The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-04
The Beecher Trial.

to the consideration of the statement made
by Mrs. Tilton TO her husband. Council
dwelt upon the retentive memories of Til
ton and Moulton in regard to the contents
of the paper written by Mrs 1ilton. Mr..
Moulton said he remembered what was
said by Mis-. Tilton while introducing Mrs.
Woodruff to the rraccs Of New York au-
dience, aud had repeated it here on the
stand long afterward, though he (Moulton)
said he had never looked at paper con-
tanning a report of the matter II this pa
per containing the solicitation charge was
reality, then, said Mr.. Evar,s, 1t conflict
ed with the charge of adultery running
through so many years. Evarts then quot
ed from Tilton's testimony as to what por-
ton of his interview with Beecher the
statement written by Mrs. Tilton had pro-
duced. The counsel said that this showed
that the paper was brought in clearly as a
climax and the head and front of his
charge, and was led up TO by previous
conversation. The speaker then read
Beecher's account of the same interview
where Tilton charged him with making
overtures to his wife, and showed papers.
Take the confessed answer, said Evarts,
of Beecher to the statement presented by
him, when the former said, elizabeth can
not have said this" and Tilton replied,
well go and see her for yourself. There
was also fact that Beecher saw the wo-
man TO whom he was alleged to have made
the proposals, and this interview was ac-
quiesced in by the husband and in his alb
sence. The Jury were to think of this in
their verdict. This woman with whom
Mr.. Beecher had committed adultery for
years lay on her bed amostat deaths door,
and he was sent to her. l. would have
been but few steps for MIR. Tilton to
have accompanied Mr.. Beecher there.
Here was an invitation from husband to
a parsmour that was altogether incompati-
BILE, and would have been as intolerable to
the paramour as TO the husband. 1t was
inconsistent with the preceding character
of the interview given by Mr.. Tilton, and
was only compatible with the version
given by Mr.. Beecher. Returning to this
interview, Mr. Evaris said that when Mr..
Beecher got to the foot of the stairs Mr..
Moulton was there ana said to him, "Are
you going down to Mr.. Titons?' before
Beecher even opened his mouth. How did
Moulton get this knowledge? Moulton
said that he would accompany him, as if
Mr.. Beecher was stranger there, how was
it that Mr.. Moulton proposed to accom-
pany him there Something must have
passed to inform Moulton that Mr. Beech
er was going there. However, said coun-
together. The door was opened by the
housekeeper, Miss Ellen Denny, who told
him Mrs. Tilton was up stairs, where he
went and knocked and the door was open
ed by Mrs. Tilton. The nurse, Mrs. Mitch
ell, did not require to be asked to leave the
room, and knew that when clergyman
called on sick parishioncr there was no
occasion for any persons presence, as the
ministrations of the gospel were not calcu-
lated to disturb or excite patient, and SO
when the nurse heard the door close
afterward, she knew Mr.. Beecher had
gone and then returned to The ROOM
Mrs. Tilton was asleep she had redressed
wrong and repaired an injury, and she
slumbcred with an easy conscience. There
xrau np1u a mi 4 n that nj M
that was the pastor, so that the jury had
to determine what passed by his testimony
Evarts read description of the bed cham
Der scene as given by Mr.. Beecher, with
solemn and excellent emphasis, the audi
ence manifestiug unusual interest. Nothing
| else, he said, than the restitution of that
| paper from the flames could so confute the
present pretensions of the plaintiff as her
retraction given on that occasion it islands
on their own evidence as an extortcd accu-
salion.
Mr.. Evarts then cited number of cases
in which confessions of adultery had been
extorted from innocent wives by husbands
of strong will and jealous tempers. This
instltltion of marriage, he said, is in-
grained in our nature, built up in our civil
lization, studied, contemplated, understood
by the jurisprudence of ages it is solid,
real institution, and the subordination of
the wife has always been maintained by
judges and juries. The law has never
carried in its Interpretation of the SUBJ
lection of the wife to the husband,
even at the expense of justice. After the
interview with Mrs. Tilton he met Mr..
Moulton below, and offered to 60 home
with him. Moulton, that night, had acted
as the agent of Tilton, and Mr. Beecher
could very well have gone home by
himself, but no, Moulton said, "Ill &C
home with you" That was to prevent his
resortng to anybody else and relieving his
mind in regard to the astonishing facts that
had been opened to this innocent, guileless
man This confession had been extorted
from the wife by her hope that in some in
definable way, it would lead to the restora-
ton of her husband. She was woman Of
| ouooiutO Pi0'y ehO pchC'cu III thO icaiitios
of religion. 1t was distress to her sou
that her Savior should be put to an oper
shame before her eyes, by the cruclfxior
of that wicked letter of scott and scorn of
years, that was written years before. Sht
believed in the divine nature of the Savior
and in the value of that solemn effort Of
his for the final salvation of all she be
lieved in that solemn statement of his
"He that does not confess me be
fore men, him will | not confess before
my Father, which is in heaven.
The letter of Mrs. Tilton, explaining he
letter of retraction, was fully calculated
according to the theory of the defendant
case. 1t was letter of explanation, Mr.