Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-03-25
LATE TELEsRAMs.
bessie Continues.

NkW IOkk march l7.-lu tno oeccu.
or trial to-day the cross-examinAtion Of
Bessie Turner was continued. Witness
was questioned in regard to her aDtece-
dents-where she had lived since she
was old enough to remember-and from
her answers II appeared she had lived
with various parties in New York, and
that some two or three months before
going TO Tlton's 10 live she was in q
dollar store on Broadway, from which
she was discharged. but she Was not 90
cussd Of anything; she had no rsoollec-
ton Of how shs got tho position; went
TO Tltou's in 1864; was there OF and
on for ten years. Witness was then
questioned in record to . letter sho
wrote at Tilton's dictation. She did not
remember II he made any mistake; ! do
not remember any mistake or errors that
he made In the rspetitiono Of Il; II he had
made any error or told o falsehood 1 do
not think I would have put IL down; he
dictated 20 fast that I did not take time
10 observe; II seems TO me he dictated
faster than I could write and he had to
stop two or three times; / think i told
him he VAS debating too fast; / wrote
oil that he dictated.
Mr.. Fullerton road q sentence from
tho letter Of January 10, 1871, stating
that Mrs. Morse Ind repeatedly offered
| Bessie presents to tell the story about
Tilton, and that tho writer had been
persuaded that the kind attentions
shown by Tilton TO her were untrue.
Witness stated that this was not
true.
Fullerton read that tho writer did not
want to DO used by Mrs. Morse to bring
trouble on her best friends, Mrs. Til
| ton and her husband, and she vas asked
il that was true.
Witness replied that IL was Tilton's
dictaiion ami her writing. Witness
| testified that she wrote another letter for
| Mrs. Tilton: wrote. Il FROM copy pre-
pared by Tilton; Mrs. Tilton handed
her the copy in her Mrs. Tilton's)
handwriting.
Witness hero identified a letter dated
January IL, 1871. 1t was read and
stated that tho story that Tilton had
carried hor in his arms to his bed
screaming, Was q wicked lie. II was
signed Bessie T.
Witness continued: This was the first
time she ever saw the story in this form
he mover carried her 10 his bed scream.
| ing; he had attempted TO violate her
person, because Mrs. Tilton told hor so.
| Witness did not think she could truth.
fully say, OF her own view that Tilton
attempted to violate her person; she
was asleep when he took her from her
bed, and sho did not wake up until she
was in his room and ho standing over
her. Sho signed tho letter because she
loved Mrs, Tilton, and II would get
| Tiiton out VI all his troubles with Mr..
Bowen.
Recess.
After recess Bessie Turner resumed
the stand and Fullerton announced that
no WINS through with her. Tho redirect
examination by Porter consisted simply
Of the question OF what sho was doing
ut Beaver, Pennsylvania; TO which sho
replied that she was teaching school.
Fullerton asked why she left, and she
replied she was forced to leave because
Of the notoriety she had obtained in
connection with tho scandal. Bessie
was allowed to leave the stand.
George L. Sedgwick, a lawyer, the
next witness, testified to having seon
Tilton marching between Mrs. Wood.
hull aud Miss Clatiin in Il procession in
honor OF Russell, tho Communist.