Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-03
A New Trial to be Moved for, and q
Change Of Ysnu by Beecher's Ceua-
sel-The Jury sEd Mrs Beecher.
NOaIt0n's Card and ihe LOeitF- Price
Suit-JuTy RU11rE-SceEe Last
Night tn Plymouth Lecture
RO0m-Bsecher'S Talk.

charged. The jury stood nine FOL
Beecher TO three Tor TiltOn. The court
room was denseiy packed.
/ Early this morning the jury in the
case OF Theodore TiltOn against Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher breaAfa5ted and
then cent s note TO JudgeNeiIsOu stating
il was impossible for them to agree. The
judge returned answer that be would be-
NJ court at ten o'clock, and would then
send FOR counsel and communicate with
the jgry at that hour. HIS honor then
stepped into his private room. There
were then assembled in court nearly the
same group OF Plymouth people as were
there yesterday. Mrs. BeecheT came in
with Deacon Howard. All the stand
ngroom was occupied by eleven o'clock.
Ten minutes lister Judge Nelson took
his seat snd was followed by lawyers
| Porter, Shesrman, Abbott, Hill and
! Tracy for the defendant, aud Morris and
/ Pearsall for the plaintiff aud atsseven.
teen minutes past eleven O'clock the
] jury filed into court, looking as il they
hsd passed q sleep ess night.
/ In reply to the question, " Gentlemen
! of the jury, have you agreed upon a
! verdict" Foreman Carpenter replied
! "We have not, your honor. We regret
| very much that we find il impossible to
/ agree" Judge Nelson stated that he
! had learned Icy note from the jury ear
/ ly this morning that in their opinion
/ they should be discharged, as they could
| not agree, and some of their number
/ were suffering in health. He expert
| enced the force Of that application very
! strongly, and had called them in at the
/ earliest moment, giving to counsel and
! others an opportunity Of teing present.
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/ arate he would like for them TO carry
/ away kindly TecollectiOns, and, so far
| as they could, remove whatever chagrin
! they Ielt ct being detained 20 long.
JurYman Thayer arose and said he
wished it to be distinctly understood
/ that the Jury did not stand eleven to
| one, as IumOr had it. Judge Nelson
/ then asked them to remain seated for
/ few moments, as q photographer wished
/ TO take a likeness, but JuFyman Jeffreys
/ objected, and the judge allowed them to
| leave the court.
/ The room was then in confusion, every
/ person crOwding forward to have a word
| with the juTymen, Mrs. Beecher went
! 20 the railing and shock hands with each
| juryman as he passed. The jury were
al spoken to IS to how they stood, to
! which they replied that they stood nine
! to three for acquittal; but the names of
| the jurors on either side would not be
| revealed; they had taken an oath not to.
TiltOn and Moulton entered the court
room few minutes before the jury, but
were unable to get to the front, 50 they
| stood near the door until the proceed
! ings ended. AS the jaFymen passed
into the corridors and passages they
were besieged with questions, to which
they only replied by shake Of their
heads.
Mrs. Beecher left the courtroom with
The plymouth throng, and the court
room was cleared Of spectators.
Thus ended the great Tilton-Beecher
| scandal suit.
The jurors for Tilton are said TO he
Jeffrey, Flste and Davis. TiltOn says
the result is q moral victory for him.
MOultOn has card in the Argus saying
that the Tribune reported that he was
to be arrested for suboTnatiOn OF perjury;
he has come back, and now let them ar
rest him.
THE CASE AGAINST 8IOULTON.
Inquiry being made off. Henry Bar
ton Baecher as to the truth OF faisity OF
The report that Francis D. MOultOn was
TO be arrested on the charges growing
out of the developments in the Loeder-
Price perjury ca Q, he referred tbs in.
quireT to lawyer Jhearm8n. The latter
merely said that AfOultOn was not in
Brooklyn to be arrested; he is consult.
ing with General Butler. When asked
il Mr.. MOultOD was TO be arrested, Shear
man said the question was one he could
not answer. Beach has minated that
next week there will be a more earnest
effort made to get at the bottom Of the
LOeder-Price conspiracy. He told Shear
man on Wednesday that he would be
called on to testitiiy as to his cou1ec-
ton with the case.
MoULTON's CARD.
The following il Frank Mouiton's
card, previously alluded to:
To the Editor OF The Argus:
SIR-The New York Tribune, q paper
in the interest Of Henry Ward BeeC6er,
published this morning the following
paragraph: 1.-THE evidence Of Joseph
W. PeRTsall in the LOsder case, reported
in full elsewhere, so seriously duplicates
Francis D. MOultOn in the manufacture
OF the false affidavit OF Price and Loed-
er, that the counsel for Mr.. BeeOher
have already taken steps TO indict him
for conspiracy as well as for suboTna-
ton OF perjury, and will make applica-
ton to go before the next grand jury.
If MOultOn should return to Brooklyn
before the next grand jury meets, he
viii be arrested, anu an examination
had preliminary 10 action by the grand
jury" 4 Judicial examination OF the
origin OF the Price-Loeder aft 1avits,
ana Of my connection with them, is ex-
actly the thing / desire; accordingly l
have returned to Brooklyn to meet the
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hereby challenge and defy them TO iU-
stitute their threatened proceedings.
FRANJIS D. MOULTON.
l2i MONTAGUE STREET, BROOKLYN, n. Y,
July ., lS75.
JURY RUNIORs.
Notwithstanding the fact that all The
jurors stated that they had taken q sol
emn oath never to reveal the secrets Of
the jUry-rOOm, the following has been
asceTtsined by interviewers: One juror
said, awe stand tO-usy precisely as We
did when We went up stairs in the jury
room to deliberate, eight days ago"
Another juror sisted that at one time
the jury stood eleven to ore; again, nine
to three, and still later, five to seven.
There Wss an irrecOncilable difference of
opinion as to the cTedibiiity Of the wit
nesses on either side.
Jurymau Hull ssid that sat times the
discussions were very animated. When
the jury retired 8 week ago there was
small majority for the defendant; but
sf.er the evidence was received from
Judge Nelson, the result was to throw
the benefit Cf q certain doubt in favor Of
the defendant
Still another juror said that "at one
time the tide in favor Of Tilton was
DretLV low; il was even less than three.
st another time the jurors stood six to
six"
a Brooklyn Union reporter learned
lfOm a semi-authoritative source that
when she jury retired they stood seven
70 five-seven being for Beecher, four
for Tilton, and one doubtful, though
lesuiug 10 TiltOn. This doubtful man
subsequently came over to Beecher, and
said that on tie second ballot the Jury
stood eight to ioUr-eight for Beecher
and four for TiltOu, When the evidence