The New York Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK H#KALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. | Mr. owen hailed, In Tilton’s scandal, an opportu: nity to pul Mr, Beecn®r under restraiat, BOWKN WEAKENED, however, when his business faculties came into Ploy, #ud be Lele how Luwpossbie IC Was to over throw (heé Plymouth p srr, Iu order not to injure his pUblLCAHOA UC SOUKNE Cae Vesasion of THiOn & cemond that Mr, Beecher sueuld jeave Brookiyn to revustare himseu wet Mr. Beecuer, aud the uniu ky Tuton was put ont of euployment Boveo (ben leit the conspiracy, ton, SeeK~ ing sid in conducting if, .ound Soulton, Mrs | Ti roo’s brother, Kate Carey, Mrs. Moulfon and whoever else has wiven Cestin ony a ainst the ceiendant, Baca oi taese persons wa, severely Siimatized. Mr, Bowen was a'ioged to have no FIGHTING. YOR. REPUTATION The Thirty-seventh Day of the Great Scandal Case. a | moral natu e, Mr, Richards to have bo Geeeacy, | Kate Cacey uo chas! ty and Mouiton was merely A JUDAS ISCAKIOT. To hetp General Iracy out Judge Porter was catied in to read What the law vovks Said avout wor ves, Just as General Pryor bad teod avout © niess Ons a3 good evideuce, Juige Portur read Of motives a9 pM Interpretation of evid nei The endeavor to create a eeii-sulm GENERAL §=©TRACY'S ADDRESS — CONTINUED. ‘A Bitter Denunciation of the Witness Kate Carey. | rGamnepenssiiie CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY. cy for Mr. Til'ok abu exempt Mr, Beecuer iron ibe same oavo Class Of T@mutations woien Were ale ed to made Mr, [iton suoue, jea ous aod vain lic per Ormer grated upon the auitence. ination ot Air. Tilton from O19 .itera’y am tan, which Was tLe key of the opentas or tne d tence, Susge ted the elimination of di. Beecher irom tae , Saue Class of ambitions, ‘they were naturaly comparisvus, Unguturaily they are uesteoying au- gels 01 cack other, THE THE DEFENCE. When the court was tor.ually opened General Trecy resumed his adaress:— GENTLEMEN OF THE Ji Ri—We DOW approach the Tilton and Moulton Accused of Conspiring Against Beecher. | | Blaze O. ‘be case When It ts ti portaat ior us to constier tne va ure Of tois action, The piaintut —_—_--—— in bois wetion ts bound bo Make outa case veyoud al! rea-opeble donot. 7 ts bound Oo sneae y re | duce evicence wich satisdes ou tial (his CMeauce WHY = CARPENTLR WAS) NOP CALLED. | pis‘oecu csumitted beyond reasonable douo It is net for tas sefeudant (0 prove that he is cot =reeeneare gwity + ofence; it is (or The pros cunon 10 % 4 pove thar he i& As you verceive, centemen, Thursday was a dull day in the Beecher trial. fromm cne vers nature of Une case, It Is owe Wiere ‘The plaiuti was present, looking coolly op, while aMrmative evidence is imposstule, excep Irom Genera! Tracy dissected and coustructed his char- the testimony of the varty wiplicated. No mon, wioever Le miy be, Charged with such an ofeuce a8 this Can iMmirocuce afllrimalive ev deuce Upon the sitmess Bland Liat he is not guntyo the ovence, .or tt 18 impossibie jor any witness save nimse.f to testily that he cid get commut it, Wherever suca am accusation 1s made agatast nim. an) man of Woman residing in the same city, runving over # long per.od of time, you see how utterly Mnpossiole tt is (bat a y wituess could come upoo ibe Wimmess stand aad say, “lor my owu kuowiedge Kn W that ts cecasation 13 uu- true? Select tue Most estimable man within y ur own knowieuge, ventiemen, aud onng a cha.ge @cter, making Almo-t as muci of a curiosity and fiend of him as Sheridan and tne rest made of Warren Hastings, Ui (iiron is ever to be misunder, stood, it will be from the redundancy of deserip- tion whicn bis opponents comer npon It was @ litle amusing to see him sit there, with his Mealy, Womaniy. insipid face, mentaily criti- ising Tracy’s jong account of his life and charac- ter, aa ii he were listening to the story of @ third party. ‘The only times when be has shown any gyyinst aim; let @My Cuarccter, BOwever WorLa- sensiiivencss was at the ascription of some opia~ less, chatse him with having visited houses of i sr opinions to himsel/ not reievant t no. Me, LOT INStauee, 10 the ciry ot New York at some Lo alas pane eevant to bis Po- vive duriug & period Ol siX\cen Wonths, 1 be had aition as the plumtim He seers far yesivedt im the city of NeW rok curiug that time, more sensitive when bis theories are abused pd What cau he do in auswer to suc w charge of than when his cuaracter is touched. During this ‘hat vut to say itis unt Wand rely upon ‘he insult. ciency of the evidence to estaviis.. ais guilt essnes ? inquest he has been comparatively indiferent {jis utterly impossible lor hui 10 cull Witness: LO about his clothes, the brusni.g of bis bair, the the w tvess stand who can say thal this man dia polishing of his boots, and what sort uf people DOb Visit tuese Louges, He canuot de that. ia tue Very uature of tue case 1: ts in uttem t to prove come to court with Dim. There 1s sometiing un- a nega ive Which it 18 very alMicult under avy cite gainly and overgrown about his stature, which cCulstances to estaviisn. From tie ver, na- tte ‘notien artain t entaliy | ware of this case, there ure, all this de- Yeads to the notien ofa certain bigness, mentally | (tSant, when be is accused’ of this, erie er physically, which he does not seem to know mmitted «ith & lady Who Was his acquuntanee, much about, Heuce, in every alteruative be is | Whom it Is acmutted he freqneutiy visited ai 1 er “ house, visited her at (Me auucitation o: ner Synch nuded | busvand—whben he is accasd vi That otence, ait A GROCP OF EGOTISTS. | he can do is to iuterpose uiy word o1 deaiai and Cool, worldty men, joking at this trial, unink | Test upoa Nig es'adiisued ¢caracter Waicn de ites made duriug the iasty ‘lrty years m your m that nopudy in at ts wholly qualified to apply the term egot.st to his neighbor. Tiltou isa sort of frank, toolisn egotast; but Mr. Tracy, address: him, baw very little advantage im shat respect. Brooklyn has only one great man; Tilton is the only great rival; and they two have only two eteat classes of commentators—iriends or ene- mies, The large middie class, which looks philo- sophically upon human iraiity sad rival passion, Js quite wanting im this city of churches and <hop houses. und say to you, “Gentlemen, tne eviceuce which is istroduced cefore you to estebuod my gut !s unwortuy of belief. It must be removed irom all Su-p clon; it must be evicence free from doubt! ; it mus. be evidence that carries uome fo you con. scious cuBViciion 0) the offence charged, or you are bound by the Oaths you have taken to render a veraict bere tor this deveudant. Phere ts not Jact or Circumstance worthy vi credit bere wuicn tenas to sbow in vhe el st aegree improper familiarity between these paities, muca ices a criuinal act, The plaint.t kuows his wie well, aud dur.ng all these years be is unabie to lay bis | hand pou o single Weil autmenticaed act whica THE DEFENDANT IN COURT. | wii Show that tmis “winie-soued woman” had been guilty of the slightest tmprop with ner Mr. Beecner came into court very promptly yess p stor, Will it be Suid that Ii Dr its sania vitanoa <erday, with that flushed color which he wears oO! the womaad Kute Cur the wollan arawu from the ‘when the atmosphere is heavy, and vis wite took her flace with a grim amubility at his side, ike a very patient helpmare, Mr. Beecher’amanuer tn court has varied very litle nee tne trial began, R HOUSS OF NSW YORK had beech seat twice in three king With prostituuon aud guilt? rhe fact that On one vceasion Wiie SILTNg Upon tae kuees She tesrified to Sue saw this planta’ He walks in with bis old slonched natin his band, | 6; the deiendant. iemeu, | do not ueed to Ria grayish-brown owir Cowing over his snoulders, | IuFULL your good sense by showlas what they ask h spac a te ras You to be veve of @ mau of (he | eputation of Henry ais cioth mante thrown pack irom his dreast. Mra. | WO poacher, anu ot a Woman ofsuch a churacter Beecher comes in be ore bim, takes of ber | gs tie plaintiff gives tis Wile tor twenty years, upon