The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-07

statement of certain facts is brought for lmpu-
tation that it was to cover designation, and
when the party is on the stand he is allowed by
every rule of evidence to explain
Mr.. Beach-That is for the jury WHY take
an extreme case. He wrote asking her to
come as it would be safe in his wife's absence.
Could he explain?
Question allowed
Witness-There was in that expression
nothing referring to visits of Mrs. Tiiton to nv
house, and as matter of fact she did not visit
there
A small note saying he would see Mrs. Til
ton tomorrow night or next Friday again was
handed to witness. His view now is the note
was written on Thursday as Mrs 7. wanted to
see him about her mother. There was such an
occurrence. The note stated he would see her
on Friday night prayer meeting or the follow
ing weeks prayer meeting All these inter-
views with his parishioners take place publicly
in the lecture room before all W ho are there
Usually there are twenty or thirty little wards.
The letter of Mrs. Morse to witness dated Oct
81. 1871. and which he handed to Moulton. was
next taken up. Wituess was asked about the
passage do you know think it strange you
should ask me to call you son." He said he
recalled what was referred to She told him on
one occasion when he met her at wedding
and compaped of her troubles that she had no
one to take counsel of and could not even take
counsel of her daughter, and he said, Take
counsel of me as soma courteous expires.
sion which he lad hold of. He could not re-
member what We ddlng, hut thinks it was Mrs
BradshaW's. She was referring to troubles in
her family and ther relations to Bowen, pecun-
iary and other trouble. Never did he ask her
in any other way to call him son than as a
counsellor.
Witness was next asked about the Woodruff
card in newspaper in May, 1871. He saw it
a few DAYS after, and some days after had this
conversation with Tilton, in which the latter
gave an account of his visits to Mrs. Woodruff.
He said that soon as he saw that and he was
satisfied it had reference to MIN and his house
hold, he went down to see her aud stop it,
and he prepared himself and went Sat his
best; that he went to ask if the card referred
to HIM and lis family, and she said it did He
said he never brought so much personal influ-
ence to bear upon any human being; that he
was better made to carry her by influence and
succeeded in getting promise OF its discon-
tinuauce. He mentioned that he told her she
ought not to make war on him or his for he
was suffering for advocating substantially the
same theories of free love and divorce.
l don't recall continued witness, an account
of any other interview about that card with
Mrs. Woodruff. He did not tell me that when
be visited her about that card she told him she
referred to Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, He
did not say that she added, 81 see by the ex-
preston of your face my charge is true" He
did not tell me that she followed with several
extravagant particulars which she afterwards
gathered in the card of Nov. Z. The witness
was taken through Us testimony as he tefi
Beecher about his visit to WOonhull, and he
denied every passage. He denied that L. re-
peated to him as a potion of his interview
with WoodLull that she told him that his wife
had confessed her adultery, that in consequence
he used violeuce on his wife. that he became
drunk and Moaton went with the pistol and
got back the retraction from Beecher, &c
Prosecution here raised the point that L. did
not testify that be had related this to Beecher
aud that therefore the questions were inadmis-
sbe.
The Judge said it was certainly the under
standing that what took place between L. aud
Mrs w. was not admissible. Evidence was
received subject to objection.
Witness, in answer to questions about
whether L. told him Mrs. w. had built up
kind of ladder With her hands and showed him
where angels assembled and d. s,ended, that he
Ct said she was dangerous woman, &c, to
each he answered he never heard anything OF
the kind until in court. He had nothing 10 do
with any counsel, mode or machinery for the
use of Woodruff He never said he agreed
with Moulton and Tilton to become personally
acquainted with her, aud treat her with kind
ness, mo sir, said the witness, sit is false.
They asked me to cooperate with them in put
ting her under obligation to them and L abso-
lutely refused" They told me she was one of
the most extraordinary women they ever knew
and if put under better associations she would
lead revolution in the times in which she
lived, but never counseled association OF her
with Elizabeth Tilton or Emma Moulton 1
never thought of her coming to my house. L
never advised that Mrs. Moulton should visit
her. No step was taken after consultation
with me. Witness next related how be first
saw Mrs. Woodruff one Sunday. He and
Moulton were stroling along at hap.hazard
and on getting to Us, Moulton proposed going
in as Mrs. Woodruff would be there. He at
first objected, but finally went in. She receiv-
ed him very cordially. Not word was said
about anyIdifficulties. The next time was a
trip down river to yacht race with several
gentlemen of the press and others to see the
English yachts beaten by our American Sap
pho. After the race Tilton asked him to go to
bis house and he found himself at the table
next 10 Woodruff. The dinner was very good.
There was little talk. The other time he saw
her was in 1871, when she called to ask him to
preside at the Stenway Hall meeting. Ad.
iOurped,