Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14
TILT0N- BEEUHER.
Composition Of the Letter of Apology.
Ms. Morse's Agency it, Circulating
the Scandal

mrnt, aud sent us utf with il after we
had been subjected To u rather dull rui
ul testimony from the morning hour
TN O'Clock. ii the course of time
We had reached that alleged scene in
the history OF the scandal when Triton
aud Beecher held their extraordinary
confab about the generation of Mrs.
Iiitou's child Ralph. The question
WAS put to Beecher it he had been
present at such scene or il he had
ever taken part IN an interview with
Tllton about the
IsPURIOUsNEss OF HIS PUTATlyE
CHILD.
Beecher's face assumed the most
comlcal expression as he struck a
| queenIy inquisitive attitude toward
ms questioner and began to say some
thing about the possibility of father,
| but IlltOn's counsel stopped this sort
OF reasoning, aud he was directed to
give an explicit answer to the questiou.
He seemed to swell to double his usual
size in the chair, and then with an en-
ergy which was all the more emphatic
| from being subdued or half suppressed,
he replied: "lhe whole thing is mon
strOus and absolute falsehoOd.n There
was vehement applause, upon which
Fullerton interrupted the witness, ana
/ made speech Of demonslrative pro-
! test against the liberation Of applause,
/ taking occasion to make few sharp
/ threats at Plymouth Church.
| After Mr.. Evarts had replied apolo-
/ getically, Judge Nelson announced
| MS determination 10 peremptorily
suppress such displays hereafter, and
ordered the police Captain to bring "A
heavy force into Court tomorrow, and
to signalize the day, not by making
few arrests, but by arrestiug and bring
ing to the bar every person who thus
offended against the dignity of the
| Court. He also addressed the female
auditors, Of whom there were about
| thirty, telling them that they might
| find it unpleasant to make their APP
| pearance in Court to- morrow.
1t is evident that for a man of his
| years, Beecher can stand good deal.
| After the sensational scenes in Court
on last Friday, which occupied the
whole day, Beecher addressed his
church prayer meeting the same night
in
LANGUAGE WORTHY OF A SAINT,
And on Sunday he preached rs Chry-
| session. himself would liked to have
done. Yet he entered Court this morn
ing looking strong and sanguinary,
! with fire IN his eye, a smile round his
nose, and his thin, gray hair combed
| into unusual order. He had Tor half
an hour previously been luuuging
along Fulton street, on his way to
/ Court, looking into the shop windows
as unconcernedly as if he had no other
business for the day. On dropping in
| to Court, he sat down among his fami-
| ly group, which consisted of about a
score of members, scanned the audi
ence, and awaited the call Of his name,
| which, when he heard, made him
arise, walk around the room, and plant
| himself in tue witness chair
| Mr.. Evarts resumed his examination
/ into the
| ORIGIN OF THE LETTER OF CONTRI-
TION
| Which Beecher had explained last
| Friday. Beecher now denied that it
was in any sense whatever his COM
| position, or in any proper sense his
| dictatiOn, or that single phrase in it,
was really his. He again went over it
clause by clause, sentence by sentence,
under the questioning of Evarts, and
each and all his explanations were
| firmly and precisely enunciated, but
he was twice or thrice interrupted by
| Tilton's counsel with the remark
"Oh, that's reasoning Beecher de-
scribed the various interviews with
which we are familiar. In the mem
orable one of the Both of Decem Der,
| Tilton never accused him of adultery
or suggested that Elizabeth had made
any such accusation; in fact, the
thing was never in any way alluded
to- In replying to the categorical
| questions addressed him on these ques-
tons, Beecher's manner was solemn,
severe and agitated. He denied that
| there was any such interview on the
I'd of January, in his study or else.
where, as MoultOn had sworn to,
though Moulton was perhaps one of
| eight hundred visitors who called at
| his house that day and occupied all his
/ time from morning to night. Moul-
toms account of the alleged interview
was an impossibility and falsehood.
Beecher reconstructed the
INTERVIEW OF TIE Sd OF JANUARY,
In relation to the Bowen quarrel, de-
nying distinctly and emphatically
every important allegation made about
it by HE other parties to it. Said he
at various times in the way of replies,
"Thr impu,ation of any such language
| to me / wholesale fiction; it is absO-
| luteN 10 seq No, sir, no, sir; that's
obviou ftse.n he exclaimed when
questioned as to using some vile Ian
| guage about Elizabeth. 1t is intol-
cradle" said he "to be asked such
| question, but before Almighty God the
whole allegation isabsolutely false yet
| suppose | am Obliged to hear such
questions put in Court" His eyes
were inflamed when answering these
! questions, and he wiped the moisture
from them. Beecher smiled broadly
when denying Moulton's allegation
| that he had once contemplated suicide
or flight. Upon declaring that he had
never in his life had one dread of his
wife becoming his enemy, Mrs. Beech
er smiled for the first time in two
months, and her married daughter
seized her hands as they interchanged
smiles with each other and with the
| defendant on the stand.
1t was represented to me,n said
] Beecher, that TiltOn and | were to
! ont eorb ptbar nm ip tho i,tara.t ,f