The daily gazette., 1875-06-16
From the adelphia Times.
More Of It.

Just as we thought We had reached
the beginning of the end, in Brooklyn
we are threatened with reopening OF
the whole case; for If the Herdtd VII;
nesses amount to anything at ail-ana
il gives names, places and dates WIN
great exactness-they must be called.
The defense cannot object to the recep-
tion of their testimony without con
fession of weakness that will be fatal'
But if they be heard, and II their story
hold water, then other testimony must
be sought to break the weight OF theirs,
and after that, perhaps, rebuttlng tes'
timony, and the counsel VIII nave 10
make five or six new speeches apiece,
and altogether the end OF tic case VIII
be indefinitely postponed. We scarcely
know how much real Importance Is 10
be attached to the evidence which the
Herald processes to have discovered.
Most of it sounds rather thin, ana IL IS
centainly remarkable, to say the least,
that witnesses so important as the drug
gist and the two upholsterGrs shouiu
have remained unknown to coun9elai
this time, until hunted up by news
paper detective. But the counsel evl-
IDENTIFY attach some important to the
story now, and at all events Its puoh-
cation makes it imperative that these
men be called.
The Importance of the druggists tesss
iimony Is merely in so far as 1T corro-
borates one of Mrs Moulton's state
ments, which Mr.. Beecher himself de-
MED. In one of those terrible scenes
which she described with so much APP
pearance of realty, she represents Bee
cher as saying that he could no longer
hold his false position, and that II III.
ton published the scandal he would
take his own life; that he had poison
at home which he would take, and
"sink quietly off as if going to sleep,
without struggle" Moulton testified
to the same effect; but Beecher, on the
stand. declared that he had never had
any idea of suicide, and had never
said anything of the kind. A Herald
reporter has now hunted up the drug.
| gist with whom Beecher dealt, and
| found an entry in his ledger, at the
| very period when these conversations
were said to have taken place, OF an
ounce of prussic acid sold to HenryW,
Beecher. What was he doing VIII
prussic acid, if not that he wished tc
"sink quietly off," There are two ol
three weak points in the chain: Mrs
Moulton says that Beechcr spoke OF
"powder," and, according to her hus
hand, it was poison he had got from
photographer. But this druggiss
was not a photographer, and prussi'
acid is not powder. So the testimony
| is contradictory after all, even granting
that of the druggist, as given to th'
reporter, to be genuine. Yet the con
tradictions are not of such characte
as necessarily to invalidatc the whole
and the coincidence is so striking as Il
give this new feature of the case eX
traordinary Importance. or the test
mony which the two upholstercrs ar
alleged to be ready to give, we ca
only say that, if true, it is conclusive
If these men actually witnessed wha
|. they say, or what the reporter say the
: witnessed, there is nothing moro to b
said. Mr.. Beccher steps down an
=. out. But first we must have the me
c upon the stand, must here their stor
t from their own lips and learn somethia
Il of their character. 1t may be all II
ton; but if there prove to be anythln
whatever in the story, they are mo
important witnesses, and the case ca
70 not be closed without them.