beecoer, Mr. Theodore Tilton is at my house and wtshes to see you.” . Q Now, let us have it fairly understood, do you give the substauce Dow as nearas you can recol- | lect ft, or the words? A. lam giving it as nearly | to the words asi can remember;I am certainly giving the substance. bas ‘ou don’t propose to give the exact words? No. @ Very well now, goon with the narration. A, “Theodore Tilton 1s at my house, and wishes to see you to-night.” @. Goon with the narration, Mr. Moulton. A. He sald, “This 18 prayer meeting night, | cannot | go wo see him;” +Weil,’’ I said, “he wants to see | you with regard to your relations with his family, ‘and with regard to the letter that he has sent to you througn Mr. Bowen; 1 thivk you had better | | go to see him;” I said, “You had better send | somebody down to attend your prayer meeting for you,” and he did. Q State what occnrred In reference to that? A. He calied somebody’in the room adjoining, ana toid him to send some message to his prayer meet- tog; Idon’t remember who it was, bat he went | out of the house with ine at my request. | .Q And where did you gor A, L went down to my house, sir, where Mr. Tilton was. Q. Where did he go alter he entered your house? | A. He went into the front room up stairs wuere | Mr. Tilton was. |, @ Where did you go? A. I remained in the par- or. Q Now, Mr. Moulton, state whether that request ot yours of Mr. Beecher to go dowa to your house | was in consequence of anything that had occurred between you and Mr. luton prior to your going there? <A. Yes, sir. Q Was any conversation had between you on going away irom Mr. Beecuer’s house to your own? A. Yes, sir; a8 we went down the steps Mr. Beecher said te mo, “WHAT CAN T DO??? Isatd I did not know;, Lalso sald, “I am not a Caristian, [am a heathen, bat Iwill try to save ou aud may do you sume good ;” we walked along | togetner; 1 told nim avout what Mr. Bowen had | said to Mr. liton concerning his (Beecher’s) and Uliver Johnson; Mr. Beecher said that was | singular, because, tn a letter, Bowen had pledged | bim his irtendsbip and did pot inform nim that he | had said any such vning, and he told me, further- | more, he had via Bowen that he sympathized with Bowen tn the digerence between him aud iliton, © You spoke 0/ a letter of Mr. Tilton to Bowen? A. Yes, but I had not seen it then; Mr. Tilton and Mr, Beecher, on the occasion oi their interview at my house, were about one hour together; I was in the parior; | remained there until Mr. Beecher | came into the parior; when he left I went with | Theodore Tilton to bis house; asked me if [ had seen the letter or CONPRSSTON | Of Elizabeth; I said ‘Yeu: we walked out to- gether, | Q Where did you go? A. Lwent down wthe | house ot Theodore Tilton, with Theodore Tilton; | he id Wo me, “This comes upon me like A VLASHL OF LIGHTNING I talked with him again about what Bowen had Bald; 1 said that! thought there was friendship on the part of Bowen toward Theodore; Mr. | Beecher told me that Tilton had wld him that | Elizabeth had confessed to bim, and he toid me , that Theodore had toid him of the reasons tor | Bending the letter to Mr. Bowen; when I went to see Mr. Beecher that night | did not have the con- | feasion in my possession; 1 think Mr. Tilton made @ Copy Ol that paper at my house @t the time he gave the origtoai to me; I went down to my house | and Isaw Mr, Beecher again within an hour; 1 | went into the parior with nim and asked him iffe had seen Elizaveth; he said he i Q How long did be remain there? A, Only a abort tune, \ Where did you go to with him? A, To his house. q Did you goin? A. No, q Wuat conversation did you have with him? A, it was only a repetition o1 the conversation we had about Mr. Bowen; he asked that I should S be friendly to him in this terrible business; I next saw Mr, Heecher on the disto, December; L went to nis house; 1 received a note from Theodore | Titon ob the worninu of cue dist asking me to ra | adultery; 1 told him that Bowe had charged him | with adultery in the presence of Theodore Tilton | turn to him the confession of Elizabeth; I went to the house of Mr, Beecher in consequence of some- thing that was said to me by Theodore Til- ton; Isaid to him, “bo you remember that last night | asked you if any body had seen the letter Mr. Tilton intended to send to you through Mr. Bowen?” hi wer was that No person had seen it put himself: “Mr, Beecher,” I said, “1 want ‘0 read to you a letter {rom Elizabeth Tilton, ask- ing for the retura of the paper ;” 1 sald “that was the paper ste guve you last night at your dicta- tion,” and | said “I will read you another letter in which Mrs. Tilton had informed her husband that she had given you the confession,” and I