the word of such @ Wotan a8 this Kate Carey, alas Sinitn, General (racy, alter a severe attack on the evi- dence of Mrs, Carey, continued :—I desire to invite your ai'epuon berore J pruge dd with ibe jur her Ristor Uns case, before Tbagzin to unravel the Letwork which the plaiatid, wild his iertce brain, stimu ated and aided by nis mutuai intend, has tor Jour yeurs been Weaving around (he feet of my | uniortunate chent, We aumit, gentiemen, tat in cOjgection With direct evideoce or circum- | tautlal evidence the vrai admissions of the ac- | cused are) er‘ineat evidence, but wherever citcum- stantial evidence 13 reed upon, the circumstances | shawi or cloak, removes her gum shoes, and alter a while slips oif her black Lornet and watches the proceedings inaknit Germao cap. Mr. Beecher | removes lis mantle, uubuckles his Arctic rubbers, | takes Out a mauuscript or nutebouk, or magazine or loreign review and reads and lisiens by alrer- nations, He is projoundly seusitive to whatever is very sincerely in his iavur Or very deciaedly against fim. He, ais, is ONE OF THE EGOTISTS OF THIS TRIAL That is apparent by his flowing color, which comes and goes with bis emotions, and he cap wit and suffer bimseif to be praised as well as any manin this country. It is rather pleasing | to see him ap; reciate nimself, for every pore of | dence of that at all. his skin seems to entertain the soft impesch- | [UCir | Intercourse vo See ciation aan taie ment, and he ruises bis eyes apout thirty degrees | ein be. Ali of it Was carried om under che above the line of sight and seems to be enjoying ye of Tilton, with bis concurrence and approval, @ Vision of lumself at tae otuer end of the court | There is ho.ung in tt irom the veginoing to the chamber. end to suggest to you the thoagut Oi criminality | om the ; art of ettner. What the color of his eres may be is not plain to the reporters; they generally ook to Le a sort of taken together must c8:abuso Cue vilowing taree lacts:—First, the criminal disposition of the party charged. They have Do! shown that either of the parties chargeu had any disposition to commit the act Of aduliery; they buve got given you any evi- All their as#ociations, all appareuciy imnocent, Firsi—Tne ciup.nal disposition of the party charged. cond—A like disposition on the part of tue ky gray, ratoer cold in comparison to lis com- | gijegea paramour. plexion. They a:€ not untoided, but are inclosed | ae AQ opportanity to comm't the acts. / y bea an " , hese three /4c's must oe reasonably approxt- by very Deautilul lide and evebrows, and sugges} nite in point of time, und the opportunity must the impressible natuce within. They are recep- tye, enjoying and thougbiiui, but are never suf ve one characterized by clreumstances poiniing to guut. tu other words, gui.t cannot ve imierred from the opportunity to commit adultery, unless fusea with color nor unduly bright Ii Mr, | {10m (ee ORo tence that at about the same tine Beecher is disiressed wita any parts of tne | there were acts ol cach party specifically indicat. | proceedings, he shows cunrideravle temper, but | Ing adisposit.on “o commit it. It is this class oF waica 18 usually retied u. on to establisa the fact of evidence, genuem im cooris of justice aduitery. “hat is, the relations of the parties, the fre- queucy they have been seen togetuer, the places at which they have lee: seen, tie steaitny meet ings of the parties, all Ol hac Class of acis tending to show @ Wisposition to commit adultery, ig ine 43 of eviuence usually relied upon, end is sel- | dom or never wanting in apy case of auultery charged in good ialty. This is almost the ony Amportant case on record where (here is no prool QhUy OUT SOME HORRIBLE PUANTON. | Of acts anu circumstances calculated to excite Suspicion one produce ac pyiction of guilt, Ths Be bas great power to change ais ieciiugs from | case is made to re: tirely upon the supposed gloom io guyety. If soweuing su .gully Gu@iat or coulession of the deendant. 50 far as the case | depenc Jeged Cniessions, It 1s humorous occurs in the miust of a very sorry rev- | ICPENCS UpED alleged coniens eon, elation aud tue audience begins to sme, be is served tual tuese are o! two Classes—the letiers of the defendant and tie reports given oy witne se: smiling among the nrst, Oo gain real | Of Ns oval conversation, the letters aro in evi- Pep ore eran Roe. 608: Peeme, 40g dence wud will speak lor tuemse.ves, 1b¢ alieged rele jroui the circum«(ance. | crat couiessions are an entirely different kind of He couveys vy the frequency of these lighter | evidence, sua suc evidence 18 always tested by the law with the most careial scrariny. My asso~ ny a , wi vilat} moods the ides of oue to Waom responsivity 1 | Cie juuge Porter, now Wil relieve me Ly read. racher onerous, Indeed, he nas been overworked for many sears, and all ois Metuod bas been cou- Dned to composition and public appearance. To be patient, silent, seli-examining and serioua on it iS suffering rather than indignativg which is ex- haled trom bis’ widening nostrils und told in the Tiper colur ot bis cheeks. Sometimes, whea hard | pressed, it seems (bat his breath cao almost ve neardin tie courtroom, and then he raises bis eyes toa biguer aug), and seems to be Otiuliy counting the panes in the (ali wiodows or tne spois on the ceiling. Uceasionay be closes bis eyes, as Li to \ ing the rales of law in relerence Ww tus Ciads Of evidence, oral evidence, RULES OF LAW. Judge Porter tuen read a series of extracts from legal auth rities vearing on (he question, after occasions 0) self-reference is not bis forte, He bas Feoapues bacon Ease od _ egret of — ” | Dis associate Judge torter tad just read, and ea- soo much genius to hear of his fauits. piatued Wow tiey bore oo the present vase. He Mrs. Tilton was not in court yesterday, Her | then coutiaued:—tiaving considered tous briefy boon companions were there, and they yave Gen- | the rales of law waich must govern you im ths | cage, I now resume the narrative where Mr. Til- eral Tracy every encouragement, | ton Says to Bowen that Beecuer made ao uBhaud- TRACY'S ADDRESS. | Some proposal to his wile, Beecner, be said, fad of r Made aN UNVALdsome Proposai O fis wue, This ‘Tracy epeke WHR np. eee Reese aN | wasnews to Bowen; toe ann unacemeut or te the firet day, and was reaily entertaining a0d | eayseu fis very soul to torill witn delight. He at once discovered 41s opportunity. If he could icad Tiitom to make & persvual atiack upou beecver | this would give lim the | tives:—If Tilton succeeded im hi | Beecher this would so damage th | olten power. ul. Tracy is & man of anim: ‘rengta aad that in- fmses and jorms bis sentences. Tuey are not often sparkling and incisive but are always ag- aressive and unmistakable. He is without | Wat ght Mn m en Tilton’s salary. Aud subtlety, and the different points of his argument | tne danger irom retataing Tiiton would be com- sometimes appear to dispute with each otuer, | pensatea for by (he injury inflicted upon @ danger- Personal leciing entered largely iaio ws ad- | ons rival, Besite, Saco & conflict would inake It dress. in eudeay riug co create a fend out of | impossibie for Beecver and Tiliou to unite against Moulton, be very mucu enlarged the matnal | Bowen and the Independent, On the other haud, friend and aiso disclosed bis persona: weukoess, | if Tuton jailed m his attack on Beecher, this would attack upoa Mristian Union that the accrulog beueut to t Incependent because the jury had seen Mouton put General | iuruisn an exe lleot reasoa tor has patting ria of | ‘Tracy to rout, and ii Would have beeo che part of | Tivon, in either even', thereiore, Boweu was to & genial philosophy for Tracy to admit to the jury Win. Alter # few moments? resection upon the situation a8 bow presented by Tiiton, Bowen turned to bim With a serivusaess of conntenance that would Ouve Gove honor to Aminidao Sieck, nd said, “Ya and J, Mr. Tilton, owe # duty to that lis Opponent, io the Witcess coair, nad been hig maten, [tis hot in sracy’s power, however, to admit anything. His s*reugthis his infirmity. A Very iMpor.ant part of General Iracy’s sperca was his statement ‘oat to che evidence aiready | society, This mao i® the editor of the Christian presented Mr. Beecher had vowing to oppose ex- | Unon. Its circulation las rua up to 45,000, puch cept his deniai, The deience is, eiore, to be @ | @ Mag 18 4 Gangerods Vis.lor in the aus OF is challenge of the piaintif’s witness congregation. (Laugater.) He is a woirtin the BOWEN ANTAGUNIZED. | told. We should unite to extirpate him,” Apother remarkable teature o: chis speech was | “Agreed,” say mn; et Os smite Lim vel re ite ive attituue toward Henry ©. Bowen, | the world.” “fbeo,” said Bowen, “since m; This fies jed to the most eXtravrdivary suspicions | bands are vied, do you write him @ letter, demand- among people in general. Some chink that Mr. | ing that, Jor reasous waicn be expicitiy unver- Beecher has despaired of being able to use | stands,’ he siould immediately cease trom the bowen as Witness jor the defeuce. Others | minimtry of Plymourh courco; that he quit Brook- remarks a8 intended to intimidate | lyD a8 @ place oO; resideuce, and that he cease to igen rom ap aring a3 @ Witness, Others still | write jor the Christian Union. 