The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-04

THE GREAT SCANDAL.
Opening OF the Fifth Week In the
Case.


TILTON ALLOWED TO TESTIFY.
Monday was another field day in the
Brooklyn Court House. Mr.. Theodore
Tilton was ruled admissible as a witness by
Judge Nelson, with some limitations, and
he took the chair and kept it all day, gazed
at by crowded house. His wife was
present among several lady companions,
and heard ,very wori Of his testimony with
silent and scarcely modified attention, a
little saddened and retiring. but on the
whole right sturdily and bravely. She had
an extra feather in her hat, was yelled most
of the time, and by the promptness with
which she attended both sessions, morning
and afternoon, showed her detl rmnation
and intent.
The audience was probably greater than
on any prior day. and the corridors and
stairways, Hobbies and pavemen,s outside
were crowded with people. The Bar and
clergy also attended. Rev. d.. Buckley
and Rev. DR.. Anderson were present. Por-
ter and Evarts came to court together in
cab. Many Brooklyn Alderman, politi-
clans and leaders of the Bar were present.
Although Mr.. Tilton was allowed to tes-
tify and he told his fearful story with de-
scriptve ability and consecutiveness, and
although his opponent and his wife were
before him, placing in dramatic proximity
tho whole coterie, with Plymouth church
in goodly force to hold up the pastors
cause, still the day was a sad, monotonous
and hardly progressive one.
The probably reason was that MIR. Tilton
merely repeated the story as told so instruc-
lively and candidy by Frank Moulton, and
because such story, falling from his lips,
the husband of the woman he still professed
to love, carried a sensation of pain and re-
pulsion to the great bulk of humane audi
tors. The jury seemed Disconnected; the
plaintiffs counsel were little on the rag
ged edge; the defendant and Mrs. Tilton
heard the relation with less emotion than
the narrator, while behaving with courtesy,
and, on the whole, far more at case than
Dir. Tilton. 1t was story which man
not without temperament make it seductive.
The manner Of the witness was, how
ever, perfectly natural to such story. 1t
was as constrained, as modest and as low
as confession itself. 1t was told intelli-
gently, but so much intelligence on such a
personal theme was also hard to hear and
bitter to relate. Language also had to be
used painful to the sensbilites and the ear.
As q plaintiff forced to make his case plau.
sible, the witness was also forced to strike
himself through and through with his en-
deavor, and, when all was said, to be still
as unfortunate as the alleged injuries he
strove to implicate. Probably nothing has
happened on the trial to so suddenly change
the atmosphere and reverse the movement
of tho case. Up to this time the general
movement of the trial had been fairly adap-
table to the designs of the plaintiff. Seek.
ing to fight MoultOn down, his intrepidity
and wit had established a certain good ma
ture in the auditorium and put new per.
sonality and humanity into the case. We
saw something Of Horatio in the mutual
friend, who had stayed so fast to the side o.
the melancholy Hamlet, whose revenge
must strike his kin if he crafty it at all
But such scene as that same Hamlet ar
raigning his mother was to be performed
by the plaintiff-Tilton testifying agains
his wife. He could not do it with art ant
DO excusable. nor without art and be heart
with comniseraton. Be- therefore, com
pounded intelligibility with selfreduction
He told tale and looked its object ant
victim and disturbed those who followe
him unwillingly. Hereafter it will be bet
ter for plaintiffs in divorce or scandal suit
to keep out of the witness chair. As lag,
made Othello cry out with rage and pail
when he said :-"Would you the supervi
sOr! grossly cape on? Behold her,
and to this replied ~ swear it's better t.
be much abused than but to know't little.
30 Mr.. Tilton struck the ten Ter bone AM
quick nerve of uen when he proceeds
against his enemy, to her face, through tn
honor of his wife. Tosay that this was tn
sentiment of the audience was only to con
suit Mr.. Tilton's adherents in the cour
room, who generally admitted it.
TILToN IN THE CHAIR.
A man of the appearance of a clergyman
with head too perfect to be agreeable, il
long animal face and proficient features
each feature developed to the full, withou
stint, making it in some sort II negative ur
on the fair rounded brain. The physics
nature OF the man seemed TO be exactinl
as its emotional nature was cold and disc
plned. CHANGING from the cold, impassiy,
judicial face of Tilton to the ruddy ski
active eyes and beaming nature OF his al
tagonist, one could see that either interio
ity of temperament or suffering had robbie
the one man of the spark that kindled r.
cognition and made his mind attractiv,
while the other, for all his disagaeeabl
publicity, was still a radiating, warmin
agreeble individuality. One desired, il
sensiblv, that Tilton's story be sped al
Beecher's voice to issue forth.
Tilton's face was nearly two-thirds of h
head. Mr.. Beecher's head is nearly
large above as below the eyebrows. DO
were long-hsired men, but Beecher's lol
hair had the fitness of age and gave leo
inc, name lake dress to his superb dome
brain, while Tilton's long hair had som
thing Of the affectation of youth, and |
head lacked the carriage and fine cut
the throat and neck seen upon his OPP
nent. Mr.. Tilton, without being palll
has very little color or flush. 1t is his n
ture to grow cold, slow and labored und
feeling. His woe-begone chops, indent
cheeks, retiring eye, downcast and wave
ing, moistening of the lips, play of the Fl
threat nd parvnua hapda 0ava all a aeu