The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-03
The Tilton- Beecher Trial.

attitude, time and reception of the accusa-
ton which marked the first interview be-
tween the accusing husband and the adu-
terer Was adultery to be treated like
cut finger or bruised brow? When the
injured husband met the defiler Of his
marriage bed, and The shame of his chill
dren and childrens children, the jury
might imagine il there be at the bottom
an opinion on the part of the accuser and
consciousness on the part of the accused,
they would have an interview for Which no
knowledge beforehand could have pre-
pared them. Counsel would show then
that plaintiffs story Of that interview was
a self.exposcd, sell. coniradiced invention.
This plaintiff understood, that his wife's
confession could not be made the subject
of cise against Deecher. The law al
lowed parties to be convicted by their own
confessions, however. Counsel would show
that the plaintiff had covered his story
with such inconsistencies as made 1t APP
pear incredible. He knew the law would
not permit statement of what occurred
between himself and his wife, and he wove
it 10 as a narrative which he Should tell
the Jury he had related to Beecher He
said he would gild this story so that 1t
would be believed, and he was as has been
shown, contended counsel, the victim of
his own shadow philosophy. The jury had
been shown how Bowen saw the folly of
his attack ON Beecher. Counsel would
point out in this interview of December
Both how inconsistent was everything that
the plaintiff alleges to have occurred. MIR.
Evarts then quoted from the testimony of
Mr.. Moulton as TO his calling on Mr..
Beecher and telling him that Mr.. Tilton
wished to see him. His friend, as he called
himself, wanted to propitate the mind of
Mr.. Beccher in advance towards Mr.. Til
ton, and to gloss over the stories told
Betcher by Bowen. Mr.. Moulton weighed
his words and choose his topics for the OBJ
jects. Mr.. Beecher said when Bowen
brought the letter 10 him he pledged his
friendship to him, (Beecher) Tilton finds
that Bowen has been using that interview
with Beecher for his own purposes, and
Beecher found that Bowen's stories had
acted on Tilton's mind, and had driven his
mind astray. Moulton had told Beecher
would act in such case, and
protfcrcd him heathen's friendship. In
the old days of the apostles, said Mr.
Evarts, the heather delighted in torturing
and burning christians, and yet Moulton
said to Beecher that he would let him see
what heather would do if similarly cir
cumstanced Counsel then reverted TO the
interview between Mr. Titon. the infuri-
ated husband and the gully paramour,
Mr.. Beecher. The first words that were
spoken were from the lips OF MIR. Tilton,
and were to the effect that Mr.. Beecher
should not think anything of the letter and
consider that it had never been written.
Tilton also said to Mr.. Beecher that his
thanks should not be given to him CTilton),
but to Elizabeth. Tilton said that the let.
ter had been written at the suggestion and
dctation of Bowen, that Mr.. Bowen sad
he had forgiven Beecher, but wishing tC
initiate the charges, got him Crilton) tt
write the letter. and said he would use hi;
best efforts to drive Mr. Beecher from
Brooklyn. That Bowen said he wished &c
destroy the editor of the Christian Union
, and tLat Beecher was wolf in sheep
clothing. Mr.. Titon said that he had re
lated his conversation with Bowen to hi
vile, who threatened that if Tilton joineC
, with Bowen in war upon Beecher, tn
shame of herself and her children woult
, be exposed Mr.. Beecher asked me, salt
| Titon, what l meant by talking abou
Elizabeth and her shame. Counsel thel
a spoke of the destruction of the lette
b. charging adultery, and of the argument
e of Mr.. Beach and Mr.. Fullerton that tn
paper had been destroyed with the concur
renee of Mr. Beecher. When tn
|. plaintiff went on the stand, Mr. Evart
n said he threw his counsel O1erboard, an
j. stated that in the heat of his discus
II sion with Mr.. Beecher he inadvertentl
e picked the paper to pieces and did nc
ii know till afterwards that it was the docu
?. ment in question. Tilton said that he tol
; Beecher that in the July preceding tht
II December Mrs. Tilton came home une'
J. pectedly and said there was a secret on hi
IT mind that she wished to throw off, an
s, that on several occasions before she ha
If desired to make statement of the matte
S. to him, Tilton. Mr.. Titon, said Il
l. speaker, could invent speeches fl
'e himself but he could not invel
7. them for women. Mr.. Evarts the
I'd continued quotations from Mr.. Titons te
~ timony as to his wife exacling promi
or from him that he should do no harm
the party of whom her story related, al
x that no revelation was to be made to hi
O, that she had told her husband of it tn
be he gave her his word of honor that
". would not injure the person concernil
Nv whom the story was told, nor of her rel
q. ton of it to him. There was an impos
d. bility, said Mr.. Evarts, about a story
n" ginning in that manner and from this
G. entered into an elaborate argument to she
d. that the whole stoIy was fraudulent. T
nd plaintiff, said Evarts, was a little unluc
ID on the occasion he chose for tht
id. two periods of his wife's committing
lr. offense. In the first instance he put
occasion at MIR. Beechers house. IL,
did she get there? Did she go in her sic
from ia Livingstone street? There W
"a no evidence that she was there on Il