1 witl bear the conceive th Beecher was uvable, in che light | letter to Bla and support the demand,’ ot his letters, to cumple Story of @ conspiracy | TILTON'S CONTRACTS. without beginal ib s@f @DOUgD back to wake Tilton, thinking only of saving bis contracts | with owen, und without seeing the trap, caught woes pover of racy’s argument undowbtediy lies | at the bait aud forthwivn dia the act, for Lae doi; jn the impression Whieu he expects (o make in | Of which bis iriend Moulton an hour aiter war the mings of toe jury a8 to the motives, moods called him ad—d jool, Tia was & mas’ stroke of s'rategy on the part of Bowen. At one move be had mude @ union vetween Tilton and the Christian Union impossible, aud lett himseil free to discharge ilitou Without auy danger thereby of Wara Beecher in the u. strengthediag 4 business rival, jor Bowen Die ee oe. redepeniens newspaper, and objection to joimiuy im an attack upon jeecher ~ Any ‘on out, 80 that the inde | provided he could do 60 sale y - ae = hw Wuer's, hot ouly in | BALroUsy to Leecher. Nowhere Wi on- sppaie ps sere mores Sutton! bad | Sammate cuncing veen nore conspicnods than in a any A dod ig i | Dig suggestion Wich jed to th fatroauetion of a " ry, was first | te clause io the e.ter, ‘or reasons Wuich yoo Bowen, gars ease raete the sbeens | explicitly updersiand.” In the lignt of Tit n'a as the when Beec.er took @ fival religious esent accusation few cond undersiand tow Pavapeper aga ran up ic circulstion very raplaly , this clause came 0 ve inserted In yee character Of thoxe wio accuse his an 4 fracy bexive the conspiracy with the cesire y G, Bowen to subsriiute Theodure Tilton i | | was informed that choice of two alterna | | that no word had ever passed vecween them us | day or two aiterward, aromntee by my wile's a | trom tue Independent and the Union, and to cail | we | | you would BOt believe it if it 8\ood uavontra- | bi letter at the imstauce of Bowen, With | Tilton wrote a brief note, addressed to Mr. | recommend him to the confidence of ais own wife, tis clane in, the ‘etter would potut > Beecher througn ms," kc. Thus i is clear that to place tits own child under ins tescungs, © In- 'diectiv to some cawe of offence against upon tae statement in Mr, Itlion's own band- vite Bim oO Dis own table, fo leave fiw 1D 6 bed- room WitD his own wie ior four hours listening writing prepared in Decembi and shown with complacency to her narrative of tne manner by nu to numerous Iriends as tne very truth of the matter, ¢ Mr. Mouitun was cunsuited 0! dn which she bad afectionateiy tucked bim up on two separate days alter the 26th und belore | the so and kissed him on the lerexead, the 30th, and That it was by Mr, Moulten’s advice that , tears ol sympatiy ley | down her cheeks, 'y the writer wh.ch would b® undersioed by te reader, bout bowen could bear the Letter wit oul Provoking the #hg test suspicion of naving oeen Itxinstiga‘or, we Would have the advantage ot walchiug, ol seem the eflect produced upon Mr. Leecher by the reading of the jette, and @ Let- s0>al Int rVview tmmediately following Lheroup Dd, and Cius bo able to judge of the probavily of Mr. Beecher’s puut, tte COuld taus gain time and await developments, But he was not loug in | doubt, Mr. eccver’s rely to that letver was | quick, bold anu impaststonea—“Kowea, What a es ‘Tilton determined to send tor Beecner—inis ad- ‘To protec’ the interests of Plymouts courch, an vics bemg given beicre Mrs, Tiiton wiote her institution which he now hates with @ bit- briei nore, wich Tiion has sworn was written on | ter hatred because tt still believes what Decemver 20. | origivaliy sald of its pastor, he was anxiots to ‘the Cours taen took a recess Uatil two o'clock. deceive that chures into accepting tbe minstra- AFTER RECESS. | tions of a man whom he now characterizes a3 & General Tracy resumed his address to the Jury , wol: in the Joid, and rejoiced in seeisg this man tus meso? This bs insadiby, we munis maa!” for the deichdant at a guarter-past two o'cluck. | continue to preaca the doctrines of Ubristtaaity liaving discovered the courage of nocence He said:— | trom that puioit, To promote that Christianity in where he aad oodiy beped to see disclosed the What mo ive did Mr. Ti'ton have for faisiiyingin Which he aid not beieve, and to houor that Loa cowaruice of ult, Bowen, always quick ‘o discern this respect whea he drew up the “rue Story?” whose name be Dever used except as a by Word, his in @resta, at once began a measterly retreat. He has a motive for talstiving po#*, because he he tells you now that he tola hundreds of he! dov’t know,” be said; “L am surprised ul the bay veen ady sed by his counsel taat cuese acts that heinvented all manner of schemes; that ne contents o tie letter. HW Mr, Titon is your enemy, belied somne men, thathe coaxed others; that he Iwi our Iriend, Mr. Beecher, ‘Colin ts your iriend, not soort.! And be who had jus before envered Mr, Beeener’s house, waving pledged bis frienusiip to Tuten, Bow fet, tt pleagiag that Bat he was the (riend of | by ber busbana. made out Cl ar case of Gonapiracy against Moule ton and aimsell, dad itis by their shrewd sugzes- Made hisown wie the associate and companion tions tual bota he and the ‘Mutual Frivoc’ now of the mot potorious prostitutes in the World, disclatn aby consultations prior to the signing | and divided her own lips between his OWE kiss by Mrs, Tilton of the a! ominavle Charge Grawo up 4nd the Kiss Of Victor Woodhuli, All this and But (il'oo consulec po lawyer more was he wiiting to do im oenalf of ine adoup Lo Beecher. | - 7 se peiher—tie ‘molecable enemy Oo; voth, wheu le prepared (oe “True ote ry ? and only in- great interests woicn. tt his story be trae, could seried such lala-heods as seemed to him tien to only have been tru'y served from the first mo- We charge here t.at Theodore Tiiton has been a conspiraior against Henry Ward Beecher sib @ the tio Deceuver, 1870, We say ve frat tormedt tha Couspiracy with nenry C, Bowen, bat that Meory © Bowen backed out and thea the place be useiui, his Staicmen! Was Dotone that could | ment oy casting out the seducer irvm nis place of bave cone tlw any goud; and it May therefore be | trust and protecting tucceat familics from hs Saicty ussumed to be true. | inroads, But, Waetaer Mouton was consulted or not, the | Having described the interview between Monl- situation was piin—Tiiton could get nothing he. oe seppued, and 1Ca@vas supplied by Franc ton and Beccuer of January 1 General cracy went D. Moulouw. But chat Teeodore fiten has velit [rou B wen ipou whica to support Dis threatens On 0 say:— Vie p@s.tion OF couspL ator against the reputation ing letter, and be had notuug trom ols wie A char, the most terriple that could powsibly which would confirm the chorge which be had mauve to Boweu against Beecher, He tad, there. fore, giVeu arash Chaileuge ‘0 One ol the