The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-05
NEW YORK.
THE SCANDAL.
Continuation of TiIfon's CrOss.exami-
nation.

CONTINUATION Oh
New YORK, Feb. 4.-The Brooklyn city court
room was again filled this morning, many Ia
dies being present in addition to those usually
in attendance. Mrs. Tilton, Mr. Beecher, his
wife and two sons were present =
Mr. Tilton resumed his place on the stand
and his crossexamination was continued by
Evarts. He was shown paper when ne couiu
not identify as the letter written by MIR. Beech
| er to the Cleveland convention which covered
| the political difference between Mr.. Beecher
| and himself. Witness said: L cannot remem-i
| Der anything that would recall the difference
| between him and me at that time, nor can L
remember the year that the discussion between
| him and me related to the politics of the times
| 1t was then the general belief OF the Repuoll-
| can party that he had betrayed it. was then
with the general bulk of the Republican party,
| and Mr.. Beecher was supporter OF AMY
johnson. From that period there were no &C
| cessions which brought us together on pupilc
OCCASIONS. -
ment after Mr.. Beecher's lecture in the Cooper
| Institute The chief denunciations L have
made against the marriage relations are since
| the time Mr.. Beecherinvadeo my house tShown
| a letter) am the writer of this article and 1t
was published by me- The article was dated
| Dec. 8, 1869.
riage and Divorce The article is opened by
| analyzipg the substantive Glove" defining the
marriage state, and ended with relation of
| the causes of divorce. The witness was shown
| another paper which he Identified: he SAID
| ,he original was printed in the Golden Age in
| August !, 1873. 1 can procure for you the orig
| inai and the paper which contained 1T. The
witness promised the original this afternoon or
tomorrow. An extract was read from 6 an a[tl-
| Gle published in the Golden Age of October
| 14th, 1871. Mr.. Tilton's reply to this article,
| which was attached, was also read and placed
| in evidence as bearing on his free love doc.
| trines Mr.. Evarts read poetic effuslon OF
| r1.r1- ,I,aI -, tho nj Ana On
| 1. 1873 and it was placed in evidence. Witness
| also identified another article written by him
and published in the Golden Age Sept. 9, 1871.
| the article entitled Theodore Tilton's ReJon.
| der to Horace Greeley" Mr.. Beach insisted
| that the paper to which this was reply should
also be put in for counsel to see, and brief ar
| gument ensued over this point. Mr. Evarts re-
| plied that this discussion of Bowen, Greeley
| and. Mr.. Tton covered more than one subject,
| and they only desired to read one part OF the
article.
The controversy was settled by the reading
! of the paragraph relating to the subject from
/ Greeley's letter giving an Illustration OF what
| he (Mr. Greeley meant by free love. The par
| agraph from Tilton's rejoinder was read, stat
| ing that it seemed to HIM tTiton) that Greeley
| inferred by that paragraph that he was IN "a
yor of free love, but this Mr.. Tilton diScalmed.
| Other portions of the same article were read
| referring to divorces between parties not mated
| and advocating the right OF divorce for cruelty
| and ill treatment.
Witness was shown another article published
| in the Golden Age which was an extract from
| the Troy Times. He could not recognize 1t,
stating that editors of papers were sometimes
| the parties who least read them. Mr. Beach
| objected to the article being read, as the wit
| ness could not recognize it. Court ruled out
| the article as he stated that editor could not
| always be held responsible for what appeared
| in his paper. Witness stated that he never
| saw the article until now, and neither with his
consent or against was it published. Another
| number of the Golden Aage, dated September
| 18th, 1871, containing another article was
| shown Tilton.
| After objection on the part of Mr.. Fullerton
| and long discussion, the judge ruled that
| only those articles could be introduced written
| by himself or published with his sanction.
Witness was then shown the article and said
| he did not write it and never observed it until
| two or three weeks after his attention was
called to it, he expressed great deal OF dis
| sent to its publication. 1t was written by an
| who was lady. He did not disavow 1t in his
paper The court here took recess.
