Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-20
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR.
BEECHER'S DEFENCE.
MEcKLENeuR6 CENTENNIAL.
THE STRIKING MINER
IICE PRESIDENT UTLSOy
BRUTAL MURDER OF 4 LADY.
BEECHER'S DEFENCE.
MEcKLENeuRe CENTENNIAL.
HE STRIKING MINERS
TICE PRESIDENT UTLSOy
TILTON-BEECHER TRIAL.
Mr. Porter Resumes for the Defense

NEW YORK, May 20.-There was a fall
attendance of spectators this morning AZ IN +.
trial, and the jury were early in their places.
Bessie Turner sat with the ladies facing the
Plymouth gathering. which included the
DEFENDANT, his wife, sons and daughteT-in-
law. Before Judge Porter began his address
Le apologized 20 representatives OF the press
for the low tone in which he spoke yesterday.
and said he would endeavor 10 speak to-day
and thus afterwards. that they all coui
near. The weakness of his voice he aScTioed
10 an attack OF the lung sickness he had
shortly after The opening OF the trial IT,
Stunning the subject
The LETTERS WHICH PASSED BETWEEN
TTLTON AND HIS WIFE
ne referred 10 the letter OF March :. Is5s, as
shedding flood OF light on the rela lions be-
tween them, SIX months, said counsel, be-
lore that christian man and loving woman
were represented as having these relations
10 one another that they were charged with
counsel quoted from the letter the words
An lnexpressible tenderness has grown up
IN my soul, and never saw my path 50 clear
as now" He spoke of Tilton as having
genius al that time, which. if IL had not been
mlsused, would have raised him 20 a lofty
position.
Counsel quoted from a letter OF Til ton TO his
VIE dated February 10th, lSt1, in which he
said he had been Specializing on the life of
Jesus, and asked her how he would have ap-
peared IN the character OF married man.
he continued: The latter undoubtedly loved
some woman devoutly, perhaps passionate
". That is the language. said counsel in
which this Tilton wrote 10 his devoted wife
OF his God. and counsel commented severely
upon 10. Counsel then reviewed the letter
written on the 18th OF the same month by
Mrs. IlltOn, in which she took 20 herself the
blame OF all the unhappineSs which hal oc-
CURED i'm the family, which his learned
friend on the O'heE side said had been caused
by the entrance Of
THE COLD, CALCULATES AND DIABoLI-
CAL SEnUCER.'
She appealed 10 her husbands bett or nature
in this letter, said counsel. hat better nature
oh Ion FaFla > ~
lasting God, and which She could not believe
was altogether dried mp. Counsel continued
further quotations from the letter in which
she says that they should neither of them
allow a shadow of doubt about the other
In the month of Dece mber, 1869, continued
Mr.. Porter, year after the death of his son
Paul when ne alleges that his wife was the
mistress OF the honOred pastor of Plymouth
church, Tilton writes letter 10 his wife, in
which he says that
HER APPLETON TOUCHES HIS DEEPEST
NATURE.
and that ne wished ne was more worthy of
II. When the RECEPTACLE, said counsel, con-
tanning these letters of the wife was invaded.
and the letters breathing OF love and adora-
ration she believed published, Col would in
deed be asleep if he did not overthrow the
actions and intentions of this invader. We
will now turn, said counsel, 10 the 18th OF
October, 1865, for then the issue of this
case hinges. On the ninth day of that
month Henry Ward Beecher delivered
one of his brilliant addresses in the A cademy
Oi MUSIC, anu MS dCcuSers IlOQSnB tleh
could safely fix on the next day, the 10th OF
the month, as the date OF the first commits
sion of the act. Counsel could imagine what
a hunting through almanacs there was for
this day, by both Moulton and Tilton, so that
there would arise no danger from an alibi.
The next date fixed upon was between the
Friday evening prayer meeting and the fol-
lowing Tuesday. Seven years ago this crime
was said 10 have been committed. Gentle
men, would you believe that man goes, for
the first time in his life, at the age of 6
years, 10 commit an act OF debauchery? In
order for
THEo. TILTON TO wREAE HIS VENGEANCE
ON HENRY WARD BEECHER,
he walks over the body OF his wife. Counsel
then commented on witnesses for the defend
ant, among whom he said were fifteen men
of eminence and popularity who transacted
business with all parts of the world, and
whose word in commercial circles was never
doubted, and whose deaths, il they occurred
together, would cause the city of Brooklyn
TO go into mourning. There Is i'm the breast
of each of us, said counsel, a tenderness eN-
hibited towards women, remembering our
own mothers, wives and sisters. There was
day when such tenderness existed i'm the
breast of Theodore Tilton, but il had now
taken its flight.