The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-05-07

her during the forenoon Of June =; and
Mr.. Beecher claimed that he was with
Mr.. Kinsella during the morning of that
day, consulting with him in regard to a
card which was publishedin the Eagle,
Of that afternoon. Mr.. Kinsella was not
put on the stand TO corroborate this
statement Mr. Beecher himself COM
pletely upset the black mail charges on
crnss-examinatIon. Brother Belcher
estifed that what Tilton read to him
was not Mrs. Tilton's confession, but the
"True story" and the interview with
Dr. Storrs. Neither Frank Carpenter nor
H. c. Bowen has been dragged forward
conspirators in any sense, and Mr..
Carpenter, it Is understood, will be one
of the principal witnesses in rebuttal.
General Tracy, in his opening address,
also charged that "when the plainiff
found that the lips of his innocent wife
were unsealed before the tribunal which
he had accepted, and that she was re
solved upon throwing off the incubus of
her lie, to speak freely the whole truth,
he made haste to choose a tribunal where
the law would keep her dumb, and SO
she is suppressed" The facts have GER
tainly not borne out this theory.
Stripped of all extraneous adjuncts,
the defense put in amounts, counsel for
the plaintiff say to just this: "Mrs.
Tilton fell in love with me, and she new
er did anything to let me know of her
love, but / ought TO have found it out"
Therefore in absence of anything which
the law in regard to rebutting testimony
will permit them to contradict, they arc
obliged to content themselves with their
case as they made it on the first examin-
alton. They claim that to be complete.
The number of their intended witnesses
will be materially reduced. General
Butler, Florence Tilton, and several
others who have been named as probable
witnesses, will positively not be called.
Mr.. Tilton and Mr.. and Mrs. Moulton
will be the principal witnesses in rebut-
tai, and some twenty-odd others will be
put npon the stand; but as the testimony
of each will necessarily be very short,
they will be rapidly disposed of, Miss
Lovejoy, contrary 10 expectation, will
not come on to explain the Winsted
scene. Indeed, no attempt will be made
to clear Mr.. Tilton's character of the
aspersions cast upon it by the defense,
except through the speeches of counsel
at the summing up. Counsel say they
regard these aspersions as too frivolous
to be worthy of notice. No further en-
deavor will be made to Contradict Gen
eral Tracy's story of the primary steps
in the scandal. Counsel are sarcastical-
ly severe upon the General as witness.
They class the evidence with that which
they say contradicts itself, and add that
any attempt on their part to rebut it
would only be giving to it an import
ance which it does not possess.
Mr.. Tilton, Mr.. Moulton, and Mrs.
Moulton will, in the order named, throw
some new light upon the points in dis
pute between them and Mr.. Beecher,
and then will be heard the witnesses al
luded to in last Sundays Times-Mr.
Philip, Mr.. Woodruff, Mrs. Eddy, Mr..
Carpenter, the Messrs. Ford, the ex-
military official who is to turn Sam
Wilkeson inside out, the house-keeper,
nurse, and physicians. In addition to
these, Mr. A. B. Martin will swear to
the length, and possibly the substance,
of General Tracy's conversation with
Bessie Turner, on Mrs. Storrs' back
piazza. on the evening of and just previ-
Gus to her appearance before the Investi-
gazing Committee; and Mr.. Richards will
be forced TO tell just exactly what he
saw when he opened the door in his
brother-in-law's house, and his sister
'sprang blnshingly away" from the
vicinity of Mr.. Beecher. On the first
examination the rules of evidence would
not permit counsel for the plaintiff to
press this point, but Mr.. Beecher having
his version of the scene, they will be al
lowed to draw the unfortunate Richards
ont in con6adiction.
The sur-rebnttal will probably be
shorter still. The counsel for the defense
profess to believe that they have made
out case which is absolutely without
defect. They say that they had a large
number of witnesses in reserve, whom
| they might have called, but whose testi
mony not being necessary, they dispens-
| ed with them with n view TO saving time.
| As they will be allowed only to rebut
| the rebuttal, their witnesses will neces-
sarily be few in number. Mr.. Beecher
sides are anxious to shorten the trial. as
much as possible. Mr.. Evarts will oc-
cupy the best part of week in his
summing up speech. and Judge Porter
will make large hole in another week.
Mr.. Beach will not use up more than a
few days. Counsel for the plaintiff say
that only few points are involved, and
20 these Mr.. Beach will confne himself
| ne JuuHe CndFBe can ilOb Dc NSI cA-
tended if this last assertion be true; so
that the trials ending may be safely set
down as within six weeks, or seven at
most, if there should be an intermediate
adjournment.
Much speculation has been set afoat
by Mr.. Beach's question to General
Tracy on Thursday, as TO who wrote the
famous opening essay which that gen.
tleman delivered in behalf Of the defense.
Those who gre most likely to be posted
ON the subject, give the credit Of it to
Professor r. w. Raymond, and they
say. moreover, that he wrote the great
bulk of it, only few passages here and
there being from the fertile brain of the
military orator. This explanation is
apparently corroborated by the similari-
ty style and argument between the doc
ument in question and tho Professor S
celebrated pamphlet reviewing the case