Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-15
FIRST EDITION.
THE GREAT TRIAL,
OUR NEWLY YORK LETTERS

MP. MoRnIss SPEECH 70 THE JURY-How MIR. ~
MRS. BEEoHER sir IN CoURT-pHoioaRAPHs OF
THE TWELVE JURYMEN.
Special Correspondence of The Commercial.
New YORK, Jan. 13, 1876
That Mr.. Morris made long speech, in op-
ening for the plaintiff you are already informed.
He began on Monday, spoke all day Tuesday,
and closed on Wednesday. 1t is a capital advan-
tage of the attack, in all causes. to pre- occupy
and Impress the jury with it's view Of tho case,
in the outset and Mr.. Morris makes the most
of it, leaving no art untned to pre-possess the
twelve men completely with evidence Of the
guilt of the defendant
Mr. Morriss manner was very solemn, and de-
liberate rs we'll as oratorica to an extreme.
His slowly elaborated periods, long pauses and
frequent alterations of the tragic whisper and
the tragic roar, teased and wearied the well ed
ucated audience, and elected generally unfavor-
able comment i'll the papers, whose reporters
wero kept on a constant strain to catch his in
audible passages. But he understood his bnsi-
ness, and his business was all with the twelve
men who sat within reach of his finger and his
whisper. He know that some of them were
babes, who must be fed with solution in tea
spoonfna, and must not be fed 30 fast az to
choke and bewlder them, but must have long
pause for swallowing each clause OF Il sentence
administered He also knew that some of them
what he failed to convey by expressive modula-
tions Of voice and manner would be mostly lost.
MR.. BEEoHER
sits near his counsel's table, looking NJ natural
and as unconcerned as ever in his life, though
unusually grave. He makes notes in a little
book, and sometimes reddens little under the
hard language lie hears, His colossal head Is
matched in size and in strong sel:-possession by
only one other in the throng, a few feet distant
and lifted on the towering form of Theodore
Tilton BY his side sits a venerable looking
lady, whose thin silver hair grows over and half
conceals forehead of portentous height for a
woman, shutting down close-bent over clear blue
eyes that look out from deep sockets with fixed
intensity on the speaker. Her severely regular
features are colorless, except the thin and SEN
sitve lips, and the whole expression is one OF
keen but resoute endurance under the pitiless
nye ctive and Testimony she has come to receive
upon her own head as one with her husband. II
IL Mr.. Beechers wife,
THE ONLY WOMAN ADMITTED
to witness the trial. 1t is a touching, noble,
shall not say sublime exhibition of wifely de-
votion and fortitude She is plainly dressed, in
dark purple merino or the like. black gloves,
and black velvet bonnet trimmed with lace and
feather to match ; the only colors being blue
tie and blue wrap, over which is thrown a
handsome seal fur cloak. To-day, also, Mrs.
Tilton ie allowed to listen to what is said of the
matters 80 closely affecting her, and concerning
qualified as witness. But the jury
THE FATEFuI. TWELVE
ON whom it devolves to pronoui C, the solemn
sentence of acquittal Or condemnation on the
great man at the bar-now drew upon them
selves deeper interest than any OF the othel
figures before u.s. After pretty careful study
uf the jury am satisfied that 1t could not be
any better and be fair representative of the
tyrLcm. A better jury than this would be .
most inequitable allowance to this paintif anc
defendant remarkable men as they are. In the
first place. there does not appear to be
FOOL IN THE LOT,
which IL perhaps as remarkable a thing as there
is il rllton. Beecher or the case itself. Nor do
soo positively bad physiognomy or Uranium
among them, whether considered as to moral o.
| intellectual indications. There are only two ell
derly heads Chester Carpenter, the foreman
and Griffin b. Halstead; both gentlemen, o.
| good social position and culture. Both taest
elderly heads are very fine ones, with expan
slye, gobose hS forehsads sor.,ol1S There of are
smaller SCALE among the jurym II Of inferio
education and social status-Hull, Thyer ans
McMuen. Three others, of a middle class, in
telligent young business men, viz : Case, JET
frey and Fitter have high, square-bulit TORE
heads. This makes two thirds OF the jury will
better than average heads, on the outside
at least.
Of the other four, Taylor is a fair-lookint
man Davis, though nothing marked in appear
ancc, evidently has good mind Whelan, yo'
can Aee at glance, lis no fool ; and Flate ID pre-
| sumed to be the poorest stick on the jury ye
even lie begins to look commonly intelligent ant
Interested, az l get acquainted with his face
The Jury contains no attendant. past or present
upon MIR. Beechers preaching, and 30 far as cal
be known, no person biassed in his favor by kin
dred proclivlties toward his construction of til
scriptural standards in theology and morals.