Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-12
EVENING STAR.
THE REECHER CASE.

last come 10 light Her name is Sarah love.
JOY, daughter OF ex-Congreesman Lovejoy,
and she Is at present living In Illinois. She
is now twenty-three years of age. and conse-
quently was but seventeen when she went %
Winsted-"a school girl" as Tilton testified.
or twenty-eight, as Holmes, the Beecher
witness of last week. declared her 20 be. As
for the .'dishevelied hair that troubled
Holmes so much, the editor of the Winsted
Herald says that he remembers seeing the
girl and especially her hair. which she wore
at the lecture in aeoiioee style that was
then new 20 the Winsted public, the incident
making an impression on his mind because
Miss Iovejoy was the first TO Introduce the
fashion. which his daughter at once adopted.
Altogether, The attempt by the Beecher law
yers to i,jure the girls reputation and
damage Tflton by resurrecting this winsted
incident seems TO have been decidedly i'll
advised, TO say the least
TILToN NOT TO TESTIFY AGAINST Mr.
BEEcHER.
From the Nesc fork Son.
The cross-examiDation OF Miss Isabella G.
Oakley, the conductor OF the Kintergartcn
school in Brooklyn, was continued by the
introduction OF the following letter:
Nv Dear F7o,,pss al SRt ssl s5SnEr, Jan = ISIS
fun OF new cares aud trials 10 you, have been
sympathy and counsel there we're need .. counsel
for know the trials OF young life struggling with
sll the necessities Of life with unaided hands No
doubt there sweet Of such adversely. bat the
of pity and regret than of congrafulation But Won
have had 'orrows 60 bear that never knew for You
TO mourn yer broken home. was very glad yOu
had been able TO slip along quietly AZ Mrs. Brad
You were protected from the public gaze, aud fear
you viii regret leaving her. You know Matte aud
both loved yon IN infancy, AMI through many
years when your mother was
, Ky DEAREsr ANb IDEAL FRIEND,
ritcing mother. 1 have seen and known a great
many women; seen q great many mothers, As
with mother- but have known Few like yours Her
e ~ h s%nnd up 10 her children nov nor even than
life can bring her will come through them. DO, my
dear Florry, consider well her claims ON your lsiy
and love, and in this extremity hold up her heart
and hands. None knows better than tina; IL is she
service, if any is able to serve her alone AfIer
the fullness Of mothers life with every tie she
fault but too weak fondness for her husband Your
mother has been true to every one but herself but
her blind sacrifice Of self 90 save him has led only
disaster. DO not you, dear Florry. take up that
wretched role do not persuade yourself that you
help him. He it is who in the yigor Of his years and
with the accumulated experience OF life should help
You, protect and adyance yonr womans mind. II
the best blessing of your future, cherish your mother
hoped most earnestly that you would be spared any
your parents SSpe Sc s Man Z not Se sre
on you by the selfish hand that has robbed every
suade you TO set in any way that will comproinise
your mother before that short-sighted and hasty
say to you what think Of your father, but can
say anything without admitting my horror of his
bsuched by his publications. only want 90 plead
with you for your loving, suffering mute aud patient
ISABELLA @. oAKLEY.
The letter was scanned by Mr.. Beecher's
lawyers, and then Mr.. Sherman whispered
with Mrs. Ovington. Pressed by Mr.. Fuller
ton, Mrs. Oakley candidly admitted that IL
was written with reference to the possibility
of Miss Florence Tilton being called as
witness, and was suggested by conversation
on the subject with Miss Moore, Mrs. II.
Morse, Mrs. Ovington and Mrs. Tilton. To
the question, " Had You any apprehension,
however faint, that Florences testimony
might initiate against her mother in any
degree?" she replied, after a long hesitation
and several indirect responses, II she was
TO be called on behalf of the plaintiff it was
presumable that she might say something on
that side"
THE WITNESS BECOMING OBSTINATE.
Then Mr.. Fullerton shifted his inquisitiol
| to the change which Miss Oakley had said
occurred i'm Mr. Tilton's associates, asking
her whether she knew by personal knowledge
that Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony had
not been visitors to his house before 1856.
Miss Oakley would not answer, except by
basing her reply on hearsay. She argued
| that what Mrs. Tilton had told her was true,
and was therefore to her personal knowledge.
| Mr.. Fullerton explained to her that personal
knowledge in law could not be gained from
hearsay, but she obstinately refused to an
s% MS eXPhS t Mis- e PIs t9e ddesttoa over
| or no. She grew painfully flushed, and sew
eral times seemed about to weep, bat she was
| persistent, Mr.. Evarts came TO her relief
with an argument that the answer which she
had given was proper and conclusive.
"No, no, it isn't" said the judge. "The
counsel has put his question repeatedly with
unusual care, and il seems to me that the
witness might answer yes or no."
More than half an hour was spent without
satisfactory conclusion, and finally four
O'Clock, the time for adjournment, arrived.
At this point Juryman Jeffrey took his
hourly dose of medicine.
The effort TO make Miss Oakley answer
was continued fifteen minutes longer, but in
vain. She would only give evasive and indi-
"if the jury are willing to wait" said
Judge Nelson, ''we will further prolong the
session.
"Some of us would be seriously inconve-
nienced," replied Foreman Carpenter, after
a consultation with his associates.
"Well," said his honor, addressing Miss
Oakley, then you will have 10 come again
in the morning"
Miss Oakley went out leaning on the arm
Of Brother Halliday.
THE JOURNALISTIC WITNESS.
From The NetV YORK Herald
The advent of Mr.. Oliver johnson as a wit
ness made a little stir in the audience. The
bosom friend of Horace Greeley, the free
lance in many progressive movements. the
quondam friend OF Tilton and the vagrant
editor of innumerable papers, was a charac-
ter who could hardly fail TO attract some
degree of notice. Mr.. Johnsons head and
face were covered with gray, fog-cOlored
hair, feebly inclining 10 curl, like Skye
terriers. He has an inqulring nose, that
scents controversy, If not a battle, from
afar. His forehead runs up almost perpen-
dicularIy from his eyebrows and then sud-
denly slopes of at an easy angle like q Man
sard roof. He has vitality, vigor and a suffi-
cient degree of Self-assInance TO make him
interesting. According TO his own story his
religious sentiments have been growing from
his birth. He was esiitor Of variety of news
papers-the Anti-Slavery Rlgle, the Chris
tian Soldier, the Blackstone Chronicle, the
Middlebury Free Press, the Pennsylvania
Freeman, GarriSon's Liberator, the indie
pendent and the Christian Union. He was
as mutable in his religious as in his editorial
attachments. He was Quaker a Congre-
gationalist, Progressive Friend within a
few rods of the millennium. a Universalist-
everything by turns and nothing long" IN
the growth OF His powers he concluded that
Christ had nothing of the Divinity, but was
merely an agent of the Deity. He was a
superior, perhaps the best, witness that the
defense has yet produced. He was cool and
prompt in his answers, giving the impression
of a man of rare self-poise and abundant
intelligence. He told enough TO convey the
idea that Tilton was a mere baby in his
hands, who told his ar:less tales without
ever dreaming they should come back 10
plague him.
With the exception of Johnson all the wit
nesses produced for the defence so far have
been manipulated into agents for the plain
tiff johnson held his ground TO the last, and
when he descended from the witness chair