Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-24
PELEGRAMS TO THE STAR,
BEECHER TRIAL TO-DAY.
THE FOREST FIRES
100 MILES OF DESOLATION.
A FRIGHTFUI DISASTER.
rs CATHOLIC PILGRIMS DROWNED.
TILTOy ~. BEECHER.
Judge POrter's Argument Coufioued

NEW 1ORk. May III pom the rCSump-
ton of the Beecher trial { iav, Ju lya
Porter lie umed his address. He began by
referring to the letter ofcOntrition. which ne
said was the only known instance in which a
man had written a letter 10 himself How
did il happen that this man, who was master
in every Intellectual department. when ne
came INTO Frank Moultons presence was
like an untutOred school bow vino could not
write his mother tongue? Another feature
OF thls letter was the fact that Beecher re-
FUSED 10 sign the letter as testified To by
Mnoniton, after he had written the letter from
FRANK MoULToS WAS A SHAM
from the beginning, and strutted in Dor
rowed plumage, OF which he made the most
Iheodore T1lton as literary writer bore The
foremost name OF any man in America, and
had given the idea that he was a man ~
honndless wealth. The two statements said
counsel, which were set forth TO the wor a bv
rank Moulton are not his own compoSi-
ton, lbut are copied from Theo lore Til
ton drafts or else they were the results OF
the tortnlght's work on the part of BENJAMIN.
r. Butler. 1t was Tilton who gave dirpc-
tons for carrying out these schemes: IL was
IA his fertile brain that they had their birth.
and when Frank MoultOu spoke of crushing
Iheodore Illton IL he Injured Beecher il was
but
THE LANGUAGE OF A BRAcGARr.
Inc declaratlons OF Moulton, Tilton and
Mrs. MoultOn all bore the Stampt of Thee
dore Tilton's mint; that word .'Paroxysmal.
referring 10 kiss, was never hparl from
BeecheT's lips except by two persons, Theo
standing ON the brink ora moral Niagara
were no more Henry Ward Reecher's than
would the term moral haystack be- for the
words would seem to him TO toe incOuorouS
They were Theodore Tilton's expressions
Counsel commented ON the form in which
the letter was written, beginning: Il ask
throGgh you Theodore Tilton'S forgiveness,
and humble myself before him as DO before
my God; he would have been a better man i'm
my place than / have been" Did Reecher
write this? said Mr.. Porter II he did
VI FEh II fn-r.
Tilton who would have been a better man
IN Is place? Porter though the language
used I'm this letter precluded all idea of III g
charge against Beecher being one of aIuI
terry. The paper itself was not consistent
with the charge Of adultery, and the man
who said Henry Ward Beecher wrote IN lied
and was an untrustworthy witness. Porter
then referred 10 the letter OF May 3. ISL,
written by Mrs. Tilton 10 Reecher, as her
pastor. Was that letter of an adultereSs
SAID he; to her paramOur, as this man Tilton
Wo9la nave you believe? He thought not,
and declared that IL had more the strain of a
broken-hearted and contrite woman To the
man whom she had falsely accused. Never
SAID Porter, since Henry Ward Beecher was
born did he use
THE TERM NEsT-HTDING,
and he had written books and books and the
counsel on the other side had searched them
all i'm vain for that term. But his friend.
Judge Fullerton, I'm one of them, Norwood, :"
found reference TO robin hiding her nest.
which he Fullerton paraded before them
lou sstlu fOrter could not 90 10 hear Beecher
next Sunday without being impressed with
ms VlVldness and i'm pressiveness. which re-
minded one OF Shakespeare or old Homer
Counsel then passed on to consider the letter
OF tJapuary 20, 1872, written by Beecher 10
Mrs. Tilton at the instance of Theodore Til
ton and Frank Moulton. which he real 10
the jury. He also referred 10 the card pre-
pared by Tilton for publication In the Brook
lyn Edgte after the publication Of the tripar-
tile Agreement by WfIkes6n. Porter referred
10 1lltOn when on the witness stand COM
pairing Frank Moulton To Sir Philip Sidney
in all that was grand and noble, but counsel
thought the cases could bear no comparison.
WHAT LED MOULTON AND TILT1N To LIE
As they said for Beecher; MoulCon said he
lied for tenderness and delic1cy % Beecher
and Plymouth church, and TiltOn FOR motives
of the same character towards his wife.
Could Tilton have these feelings in him
which led him TO bastardiZe his own dead
boy and when he sought to ruin his adopted
daughter? Both of these witnesses i'm their
testimony had expressed themselves with a
malignity which rendered their testimony
comparatively worthless. II the jurv believe
the testimony Of Wilkers9n and Jackson =.
Schultz, what was the character ofTheotore
Hilton? A man who had broken and violated
all his pledges. Jackson s. Schultz said he
did not believe that Tilton spoke TO him of
his wife's adultery with Beecher.