The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-11-05
TllTON'S SUIT AGAINST BEECAEa.
Opening PSoceedings--Asfid by
TiltOn and Beecher and Argument
Of Counsel Concerning Beecher's
Demand for q Bill of Particulars.

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would require in the Tiiton-Beecher
cease bill of particulars by the plaintiff
as to the specific times and places when
and where the offenses charged by Mr..
( Triton had been committed. Theodore
Triton, ex-Judge Samuel Morris. and
lFrancis d. Moulton we're present, the
latter only short time, Gen. B. +.
Tracy and Thomas G. Shearman, Mr..
Beccher's counsel, passed to the front
and deposited several law books upon
the table before them. The proceed
ings were begun by ex-Judge Morris,
who said that he should read an affida-
Wit made by his client to show that the
order asked for was unjust, and, If
granted, would permit the defendant to
prevent the full facts from appear
ing at the trial, and enable him to man
ufacture evidence for the occasion. He
then began to read the affidavit, but as
he prcfessed to be unfamiliar with Mr.
Tilton's handwriting. he made little
progress, and soon called upon his CHI
ent to help him. Mr.. Tilton, in dra-
matte manner. read the following atti-
davit:
s'First-I published on the 18th of
September last, over my own signature
a careful, and candid and faithful state
ment. in reply to previous false and ca
luminous publication made against me
by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. and
sbv O committee composed ofslx OF his
partisans, whom he had previously in
.stigated to give him one-sided trial for
adultery, and to acquit him in defiance
of his manifest guilt, freely confessed by
him to several persons.
4'Second--My published statement
above named contained a recital of those
facts, honestly and modestly narrated,
with careful intent not to overdraw, but
rather to understate the actual extent
and enormity Of the crime of the said
Beecher against me by the seduction OF
my wife and the ruin Of my home, to-
gether also with his subsequent accu-
mutation cf base and dastardly acts,
constituting his desperate defense
against his original crime.
"Third--The affidavit of said Beechcr,
which so far as it denies or lmpugns the
truth of any aforesaid published state
ceigc the court and public.
s'Fourth-The insinuation of the
aforesaid affidavit of the said Beecher,
that intend to produce manufactured
evidence and false testimony in sup
port Of the charge of adultery against
him, is unfounded and malicious. %
the contrary, believe, and SO charge,
that the real object and purport OF said
motion is to apprize said Beecher OF my
evidence and witnesses, to the end that
their evidence may be deceptively met
by false and fabricated testimony IN
behalf of said Beecher, and the said
witnesses may be tempered with or
,eloigned. My belief that such Is the
crafty design Of my opponents IS based
on the fact that the greater part Of the
evidence which has been heretofore ad-
vanced in defense of said Beecher, has
been false and fabricated, for example,
the palpable classifying of his own
church records by his recent committee
of investigation, as pointed out in my
own published statement; also by a
false and calumnious charge against
Francis D. Mouton, F. B. Carpenter
and myself, as blackmailers and
conspirators; also by the
pretended validity given the silly
actions of the girl Bessie; also, by in
citing Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton to tes-
tify falsely that | had subjected her to
Imprisonment under lock and key, and
had in an inclement winter deprived
her of fuel and food; also. by the false
pretense that used the said Beecher
to extort ST 900 from Henry c. Bowen
also, by the deSpicable attempt to con-
meet me criminally with certain honora'
bic women. both living and dead; also
6y variously misrepresenting me to the
public in false lights, for example
sometimes as forger and at other
times as a lunatic; also. by repeated
false oaths of denial by the said Beech
.er to the charge which l here move
against him of sexual commerce with
Mrs. Elizabeth r. Tilton, carrying this
perjury to the extent of procuring
against me, on his own oath, q criminal
indictment by i grand jury, whereas
he hiwlself was and is the real criminal
'Fifth-I further believe and sc
,charge that the said Beecher is main
tanned and upheld to the present deter
animation to evade by false testimony
the true charge of adultery through thu
strong support of powerful friends
some of whom have direct pecuniary
interest in maintaining his name befor'
the public at the former marketabl,
value: and / am informed and believ
that certain of these persons disclos
their purpose to sustain the said Beech
er at all hazards, whether innocent o
guilty.
.Sixth-I further believe, and s.
charge that the said Beecher and hi
interested champions in Plymouth
Church with plentiful and opulcn
means at their disposal, did procur
false evidence in the coming trial an
intend so to do.
s'Seventh-I further believe and s.
charge that the said Beecher's preseu
demand for bill of particulars, unusus
in such actions las am informed), an
in this instance wholly unwarranted b
Justice, and purposely intended for