read that letter; he said to me that he was surprised; I said to him, “Mr. Beecher, | think you have been guilty or GREAT MEANNESS in obtaining permssion from Mr. Tilton to visit bis house, and then going to procure from his wil what you knew to be re B: i AL I sald, “Mr, Beecher, I did not this morning see much Of the guidance of God in what you did; but perhaps tt may turn out all for the best; but I/hoid the confession of Elizabeth Tilton, and if you re- turn that confession to me J will burn both im your presence, or I will preserve both;” he said to me, “On my death this confession would be the only protection my family would have against such ® Charge ;” and 1 said to Mr. Beecher, “I do not think you ought to take selfish counsel of yourself; truth is truth: he went to a closet and took out the paper he had got irom Elizabetn, and handed it to me; {1 told nim I would protect the confession and that I would not give it to Mr. Til- ton—that I would protect the paper he gave me with my lue; 1 had A PISTOL in my pocket, and, producing the pistol, I said, “To this extent.” At the description of the PISTOL SCENE there was the deepest interest, Mr. Beecher’s face was almost purple; he looked at Moulton with his eyes open, but no intensity, scarcely interest, in his stare, Mrs. Beecher had taken off her velvet bon- net in the heat, and appeared in a black knit cap, which gave her the appearance of a German countess, or some theatrical dowager. She looked into Moulton’s face, as he told that Beecher said his adultery with Elizabeth had seemed to him a perfectly natural expression of his love, witha pallor and powerful antagonism, whether to the facts or the witness could only be guessed. Her face, however, was @ good deal stronger than in the smiling times of the morning. Mr. Beecher said to me:—‘This would, of course, be a technical charge against me; | turow myself on your friendship and op what 1] believe to oe your desire to serve me;’’ be sald to me, in ad- dition, that he considered his sexual intercourse i MRS. TILTON aS @ natural expression of his love for her, and he sald he jelt justified in it on that account—on account of his love jor her aud her love tor him he turther said, in the course oi the convers: tion :—"'My lie 1s ended, When ior me there shall be honor and resc; 1 find myseli on the brink of ‘A MORAL NIAGARA, with no power In myself to save me. I callon yon to save me.” That Was our exact conversation, (Sensation and murmurs in Court.) Witness Went on to say that the letter now shown him Was a copy Of the one to which he had referred; Mr. Beecher, in the interview 1 have narrated, ex- hibited a great degree of emotion in excited con- versation; he also wept. 4 letter was banded to witness and he satd it Was in Elizabeth Tilton’s handwriting. The letter Was as follows :— Mr. Fuilerton—I propose to read it in evidence, Satunpay Mornina, My Dean Paans—I want yon to do me the greatest possible favor, My letter which you have and the one T ave Mr. Beecher, at his dictation, last evening, ought th to be destroyed. Piease bring both tome and I will burn them. Show Sula Dom to peodare and Mr, Beecher. | They will see le us request, Yours, truly, jet anes ELIZABETH 'R, TILTON. Nothing else (said the witness) oecurred that I remember at Mr. Beecher’s house oa the 3ist; I took with me the letter which I called the retrac- tion; law Mr. Beecher at his house on the 1st-of January; I went there on bis invitation; it was in the eVening; 1 had an interview with him in his study on the second floor; I told Mr. Beecner that Thad taken the retraction vo Mrs. Tilton, and that 1 had told Tilton it would be foolish in him to have carried hig threat of the morning into execu- tion, and told him that Tilton was pleased at my having procured the retraction; I told Mr. Beecher that Tilton imformed me that no matter what milan come to himself he would undertake to pro- ci THR REPUTATION OF HIS WIFE and family at all hazards; then Mr. Beecher said to ine he Was in misery on account of THE CRIMB he had committed against Theodore Tilton, nis wife and family, and he said he woula be willing to make any reparation that was within his power. He said he thought Tueodore Tilton would have been @ better man in the circumstances in which he had been placed—that ne felt he had done a great wrong because he had been the friend of heodore and his wife. He wept bitterly. 