The Portland daily press., 1875-05-21

Bessie says she rushed into the room and
said, This is not the first time you have damn
ed your wife in my presence. TINS was tne
girl who was trained in that purity which char
terizes Mrs Titon, and was able to make the
proud boast in the witness chair, mo one ever
charged me with lie' This challenge thrown
down, the prosecution were able 70 have re-
course to her; employers and to a; b. Martlh'
and TO Joe Richards, the spy, and Der truth
fo!ness stands unquestioned. Leave the
room," said Tilon to her; mo, | won't, she
replied. In her own case she would have shrunK
in terror from that cowardly and tyrannical
husband, but feeble as she was, she was able to
face his manhood in defence of her adopted
mother Whereupon, she testities,. Tilton
knocked her down with a blow of his fist and
cooy remarked. "Why Bessie, my dear, you
tripped and fell" "No woman or man could
invent that" said counsel; cit bears the i'm
press of truth; and is the very. image OF the
man." Counsel again turned to the point
made against Tilton yesterday. The latter III
denial of Bessie's testimony said, ut was uu-
true that he said to Bessie on the occasion re-
in sorrow to the grave. He had no grey hairs
them" QS70), he says. Counsel remlnued
the jury that he had read yesterday letter OF
Tiiton's in 1867, in which he refers to his grey
hairs. That girls testimony produced Hilton
before them with all his mock heroics with
which he sought to impose Oh the jury. Was
it that man, false, hollow, treacheroqs ana
cowardly, whom they are to believe and risk
their reputation among their fellow men upon
his word?
The iury had seen this man Tilton in the
witness chair, and they had seen the girl What
did he swear for? Read his complaint, and II
is for money to make his title good to Sl00Voo
Hear his counsel, and it is for revenge. That
girl swears neither for money nor revenge
Would they believe her? Counsel felt that
they would, and he believed they would show
they did by verdict without leaving their box
(which was to be believed" he again asked,
n.rt tInu nTI1T
not doubt Did not letters of Il. show the in
clinations of the man, and did not the charac-
ter and oath of the man sustain her and con-
denim Tilton?' -
ooh! gentlemen said counsel, 'syou. little
thought as you sat with your loved ano cner-
rished families in our own housas that winter
night that there was this poor wife and mother
in her stocking feet, flying for shelter from
her husbands roof, compelled to abandon that
husband whom she worshiped.'
Counsel next took up Bessie turner's DIS
closures to Mrs Bradshaw. This lady, he in
sisted, proved that Mrs. Tllton never made
confession of SIN to her, and though her testi-
mony differs from Miss Turner on one point,
yet they were agreed in the main; Beecher
confirms Bessie's testimony that she told MIN
of these indecent attempts.
Bowen begins by denying but ends by admit
ting that Beecher related them to him, and
fually Bell, recalled by Titon's counsel, gave
variable testimony. He swore that Beecher
family, Mrs Tilton having left her husband
owing 10 her husbands misconduct in making
indecent sovertures to young girl who
had come to him (Beecher) and complained
about it.
The next witness considered was Henry G.
Bowen. Counsel would speak of him with
forbearance, remembering what bullets he had
received from the man to whose rescue ne
came at length.
In one of the exhibits put in Tilton arraigns
d., ae1> md Ehallpr
Bowen unjustly broke two contracts with him,
and did so in fear of the consequences OF accu.
sations he had made to him (Tilton) against
Beecher, whom he accused of the most hldeous
crime known to human nature: Bowen showed
considerable zeal to swear to all he could Tor
the side which called him, not for love OF I'll
ton, they were assured, not from hatred OF
Beecher because he worships at his church.
(Laughter) Then it must have been from
pure love of abstract,truth. iLaughter) On
cross-examinaton Bowens memory was very
treacherous. Beecher, he says, didn't SANDER
Tilton. Oh, there were some little matters
about fornication and adultery talked about
(Laughter) Oh, it was about women (Laugh-
ter) Oh yes, names were mentioned, but he
forgot all about them, but though so forgetful
he was not so forgetful the same evening of the
interview when he returned home and told his
co-edtor, DR.. Eggleston, that Beecher had
been telling him horrible stories about Hilton,
among them the attempt on the virtue OF his
adopted daughter; fact which shows, not that
Bowen is treacherous as Tilton and Moulton
said, but that his memory is treacherous.
(Laugbter.) Oh, Mr.. Tlton," said Porter turn
ing around to plaintiff, latter all, did not Hensy
G. Bowen make a poor witness?'' Counsel
next remarked that Bowen had been called to
stab Beecher, but he had another ponard which
to the establishment of thea prosecution he
plunged under the rib of Tllton, for he
proved what Tilton had denied on oath that
when he got that letter of accusation from his
wife he had at his command to enable him to
do so the knowledge that he had been notified
by Bowen that the contracts were to be term
mated and that the axe was suspended over his
head.
Court then adjourned.