The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-06-24
OVER THE WIRES
Further Progress of the Beeeher
Trial.

Trial.
Mr.. Beach Continues His Arsu-
m.Dt.
NEW YORK, June I6.-At ten minutes
past ] / o'clock today, Mr. Beach continued
his argument for the prosecution, in the suit
OF Triton vs.. Beecher. Taking up Mrs. Ill
tons retraction letter, he said: The word
''inculpating," used in this letter, was not
woman's word, and did not belong to the
language OF the household. Beecher uses
the same word in his "letter of contrition,"
and certain persons could be distinguished
by their style Of speech. Beecher testifies
that Mrs. Tilton wrote the letter, but it was
written IT his direction. A she saws. Mr..
Beecher wrote the letter, and she copied it.
When Beecher returned to Mr.. Moulton's
that night, he told no one he had received
the retraction, and, ii innocent, how
gladly he would have gone into the presence
of Tilton and told him of it, Moulton was
! told by Beecher that Tilton had read to
him the confession of Mrs. Tilton, charging
him (Beecher) with having had sexual in
| tercourse with her. Mrs. Tilton wrote a
| letter to her husband, stating that she
| hoped her husband would never be misled
| by a good woman as she had been by good
| man. Mr.. Beach then interviewed the So
called Catherine Gaunt" letter, IN which
Mrs. Tilton saws 10 her husband Bless
God with me for Catherine Gaunt and
| now am prepared to renew the marriage
vow, and keep it As the
Savior desired, in the heart" Counsel fol-
lowed this by reading Mrs. Tilton's state
ment TO Rev. DIR. Siorrs, that Beecher, her
friend, had made improper proposals to
| her, and asked her to become a wife to him,
with all that name implied. Mr.. Beach
said when Mr.. Richards was on the stand
| the other side refused TO ask him whether
| IN 1870 he did not hear the confession OF
his sister with regard to her adultery with
| Beecher.
NEW YORK, June 2l.-The court room
was more densely packed this morning than
| it has been since the trial commenced, and
many ladies were spectators. Mrs. Beecher
was attended into court by Dr. Edward
Beecher. Mr.. Tilton was early in his seat
When the jury was called, Reach arose
and continued his address. lie said Moul-
/ tou WIN laithiSssuSNs All
refusing Beecher copies OF documents from
time to time placed in his hands. In July
1874, Beecher applied for copies OF these
letters, and Moulton replied to this letter
on August 4th. The jury would remember
that shortly after this Moulton
obtained the mutual consent
OF both parties to bring the papers
in question before the investigating com.
i l.. e. l.
Moulton, who was far below him (Beecher)
in intellectual qualities, and when Beecher
entered into the policy OF silence and op.
Grated with MOultOn for that end, the de-
PENDANT should not blame Moulton for hi.
action in this respect. Counsel then quoted
from General Tracy's opening in respect to
the part taken by Moulton in the matter
| Tracy saws OF Moulton, that to promote a
| Christianity he did not believe, he had beer
leading life OF lies, and had divided his
wife's kisses with prostitute. This come.
from the man who had given his oath Of
honor not to appear against the plaintiff, and
was caused by Moultons refusal to surrender
the papers placed with him under the mu.
tual consent that they should not be given
| to one party without the consent Of the
other. There was one other witness who
had borne testimony to the confessions Of
defendant, a woman, who had been eulo
glzed by Beecher in his letters. This wo.
man had been charged by Porter in his de.
Tense as consorting with prostitutes and
exposing her son to their influence. 1t wa.
not bad enough to include Tilton and
Moulton in this, but they could moi
stop until they had included mother also
very serious charge was brought in the
outset against Mrs. Moulton raised by Mr.
Shearman, that when on the stand she did
not once look in the face of Evarts, and
Evarts himself said her glances were furtive
but she had not that gift of dramatic effect
possessed in an eminent degree by Bessie
Turner and by Beecher himself. Per
haps Mrs. MoultCn saw nothing at
tractive in the face of Evarts to look at
Mr. Beach then cited passages from the
letters of Beecher in which he spoke in the
highest terms Of her. Counsel also quoted
| from Mrs. Notions testimony, in respect tt
the advice she gave Beecher when he came
to her and confessed his sin. She favored
a confession, not in secret, but in public and
| to his church. This advice appealed tC
| the Judgment of Beecher in his cooler
moments, as is shown by some OF his letters
| This was the only way, said the counsel, Of
obtaining forgiveness for sin and reconcilia
| ton, and this was what any christian wo.
man would have said 1t had been argued
that it was very improbable that Beecher
| an adulterer, should advise separation
between Mrs Tilton and her husband, but
the Jury should remember that up to the
night of the 30th OF December, 1870, Mr.
| Beecher was not aware that Mrs. Tilton had
i to har bnS
| vious July, and it was therefore in
ignorance OF this disclosure. What had he
| to fear from giving such advice
| Beach then quoted from the testimony OF
Mrs Moulton in regard to an alleged con-
versation with Mrs. Tilton, in which she
said Beecher was good man, and that she
| Mrs Tiiton) would sacrifice her husband
and truth to save Beecher, and that she
thought, under the circumstances, she
would be justified in telling lie. But
said the speaker, this had been
denied by Mr.. Beecher as an entire fabrica.
ton. Mrs. Moulton speaks this with.
out hesitation, and with a consciousness Of
the truth of her story, which should i'm
press the jury. The whole credibility Of
the statement OF this lady was placed or
the date at which the interview was fixed
BY her, and Beecher says he was not at her
house that day. Beecher swears, said
counsel, that on the morning OF the I'd Of
June, between nine and ten O'Clock
he was in consultation with Kin.
sella, as to the form OF the card which
was published. That day, Kinsella was in
this city, he was a reliable witness and ac-
cessable, but he was not produced as a wit
ness to sustain an alibi, and the jury would
remember that presumption Of law in re-
gard to this, was against Beecher and
Evarts, instead Of producing Kinsella, read
an editorial article from the Eagle" il
support OF his proposition, and tried to
blind the jury with this cloak
The new evidence OF Mr.. James in regard
to this was conclusive. He saw Beecl,el
on that day coming from Columbia
Heights, and going towards 40, Remser
street.
| Shortly before o'clock Beach continued
his argument in support OF the proposition
that the defense had failed to prove an
alibi, and said Mrs. Moulton's story wa.
true, and he was not guilty OF presumption
on saying that every honest juror fell
it in his heart to be true. He did not mean
BY this the juror Who'll said Mr. Beecher
was too great a man to fall-who shut hi.
heart and ears to the evidence, and looking
only to the grandeur OF Mr.. Beecher's char.
acter, believed that he was upholdine
| Christianity in the pulpit and temple he
| defiled. Beach urged that Mrs. Moultor
/ h.. Ill L., & l..