Connecticut western news., 1875-04-30
Brooklyn Eagle.


 TON Is sRoUNDLEss AND OUGHT TO BE DISMISSED.
 Brooklyn Eagle
 Professor A. Renaud, of the Heidelberg and one of the most eminent jurists of Germany, publishes in the Ar chlves of Modern Jurisprudence, the lead ing law journal of Germany, an exhaustive review of the Beecher- Hilton case. From this paper we translate the following pas sages:
 Having carefully examined the opening address of the plaintiffs counsel, the evi- 6ence of the plaintiffs witnesses, and the opening address of the defendants counsel, cannot but arrive at one conclusion, and from conversation with many of my pro- fessional bretheren, who take nn equal in- terest with myself in this great trial. here with deliberately contend that it is tue con- viction of the legal minds of Germany, Austria and France, that the plaintiff Til ton has no case whatever and to us it is matter of surprise, that, under the laws ot America, he should not have been non suit ed after his evidence was in.
 In actions of this kind, character should always weigh more than anything else. The plaintiff, from bis own words, stands convicted of having told different stories on the subject. His charges against the defendant grew more serious as his ani- mostly against him, from causes discon- nectsd with the case, increased. First it was alternating his wife's affections he ac- cused the defendent of. Then improper proposals, then adultery. And oddly enough, while he prefers this terrible charge against the defendant, he speaks with maudlin tenderness of the, if his sto- " be true, infamous wife.
 WHITE soULRD TwADDLE.
 From this twaddle about the whiteness of the soul of this alleged adulteress alone, impartial minds would justly infer that the plaintiffs mind is singularlyunbalanced His moral discretion, from the way be judges her, would seem to be diseased . And this is proved by the disgusting letters of which American journals have published with his consent, and it appears at his insti gation-an avalanche aboundiHg in the most preposterous sentimentalism, such as would be inexcusable in love sick boy, and which render full grown man-more over, one who lays claim to refinement and intelligence-unfit to mingle in decent society.
 But this is not all. The plaintiff is tain ted with the worst social doctrines. He wrote and gloried in a biography of an American free love and she wolf. H. published poetry, weak minded and shallow, but intended to be sensual and amorous. He seems to have plunged head. long into the worst heresies of tEe age even the Paris commune found an ardent admirer in him. and gift of gab, as they call it in America. caused his constant ob- truding his rediculous notions on the pub lie. He was public lecturer, and with unblushing effrontery discoursed on love and marriage, as we understood by the un derminers of social life in America, before audiences largely composed of youths and young girls
 To us it seems absolutely incomprehen sible that so mischievous spirit should have been permitted to occupy conspic- nous place in American journalism, anC equally inexplicable that his complain against . feble minded wife should have been readily entertained on the ground O. an ambiguously worded confession whe1 confronted by the defendant.
 THE CONFESSION.
 This confession, moreover, was, accord iug to her statement wrung from her at , tirne of great peysical prostration. Such i declaration by wife in the interest of he husband sh ould always be treated with thu utmost distIust, even if she were ln ih' best of health, and not, as the plaintiff wife seems to have been, imbued with TO mantle notions about love, religion, etc. II no German or French court, venture th' assertion, would this confession have beer treated with the slightest consideration.
 The defendants conduct may have beer indiscreet. But he is acknowledged to b a confding, warm hearted man, fond o given to extravagant language-a defec into which gifted persons, especially thos who write and speak in public great deal readily fall. Consequently it would be ex tremely unjust to interpret with literal rig or, those letters of his, which the plaintiff uses to strengthen his case against him. IT be sure, the unfortunate position in whicl the defendant found himself in conse quence of the affection for him arising il an enthusiastic woman, without his fault while he helped to deprive, as we thin very justly and sensibly, her husband of lucrative journalistic position, was harrass ing to him, and, hence, he wrote those let ters, undoubtedly on the spur of the mo ment, without reflection, and while StrOn influences were brought 10 bear upon hi heart, which, it seems, was only too easi letter, the so called s'letter of contrition, addressed to the witness Moultou. wb says the defendant dictated it to him, car not possibly have been 50 dictated by Ml Beecher. The latter is man of genius, master of concise language, and, as hi writings superabundantly prove. sccu itomed to express his thoughts coherently sensibly and logically. But this letter, , apiece of composition, is not even respct table. The defendant could not have wri ten or dictated it In that shape, even whil pray to the most intense agitation.
 MIR. AND MRS. MoULToN,
 There remain, then, the plaintiffs wi nesses. One is the mysterious Moultor He IS described as a smart business man practical, energetic, and endowed wit hard common sense. What drew him int this mael-strom of bad passions? FrienC ship for the plaintiff, he says. How ca this cool, calculating, money making ma have conceived any liking for the vair puffed up, shallow minded utopist? Fiji and water do not mingle. There mu have been some hidden motive for Mou toms anxiety to participate in the quarr between the plaintiff and defendant. It
 one of the mysteries of this strange affai and it is not quite clear if the defendant counsel, in his opening address, hit Il nall on the head in regard to the ain Moulton had in view. A court howeve would take the singulsrity of his conduc and, above all, his undiaguised exasperatio against the defendant, into consideration and attach but very little importance to u evidence.
 And as regards Moulton's wife-wel she is his wife, and had the most powerfl incentive in the world to corroborate h'