tore. mos Ten io Brooklyn, without the slightest sup. port Save iué uWo Woru, Oacked Uy biSown LaiInied Teputation. controut a man in ois position (for it weud be easy to show that, under the circumstances, & charge Oi impure proposals would be more dim- cult to meet than one o actual adultery), such o charge Gas been suddenly s)rung upon him like & thuaver Clap from 4 Clear sky, not from the gas- of Hevry Wara Beecher since tag 25th oO: Decem- ver, 1970, «shut leave no doube tn tne mind of aby honest man, ube Of ihe scheme then lormed st teary Ward Seacher, fueotore fiiton welt te ng a WitLess fo1", That a Conspiracy existed be ween Mouitou and Tuton i proved re evi eu apd 14 that conversation be- Luere Was Out one thing to be done, He must conading har.equin wh» orueis om out of brook- tween § wen and himself charges awwus. Mr. | make peace with Mr. Beecher, But now sould | lyn at the muzzie of a sheet of “commercial note. beecier were wace--char es of crime; charges he accoupisa that? He lad written & most in- | DUE IN 4 Paper, sinved oy @ lady, ts triend, bis that would have Gisgraced lim Deiore any com- sulliag ‘eCer, should te say frankiy, “Mr. | child almost, ope whom he kuows to De, wnen lo mun ty, UV thee were true, ani ‘hab this jetteror Beecier, 1 tave een mistaken; I sent you that her nermalc ndition, pure and good and truinial. How stunning the survrise, how horrivie the com- plication! 18 tt possibie that she could have con- sented to such au xccusation? |{ so, what dLiDoli- ca! Machination has led to it? And what must be tne faa reauitt He bas received from her, letier Un ev & Mmisappreiensivn of tactsy” Norto Meution tial Cie tues of an &yology would be utterly repugnant to iilton’s sei-concett and vouly, Mr. beecher’s natural an'wer woalu have becu, “How did you dare to send so inavient a letter Without making inquiry as (oO the tacts? Moreover, What misapprehension of iacts could Of regret, aud # touching account of the means he have eliezed? {fhe ud said, “Mr. Bowen told by which sie was driven to such an act; out | Me such and soca tales,’ Bowen would have hardly are these consoling acconots cold beiore he | denied’, and Tilton’s position would be worse 18 miormed of areretracuon! Then is she, indeed, | toan ever. If he shoud say, “My wie has told an | broken in heaiti and aistracted in mind—sand evil tale about you,” he well knew taut nis wie ali these troubes have been brought upon a Mies) @ Was Gurled a’ hint on that day tor the pur- pose vi compelling him to res go bs posi ion as pastor of Plymouth, and to cease writing ‘or wwe Caristian Union, Ciat was ® crime ‘hat mace thew, iu the eyes 0: The law, cons irators, | will ask iy associ te to uruish the autuorites on the suvject o conspiracy, Juuge Po ter then read some other extracts from | gal authortues, aver whica General rracy conthi ued t itat by the rules of the common law, gentle. men, the pluiatif im this case, 1 he is to be be- heved in his stimony, Was & conspirator wiia | Would deny it, wale: OMe Wiitibg Wa extracted iamily for many years aod sclil so dear to vim, Meury ©, Bowea agalust the character of this | from wer. | ana be a minister of the Gospel, wno bas been to ceendant under tne rules of law which you | It was essential that he sionld have an inter- | tuest peopic as wlather; he the man by whose have just heard, there cau be no doubt what- | View witi Mr, Beecuer, in whica ne spouidin- ayencs ail sos ruin has beeu brought about! ever, I wane to put in here, again, tre quaunca- stantly duiily the iatzer tuat ie had sowe reasyon- When we consider the swit succession of imag’ tiou Wawh [ stated yesterday, LI desire to co it | able pretext for wring iis IMsicent demand, and presented to the man, who, tu addition to nis re always, for 1 do Lot desire to Linpute even avainst yet should at the 8.me moment witadraw tuat lnorse for toe past, bad reason to apprehend a Mr. Bowen the charge of conspiracy, restin demand in such manner a» to convince Mr, piuuge into public confict with a jealous husvand, entirely upon the evideuce of Tueodore filton, Bees er that if he sould jurther iesene this and with no other deience tian his own simple Make he charge on the theory that be sates the | Withdrawa insult there «ould ve danger ut an x- word O! honor, cau we wonder that Sr. Beecuer truth O Whar transpired vetweeu him and Mr, | plosiou in Woica Mr. Beecber’s re ulation must was & deeply agitated and excited man? Bowen on the 26th o; Leceniber, in What be stares Wwevitadly suffer, no matter how inuocent he counsel tien explained why tt was that Mr. mus evidence, |i Mr. Bowen snould come tere might be. Furthermore Titon must so shape Beecner was ready to apologize, ana stated that and slate taat that is false—i! Bowen siouid ap. | bis Case as to satixiy Mr. beecher that the stories Mr. Beecher never believed for @ mument iu tne peur On the Witness stand, or e\sewnere, avd say | Woich the latter vad circulated to some extenc statement that Mrs. dillon had, declared her love that Tilton lalsifies when ae 8 ates that he con- | @ga@iost itton Were faise and slanderous, and thus jor him. He nelieves thit Mrs. Tilton bas never sped wih lum on the 26'n of Le ember to drive at one diow sonviuce mr, Beecher that Tiitoo Was been unialiaial to her husband in word, look or Honry Ward Bee ve. out of Brooklyn oy the pureiu hisown moral. and up-er an honestimis. thought, He believes that she bus lavisied upon caarce of @ scaudal agaicat btun—provok- appreiension as (o Mr. Beecner’s conduct, Loe that unworthy Dusband all toe treasures of that ing @& scandal im the O.muniiy to im- in ernal sazacity wuich devised a 8-neme meeting royal nature, and tuat all toe fountains of her duce bia, to drive tim to aba don the | all these requiremenuis uid vot emacate trom tue love—a love (oO whose depth and teaderness no palat—1 say that uv Henry G, Bowen sbould | excited brat oi fiiton, but irom the cuol and cal- justice can be done by language of mine—-have ceny that, aud Me assert osijnoranceo the con- | Cuiatiug Villany Of bis Iriend, Mrs. Tilton wags | been wasted exclusively upon taat barren saud, sick, Laving Dad @ Darrow escabe from Geaih, and greatly Weakened voy a severe and protracted | which the p “cold and crus! hei tents o1 that 1#ite .sionid not be prepared to ask you to veileve olore Tuton cvea agamst of theodore 1ucou," himsei, But On His sb.temeutol the case, ag Lewvor bage. The Mephistuprees at her ous- But Mr. Beecher had no such relief on the ntgnt it, (nat ue Qdei berate consjirator band’s e.oow suggested that now was cue | of January, 1871. Full of tne conviction that he tho; December, 1570, agatust denry Ward tue to ges ber signature to apy paper | wasresponsibie for the shattered mental condi- Beeuner, tae owect o that conspiracy to drive | Which would answer purpose. He discivsed | tion and the domestic misery of the woman whom ol 1.8 Own dillicuities | he loved With ss pure au affection as any o/ you Oulrogevts Uest, Wulch ne and Bowen, alier- | as sudiced to couvince her of ms immineat | gentlemen nave for your own daughters, ior up- ward) botu—you Will remember tie tripartite ruin. ie tarned out tue nurse and Companivn, ue | ward of an hour Henry Ward Heecher walked that agreemeni—sined a «tatement, Bowen on his locked (ne doors and kept iilmseii ior hours aione | flo-r, giving utterance to emotions so intense, in part ackuowieugla,y the talsenood by those truths, | Wiih the puor, proscrate woman, and by @ miature | language 60 extravagant, that the seli-possessed and fiuoa agree! intact to give circulation to Of threats procured ler Consent to sign w ietter | keen-eyed geutieman watching bitm there almost tuem. Now, ge. tiem -o of the jury, t Mr. Beec ec = Whicu Le proposed LO WEILe, 60 Icing Mr, Kescuer forgot the delignt of trium:h in the pleasure of hed beeu conscious oO! gullt, i he had committed to an interview with oer husvand, aud pleading surprise. He vad Come to thie interview commu auutery Wit vrs. Yiiton, and had received on | Jor peace and reconctltation. For nim to insert in sioved to