The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-12
Forty-Sixth Day of the Beecher
Scandal Case.
TWIXq TWEEILEDUM AND TwEEDLEDEE.
The Love Passages Between
TiltOn and Woodruff.
THEIR AMOROUS CHANCES.
Judge Fullerton Takes His Place on the
Sick List

IeStcruay, Win Clean streets ana Cleur ekieS
the Brooklyn people went out on promenade, and,
looking up at the gray Court House. said -"Bless
our respective soulsl Why. there's the menager,e
still in sesslonv
There, indeed, 1t was, with Mrs. T!ton and
Bessie Turner a part OF the wreck OF the Tilton
household, looking along the profile OF Mr.
Beecher and his vie. Bessie Turner had sort OF
mentally sore-eyed look. The eyes themselves
were not sore, but they blinked. They were not
wide open. and surveyed everything In med.
tative sorry embarrassed way, quite out OF rela-
ton to the delicate skin, the reddish hair and the
youthful and healthy look OF this poor waif Deli
cate childhood. motherless and with lost origin,
this girl, at the threshold OF iull-grown woman
hood. Is the hostage OF o set Of htgants in q
Brooklyn boarding house.
OLD Sam WllkesOn was in court, rather good
looking with bright eyes, beacned beard, ard
high aspirations TO wind up that kite. The kite
freely suggested a certain Mr.. Dick, whose life OF
Charles ]. was Knocked higher than the book by
the Plymouth pastor, Of which Mr.. Wilkeson is .
publisher Mr.. Wilkeson, sitting blandly there
was certainly as amiaDie and innocent as Dickens
character.
Mrs. Tton and Mrs. Beecher both look scklY
and depressed. MI. Beechcr sat intently, good
deal bored with his own witnesses. as they went
along 80 slowly and threw out Al enormous
amount OF verbal chan.
Judge Fullerton was absent sick, and Mr.
Beach cross-examned IN his place dong toierably
Well Tor one Of his heavy temperament
The sick Juror stuck II all out very WELL looking
At hts watch occasionally and stroking his beard.
The first witness TO return TO the stand was
Oliver Johnson, who wanted to correct something
HIS baseless head, the chin defunct, the neck fed
down the collar, the grizzled look of mystic who
had wandered through all the social and eccle.
Af RID
great Haggarty diamond. and had finally gone
into long trance At the feet OF an idol he never
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. such seemed this cold
positive. lonely man In the court OF justice He
had wandered around, Ike Ethan Brand, TO dis
cover the great secret OF human misery. AMI
seemed to have locked 1t up In his own bosom and
10 DC rather proud OF II. Believing hardly an lcea
In the creed, he edited the orthodox
newspaper OF the million, and scissored
out the doings OF thousand clergymen in
whose avocation he took no particle OF interest
An exotic in religious newspaper. Sti he had
lived that llle and, like the Jews in one OF Brown
ing's poems, compelled to attend Catholic worship
the expetves he would have uttered had AL stuck
last in his throat and turned to a kind OF husky
nutriment He spoke his brief part and d. sap.
poarec again old ana lonely, to resume his devo
siOn to theology in which he sees no sap nor III
sprauon.
Miss Oakley next took the stand and recanted,
saying that much she had testified to was hearsay
and that she had now come to make The discrimL
nation between evidence she knew and evidence
she believed, though derived IRON Others. This
lady had sympathetic intentions, but like Mrs.
Putnam and several other recent Witnesses tes
tined her Deductions
The principal witness was an unreasonable
borc-Charles CONVEY, apparently English
man, or New England who had been moving
around noisily on the ragged edge OF labor reform
and greenback currency Tor the million. He was
aduileyed. weather-oeaten man, who had been
political Judge advocate IN the navy; had met
Triton al Fort Sumer when Beecner raised the
nag OF the Union there and had afterward met
him at Woodnulrs house. He attempted 70 relate
some conversations between woodn Nil and Tilton,
wherein Theodore admitted that society wanted
reconstruction on the marriage question.
