The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-21
The Tilton- Beecher Trial.

Turner sat with the ladies facing the Ply
mouth gathering, which included the de-
PENDANT, his wife, sons and daughter-in-
law Judge Porter resuming the subject of
the letters which passed between Tilton
and his wife, referred to the letter of
March 9Th, 1863 as shedding food of
light on the relations between them-six
months before that christian man and low
ing woman were represented as having
these relations to one another that they
were charged with. Counsel quoted from
the letter IAN irrepressible tenderness
has grown up in my soul, and never saw
my path so clear as now" He spoke of
Tlton as having genius at that time, which,
If it had not been misused would have
raised him to a lofty position. Counsel
quoted from lettor of Tilton to his wife,
dated February 14th, 1867, in which he
said lie had been specializing in
the Life of Jesus, and asked her
how he would have appeared in the
character Of a married man. The latter
undoubtedly loved some woman devotcdly,
perhaps passionately. That is the language
in which Theodore Titon wrote to his de-
voted wife of his God, and counsel COM
mented severely upon it. Counsel then re-
viewed the letter written on the 18th of the
same month by Mrs. Tilton, in which she
took to herself the blame of all the unhap-
piness which had occurred in the family,
which his learned friend on the other side
said had been caused by the entrance OF
''the cold, calculating and diabolica Sc
ducer." She appealed to her husbands
better nature, which was planted IN his
heart by the ever living God, and which
she could not believe was altogether dried
up. Counsel continued further quotations
from the letter, in which she urged that
they should neither of them allow
a shadow of doubt about the other.
In the month of December, 1869, contin-
ued MIR. Porter, year after the death of
his son Paul, when he alleges that his wife
was the mistress of the honored pastor of
a y hooth SuuiNh, NinSo lCklCI W
his wife in which he says that her affection
touched his deepest nature, and that he
wished he was more worthy of it. When
the recepticlc, said the counsel, containing
these letters of the wife's was invaded, and
the letters breathing the love and alteration
she believed, published, God would indeed
be asleep if he did not overturn the actions
and inventions of this invader We will
now turn, said the counsel to the nth of
October, 1868, for there the issue of this
case hinges. On the 9th of that month
Henry Ward Beecher delivered one of his
brilliant addresses in the academy of music
and his accusers thought they could
safely fix on the next day, the 10th
of the month as the date of the first com.
mission of the act Counsel could imagine
what hunting through of almanacs there
was for this day by both Moulton and Til.
ton, so that there would cause no danger
from an alibi. The next date fixed upon
was between the Friday evening prayer
meeting and the following Sunday, sew Ell
years ago this crime was said to be com
mtted, here was innumerable time fol
perjury. Gentlemen, would you believe
that man goes for the first time IL
his life at the age of sixty year
to commit an act of debauchery? Ii
order for Theodore Tilton to wreak hi
vengeance on Henry Ward Beecher. h,
walks over the body of his wife. Counse
then commented on the witnesses for tn,
defendant, among whom he said were /!
men of eminence and popularity, witt
transacted business with all parts of tn
world and whose word in commercial
circles was never doubted and who's
deaths, if they occurred together woul,
cause the city of Brooklyn to 90 into mourn
ing There is in the heart of each of u
said counsel a tenderness exhibited toward
woman remembering our mothers, wives
and sisters. Thele was day when such
| tenderness existed in the breast of Theodor
Tilton, but it had now taken its flight
Theodore Tlton, A. b. Martin and Josep
Richards set themselves up as a mate
against Bessie Turner, girl who battle
the efforts of the ablest cross-examiner j
the land, and Joseph Richards ever
with Theodore Tilton at his RICH
hand and A. b. Martin at his left
found that he was not able to cope wit
her. There was no woman or man of an
age who could invent the conversation
Bessie Turner related as occurred unde
theodore Tilton's roof between him an
her, and in which she depicted very cleal
ly the character of the man in his differer
moods and manners. Mrs. Tilton an
Bessie Turner came home, said the coui
sci, from Marietta, the latter to the col
fusion of Tilton and his housekeeper, an
the former to the disgust of the hous,
keeper. Mrs. Tilton saw that her place
the table was occupied by one socially hi
inferior and domestic, Ellen Dennis, &C
ing as mistress of the house. Mr. Tito
is there, and the woman to whom he wro
love letters, the woman he idolized, a
sumed a subordinate position in her ow
house.