The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-14

The public can appreciate Mr..
Beecher's impatience atthe questions
propounded to him, but his answers,
given under an evident repression of
indignation, are all the more convinc-
ing from the bursts IF feeling which
occasionally master his best efforts to
control them. An illustration of this
was given in his replies to a number
OF questions propounded during Mon
days examination.
Mr.. Evarts asked the witness if he
had ever stated to Tilton, as testified
by Moulton, that the relationship
which had existed between himself
and Elizabeth had not always been
marked by sexual intimacy.
Did You say anything of that kind?"
said Mr.. Evarts.
ut is intolerable," replied Mr..
Beecher, to be asked that question,
but before Almighty God no such
question, by anybody, at any time. un-
der any circumstances, was put to me,
or any conversation that might lead
to it. -
@ Or any such statement made by
A. Nor any such statement made
by me. s
@. Did you also say, or did you not
say, that you did not know how you
could offer any communication or ex-
cuse for yourself, only you wanted
Tilton to believe for Elizabeth s sake
and also for his own. that you had
never sought her for vulgar ends, but
that your sexual commerce had been
through love and not through lust?
A. L never used any such language as
that, Mr.. Evarts. -
Q. Was there any such topic? A.
No such topic.
q. At that interview? A. No such
topic at that interview nor at any
other was possible. 1 am obliged to
hear these questions put in court, but
such questions could never have been
put in any of the interviews between
any of the parties concerned.
There was another point at which
the applause of the audience could
not be repressed, though Judge Neil
son had warned spectators against
such demonstrations: 1t was at the
close of the day, and in regard to Til
tons alleged conversation with Mr..
Beecher respecting the legitimacy of
little Ralph. Tilton said he asked
Mr.. Beecher if the date fixed by Mrs.
Tilton as the commencement of the
intimacy was correct and Beecher
declared it was. Ia
Mr.. Evarts-Now, did any such IN
terview, in which that subject of the
spuriousness Of. the boy or the adul-
terry of the wife was mentioned, ever
occur?
A. Can you not divide that ques-
ton, and let me be asked whether a
father asked the seducer of his wife
Beach-One moment, if your Honor
please; / must object to this.
Evarts-The question, Mr.. Beecher,
is simply. for your answer. whether
any such interview, any such conver-
sation, any such topic 0i conversation,
was ever raised between you and Til
ton?
A. Never between me. and Tilton
alone, in the presence of his wife, nev-
er any such conversation or out of
which such a conversation could be
made or imagined to take place It is
a monstrous and absolute falsehood.
1t was here that the audience broke
over all restraint, and gave vent to
loud and long-continued applause. It
was natural, and they could not be
deferred by the frowns of the court or
the foaming rage of Fullerton, who
daily grows more irritable as his case
appears more hopeless. The specta-
tors felt that the almost indignant re-
spouse of Mr.. Beecher was not only
true, but was some sort of return for
the long and continued persecution to
which he has been subjected.
His friends may we'll congratulate
themselves on the manner in which
he has borne himself thus far. We
shall be disappointed if he shall not
his position on the cross
examination, in spite of all the skill
which the regiment of lawyers can
bring against him.