After recess Mr.. Tilton was accompanied py
| Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs Putnam, Mrs Phelps and
Mrs. Dunkey in addition to her usual escort.
Judge Nelson came in with county treasurer
Gardiner and EX-Judge Gale, who were acco-
modated with seats beside him on the bench.
Tlton's cross examination was continued.
He was shown pamphlet which ne ldentlned
| as a biographical sketch of Mrs Woodruff, of
which he spoke and which was placed in evil
dence.
Mr.. Beach said that he did not deem this
| evidence admissible. 1t was revised for publ
cation and corrected by Mr.Ilton and was pre-
pared by Woodhulrs husband.
The court ruled out the publication after
| considerable argument and an exception was
| taken tothis ruling.
The letter written by Beecher on Aug. 30th,
| 1866 in relation to the invitation to preside at
the convention of soldiers and sailors to be held
| at Cleveland was placed in evidence and read
| by ex Judge Porter TO which exception was
| taken by the prosecution.
Before the year 1870 1 thought knew Mr..
| Beecher thoroughly. L became acquainted
| with Beecher when was about Is or Ii years
| old. then attended his church and Sunday
| School, but do not think he had then reached
| his maturity of strength and repute. He always
| seemed to me like big boy. 1 don't remem-
| Der asking Beecher to visit my house during
| my absence, though may have done so. The
| last time visited his!houseI think was in
| 1861 when L brought communication from
Washington for his son. had portrait OF
| Beecher for which he sat IN the fall of 1868,
| and it was finished in the spring of 1869.
| told him 1 wanted the portraits of men who
| had been connected with my earlier days and
| interested in the cause of liberty These men
were Greeley, Phillips, Sumner and Beecher;
| Beecher seldom visited my house in Oxford
| street, but l frequently visited his house on
| business. My wife visited his house OCCASION
| ally during these earlier years. l always urged
My first prolonged absence from. home on
| lecturing tours in the west began in 1864 or
| 1865 and continued up to 1871 and 1872 and
| lasted from the fall till the spring.
One or two little incidents occurred before
| 1870 in the demeanor of Beecher aud Mrs. Til
| ton which drew my attention to them but
| nothing occurred late For many years Moul-
| ton and had been mutual friends and our at
| lection for one another was very strong, last
| ing from boyhood till the present time. Prior
| to the first of Jan. 1870 rarely took my
| meals at his house. but we were together very
| frequently. After my difficulties there was no
man in my esteem who could be so well trusted
| as Francis D. Moulton. think he is the sue
cessor of Sir Phillip Sydney in all that is high,
noble and honorable.
The court at this point adjourned for the day.
The Emma Mime i'm Court.
| The suit of the Emma Mine Company
| against Trenor w. Park, Ell. Ii. Baxter and
| William NJ Stewart, claims that by several
| fraudulent, deceitful and wicked devices, the
| plaintiff was induced to purchase, and did pur.
| chase the premises of the mine at the price OF
| 81, 600, 900 sterling, or about $1,000 900 III
money of the United States, and falsely re-
presented to the plaintiff, and did cause the
plaintiff to believe that the premises We're
worth the sum aforesaid, whereas, in truth and
in fact, the said premises so purchased were
not worth more than million dollars. Inc
company, or the English stockholders, desire
damages of the defendant to the amount OF
| O. 600 OOO and summons have been served on
them from the Supreme Court
The Freight Question.
After the adjournment of the railroad con-
ference last evening" the general freight agents
of the eastern trunk lines met TOR preliminary
consultation as to the rates to be adopted and
agreed to leave them at the dollar basis,
adopted Jan. 10th for west bound freight. The
western agents will be informed by telegraph
| of the action of the meeting and requested to
establish without delay their tariff on east
| bound freight.
MINOR TELEG RAMS.
The Iowa Central Railroad is badly blocked
| with snow.
Washington Booth, collector at Baltimore, is
charged with carrying on other business while
| acting as collector.
| The western wall of Queens Hail. Montreal,
| gave way during the gale of Wednesday night,
| and fell through the roof of building where
| dance was in progress. No person was killed
| bat several were seriously Injured.