Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04
TILTON-BEECHER.
NoTEs OF THE GREAT BROOKLYN TRIAL.
IFrom the New York Herald

NoTEs OF THE GREAT BRooKLYN TRIAL.
GFrom the New York Herald.I
The London Daily Telegraph is the
only foreign paper known to be repre-
sented.
In the evening part of the defend
ants counsel meet at the residence of
MIR. Sherman TO prepare Mr.. Beecher's
case for the day to follow, and Tilton
and Morris, and sometimes Gen. Pryor,
meet at Frank Moulton's to do the same
service for the plaintiff On both sides
the work is methodical, regular, and
minute. A great reputation is involved
on one side; a desperate hope on the
other.
TILToNs COUNSEL.
The plaintiff has occupied five days
since the jury was selected, of which
one-half was consumed by his counsel
in the opening, and the other half with
Mr.. Moulton's yet incomplete testi-
mony. Mr.. Morris, laboring under
severe cold, exhausted himself at last,
and possibly may be unable to resume
control of the case during the week.
He will be the most serious loss to Mr..
Tilton which could have been expert
enced, but his elastic temperament and
great will and fair average health may
raise him from his bed by Monday
morning.
Next to Morris, Tilton himself is the
reliance of his counsel. He maintains
an even pulse, and the comparative
loneliness of his position gives him
freedom to work, and to work all the
time. He prepares the minutes every
night for the next days questions, and
gives them to Judge Fullerton, who
lives at the Albemarle Hotel, and
crosses the ferry every day twice, in his
carriage.
Next to Morris and Tilton the reli-
ance of the plaintiff is in Roger A.
Pryor. Vie resides within few blocks
of Mr.. Moulton's house, among family
of six children and wife, and is quite a
homebody. There he can be consulted
almost at any time. Despite his fiery
looks and record, ard his strong
mouth and chaps, Pryor is mild and
cool adviser. He restraints the precipi-
ton of Moulton, and tells him invaria-
bly, to answer questions directly, with
out retort. keep your temper even,
SIR" he says. ga small advantage is
often a great disadvantage" MIR. Pear
sail, who is the junior partner in the
firm of Morris & Pearsall, is a careful,
active, modest young lawyer, whose
daily interviews with his partner are
aids to the plaintiffs counsel.
BEEoHER's COUNSEL.
Mr.. Sherman is, ali in all, the Moul-
ton of the Beecher side-the confiden-
tial friend. He is the clerk of Plymouth
Church. At his house the lunches and
seances of counsel are held. His wife
is in intimate relations OF friendship
with the Beecher family, the Owing
tons and Mrs. Tilton, and she accom-
panies the latter to court almost every
day and sits on one side of her. Mr..
Sherman has thrown himself into Mr..
Beecher's case with professional and
personal devotion, and gives it his
whole attention, relieving the pastor
himself from the drudgery of the work.
His industry is astonishing, even in
this age of fever and zeal. How he can
ever methodize and make available the
vast quantity of minutes and data is a
mystery. His queer, little, Oriental
face, bent down nearsightedly to hi
work, is one of the features of the trial.
With him chiefly Mr.. Beecher person
ally confers during the sessions, while
he is taking notes when some sugges-
ton enters his pastoral mind.
The bulldog Of the case for the de-
Tense is Tracy. His large, rough, bur-
ly figure, grizzled face and beard and
visual obliquity, give him truly a
formidable appearance. He has loud
voice and knows its power, and, when
he speaks in the trial, he can be heart
in the corridor, and courtyard.
The third counsel. John E. Hill, was
expected to do the fierce and more re-
morseless cross questioning on Tilton
and Moultop, but he has been for some
days silent. Mr.. Hill is counsel for
both Plymouth Church and Beecher,
is thirty-five years old, and came to
New York seven years after he gradua-
ted at Union College, in 1872. He was
counsel for Mrs. Field in the suit of
Field VS.. Kinsella, and is chiefly re-
markable for making he most of the
safe side of the bar he occupies, where
witness can but answer and lawyer
can hu1lv Hill is a round haoda7