New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-25
further than that it was rather in favor Of Mr. Mou

ton.
After bearing the excessive heat Of the courtroom
for about an hour and half, Mr.. Beecher left the
courtroom and took ride, returning about
o'clock for his wife aud daugher-in-law, and with
them and Judge Porter lie rode home for tea. Mrs.
Beccher sat through the whole sultry afternoon
She was looking very pale and weary. but, however
weak in body, she appeared by her countenance-
probably the most expressive in the cOurt-rOOm-as
resOlute as ever to await the result. large arm
chair was brought her, in which she recned with
more comfort than she has probably enjoyed any
day of her five months of almost constant sitting in
the courtroom. Once, upon rumor that the jury
were coming into court, and when there was great
rush by those who had temporarily left the room to
regain their places she started up, and then recog-
nizng what the demonstration indicated, she turned
paer than she has uniformly appeared. Her daugh-
ter-in-law-the wife of young Henry Beecher-who
sat beside her, divining the meaning of the rush,
for moment grew crimson, and then as suddenly
grew pale, and in an instant was almost as paid as
the elder lady. When it was discovered and pro-
claimed (by loud and heartless laugh from the
crowd whom long waiting had made at once hiar-
GUS and impatient that the alarm of the jurys APP
preach had been falsely sounded, Mrs. Beecher sank
back in her chair, and then leaning forward rested
her head upon her left hand, with eyes cast down
eNlucnty weary anu eOITOWlul dl chc
remained however until her husband called for her
to go with him to tea, and afterward, as early as
o'clock, she returned and sat the evening out
until the jury was locked up for the night and the
Court adjourned.
The scenes in the courtroom during the evening,
from until 10 o'clock, did not vary in character
from those of the afternoon. The crowd grew more
feversh with the delay Of the jury, but the demon
strations of impotence were not marked until MIR.
Sherman unintentionally threw ircbrand into the
powder magazine by furnishing to one newspaper
reporter copy of Mrs. Tilton's affidavit in reply to
those of Price and Loader which the other reporters
insisted on having and fighting for.
RUMoRs CONCERNING THE STANDING OF THE JURY.
The anxious buzz of expectation which followed
the charge of Judge Nelson and the jury's retire
ment soon changed to other manifestations of sent-
ment The crowds that throngcd the courtroom
seemed TO lose none of their number. The interest
too continued undated. Among the audience were
many of the same faces which have grown familiar
to the frequenters of the great trial. Some hours of
longing anticipation followed During that time there
came first momentary lull followed by short inter
walls of expectation. 1t was thought that the jury
would come in at any moment and resolve at once
by their verdict all the perplexites of the trial
There came q time of surmse and vague Suspicion
All kinds of rnmop were afoat- as to the standing
of the jury on the question at issue Ten jurymen
were declared to be in Mr.. Beecher's favor and the
other two opposed. The report was followed later
in the evening by the statement that the jury stood
eleven in Mr.. Beechcrs favor and only one against
him, and the hopes of his adherents began to rise.
But change had come the crowd in attendance.
Its members had grown listless and resigned to cir
cumstanccs.