The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-13
THE WONDERFUL TRIAL.
Close Of the Tenth Week in the
Great Scandal Case.
MORE JOURNALISTIC EVIDENCE.
Tilton Pursuing Beecher to
His Grave.
MRS. WOODHULL'S OPINIONS.
She Thinks the Plaintiff a
Great Acquisition.
SIGNING THE TRIPARTTTE.
MORE JOURNALISTIC EVIDENCE.
MRS. WOODHULL'S OPINIONS.


SIGNING THE TRIPARTTTE.
The morning hour OF the Brooklyn agony brought
mp the secretary OF the corporation, N. p. R. R.,
and author OF the famous saying "A national debt
might could, would should have been q ma
sional blessing"
Mr. WtlkesOn Is q man Of slight genteel appear
ance, his body clad In black and his head Is quite
graytsh. His white beard, rolling all round mis-
chin like BARRIERS lather, derives Q somewhat
CHASTITY Wilderness from the LARGE and enthusiastic
black eyes which roll with mingled mind ana
impulse.
Mr.. wilKeson is another instance OF the far.
reaching associations OF the case. As tho Score
sary OF the Northern Pacific Railroad Company he
carries 1t to Duluth, the Red River Saskatchewan,
Bismarck and the Black Hills.
There Is beautiful forehead attached to Mr..
wikeson's beaming and poetical eyes. A sense
OF the friend, the philosopher and the guide Is
afforded by the contemplation OF this fatherly era
mum and the concealed hair lying around It, He
reminds one Of the head OF John Brown, OF Ossa-
wottamie. He grasped his chair with hooked
hands, close to the from distant lands, rlnged
with the azure beard he stands or rather sits.
great quarrel arose just after Mr.. wilkeson
terial to tell. Being an ola newspaper corre-
spondent the imputaton was professional, and
the lawyers tussed about 1t q good while.
Hill was cross-examining in his usual extraor-
binary way. He leans forward, pinches his lips
hard and grunts where the witness sticks.
Hills excruciating smile attempts greater va
riety Of expressions tnan any other known smiles.
But superb as he appears a smler he cannot
equal Sam Wilkeson as witness.
Washington, and he feels everything he utters.
At his imaginative wand the prosaic Congressman
saw bananas clustering AROUND the forest trunks
Of the North and visible isorhermal line, covered
with roses, curving through the land OF the Ojib.
beway and OF the Dakota.
When Samuel began to testify he faced the Jury
and put them under his potent spell.
The juryman sat on a stone,
he could not choose but hear;
The dark-eyed mariner.
1t presently came out that Mr. Wllkeson was
not only the author OF the incalculable blessings
OF o national debt, but also OF the weird and novel
document called 1.-THE Tripartite Covenant" He
suggested 1t. As he confessed the soft
he insensbly referred to Fl. B. Claim as "Horace."
and every minu saw the context by which the tri-
partite lyric began, ave three-Henry, Theodore
and Henry" Alas that all these months we have
been unconscious that by these three walked other
spirits noiselessly- Horace, Francis and the aged
Samuel. Mr.. Claim, by the way, had saved Mr.
Bowen from bankruptcy on one occasion, and was
said to DO the only person who could deal wit
him.
everywhere" says an authority, "that We
touch the scandal we md two things-a cloud Of
Inspired Junk, with ragged edge Of business"
Mr.. Wllkeson was not permitted to tell what
he knew about the son OF Mr.. Beecher ct ashing-
ton city several years ago, and this innsmed Mr..
m art ha Ind for ~ ~
pronouncing evidence irrelevant and unimportant
without hearing what It was"
In this the Judge, IN q voice OF mildness moro
reproving than reproot. replied that It was
hardship TO hear quantity OF matter which could
do the defendant good Whatever and merely
prolonged the trial into every aisle Of meandering
and inlo the infinite duration OF time. He snapped
of the thing. and the defence took no exception.
MIR. Wllkeson admitted at tho outset that he
was partner in the publishing house Of J. B.
Ford Co., which house was stockholder in the
christian Union. He did not come to the life OF
Christ dying on the END or q kite until the cross
examination.
1t appeared that Mr. WilKeson produced his beau
tul poem, called "The Trpartite Covenant" April
2. 1872 1t must there ore, have been composed
on the lst OF April-a celebrated day IN the annals
OF the Eastern Magi.
There sat on the bench yesterday Mayor Hunter,
ex.District Attorney Winslow, who was one OF the
church investigating committee; w. A. Abbey, Of
the Boston Bar, and Mr.. Barney, formerly Collector
OF the Port OF New York.
The testimony of Mr.. Wilkeson was important to
the defence. He 1t was who had rendered the
vast service to Mr.. Beecher's son, at Washington.
rilton sat looking at him like his other Dromio,
md finally, at critical PERIOD Samuel wheeled
around and looked Theodore IN the eyes. Theo-
nore returned the looK with interest, leaning for
ward and making notes for Judge Morris. Henry
meantime, sat back in his usual chair, with
newspaper man at his elbow whom lie had sum-
moned by telegraph from New York
'TO SEE SOME FUN"
Mr.. Beecher, after whiie moved up among his
lawyers ana listened with deep anxiety, as II he
expected this witness to be vital to his acquittal
So was Mrs. Beecher anxious. SO was Mrs. Tilton
who sat under the starboard OF the large and In.
tensely oailidly earnest Mrs. Field Mrs. Tilton Is
worn, but OF a determined look. She Is thinner than
formerly, smiles at times, LOOKS oftener into her
lap and hears the remarks OF Bessie Turner, who
peers forward at ner side, understanding the
proceedings imperfecty.
1t seemed that Samuel has also written the ed-
torals IN the Christian Upton referring to Mr..
seecher.
~ didn't want Mr.. Beecner to DO any writing
like that,r saio Wllkeson.
wilkeson also admitted that 1t was ne who first
made public the tripartte covenant
The Court assembled at the usual hour Of eleven
o'clock.
Mr.. samuel Wilkeson, sworn and examined by
MI. Hill 81 reside In Fortietn street, New YORK
city, have been Secretary OF the Northern Pa
Clfic Railroad Tor i've years; previous TO tnat
have been journalist Tor thirty years nave
been connected with the Times aud Tribune; l
was seven years on the Tribune ana one year on
tDe Times In the year that the battle or gettysburg
IN Washington rom 1e6l to 1868; am one OF the
eoparlners OF Fora Co., publishers. ana they
hold stock in the christian Union; know Theo-
uore IiIton and Henry Ward Beecher; remember
ali interview with Theodore luton IN Washington,
N NJ NJ. AlIl. md