Ovtain, at ali hazards, something from the .cth of Decemver sich a letter ‘rom Mr. Luton, | Such 4 iet er a lew words acknowledging her ex- | Beecher, sometaing to supply the piace o/ desert- con't you think ae would lave divined the vdject | Cessive affection for her pastor, abd charging fim | ing auxiliaries and lost ammunition. Bowen bud him out of Brookiyo, by means Of a threat, or an to bI8 wile By imuel of it—would pot be nave understood whac it | With having mede improper svicitations to her, | slipped iro under and could no louger de reed meunt, at least Would noy it have suggested Without describing vueir precise purport, was | Oo ior the promised reimiorcement, The charge to him thet Mr, Tilton had discovered # easy enougi; and bis po wie, waving once | of improper proposais had falea or had been crime, and wovld not he bave been desir- raised hereeil [rom the bed to sign tie docu- j neutralized by the retraction, the Jocker is wbso- ous of undersiandng bow far that criune meut whicn le originsily prepared, nad Lo power | jutely empty and the whole campaign must be hud beeu discovered and precisely what | to reiuse to put her hame beiow suc a charge, | b-gun anew. Toget in Beecher'’s hand, or with dir. Tilton knew aboutit, Aud yel, gentiemen of vue purport of Wuich sve bul dimly comprenenaed, | his signature, something tu the nature of 1, maced, she Waderstood It at ail. Teally Anew Was that she Was doing something whica her nusband, to Whom soe bad alwayss ren- dered a slavisu oveuience, commanded ber to do. | Probably she tad some ind siinct idea that the na'ural effect of her signature was to do Mr, Beecher @ wroug; but sue Was ussured by ber husvund, as be telis you himsel, taat its real elect would be to do Mr, Beecher good, and to | the jury, this wieged guilty Man, wao hud veen Cai tylig On au aanierous iDtercourse jor s'xteen men bs, thus having bis guile sudueniy disciosed to him anu the Kuowledge 0: it possessed vy toe husband, vever Moves a step to ascertain what tue uusband knew or to communicate with this Woman to a*certain the situation at all, there le res'ed ob Che 26h, 27th, 28th, 291 and 30th days of December, without aking ihe drat movement Ail that she | @ confession of imp: oper aavances to fk the vague accusation which had aiready veen propounded with sucn imperfect success—this was the problem, A tolerabiy diMcult game to play, one would ve @pt +o think, wit the wily aud accomplished vil- described by the senior counsel jor the piaintif. | Buc lof this man, represented to you as @ giited Scoundrel, a consumiate viliain, au uo paralleled lO ascerima What MF Luton knew about it and putanendto the conflict wiich bad begun be- | dissembier, wilo had practised whoivsale lewd. _ ROW int ue Dad wagoyere the tratn ag itexisted tween Ler husband and ner pas’ Such a letter | ness ior more than whiny yeara under the concen- between him-et a ra. Tiiton. Was ootai ied on the 2vth vi December aud carried | trated gaze of tae whole world, aui vp to thia Would a guity tun buve done that? Lo you tilok, i an tnjared And vulraged husband bud gone to a mao who Was realty cullsy and written him such a letter a3 by Lilton to Mouiton, who now certain! becomes Oue Of Whe Must Important ac.ors iM tu1s Uabappy | cuntroversy. time succeeded 10 covering up bis tracks, now ad- Vances Voluntarily to this iriend of a day, opens that he would not have put himseli in communi- AU ibis stage of his speech Genera! Tracy re- | to insert his javelin at bis own sweet will, Why, | tou win toat wile, to asceriain just wuattue ferred to Fraucis D, Moulton in remarkably stroug | gentiemen, never did @ three-year-old baby, qui Dusbavd KueW amu Wat this vecter meant? And and torcible language, declaring him to be 4 man | ering with contrition Jor its first conscious fault, 4 Mude Bo efort to Communicate with Mis, totally destitute of all beilei in conscience, in im- | More swiitly run to bury its bowed and tearful ‘Liiton—dtd not communicate with her—and, a8 mortility or in @ God—that this man was well | Jace in its tender motner’s lap than did this sat qual.fiea, tue very elect tiemseives, MOULTON DESCRIGKD 43 A HARDENED VILLAIN, He was Loid you, under the soiemuity of au oath, that he was a beatnen, and by tuat you will know I suomit ty )ou, gentiemen, that that is proof , What ne meaos—not @ heathen hike svcrates or conclusive that tuls deendant knew nothing | Piato, uot a heathen like those men of o.d, Woo | pusition aud Was NOt such @ paper as correctly AbOUt the object oF tac letier. Atleast, se did Walked iu darkness seekibg alter tue iui, and to | expressed tae opinions or sentiments of Henry hot nuderstsnd taat it reierred at ail to nis rela- whou the great poet of te Cxtnoile Chuicn has | Ward Beecher. tions witu Mrs, Ciutuw aud the fact that he did | assigned @ piace in the other world, iree irom | These are tne firat two errors in the evidence in Not so unders.and | roves conclusively that guilt path, thuugn jar irom heaven—but such a heathen | this case, where we find Titon giving utterances id not exist. The sending oft e ievter by Tilton to can only be loud iM Loe midst of @ Curisuan to the report o: “improper advances” made by Beecher provoked a contest from wiles Tilton civilization; a man wuo despises the idea oi per- Mr. Beecuer to his wie, out not ol aduitery. Ib Cuu.d not retire easily, aod Wheu be wa: deserted suns responsioility, WhO scoms a: the idea of the imterview with Over Jounson, Francis D. by Bowen he icuou biwsell in a very awkward = iuture accountabi ity, Who laughs iu bis siceve at | Moulton and Theodore filton on December for situation, He bad sent this chailenge to ihe most | the credulity of those who read te solemu words days before this interview with Beecher, he had promicen! clergyman in Brookiyn. He had voth- | of Seriptore or who iisten to the instructions of in, OD Wien to SULportit. Bowen had leit him. the Churca, aud whose Only idea o! a God is usa He had nothiag from ms wie in writing; norbing convenient Name ior rounding @D Oath or eniorc- , there were five different persons to whom Mr. Til- whaiever on whicu to support tas charge at a |. ing o execration. , ton had a, oken wito reverence to this interview, But be bad crossea the Kubicon, ‘To advance fet it Was hoiin this guise that he presented and that he, incouversaiton with these people, mizut be dangervus, to retreat was impossibe. if himself to tue Ge:eudant, aud be tuok great cure | WhO Were of Unquestionabie tutegrity and high beiore this his ruin Was Imminent, Wita Beecher not Lo impress you wiih sis conception of hm. Teputaton im this city, told them that ne and bowen united against him it was certain. To sei in court. ven vere, when faciug bundreds | had charged Henry Ward Beecher with mak- sever tuwt Uuion and pacuy Beecher Was With him of men, In Whose eyes he read that tuey kuew 12g improper proposaia to bia wile, and tue necessity of the iwur. Unless ue could do tuis | him tu be an unscrupulous and hardened villain, , With nothing else, Mr. Tiiton bed stated it Mr. he was cot only ‘he lool that Moulton bad called he wore @ veil 0: deceat respectaoiuity. sow | Beecher ot lim thrown out ol} fis position on tae tim but be Was a | moca more when he approached ‘he most disun- Jndependent, and that his owa wie and Mrs, RUINED MAN. | guished clergyman of the age, to whom he was Morse were the cause ol nis peli, thrown out, How this could be dune was the snbdject that uimust @ siranger, did he clotae himself as an Wohen Mr. flton toa bim of Mrs. Tilton’s contes- occupied his thouguts during the z7tu, 28th, 2th angel of light, aud. wilie humbiy acknowledging | #100 to Lim ut the interview to which he testifies Ad wth cays of December. Aud now, geatiemen, is ulcouverted State, yet strive fo siow thay he toat was weld at Mr. Muuiton’s house, Mr, Beecher We cume lo the peiud of time when we say the Was aim.ng to practice the Bighest Christian vir- | did not believe tt, aud we (ititon) said to bim, “if couspuacy agalust Mr. Beecuer Dud its concep- . tues, | you do not beileve me, go to my house and see tivo, We fave -een tha: Mouton was somehow | Counsel then proceeded to describe the ties of Lilwabeth for yourseif and she will te you.’’ | Mr. (oy accident, a8 they say, but Oy prearrang-ment § fmendship tuat bound Tito and Moulton to- | Beecher did go aod see urs Tiiton ‘hea, They as We think), at lillou's house, awaiting Jiltow’s getner. He described Mouiton as 4 Manu wao be- will show thot won Loe testimony ot five persona re urb iro the lulerview at Bowen's house De- lieves in aeliver God nor devil; a8 one who bad | to whom Mr. Tilton vas gtiveu aa account of cember 25. He was tuen tuiormed of the result of profered triendsbip to ier aud now de- this interview he recisied to tnem what Mr. tuat interview and of (he writing Of that fetter noanced him as a livertine., It 13 impossivle to Beecher said upon uis return to Mr. Moultou's to Mr. Beecher. He regarded taai as so itpportant conceive that a professed frieudsuip (nus carried atter having ca led to see Mrs. iilton on that oc un event taat he ade # Wemorandum hotiug the On Wiih the approval und under the direc: guid- | Casion, Notwithstanding this act, it 18 saown precise hour aod minute at whicn tals commani- ace of Mr. Beecier’s must vitter god re- thatin last August, w ue Was Compeled to like big great arcuctype, to deceive | fering man wdvance to cust Eimseif on the breast of that guileiess and gushing creature, Prancis D. Moulton! Counsel dealt at considerable length with the composition of the retraction and apoiogy, con- tending that it bore ail the evidevce of hasty com- the paintut himself tells you, Was m protouud igvoranve that the piain td had avy accasation to Make aeaiust wim in connection with bis Wie, until they met on that siormy night at Moul- tou’s house, avout e@ ghs o'clock lu the evening. toey would not 810 here. cution bad o¢en handed to nim! And here, gen- | lenties§ enemy, could buve ben otherwise muke a public siatement belore tue Voumibtee of tiemen, at the Very beginniug of the association | Irom begianimg to end tuan utterly hollow Investigation, ne was couipelied to draw sigue of tuese Lwo meu in relation tothiscase yuuare and aise. it 1s mot necessary to suppose larly on uis own meinor’, aud but he and Moul- called upon to discre: the first fact they | that wien tals plot wus orlinally hatched, ton tuen stated the suv3cin 2 Oi tia! Interview as testuy to, or to uccept a statement when | the two conspirators laid out their plans upon tue Tilton oad written it down in 1872, Wheu Beecher expressed doubt that sie nad mide a stitement to her nneband Oo: the nature caarged Tiiton testi- fied tna: we to.d bim to yo and see for Dimsel/, aad how {iiton telis us that the basis of this interview was a letter from Mrs. Tilton, aod yes ts it Dot ptrange that this letter was ever used by kin ? It is plain vhat sucn a letier was needed to bring ubont an interview. it was necessary that tuey should get @ leiter trom this sick dying 18 bot Ouly extremely improvuoie, but wich rward assumed. 1s contradic by the written evidence of They douvtiess supposed at beginning tuut one Oo. tuem, They both testily tut Moulton tue restoration o: Theodore Tilton would be Was Dot Consulted ayainuo ll the evening ei tee speedily accomplished, and it was not until his vor, COUsiUer tue IMprovauilicy O: BUCO e Sta’e- repeated iallures, Owing to his owao amazing jol- meut! Op the 26th, a8 they ceil you, Francis D. | lies aud Wickeduess that extended over @ period Moalion ound that ma Most intimate irieud had = of Dearly jour yee that the original eu commited what be called ‘s fovlish act, of | gradually developed into the most gigantic and seuding tuls letier to Menry Ward beecner.”’ He | hideous cunspt acy of modern times. It can need the ietter was to be borne to , mo argument to satisfy you that ® Mag who has , Woman; but it isa sact tuat never to this day hus Mr. Beecuer vy Bowen, and he predicted the re- | been .or years carryiug on so diaooical a con- _ Henry Ward Beecuer seen that letter. It was only suit, waying, “You nave signed the setter aloue; spiracy v8 this—nia Movements being known at | & pretext. What was in that letter? Su. pose Bowen ieaves you to suppor: 1c alor very step to the man whose cause he wus really | WAS IT A CON/ESSION OF ADULTERY? where are you?” ihe result of that interview pr rvivg—Could out ail, bimseli, to be involved im | OF Was it simpiy 4 Cuarge Of improper proposals? tween Howen and Beecher is known vy fiiten (ne ach a network of crime as would make it impos- | This is the most lmportaat question that tae jury LeXxt morning, Wuica | have read to you 1p your | sible for him ever to retrace his sieps or to avan- | Will ve culied upon to consider in this trial. If the bearing. He says:—"Tue next moruing Bowen | don bis partner in guilt, no watter what might be | Counsel can satisiy the jury that it did not contain came in my presence and wild metfeverre- | the cost to himseif, Of pursuing the original she charge of adultery then, of course the peated what he told me oe wouid cashier me at | scheme, The descentinto crime ts easy, but the | platntif’s care must go uuder, fa view of the im- once.” Do you beueve, geut.emen of tue jury, | revarn from such tortuous patns of darkness is | portance of tuis ‘act, why don’t they produce that that tue resuit of Lhat interview vetween Bowen | well uighimpodsibie. Neither oi these meno could | er? That will setile the question definitely, and Beecher was not commauicated to France for one moment afford to betray the otaer, even | Way or the other. It wiil tel the world which D, Mouiton un'il the evening o: the sth of Dece if they hea mo secrets apart irom this case; for 33 te itug the truiu and which 1s false, Where ts these days | either to drive the other to desperativn would be ‘i.antic scale which they at ver? Do jou believe that ail | it? They s.réiy ought to have it if tuey were ace | he was in igneramce of the reception | af act Of suicidal Madness. /ipg in geow faite. They had promised to that le ter bad et the hanus of Henry But tnis is not the only tie, morevemthe chief keep it salely on toe evening when Mr. Ward Beecher’ This jact so important to. tie, which binds together these two men. They | Beecher granted them that interview. ve had @ Most significant alliance im the prose- Again, Mr. Beecherhad come from this interview cution Of new social tueories. ‘They \ave had at Mouiton’s uouse to Mrs. ‘iton’s, and had ov. guificant relations With women Whose very talued a Cuntrauiction irom ber of these charges aud yei they teil you, aisnough they admit they | name stains tne lips that utter it, Tuey have voth | Which sie gave to Der Lusvand, Sureiy Mrs, Ti- had seen each otbder in thedmeantime, they teliyou | held their wives in humiliating bendage, and | ton must bave Known woetuer she bud charged compelied the Women Wium they vowed to love Mr. Beecher with aduitery or improper proposals, and to cherish to become the mere ministers to | It 1s not poussins that she had po knowledge or their lust. lt was not fheouvre Tilton Wio sent conce tion of wuat was in that letter, When 8.