Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-04-15

BY TELEGRAPH.
The Beecher-TiIton Trial.


| and hundred of persons who had tickets
thronged the corridors and were unable
| TO gain admission to the room. Mr..
| Beecher mounted the stand at ten min
| utes after the hour. Mr.. Fullerton called
attention to the absence of Mr.. Beach,
but said he would go on without him.
Witness corrected portion of his tes-
timOnY given yesterday with regard to
letters from Mrs. Tilton. They were
given by my wife to the investigating
committee last summer. Witness then
continued his cross-examination as fol-
lows:
When | went to Moulton, on the Both
of December, 1874, with him, he locked
the door; he did not say anything to
me then, but he spoke to me afterwards;
was not surprised at his locking the
door; there was no excitement mani
tested by Moulton, except in his general
manner it raised no alarm in me; after
locking the door he took the key from
it asked him to be present at the in
terview, supposing Tilton and / were
going to discuss business; he said it was
better that / should see Tilton alone; /
then, nor had | since 1864 or 1865;
supposed the letter of December &c
would be brought up by Tilton, and so
| wished Moulton to be present; this
interview lasted about from half an hour
to an hour | did not see any person
then except Moulton and Tilton; | said
in this conversation, "This is dream :;
| cannot believe that Elizabeth would
say such an untruthful thing" the
charge made by Tilton were those of
improper advances to his wife, and this
was all | said in reply was indignant
at this charge, and all its conccmitants :;
when he charged me with alternating the
affections of his wife. il caused me re-
greet and sOrnow; it was when he
charged me with giving rise to stories
about him l said | felt nothing bnt con-
tempt for him, as he was attempting to
bully me; do not recolleCt that he gave
me any reason for seeking that inter
view; he did not tell me that the letter
to Bowen ON the 26th would cause
revelation of stories about bis wife; he
did recall his letter, but gave me no dis
tinct reason other than gen.
eral statement the reason / did
not ask him for one was I
thought he was going to give
il to me he tore up the paper and
threw the fragments away he said he
tore up his wife's paper so that there
should be no record of it; Tilton made
ma demand for money, nor did he. ask
me to-see Bowen; do not know that he
gave AIRY reason for asking this inter
view, nor did ask him for any after
he made the charges against me l. kept
silent because he was talking and indi-
Gated to me that he did not want to be
interrupted by his whole manner and
gesture; was silent under the iHtima-
ton of TiltOn that he wished to tell the
whole story before leaving the house
that night I did not believe any of
them the charges of Improper solieita-
t;on or asking Mira. Tiltoa to become a
wife te I4ae wore fHly.s. = ,s-1s',4sf. she's
he renewed them true, but did not think
his wife had told him so / left that
room in divided and perpIexed state Of
mind. XII. Iii. a
l loft M0ulton's ana went to Tilton's
house; MouIton accompanied me;
asked bin on the way If he had seen
Eizibeth's confession, nor do I think
he spoke to me of the nature of the in
terview with Ffltop on. the way to Mr.
Moulton's; it was evident TO me that
Moultea and Filton had conferred about
the matter, hat it was not my way to
ask him if he knoE; ii was not my
desire or request that Moultea should
accompany me TO Tsltons. and thought
it was an. act Of courtesy found Mrs
Tiltoa in bed / informed her of the
charges her husband had made against
me; she was dressed in white; she was
Ill, and l suppose she had retired for the
night, being confined to her bed | said
| had just come from an interview with
her husband, and he had been making
serious charges against me, when | said
he had charged me with alternating her
affections fIom him, she showed respon-
siVeness she shed tears | also said he
had charged me with creating distress
and diseord in his family, and asked her
was this so? she made no response; I
said he told me you had transferred your
wifely affections to me she made no
response and the tears continued falling.
When told her of improper advances
and asked her if she had told him so,
she bowed her head expastalated with
her and said, lyon know this is not
true !" piled her in these charges, and
asked her how she could have done such
a thing. She said 81 could not help it
Il was tired out with his persistence.
He importuped and pursued me . she
then spoke of al interview in July,
with him, when he said if she confessed
her alien love to him, and he con
fessed his they would get along better
and all would be harmony; she asked
me what she could do; / said, ''You
ought to write retraction of these
charges > she said it might be used
against her husband, and / said that it
would not that would only use it for
my Justification if this charge should be
used against me in church, or if there
was any trouble about it there after
making me promise not to use it in in
juring her husband, /, at her request. got
her pen, ink and paper, and she wrote:
after some conversation not pertaining
TO this matter 1 left; when / went in
she appeared as one dead !; | did not
place clothes around her when she sat
up; | do not know whe did she indi-.
Gated where the note paper was In. her
secretary. CHanded letter.1 This is in
her handwriting, but not written in her
ordinary way; she generally writes with
bold, free hand; was not aware that
the attendant physician had ceased to