THE EVIDENCE.
As soon as the jury had answered their names
Nj. Beach got up and SAID tnat Judge Fullerton
was unfortunately absent, having been attacked
with species OF vertigo, or rush OF biOo1 to the
head, Tut tnat they would go on with The case ana
Alter delay OF about ten minutes the Rev. Mr..
halliday walked outside the court loom and i'm
mediatey returned with Mrs. TiIlon on MS ann,
followed by her supporters, Mrs. Field, Mrs.
ehearman and Bessie Turner.
Finally Mr. Tracy said that Mr. Johnson desired
TO make some corrections in his testimony. lie
then TOOK the stand and sald:-I stated tnat my
last interview with Mr.. TIlton was at Deacon Cur
AS and 4 should have said 1t was at my ow mousse
where ne dined with me; find statement MADE
IN the reports shat SAID ! was antI-masOnry, 1t
should be that once edited an antmas0nry
september last in Boston; the lauy that Mr.. 1lton
sald mad been In his house with him was not Bessie
Turner
MT. Beach then asked q lew questions, to which
the witness replied several frlends dined with
me on the evening Mr.. TltOn was there; there
may nave been vine on the table; as a rule do
not give my guests wine as am believer IN
temperance; heard Mr.. ilton lecture the
Brooklyn Academy Of Music; l think was accom-
panied there by
MY LANpLADY,
Mrs. Savillo; l DO not recOect anythIng occur
ring OF Importance alter that lecture; fancy |
went directly home after let the Academy; do
not recoliect going 10 Canal street or Mercer
street that evening; 40 not recO.lect meeting
any one ID particular that evening.
MISS ISABELLA OAKLEY
recalled took the stand ana Mr.. Beach resumed
the cross-examnatIon. Witness stated, | nave
cOnversed Win Mrs. Shearman Mr. Hin. Mrs. TIL
ton, Mr.. sherman ana a gentleman " hose name
do not recall, about the evidence gave yester-
day; did not converse with them altogether;
met Mr.. sherman at his ONCE TINS morning; n
Aumber OF visIlors that came 10 Mrs. Tlton's
house after 1866 were not visitors before shat
date; Mrs. stanton and Miss Anthony were visi.
tors after 1906 nave never seen either OF these
ladies there oeiore that date; 1 have no personal
knowledge that they we've not there.
MIR. Beacn and the witness mad a discussion
upOn tue meaning OF personal knowledge. and the
Judge and Mr.. Evaris Chlpped H. making things
quite lively Tor a lew minutes The Judge hnaiIy
rebuked the witness, and thus reproveu sne dio a
little better.
Witness stated Mr.. Tllton resided in Oxford
street PRIOR 1866: | 40 not know rom personal
knowledge that Mrs. stanton and Miss Anthony
aid not WISH the house In oxford street before
1866 | have nab frequent religious discussions
with Mr.. Iilton, Ia when arguments OF different
xmas were made these discussions were OF some
length; I1,on SAID tnat he no longer believed
that the
DEATH or CHRIST
was atonefnent for the SINS OF MANKIND; be-
heved otherwise; cannot remember the WORDS
uSsd Ia our conversations; cannot give you The
NJ linn -Dh Htgnn Cln0 4 I'm
subJect Of atonemept; l can only give you the I'M
PRECISION The controversy mace upon me- had
Also conversation with hm on the SUBJECT OF
marriage and divorce, In which he sald, 81 no
longer lo0k upon marriage as once did; ~ had
various previous conversations with him on the
SUBJECT; am unable TO recoect what EXPRESSIONS
ne USED my knowledge OF his opinions on these
writings. NIX
Q Do Jon recoliect having heard Mr.. Triton
speak Oh the SUBJECT OF divorce. A. tAner
pause 90 not now recoiect; was In the banit