The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-14
"MlY IS, 1S7l-l o. PRUSSr ACID. 50 CENTS.
A STORY ABOUT A LOUNGE.
What Two Upholsterers Saw in
the Tilton Dwelling.

When the adjournment In the great scandal
took place on Friday last it was the general
impression that the end was near at hand; that
the jury would be charged by Judge Neil
son and the case be given to them
for consideration certainly by the end OF
this week. The popular feeling was
OF gladness at the thought that there
q PROBABILITY OF q verdict being reached and that
the whole matter would be allowed TO drop out OF
mind. or course the speculations as to what the
decision OF the jury will be were and are still as
varied as ever according the bias OF the parties
TO the dicussion.
Since Friday night, however the aspect has
somewhat changed in the eyes OF a certain few,
and there appears now 70 be a prospect OF an ef-
fort being made TO reopen the Tor the pur-
pose OF admtting some newly discovered evidence
on the plaintiffs side. should this be done there is
no telling when the 1nal scene In this cause c6lebre
will be arrived at. That this evidence Is most
important all VINO read 1t viii ADMIT and for the
benent of the readeas OF the HERALD IL Is gwen
herewith. That 1t would have been better TO have
had it introduced On the trial previous to the
present time is certain, but II still remains the
discretion ofthe Judge to whether it snail, even
ct this eleventh hour, be allowed TO get in. 1t
mistakably confirms both the evidence OF Mr..
Frank Moulton as also that Of his wife, in refer
poison in MS possession, and that too, beyond a
doubt, for as viii be seen by reading the state
ment OF Mr.. G. G. Legs, the chemist and druggist.
he positively asserts that he sold Mr.. Beecher q
bottle or hydrocyanlc acid. or, as 1t Is commonly
termed, prussic acid. He has shown to the writer
his ledger, wherein is written an entry OF the ale
to Mr.. Beecher OF this
DRALDY POISON,
and where 1t is charged to Mr.. Beecher'a account.
1t will be remembered In this connection that Mr..
Moulton used In his statement the following
language
Having made an aUuston to Beecher,s suicide. Il
may be tueu lor me 10 state here the fLu ciTcum
stances or his concession concerning has N posed
design. he told me-dnd repeated 10 another in
study poison t0hsch he tooud take U the story
or his crime 10Th Elizabeth should eue come TO me
puottc. He told me or utSn pnach ne had made
20 PHOTOGRAPHERS gallery, lohere he learned that
one or the employees had mistaken glass or poison
Ior glass or Ddter, and haUfng taken and
drop the glass. Beecher sala that was what ne
wanted Tor himself; and, under plea OF making
some Photographic experiments, he procured
some or this same poison rom the photographer,
which ne told me ne intended to use II the revea-
ton OF his crime should be made. s'And then he
said, '1t would be simply ported that Beecher
died Of apoplexy; but God and you and | Will
know what caused my DEATH"
The tino W. Mr.. Beecher purchased this
poison VT shortly after he had been accused OF
OF Moulton that Mr.. Beecher was repaired. In
case the contingency should arise by the
publication OF the facts in the case, as had
been threatened TO make away with himself Ii
also sustaIns Mrs. Moulton's evidence that
Beecher told her he had some powder or poison in
ais possession which he was prepared to use in
case the necessity should arise.
In order that this point SHAH be fully understood
that particular part OF Mrs. Moutons evidence re-
lating 10 It Is given after Mr.. Leyis statement.
The value or this evidence to the plaintiff viii be
readily comprehended, and there is every reason
10 believe that the most determined EFFORT viii be
made by bis counsel to get 1t admitted before the
case II finally gwen over to the jury.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT POINT.
In addition TO the evidence already referred to
I'm regard to the purchasing or the prussc acid by
Mr.. Beeeher two other Iersons we're found W the
writer who can testify positively 10 the fact that
Mr.. Beecher did have improper intercourse with
Mrs. milton, as is charged against HIM on the trial
The whole scheme OF the defence has been
evidently based on the belief that
no one could prove the actual act
or commission. Now, however, at the last mo-
ment IL would seem as though the fates have
been at work 10 bring TO light the fact, and to
bring forth such positive and conclusive evidence
that the story told BY Theodore Triton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Moulton ana Joseph Richards, Mrs.
Titon's brother, is the true Que. In reference TO
the statement given by the man who saw the
transactions OF which he speaks is but proper 10
state that his name has been suppressed 10 order
that the man shall not be injured his business,
as stated In the account OF the interview.
The coRRoBoRATIoN.
In addition to the statement or this man there
is given an interview had with man named Price,
to whom reference Is made In the statement,
and which corroborates in oil essential particu-
lars the facts given AS 70 the scene that occurred
IN the Tilton parlor.
This evidence, II admitted, must have decided
influence on the jury, and Will leave them
scarcely any room to bring In other than a YER
dict which must condemn Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher
Having been informed t1at Mr.. George G.
Legs, VINO formerly kept the drug store at the
corner OF Fulton and CLINTON streets Brooklyn,
had, at one time, sold Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
some kind OF poison at about the date wnen the
arst expose Of his intimacy with Mrs. Hilton was
threatened, q reporter OF the HERALD endeay-
ored TO nnd Mr.. Legs 10 was discovered that
he Is now carving on . drug business
at wAitestone, l.. /. There he was sought on
saturday last out when hrst spoken 70 on the
subject declined 10 give any Information. saying
that he had been acquainted with Mr.. BeechcF
for a number Of years and nad been pretty init.
mate with hlm. lie should, therefore, prefer TO
be lett out OF tile case and, In lact, n ne
knew anything about Mr.. Beecher and
TO mis- detriment he should not tell It. "Of
course SAID Mr. Legs, 'ff | had been called on
the witness stand should have answered all the
questions that we're put to me truthfully. But
now that the case is closed | DO not see mat
ought TO say whether did or did not sell air.
Beecher any poison.n
Mr.. Legs was tnen asked n he would show his
prescription book and any book that he had IN
which ne entered his sales OF poisons. In an
swer to this, Mr. Legs said he had lett mis-
books In the store ct BrooElyn; hut ne did not
know that any entry OF a sale to Mr. Beecner OF a
poison would appear on Il, for II was more than
likely that In the case or 80 well known a man as