The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-12
Sketches from the Great Trial.

in the chair, testitying, her ruddy skin
and two greyish haXen curls dropping
down over her lank shoulders. Behind
her large and alert red ears, her bonnet
strings tied down a velvet twO-storied
hat with blue-ribbon bow in front. This
hat rocked to and fro as the good lady
testified. The essence of Connecticut
was eXhaled In those precious sentences.
The desire to be perfect witness and 20
down to history in the. company of the
exalted people on trial was modestly
yet bravely attested by the careful man.
ner in which Mrs. Putnam came up to
her performance.
When Miss Moore introduced the cele-
brated Stephen, Pearl Andrews and the
pantarchy into the Tilton family she
made immense laughter as she described
the obscure terms used by Andrews and
Tilton, "talking of congenial spirits and
spheres and such things" She finally
described queer woman of the pam
larchy set VINO chafed TiltOn's hands,
fixed his hair and said he.had "spherey
hair"
Here the laughter was enormous, and
the.witness put her head behind her fan
and laughed also in a long, loud and
coarse way. She was quite too easy a
witness, and had been generally sup.
posed, as she ascended the stand, to be
a domestic in the TI&ton household.
AS an instance, may be quoted her re-
quest to testify out Of evidence, as fol
lows:
"May l tell what said about iti"
"No," was the reply.
"May l tell what Mr.. Tilton said?'
"Not unless you are very anxious to
do so," said Mr.. Fullerton, sarcastically.
IL am" exclaimed Miss Moore, her
temper and strong auburn hair seeming
to be consonant with each other. Final
Iy Mr.. Beach broke through his habitual
decorum, and roared:
"Madame, will you stop when you are
told to?'
The extreme willingness OF Mrs. ut
nam and Miss Moore to testify suggested
Macbeth's vaultlng ambition that over
leaped itself and fell on the other side.
The performance ON Miss Moore's part
involved pantomimic acts, winking and
grimacing. She liked her seat, and
speedily grew very familiar with the
situation.
When Tracy dismissed the witness
and Fullerton took her up she attempted
rather bouncing and brusque manner,
riding down the lawyer for the plaintiff.
Fullerton, cool aud pertinaclous as a
horse tanner, walked toward her after Il
Wnlle, Sy ye-RidSo III manu-, anu BaVO ehO
Court superb scene from ''Katharine
and Petruchio." Again and again the
| the galloping, rafting. high-tempered
woman leaned forward and talked al
most in the tone of a virago.
He soon demonstrated the exuberance
and unreliabiiity of the witness, and
made the courtroom roar by asking her
| il she did not refuse to accompany TIlton
to lectures "because she did not want tC
be curse to him2" The general tone ol
the witness may be inferred by her say.
ing that on one evening, "she almost got
her biler upset." This witness had a
fashion of striking herself in the breasl
with her fist and tan, and charging Full
lerton yehemently. lie kept her just
mad enough to display herself, and
laughed with her, SO as to blind her to
the fact.
Bessie Turner is little girl of a good
complexion, with reddish brown hair,
dropping long, red curl behind; come
ly, but not striking features, and gen.
eral appearance of poor girl somewhat
uneasy in the society and prominence
she had attained. She is slight and
small. She wore dark hat and a light
veil over it. There were ear-drOps oi
plain gold in her smallish ears. She
wore dogskin gloves on fairly small
hands, a black, neat dress, and looked
timidly out upon the aWience. The
general impression she conveyed was
that of one detached, unowned, Incl.
dental and unfortunate, but without
much consciousness OF it. She was
sandwiched in between Mrs. Phelps and
Mrs. Tubbs, and had been brought to
court to be acquainted with the methods
of procedure and wait to testify.