1 sat “Mr, Beecher, why don’t you say that to Tilton Why don’t you express to him the grief you feel and your contrition? I think you can do no more than that. I think I Know Theodore Tilton well enough to say that I think he wilibe satisied with that, vecause I know he loves bia wile,” Mr. Beecher toid me to take pen aud paper and write at his dictation, and 1did_ write at bis dictadon tue letter of January 1, 1871. THE CONPKSSION SCENE. There was not the least diminution of interest in the court room when Moulton slowly related the particulars of the apology which he. dictated. He was not’ cross-questioned, but the Plymouth church people and the guns of Mr. Beecher looked at him very flercely. Mr. Shearman called for the confession, and ha’ tng blotted it where the Clerk of the Court had let- tered it he handed it to Tracy, and the two looked it over like two entomologists examining a strange bug. He further held it up to the light, Made notes on it, and wanted Tracy to look at it further. Tracy wagged his head. Mr. Shearman then, with reluc tant fondness, banded the apology over to Roger A. Pryor, Who unceremoniously bundled it ‘back to the clerk. The pistol story, a8 Moulton told it, dufered somewhat from what has been published. He produced the pistol, it seems, to enforce a promise he made:—‘I will protect these papers with my life!” Lt was, thereiore, an assur- ance to mr. Beecher and not a threat. The deience kept down everything which might enter the testimony referring to Tilton’s state- ments or admissions. They mean seriously to depy his right to enter the witness box, on the ground that hes a husband, who cannot in any Way testify in an affair concerning his wife. THE LEITRRS, Q. What was done aiter you wrote that letter? A. I read it to him and he signed it, and he then took it and read it to himseif; | wrote down the letter as he dictated tt, and then Mr. Beecher added something to it himself, (This ts the letter of January 1, 1871, in which Mr. Beecher asks turough Moulvon the forgivencss of Tilton.) The words added to the letter by Mr. Beecher are, ‘I bave trusted this to Moulton ;” the last thing Mr, Beecher said to me was that he wanted me to do my utmost for peace; I showed this ietter of Jan- uary 1 to Mr. Ttiton the same day; I went to Mr. Beecher’s house on January 2 by his invitation iven to me on January 1; [ toid Mr. Beecher that heodore still seemed invent on the protection of his family; this conversation took piace in Mr, Beecher’s study; Mr. Beecher asked me uf I thought i would be safe to have the SALE OF PLYMOUTIC PEWS (oon; I told him thatl thought it would be per- ectly safe to have the gale go on; that Mr. Tilton would not do ge oe? against him or his family; the sale wi believe, to take place the next week; he said that Elizabeth Tilton had sent for him to come to ber house and told him she be- hheved THEIR RELATIONS WERE WRONG; he told me iie said to her, ‘It you believe those ree lations wrong, then they shall be terminated; he afterwards told me that he prayed with her to God—with her for beip to discontinue their sexaal relations, and that be had from that time discon- wed intercourse with her, Q Did be say when {t occurred? A. In July, 1870, Mr. Beecher void me that he intended to write to Mr. Bowen the substance of an interview between himself and Oliver Jonnson—to publish & letter, In order to appear to give the public an exact account of the severance with Mr. Bowen; 1 twid bim to keep out of that until tt concerned Mr. Tilton’s tamuy; he spoke tn relation to some proposition whica he had wade to Mr. Bowen as editor of the Union. Q. Was be tien editor or bad he been editor? A. He had been editor; Mr. Beecher spoke to me | in regard to @ letter which he had written to Bowen expiatning and taking back something he had sald about a lady to Mr. Bowen; he had told me previously that be had mentioned 6 lady's name to Mr. Bowen; I told him it was very unjust to the woman; on that occasion, or a day or two after, L showed him the rough draft of the letter. The counsel (Mr. Fullerton) here showed Mr. Moulton the letter of January 2 of Mr. Beecher to Mr. Bowen, and read the jhitials instead of the naine, Tne counsel tor the delendant objected, aud claimed that the name should be read. The Conrt said that it did not follow that because the letier might contain the name of a third person that It snould be given. Mr. Evarts saia His Honor did not pretend to rule that letters should be read impertectly, and | she Judge explained that the Court had tne right to read that which was explanatory as to the name ip the portion of tue letter considered. Mr. Evarts said—That we except to, or else the whole letter {# to oe considered as read. Mr, Fullerton then proceeded to read the lew THE MYSTERIOUS LETTER. The letter from Beecher to Bowen, withdrawing charges against Mr. Tilton for errantry witha certain Mrs. B.,gave rise to a good deal of devate among the lawyers. Mr. Evurts, conferring with Mr. ‘Traay, seemed determined to force out the.