¢ we to bring home in @ currage Lue Most no- | Jound What use Ber busbaad had made vf the the world has ever krown. | letier 0: vecemuver 30, 1570, sae gave tre letter of his iriena that he rememovered nos ouly tue hour but the minute be received it, und de- nounced Dis iriend 48 @ fool for what be haa done, | mosi to the manner la which Beecaer Wiad received that letter, You would not veileve it, gentiemen, uicted, and rested upon the oath of vorn tuese | torious prostivute Witnesses, With no olner infirmity except the im- provauuity of the statement. Bur we are not, sortunwiely, leit to that in this respect, anu in| Ww eserved ior the wie of Francis D. Mouton; | band. she regretiot many otoe: Theodore Tilton wrives the niscory | and it was ber lips, and not tne Lips of Eluzabetn | statements. ur. Beecher had mever ol- 61 these scenes transpiring at this time, and wri- | Thiton, so far as we have yet jearned, that were | fered her any improper solicitations, hut | Ung im 1872. He thought ne had destroyed it, bai | smurched by the fithy kiss of Victoria Woodhull, | Dad always treated her ia am r becoming a vis woman, whose polished ut. | Christian and 4 Ueman. Tas letter o: Mrs. men, aha some of them were surewd enougs and | terances are so jodi tat the learned ‘Titoa furnishes & ost conciugive dena. That cautions enough to preserve a copy o1 it, The | Juoge now bbe! 9 Was unwilling to | does mutreier to any charge of aduitery, There paper which be supposed was destroyed and | silow them to be r im your hearing, even | are oo ailusiolis made tw adultery ta the letter, Ould Dot coniront him during tuis litigation was | a8 a part of the evidence In tils case, Who Was Be- | DO; do's it allude to impure soliciianons, Had resurrected to confound Bim on this witness | lected by Francis D. Aloulton as tue honored guest | tue charge at that time been one of aduitery ne grand. Now | appeal to toat “Troe Story,” ay | of bis wile, and a4 @ Mit person to Le brougut bume | woud noi have gone down and come away Natis- written by Theodore Tilton himnselt, uf it was not | in a carr age by his wife and only child, And this | fed with anything cise than am absolute retrac- the incepUon of this conspiracy Letween them. jance was ma mtained ior @ year. it was muin- | tion of the charge ol adultery. The words “10 providentially for us be showed it vo tou many | 1b was THR “TRUE STORY,” tained, ti you beleve Mr. Moulton, for the sake of | proper soueltations,” how nappeued they to ve as Mr. Tilton entitied says distinctly that Mr. | Mr. Beecher, whom Mr. Tilton Uatea with all bis | asea by her in the retracthon’ It will ve seen, Moulton was consuited’ at least twice alter tue | soul, or else it Was Maintained, Hf you believe Mir. | therefore, that the first letter written by jor the Bake Of Mrs. ilton, Whom Moulton | Mrs. Tilton contained no reierence whatever despised witu all his Beart. It was suca # man to the charge of adutery. Whea sue that Tilton requested to become his iriend in wh, considered tie character of the charges maae emergency, and it Was this nan into wiose hinds | by her husband Men she retracted amy assertion he placed the letter of his wife and bave him go | Of “improper sonciiations,” Both ‘Tilton and 26th and beipre the 40ta 0; December, ue lie 1u the piainest terms to the testimony of tuese two witnesses, After reierring to the inter- view of Deceinber 26, the “Trae Story” says:—"A lresolved that [ | and invite Mr, Beecher to an interview on the per- | Right of the oth of Decemoer, Aller showiog the motives which Induced Mon!- ton to become the provessed Iriend of Beecuer, General Tracy sala: pressed Mr. Moulton has n at some paing to explain REMORSE, SORROW AND SHAMB FOR MIS Chior. to the pubtie 08 motives in offering and matn- | How, in thy midst of so many contradi:tions, are taining this Irienaship. Lt sees that ib Was (he | you to trust Mr, Tiiton's evidence ? peace of fam/lies, tne intercst o/ Plyim uth chureh, Dot # hasty statement made by iM, a3 K toon him Uniistanity wath moved ihe ten Gays ty prepare ir, and he had no MMicuity in wish ana Mr. Mouiton’ vice, would send ior Mr. Beecher to meet me at sonal interview, either in their presence or with | me alone.” Then giv.ng the account oi the scene in whieh Bowen threatened to discharge Tiiton aller bis retura irom filton’s nouse on the night Of tue interview; and yet belore the committer they swear tua they aid him, and that be ex- the police Lo cast him into the sireets, the “True BS ory" proceeas: “liaiormed oy wile and MPM ui ton, and asterward Mr. Jonnson, of Unis Inc.aent, erhing which Mr, Moulton remarked that did | the cause of \ urprise him in tie least, and ten wiih the joing heathen (0 undertane the task OF Maintaining In | Joruiying fis Mein aay.ce u! #l—(now, | take it, genticmen, that that the bret pulpit America (1@ man who, i \ Nat | be says tat Me, word “ail’’ ts never appleu toa.y uct in tilscun- | Moulton how Says 0. hm ve truc, deserves to ha language wiicw japled guilt. spiracy that gon't melude Francis D. Mouiton | his iame a by Word and a hissing among meu. To he did Hot say apyiniag ao all. iow this tine JorwWard)—toen Wilk the julnt wd- | preserve the peaco oi families Mr, Moution Was Jury are to believe that vice of alll determined to summon Mr. Beecher — willing to intiod a Wan Woom ie Now says Was ment is entirely anirue. to the cuntempiated interview, To this end Mrs, | @ practical seducer imto nis own housenoid, tu | Dome tuat night Now they say that Thereio: his ee ee ed indee:i, a frank retraction with tesriul expressious | Muti’ nas nimselt deserivbed us the | | lain, whom you have already heard sv vigorously | at ouce every joint in bis narness and invites him | said that the charge was improper advances, But | They wonld snow that | | Tiggiegradanion—the lowest aud jowcst which | retraction, in waich she writes that sue gave the | an in could offer to the partner of his lie— | letter w.t. tue Qope that It would relieve ver hus | it aud recalied all its | Mouiton admit that they dia not Aee Mr. Beecher | Api tht was | ry, and yet In that etatewent | Appontment of the comiuittee was ie t until th eccner returned and used } state | Alter Mr. Riton weat f ue wanted to Koow wont pad | Wednesday in Merch, spired petween Mr. Beocher and his wife. Now th hus statement Le says that le found her weemug and almost distracted at the chacge and the retraction wien she had written, Counsel wou.d show the jury, however, tiai he found os wie sound asicep when he ‘ered her room. She was In bed with her nurse wat the time, The harse woke up and found Mrs, Tilton very much ayitaied, and ier husband standing by the ved- Side. He Ordered the purse to ieave the room, and, going to an adjoining apartment, she re- mained there and listened to @ loug and angry controversy with tis wue. The next day Titom pro suced this letter of explanation of the retrac- tion of the ietter which she bad given to bir. Beecher, Tiiton afterwards found that Mr. Beecher had in his possess.on @ paper which vir- tually cuarzed him with having iorced @ confes- sion from his wile which placed him in Beocher's ud hence the gecessity of their ovtaion he following lecter trom the sick woman te Moulton :— = |ATURDAY MORNIN My Dran Purexp Prawe—T want you todo 100. the greatest possible favor, My letter, which you hav | the one [gave Mr. Beecher, at his dictation, last eve ing, onwat both to be destroyed, Please bring bot to me, and T wil dura taem. Show this noe to Theolore ang Mr. Beecher. They will see tue wpopriety, of thie request. Yours truly, Ez. TILTON, » Armed witn this letter Moulton went the nexs night to Mr. Beecher sod got possession of tats retraction, Where ig that letter now? Oould 16 be produced to-day it would clearly prove chat une charge was not one of aduitery, Way is that the most liuportaat paper tu the cago is Missin, while every oiaer scrap of paper was guarded ‘wih such jealous care by the “mutual friend?” Ater the tripartite agreement ther telt ms iy ¢ destroyed 1, Its destruction, | U tndeed tt has been destro) ed, became a neces- sity to tuem aiter they pad periocted tua: one SpIFACE at toe tie of tne publication of tae Woot. ; bud scandal, Tne bringing of any accusation of moral turpitude against Heary Ward Beecher was & Most Important act ta the life o: theodore Lil ton, When we.usk Moulton bow that lever was obtained from Mra, Til'on, he previricates. fe 1 j Utterly we @ loss to remember, He don't know wether he went to ter house, whether he re- ceived it from her own bands or frow her bus- band’s, acd, Guaily, he is not certain whether bho { aid not receive tt (rom Theodore ‘Luton. Counsel read irom the d.rect and cross-examination of Mr. Mouiton on tuis point, Lney had sown that Mrs, Titton wos sick that nigit, and that she had been under the care of @ physician irow the 2éth instaus to tae 30th, und yet this witness could not say whether she was there or not, {[t makes very little dimer- ence whee he got this letier, but it 19 very im~ portent to