The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-04-15
THE BEECHER TRIAL.
Unusually Large Attendance
A Son Of Ex-President Lin
coin Present.
Rev. MIR. Beecher Continues.

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE attendance
ut Court to-day was very greatly in
creased, ana many were unable to gain
admission. Judge Nelson was accom-
panied to the bench by Judge Howe
of Wisconsin, Robert Lincoln, son of the
President, Hon. p. H. Smith of Chicago
and Judge Peabody and Luther Marsh,
who were accommodated with seats. Mr.
Beecher mounted the stand at 10 minutes
after IL. Mr.. Fullerton called attention
to the absence of Mr.. Beach, but said
he would go on without him. Witness
corrected the portion of the testimony
yesterday in regard t" the letters from
Mrs. Tilton; they were given by my
wife to the Investigating Committee
last summer. The witness then continued
his cross-examination-
When | went to Moulton's on Decem-
Der 80, 1870 he locked the doors; wasn't
surprised at his locking the door; | sup
posed the letters Of December 2Sth would
be brought up by Tilton; this interview
lasted about an hour; didn't see any one
there except Moulton and Tilton; | said
in this conversation, "thiS is dream;' L
was indignant at the charge Of improper
advances; il was wnen he charged me
with giving rise so stories about him that
| said l felt nothing but contempt for
him, rs he was trying to bully me; l did
not ask him for the letter to Bowen, as |
thought he was going TO give it to me,
but he tore it up and threw the frag-
ments away; TilLon made no demand for
money when he made the charge against
me; / kept silent because he was talking,
and Indicated that he did not want to be
interrupted, by his whole manner and
gestures; did not believe any of the
charges of improper solicitations, or ask
ing Mrs. Tilton to become a wife to me,
but l thought he believed them true; l
did not think his wife
had told him 50; left
Moultons and went to Tilten's
house; on the way it was evident to me
that Tlton and Motion had conferred
about the matter, but 1t was not Ivy way
to ask him if he knew it; | found Mrs
Tilton in bed; she was i'll, and | suppose
had retired for the night; said she had
been making serious charges against me;
when | said he charged me with aienat-
ing her affections from him, she showed
responsiveness;
She Shed Tears.
| said he charged me with creating dis
cord in the family and asked her if
it was so; sheImade no response; said he
told me you had transferred your witely
affections to me; when | told her of the
tn. improper advances and asked her if
she had told him So she bowed her head;
| said you know this is not true; recited
these charges and asked her how she
could have done such thing;
she said | could not
help it, he pursuaded me- she told me of
the interview in July, with him, when
he said if she confessed her alien loves to
him and he confessed his they would get
on better; she asked me what she could
do, and said you ought to write re-
traction of these charges; she said it
might be used against her husband, and
said it would not, that would only Use
il for justification if his charge should be
used against me in church, or if there
was any trouble about it thereafter
making me promise not to use 1t in the
injury of her husband, and ut at her re-
quest l got her pen, ink and paper,
and she wrote the retractlon; after
some conversation not pertaining to
this matter, l left; when l came
in she appeared as one dead; did place
the clothes around her when she sat up;
handed letter. this is in her writing,
but not written in her ordinary way;
she generally writes with II bold free
hand; | was not aware that the attendant
physician had ceased to visit her that
dav, because she was convalescent; | die
tated none Of that letter except in gen.
eral way; don't think l read the pass.
ages as they were written, nor did | read
it before the supplementary portion OF 1t