Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-20
IRWIN AT THE CAPITOL.
MOuItOn's Cross-exaainatiou.


TIE BkECHER TRIAL YESTERDAY AFTER
NOON.
Our telegraphic report OF the Tilton- Beecher
trial closed yesterday with Mr.. Moulton Stin
ON the stand. On crOss-eXamination. witness
further testified that he never told Mrs.
Woodruff that he took pistol to Beecher
and demanded Mrs. Tilton'S letter under plea
of instant death; remembers reading that
portion OF Mrs. WOodhulls statement with
regard to the pistol scene. Witness con-
tlnued :-Beecher asked me If ! remembered
that part of the scene wi tn t.le pistol referred
TO III the statement: l told him did not, and
ne answered that " neither did he:' / think
was at Theodore Gilton'S on two occasions
when Mrs. Woodruff was there; | never
found Tilton at her house when he did not
come with me. and he generally left with me;
/ diSapprove of the Bacon letter. and was
against il being made public.
TILTON'S SWORN STATEMENT.
advised against Theodore Tilton'S second
statement-the one generally called the
s -Nrn statement: / do not know how Mrs.
Woodn MI got the pistol story, but do know
trJ'a, nlo d., - Beechers on that occasion
to TiItoT. | co,dan ned Beecher for obtaiping
tic ,,at 90 r Tilton ic moi re-
member even i1d aIVising B, B,'echer not to s-a
Tilton, nor to communicate W. i'1to through
me: | advised silence on the part O. beecler
in relation to
TH,a woopBCLr rrp17tATtGx:
aitnouP otan al ! never read it, had full kn0wl-
Sdge II its contents, obtained from people
oiT %Ho had read il; only read a portion OF it
le' ating TO myself none of the charges in the
- .rd published by Beecher i'm the Eagle IN
$50 were made by me; they were made by
kinsella before il was published. Counsel
read the letter. stamping the stories against
him Mr.. Beecher) as lalse.l / do not know
why these charges were made, but they We're
all the work OF kinsella; l told Beecher
thought 1t was n mistake to call an inves-
ugating committee in accordance with the
views of
MY LEGAL ADVISER. GENERAL BUTLER.
| n ltlr
ters and documents in my hands, General
Butler was my friend and adviser. but he
never was paid fee by me or any firm he
never was counsel for us against the custom
house; have paid fees 10 counsel who were
engaged by TiltOn. but | never contributed
to the extent of publications made from time
to time; never paid anything or promised
Counsel was going on to show that witness
had been indicted and was pursued under civil
suits for statements made bv him, but these
the court ruled could not be brought III as ey-
idence. An exception was taken.
witness then testified as to Tilton's ac-
counts with his firm; that he had lent Tilton
money to carry on the Golden Age, amount
ing to as 900, which he had not, as yet got
back.
MORE INTERVIEWING.
On the 9th OF August, 1870, saw Tilton,
when he said he was going to see Bowen and
ask him for his proofs of Beecher's guilt; the
next interview that L remember with him
was on December 80; there never was any
conversation between us at either of the in
terviews as to procuring statement from
Mrs. Tilton; at these interviews Tilton said
he had no doubt about the charges preferred
by Bowen against Beecher being true; Tilton
prior to this had said that Beecher preached
to his mistresses in Plymouth church; Tilton
did not give any of the names OF these wit
nesses; my wife at that time attended church
there, and she ceased to attend shortly after
the facts of the case became known to her;
her name is still on the rolls of the church;
we had pew up to 1872, which paid for;
never had been regular attendant at Ply
mouth church.