The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-25


true and noble in every relation of liir.
Porter said he had many notes which he
was compelled to discard, because to use
them would protract his argument be-
yond reasonable limits. The was one
side passage to which he must be allow
ed to refer. Tilton said that
he had always thought OF
Beecher as big boy, and in the very
next sentence accused BceCher of the
craft of taking advantage ofan opportu-
nifty to gain an apparent advantage over
the cross s-eNaminlng counsel. Whenever
he had chance, during his examination,
he thrust dagger into Mr.. Beechcr'S
side. Referring TO the title Of true
story" and to the assertion OF Illton that
he did not know where he got that name,
Porter said the plaintiff forgot that he
spoke OF it by that name himself, before
he knew that Redpath's notes had
been preserved. and when he
supposed that all of the manuscript
was dust and ashes lie then said that
the story of Beechers preaching to his
miitresscs, the origin of which TiIton
said he did not know, was said, by MouI-
ton. to have been told to him by Thro.
dore Tilton himself, when the latter WAS
pretending to be- Bcccher's friend. Even
Moulton was compelled to confess that.
Porter then spoke Of
TiIton's Threat 10 Shoot Bcecher,
and said that the jury were asked to
condemn the latter on the oath of an rs.
sassin in letter to complaining
friend said the speaker. TiIton de-
nounced the story Of his wifr's adultery
rs lie raised by Bowen
and Woodruff, and said he had
no knowledge of the scandal article. He
would have you believe that when this
scandal article was published and tcIe-
graphcd all over this land and abroad,
that hc (Tilton) remained Ignorant of it
week. Theodore Tilton was III love
with the woman who published tins
article. She was Il whitc-soulcd woman,
but the course of true love never did run
smooth, and after this libel on his wife
was published quarrclcd with her She
teStiics that when the charge was made
against Tilton's wife he did not hasten
to put in gindication of her-not be-
cause he loved his wife less, but because
he loved Henry G. Bowen more, and
feared that Bowen would bc crushed by
Henry Ward Bccchcr.
After Bcechcr's return from Pcckskill,
on the 18th OF July, 1874, said Mr. Por-
ter, and after Rcdpath'S message Of the
18th OF July to Mr.. Bccchcr, the charge
was changed to adu ltery, but Redpath
did not believe this charge. This mpu-
dent Cuckold, said the speaker turning
to Tilton), who comes into Court flour
ishing pair OF antlcrs which are
not his own, and which
he asks to tip with gold-this cuckold
submitted his short report for the adop-
tion of the committee, after Beecher re-
turn. This report, gentlemen, did not
contain one word about Mrs. Tiltons
adultery, in his own hand writing. The
odorr Tilton knowing all the facts of the
case thought this report would reflect
credit on all concerned. This is the doe
ument prepared by Tilton and borne to
Beecher. by Moultun, on the
l4th Of July. Tney were about
to entrap Beecher into the use of the
language used in that document before
the committee, and leave the alleged
otiense committed by him undchned. In
In long report TiIton admitted the
mlsitv of his own accusations. He did
not know that in the language of the
law that what he wrote for another man
to sign was evidence against himself.
This report showed that the only otiense
imputed to Henry Ward Bcccher was
the charge Of improper proposals.
The Counsel then read the long
report prepared by Tilton to be
submitted to the committee, and
commented briefly on the different
position. Here was the report, said
Porter, which Tilton prepared three days
after his wife had left his roof and after
he had told the story of his witc's adultery
And he certties here that the apology did
not mean adultery, but that it was an
apology for mixed Hp affair. Which was
true the paper of the Nth of July,
which exonerated Mrs. Tilton and Mr.
Beecher, or the paper of the 10Th, which !
set them forth as shameless, exposed and |
confessed adulterers.
Court here adjourned.