The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-23
THE BROOKLYN SCANDAL.
Close Of the Third Weeks
Proceedings.
THE GOLDEN AGE"
Tilton Refusing Donations
for His Paper.
A P A TEN T j q R Y.
The Defence Not Done with
Moulton.
A SEVEN DAYS SIEGE.
The Judge Thinks the Witness
is Oppressed.

The patient heads in the jury box, sitting in
two rows under the dark sky OF Friday, closing out
the third week OF mere receptiveness-listening
noddiug willing away the days, that Justice may
make them its oraces-looked unusually like the
heads OF martyrs yesterday. 1t was drizZng and
'everybodys ,eet were cold though the air OF the
court was heavy and feversh. The cough that
mankind raised all day showed the strong Brook
iyn climate, which issaia to permit no puny chill.
dren TO proceed with lie; and therefore some Of
the biggest, noslest trimmest women In the
world live on the Heights, and as they are en-.
countered, oroad-shOuldered and pretty, they
call the large and swelling !erryboats wnicn come
into Fulton slip.
School adjourns just after the daily recess OF the
Court aud then 1t Is sight to see Brooxyn
swarm suddenly with color and bloom, and shapey
maidenhood crossing the open plazas around tine
Court House, all looking up aud prattling, little
In jest or partisauship, of the scene wtnin where
two school children OF Brooklyn, not many years
ago, now arrayed against each other after the
mutual love OF years. the recOmpense Of children
and the nonor OF distinction.
There. also is he whose tones have sounded
higher and with wider vibrations for twenty-five
years than the great bell OF the City Hail. which
every day bounds and resounds upon his ears,
sitting there defendant In 2 suit for
such damages as might rebuild another
Plymouth church. For years to come no
doubt that bell and Its successors will SWING
ABOVE the guardians OF the city Oh the Heights,
and still the people hearing 1t Will revive the in
tricacies 0! this prodigous scandal as 1t floats in
melOwer tints down the stream Of years, ro-
nance, q superstition, something balanced be.
tween love and crime.
A wise and careful judge said a few days ago.
when somebody said TO him, "Brooklyn is the city
OF scandals" 'No; IL Is not the CITY. 1t is the
time. Things are no worse now; only more found
out.n
The Brooklyn papers announce yes other scan.
dals 10 come. this time in local political circles;
ana 1t may have been that paramount scandal
ike the present, stimulating the suspicious OF
people in marital life, has resulted in many con.
iugal troubles not before Appreciated. But as to
the effect OF the act OF trial itself the
thing In Court. 1t is doing good rather
than evil. 1t mas been clean trial.
few coarse statements and no coarse words
entering 1t. and very little has been said hard
to the Of the ladies' who are present every
day. The spectacle OF justice, IN all It's gravity
and thoroug hness, brings q sober realisation Of
responsibility to every attendant and surrounding
citizen Here Is evidence and not rumor: the
greatest head lies as low as the poorest concerned
in the Issue. Fame drops its trumpet here and
penury a ds protection. Insinuation, born OF the
minds disease, Is exercised, and hearsay Is sent
TO the rlghtabout. The skilled contenders In the
law wrangle in the presence OF o judge who Is
neither a respecter OF persons nor In any sense
the second dignitary OF the Court. He Is all the
Court, and he divides the Red Sea that the testi.
mony may go through on the dry ground and the
waves roll back only when the inJurer whoever
he may be, is ready 10 be submerged.
Far from this place the issue Is distantly d.
rected. AT Albany the term or the Court IL ex.
tended by law In order that the conclusion may
not be prolonged to the day OF doom. This should
hasten the trial. In every part Of the country
lawyers are following the case closely, and stu.
dents OF human character are observing the COM
parative stability and worth Of the parties In the
controversy No witness In this country ever
made such reputation as witness purely, as
Frank Moulton, ana probably so many eminent
lawyers never volunteered on very slight pros.
pects OF adequate compensation. II Is not the
stage on trial, as in the Forrest case, nor social
politics. as IN the Sickles case personal hatred
and Impusive crime in the professions, as
In the Parxman case. The Christian Church, the
orthodox wife, the radical school OF thought, the
human heart In its optimism and the brain IN It's
broadcast endowment and highest activity are here
somewhat on trial Or In attendance. 1t 10 very
like a challenge from the old religious past OF
strict construction in religious things to the more
confident and latitudinarian present, saylng-
aye have denied the depravity of the heart and
claimed higher origin and Interpretation OF man.
Behold your opportunity TO prove 1t good In the
person OF the highest among youl"
Yesterday was the eighth day OF the witness.
Moulton has heen on the stand since last Thurs
dag week.
The mos. notable triumph for the defence was
crowding la tue letter OF August 1, 1874, written
by Mr. Beecher to Moulton praying for the publ
cation OIL any letter he might possesa This letter
was notable because 1t put before the jury his
explanation OF himself and nis position in lieu Of
! formal evidence to that effect. This act was the
shrewdest performance OF Mr.. E9erts, and was
Done alter Judge Porter had failed to get the letter
admitted by the Judge. Notwithstanding the
Judge ruled 1t out this letter was made evidence
by Mir. Evarts provoking the witness into . slip
OF the tongue by which his reference TO the letter
compelled 1t to 70 on the record. Mr.. Evarts u
said TO be retained by Yale College, as q testmo-
MAJ TO Air; Beecuer, Tor the sum OF $4,000.
judge Porter has Withdrawn from the cross
examination OF the case out. II 10 believed. only
TO ioilow the evidence and prepare O SET speech
10 close up lor the defendant.
Judge Thomas Jones, OF Maine, was on the
bench with Chief Justice Nelson.
There we're no females IN court except Mrs. TIL.
ton. Ia her trio OF MRS. Field and Mrs. shearm an
and Mrs. Beecher, who looked 70 be very pale and
aiing, and wore, Tor the III st time. white cap OF
lace or zephyr, woven or knit. Mr.. Beecuer. pre-
cedlng MS Friday niant prayer meeting. was
rather me0itatlye, but now and then Lent Tor ard
70 note some points with shearman.
The good natured, big faced man. with Q low
forenead and profile wnicn, ny lis general open.
ness, su- gests a church collection plate, HANDED
the Piymoutn people to tner seats. He regards
the pews Denind MIR. Beecher a. the Amen corner
reserved Tor tue Old brethren and the pillars OF
Zion.
James II. Bates, the bondsman OF Mr.. Titon, sat
at his side, large man, with beard and specta-