know whether he 1s equivocating. If he ts quiobiug and really knows when be save that he dues nol know, then that invalidates bia testimony and the jury have no rizut to velleve him at ail, Moulton vad been the intimate friead of Theodore Tilton irom boyhood, Was he & con- | @pirator with Tilton ? Oa tae night he goes to | Mr. Beecher's houge, and on the way to the inter- view with Tilton, oe piedges fis friendship to Beecher, a8 he nad already doae to Tilton. If ho did this inveizle Beecher, that discredits his testimony and makes Lim @ Conspiraro’, On the | Strength of this ietier of Mrs, Tuton’s he visite | Beecher and obtains irom kim this letter of hers, One of the strongest points made in the popwar ) Mind agalost Mr. Beecuer is tnat be surrendered ; Musietter to Moulton. but they only got it by ; Means which has never been meniioned until tae | Knowledge of its eatstence is forced trom them on ; Mus judicial examination. Mr. Beecher would never have giveo up taut letter had it not Leen Tor tuia letter from Mrs, Triton waicn Moulton vro- cured, Moulton claimed that he cou'd uot comply with the wish of Mrs. Tilton to destroy voth ‘et- ters, because he had already piedged bimsell to Henry Ward Beecher to preserve tuem tuviviate. He had not seea Mr, Beecher till the Sist inst. Thereiore ne could not have given him bis pledge, | aug was t (ore 6¥euring to a lie. At this }oin', tour o'clock, the Court adjourned until eleven o'clock this morning. RAPID TRANSIT. WHAT SOME OF OUR ALDERMEN SEEM 10 KNOW ABOUT IT. The special committee on Rapid Transit of the Board of Aidermen did not report yesterday, as as was announced it would do, Thoss members of the commitiee who were spoken to ycsterday afternoon seemed to be strangely uniamiliar with the matters that pertain to rapid transit. One of them, Alde:man Coie, appeared to think that a report was ready for submission, bub | Would nos be presented because Alderman Purroy, tne Chairman of the committea, was absent irom the city. Yet Alderman Coie, who, it was inferred, intended to subscribe to the report which supposed to bein existence, did | Dot know what the document would suggest or commend to the Board of Aidermen in relation to Tapid transit. Alderman Shandley did not know | that there haa been an inteation on the part of the committee to make @ report, and thougnt that | the final meeting of the committee was ap- pointed for next (vesday, He oad a faint idea that the committee nad been agreed upon tne | subject matter of a report, before Senator More new oii! had been oroacned. Tuis vill, he faintiy reaembered, had destroyed tne barmonr Of the ideas of the memoers of tue cominittee, He was by no means sure whether the committee had, atthe time 1t was agreed, been determined to report in favor of the city duiliing a rapid tranait railway or ol permitting private capitalista to conier such a benefit upon the people. tn brie! | Alderman Shaadiey's ideas of rapid transit, and o | the doings of the committee of which he is a mem- | ber, appeared to be in a strange juimole. Alier- Man Billings thought that the Rapid Transit Com- | mittee must meet on Monday or Tuesday next, | and that, as Chatrman Purroy was not in tue city, ; tae committee would not make a report to the Board of Aidermen at present, livery | One of the above named Aldermen thought | taat Alderman Purroy knew aii about the | Suvject of rapid traasif, and treir manners im- | phea that they approve his ideas rejative to the | Means by which the possili‘y of traveling speed- | div in the metropolis can be procured ior tts citl- gens, Aldermaa Parroy was understood vo be | im Albany yesverday. Lt may be tuathe and bis colleagués have really agreed upon this matter tor | their report and tuat the latter did not wish to | pabdlish his and their opimions in bis absence; | that they, therefore, feigned atferent degrees of contusion ant ignorance. One must either as- sume this or lose ull respect for the tnteiligen of some of our city oficia’s. Aidermen Cole, | Shandiey and Billings, then successfully sinu- | lated the last degree of ignofance witn regard to | the intentions of the committee of whica they | are memvers. 1t 13, perhaps, needless to say tnat no one, leav- ing aside the members of the committee, knows | What course the committee inteuds to commend | to the Board of Aldermen. There Was a rumor to tne effect that the committee wil suggest that private corporations be permitted to build rapid TallwWays tn che city, and tat each company shoud b* required to give @ nond for $250,000 a a guar- antee aguinst its fatlure to do the work it had ) promised to do, And there was another rumor That the committce will declare Senaior Morris’ bill to be the real legislative means to achieve Tapid transit in the metropolis, Besides these ruinors, it was sald that the coming report will sluply dectare that the municipal corporation ia the proper body to construct snd operate 4 rapid raliway, and will jeave the Board of Aldermen to devise legislative means whereby the city authori- ties can be authorized to assume sucn duties. , Waren of these reports contains the element of trutn will prooably not be determined until the Kapid Transit Committee snail make tts report to the Board of Aldermen, which it will do, probavbiy, next thursday. ‘The movement lor the collection of a ‘deferred capital” fund still continues to progress, but how far it has gone ulready cannot be learned, because no reports have yet been made to Mr. Roosevelt or to Mr. Drake by the Bolders of subscription liste of the amounts piedzed apon them. It was hoped that such reports could be procured during this | week, and (hat a meeting of suoseribers could be | held oa saturday. It was intended, if the meet. ing was held on Saturday, to organize at that time @ regular association. Diticuitivs nave inter- vened, however, and tue projected meeting wil not | be held for more than a week. In the meantime | the work of soliciuug subscriptions will De con- tinued persistently. By tne way, the suggestion thrown out oy the HaRALD that the workers for | Tapid ‘ransit should eniist the poor a8 Weil ag the rich tn toetr cause Is tikely to be adopted. When the wara clubs are organized alter the central ‘ organization of subscribers their memoersnip | Wil comprise not only the sadscribers of sinait sums to the elerred capital” jund, but those | men who have only their good will to give toward bringing rapid transit Lato lire. ‘THE BOARD OF TRADE. A large and important meeting of the above or- | ganization took place yesterday aiternoon at their | branch office, No. 23 Park row. Mr. Charles H. Haswell occupied the chair, and Mr, G. W. C, | Clarke acted as secretary. A Jong and interesting Tevort was r er froin the Commitee | on Steaw Causal Navigation, in which it was | claimed that the Baxter steamers had solved the | questroa of rapid transit on tne Erie Canal; that | through their use the time of transportation waa | Fedaced about one-half and the expenses were | much less than vy horse towage. A resolution | was thea introduced and adoptea that @ memorial | shoula be sent to the Cana! Committee of too State Lexisiature, now In session at Albany, setting forta toe avove sacts, accompanicd witu the report indorsing the Baxter steain system, HON. ABRAM 8, HEWITT RESIGNED | from the chairmanship of the Comiitvee on Tech. nical Education and Mr. ©. H. Haswell was ap- | pointed to fil his piace. The Secretary then ad- | areasea the meeting in reference to the cusious | grievances, and finatiy introwuced a resoluuon (which was adopted) that a committee o! tweive memoers, representing aiderent ti porring trades, suould be appoluted oy the Board, whose cuty it should be to report upon the bestineans to pro- | tect importers’ mieresis, and at the same tine | promote the honest collection of the revenue, The next meeting. A Teaviaion was adopted to me. | Inoriauze DOM houses of Congress to continue the | postal parcels service. Alter s commitec of BeveR Was appomted to arrange for election of omcers the Board adjourned to the secoud