Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-03-02
NEW YORK.
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In the Beecher Triton case, to-day, after recess,
General Tracy continued his address. He said
that the threat of publishing the scandal was
stopped by Beecher saying that he would meet it
boldly. The tripartite agreemnnt did not assert
or pretend to assert that Tilton the author of
these charges, and the threat of Beecher to meet
them stayed their progress.
| Mr.. Tracy then passed on to speak of the con-
nection with Mrs. Moulton of the case, and said
that she was forced on to the witness stand by
| other parties than her own desire. This lady was
the wife of q man who had everything to lose by
verdict for the defendant. What was Mrs.
Moulton's position if she testified in favor of Mr..
Beecher, She blasted her husband, her home
she preserved her husband from charge of per-
jury. This she was made to believe would be her
standing in the case. Beecher, she says, had con-
fessed his crime to her, and in June, 1873, she ad
vised him to confess his crime to the church, and
this was the time Mrs. Moulton says she kissed
Beecher. During her cross examination she new
err looked Evarts in the face. Her whole manner
indicated that she was repeating long lesson.
On July Is, IA, Mrs. Moulton used this unnat
ural expression 10 Beecher in an interview "If
you had confessed it then you would have been
far better of'-referring to the period four years
before. On June2 70, Mrs. NJ details an inter-
view of hours duration, when she says she was
reasoning with Beecher about confession to the
church council He would show them that at the
time this interview was said to have taken place
Beecher was engaged at his own house with
we'll known gentleman. That no such interview
ever took place and that he never spoke of or
threatened to commit suicide. That the only
conversation he had with Mrs. NJ. on May lst
and lasted about one-half hour. The evidence
the counsel would show them would be eminently
| satisfactory to the jury and would be such as to
| leave no doubt in their mind. The counsel then
passed on to the time of the publication of the
| Bacon letter, and when Beecher was asked to sign
card admitting that he had committed offence
but no crime against Tilton. 1t was in regard to
this card, said Mr.. Tracy. that was called into
| this case. tried to persuade Moulton that MIR.
Beecher could not sign this card, but Moulton in
sisted and said if Beecher did this he would burn
every paper be had relating to the case
Now, gentlemen. does il not seem clear that if
Beecher was guilty he would have signed this
card, and so had the evidence of his crime de-
stroyed But he steadfastly refused to do any
thing of the kind, unless the card should stipulate
what the offence was clearly that no person
could misunderstood it, Tilton had an interview
with his wife after her appearance before the
committee. When Tiltyn writes the report for
the committee, giving it the same appearance as
Beecher said it always assumed when counsel
opened the case to them, they would understand
the letters as connected with the case and the let
tiers would explain III ,mselves. The case counsel
would bring, and the facts already presented with
the facts he would yet bring forward, would show
the matter to them in the light in which it really
stood They would see when the case was sum-
med up, that every fact is pointed to innocence
rather than guilt on the part Of defendant. In one
of Mrs. Titons letters she speaks OF harshness to
her husband, and says that she thinks Of it with
remorse and characterizes herself as the chief Of
sinners. Now the counsel on the ather side would
connect this with the charge Of adultery. Calvin
had to expla in letters written by him. The coun-
sci on tbs other side had introduced they said
secret letters between Mrs Tilton and Henry
Ward Beecher. Where did they come from :
Why, from the archives of Francis d. Moulton,
to whom they were iven by Beecher.
The Weather.
New York, March 1t is cloudy this morn
ing, and has commenced showing, with the wind
northeast.
The steamship France, from Liverpool, which
went ashore on the outer middle bar yesterday, got
off at II 40 a.
Arrest for Attempted Murder.
\ negro named Charles Blair has been arrested
for attempted rape and murder of two white wo-
| rut in Wooster street, last night.