The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03
THE BEECHER TRIAL.
Mr.. Evarts Still Speaking.

Mr.. Evarts Still Speaking.
New YORK, June 2.-The attractive
Masonic procession materially reduced
the attendance to-day ut the Tilton-
Beecher trial. Mr.. Evarts continued his
address, and said they would consider the
probable attitude, tone and the reception
OF the accusation which marked the nrst
interview between the husband and
adulterer. Was adultery to be treated
like cut finger or bruised brow when
the injured husband met the despoller OF
his marriage bed and the shame OF his
children? The jury night imagine. IL
there be at the bottom an opinion on the
part OF the accuser and conscientlousness
on the part of the accused,
they would have all interview for which
no previous knowledge beforehand could
have warned them, said counsel, would
show that the plaintiffs story OF that IN
teryiew was self-exposed and seIt.con-
victed invention. This plaintiff under
stood that his wifes confession could not
be made the subject of the case against
Beecher. They allowed parties to be
convicted of their own confession. How
ever counsel would show that the plain
tiff had covered his story with such incon-
sistence as made it tappear Incredible. lie
knew the law would not permit state
ment of what occurred between his wife
and himself, and he wove it in Il narra-
ton which he should tell the jury he had
related to Beecher. He said he would
gild this story so that it would be be-
lieyed and he was, as has been shown,
the
Victim of his own Shadow PhilOsO-
ply.
The Jury had been shown how Bowen
saw the folly of his attack on Beocher,
in such case and protierred HIM a heath
enS's friendship. In the old days Of the
apostle the heathen delighted in tortur-
ing and burning Christians and yet Moul-
ton said to Beecher he would let him see
what heather would do if similarly
circumstanced. When he came TO the
interview between the husband and the
alleged paramour, how would all the pas
sions and anger and grief of injured
men pour forth in flood at such an .in-
terview. Yet Mr.. Tilton's narration was
entirely inconsistent with such Il situation
He began, he said, by telling Beecher he
wished him to blot out Of his memory q
letter he had written him and that he
wished to ascertain how Beecher
felt towards him. Evarts considered the
testimony of Titon in regard to this in
terving in detail, arguing that the whole
conversation was absurdly inconsistent
with the charge of adultery under such
circumstances.
A considerable part of the interview
was taken up in talking, not about Mr..
Beecher's relations with Mrs. TiIton, but
about the accusations made against him
BY Bowen. He said that Bowen in
spired the letter of the Goth; that Bowen
wished to destroy the editor of the Chris
tan Union; and that Bowen said Beecher
was
AwoIr I'm Sleeps Clothing.
Bowen said he could not initiate pro-
ceedings because at the settlement of
their difficulties he had forgiven Beecher.
Now these crimes, according to Bowen
had been going OIL for twenty-five years.
Where on earth did Bowen get power to
forgive them? Tilton spoke about Eliza
beth and her shame. Beecher asked
what he meant, and Tilton went on to
declare that his wife had made charges
against Beecher.
Evarts quoted from the testimony of
Moulton as to his calling on Beecher and
telling him that Tilton wished to see
him. This friend wanted to propitiate
Beecher in advance to the word of Til
ton. Moulton weighed his words and
chose his topics for the object. Beecher
said that when Bowen brought the letter
to him he pledged his friends to him
(Beecher). Tilton swears that Bowen had
been using that interview with Beecher
for his own purposes, and Beecher found
that Bowen and Storrs had acted on Til
tons mind and had driven his mind
astray. Moulton had told Beecher that
he would show him
How Heutnen w OuIu tCts
Mr. Evarts then discussed the al
legged written confession of Mrs. Tilton,
the original of which was destroyed by
Moulton after the tripartite agreement,
while the copy used by Tilton on De-
cember 80, was destroyed at the same
interview. He called attention to the
fact that on the question Of law II was
maintained by the plaintiffs counsel,
Messrs. Beach and Fullerton, that this
copy was purposely destroyed by Tilton,
with Beecher's consent. Yet the very
next time the plaintiff went
upon the stand he threw
the counsel overheard, and said the paper
was accidentally destroyed by his twist
ing it in his fingers during the heat OF
the conversation. The counsel then
urged the jury to remember the tact tnat
Tilton told Beecher that his wife having
said certain things was no proof that she
did say them. No evidence of what she
did say could be introduced in any other
way. and Tllton, while he could be cross
examined rs to whether he told Beecher
all this rlgamarole, could not be cross
examined rs to his conversation with his
wife. Evarts read the testimony of Tilton
as to his wife's statement to him in 1870,
and commented upon the alleged confess
sion as contrary to all nature and pro-
liability. Tilton could invent speeches
for Tilton. but he could not invent them
for this woman. These alleged confes
sions BETRAYED no consciousness OF sin or
guilt on the part of
A woman Whose yes:FIashed Fire
when they looked upon Victoria Wood
hull. So improbable was all this alleged
conversation that it was not to be regard
ed for a moment when witness like
Beecher declared that nothing like 1t
was ever brought to his ears.
after calm and deliberate introduction.
According to Tilton, his wife told him
that the secret she had referred to was
one between her and Henry Ward
Beecher. Her pastor wiIlEhow as careful
" that there should be no mistake about
the person when she gave him his full
nsme, his title aud his office. She did
not want her husband to infer that she
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