The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-13
WHICH is IT!
FOR ONE OF THEM LIES.
Triton ON THE STAND AGAIN.


HE DENIES ALL THAT HIS OPPONENTS HAVE
SWORN To-EVIDENCE OF MRS. MCDONALD
THE PLAINTIFF INTIMATKs THAT NEITHER
TRACY, BEECHFR OR BESSIE TURNER HAVE
TOLD TIE TRUTH-BUT swEARs THEIR XVI
DENcE Is TISSUE OF FALsEHooDs.
NEW YORK, May Ill eecher was absent when
the q eat scandal trial was resumed to-day. Mrs.
Beecher, however, was In court. The examina-
ton of Mrs. Med maid was continued by Nor
| ris, and she testified in substance as follows: ]
| think Bessie Turner went to Keyport on Tues.
day. She Left tilton's about noon Monday /
remained at Keyport four or five weeks. Bessie
think Mrs. Tilton had returned from Monticello
when Bessie returned to Brooklyn. The folding
never knew "I them we're sens ss open.
iocs 60 e3uid IT. say they were never
the doors We're Closed The too ,os1eneF Tne a
come together closely. Cross-examined: I have
been In ,Tilions family for over twenty-five
came to Theodore Tiltons, at Brooklyn. for
ten or twelve years. and went back and forward
the first time tn ywerel ivng with Mrs. Richards
Alter they went to Housekeeping, about four
when Ralph was born, in June, 1870, but not
long before that. Mrs. Tilton generally rgid
me my wages, and sometimes Tilton did
although was not there all the time. never
LETT Iilton's family altogether and was living
there when Mrs. Triton went away. was on
intimate and confidential terms with the
1 family. When 1 was down at Keyporf was
| treated as one of the family. saw TiIton give
MISS Turner the money to go to Keyport. There
are two front rooms connected by folding doors
on the second floor Of III on's house Redirect
examination: Ralph was about four wears old
when Mrs. Tilton went to Monticello
THEODORE TILToN WAS THEN RECALLED.
He testified: never was at Mrs. WoodhulI's
house while She lived in Irwin Place. 1 never
said TO Mrs. Woodruff at any time, or in any
persons presence, "Vickie, you publish this and
you are a made woman" referring to the scan
dial. never called Blood aside at the Broad
street office and talked to him about the scandal
anything 10 do with the publication. Ihave not
spoken TO Blood since the month of
which the scandal notice was pub.
ltshed. was never present when any
proof sips OF that article were shown, and
never saw any slips. The witness here read
from list places at which he mad lectured ont
side OF Brooklyn, from October 8, 1871, to Novem-
ness said that on April Is, 1872, he terminated
his acquain tanceship with Mrs WoodhulI The
paign on July Y, 1872, at Baltimore This is
the period when Woodley tie stifed | was at
the otfice. No conversation was ever held about
Beechers congregation paying SlO0,00 to sup
press the publication of the scandal. On the ain
of July, 1872 did not stay at Mis-. Woodhull's
but was at my own house. This one of the
days whep was confined TO my house through
illness. i ntYer sept on sofa bed at Mrs, |
Ges never put b h9se at my own house Mrs
and myself when we were at a cham
Psign supper. l never saw champaign
and we've never served with +: freshmenfs in
her bedroom. never rode out with Mrs Wood |
null ia a phaeton with a white horse. Mrs |
Woodruff never said TO me that Beecher had
better preside at he Steinway Hall meeting or /
she would make it
HOTTER FOR HIM THAN HE'LL WAS BELOW. |
1 was never in her office by gaslIght. never
went to Moulton's in carriage with Mrs Wood |
lan1l NJ (yrOIxa
me on the Golden Age. 1 declined |
to take Cooke on the paper when
he requested me to DO so. became
acquainted with Mrs. Palmer about three
months after the Golden Age was started at
Mrs. Wcodhull's office. 1t was impossible that
starting this paper a. IL was started long before
1 became acquainted with her. The sIios of
scandal were never shown 10 me In Mrs. Wood
hull's Office in Mrs. Palmer's presence in the
spring of ls72, or at sny other time. At that
time n, was somewhere between the Ohio river
fix the precise locality he was in
for the six weeks before the lst
To this conversation Mr. Evarts objected. and 8
long discussion followed. The witness then con
tinued: did not ride with Mrs. woodruff in
Swinton and do MOI see MR.. Wood NH ,bni
dsy. Attn interview in Monitors stndv 'n al
the early pant of November, 1872, when Woodruff
and Tracy were present, had net written the
was not Written until December. 1 reco'
lect by my going to DR. Siors about il.
at that time never uncovered man uscript nor
began to read IL at that interview. 1 never
heard the letter of contrition spoken Of by
Moulton at that interview as mere meme
lnda. Evarts objected 10 this last statement o.
the witness IN the ground that according 10
Gen. Tracy evidence Tilton was not present
v hen this memoranda or letter of contrition
was spoken OF. A long argument ensued be-
tween the counsel on the subject, and the testi-
mony of Tracy was hunted up and read. The
he
witness then testified: Mr.. Moulton did not cav
IL was memoranda or notes of a conversation
The witness was then asked il Tracy said to
him last summer, that If he made a charge OF
adultery against Beecher he (Tracy) would not
feel his oath binding on him, and would be
RELEASED FROM HIS WORD
to the witness. This was objected to by Evarts
who asked for time to look a. General
Tracy's testimony, and in the meantime the
hour of recess had arrived and the court rose.
After the recess Tilton's examination was con-
tinued as follows: Mr.. Morris Ito Tfton): was
tention of feeling himself at liberty to act for
Beecher. / have the evidence before me and
Will read IL and call your attention to il Speak
Ing of the interview Mr.. Evaris asks: Where did
L occur, thai Interview, that conversation? A.
yn Club? A. The Brooklyn Club. 1t may have
been been. at my Office Mr.. Tilten was in the
lre 9uentiT. o and he In wat at also 0fise
The habit of dropping in at the club when was
taking lunch, or at dinner, aud met him in the
street often. We had several conversations. Q.
Well, what passen between you? How was the
matter introduced? A. Ref rring t. the con-
of lS72. said TO him: mir. Triton, as
ong as you adhere to the case that you then /
stated to me, shalt adhere to the promise / '
made YOU, but desire u say to you that ehen |
you change your case against Mr.. Beecher, If
you ever do, and state a di eTent case from I
what you stated to me, L shall not reg I'd
my pr mise then made to you as binding on /
me- q. Did any conversation of that kind I
sVer occur between you and Mr. Tracy prior 10
your meeting before the committee? a. No,
ir. He never gave me- any such Eoiifica ion | !
Z. You have related what occurred before the Il
committee. At the Brooklyn Cub, or his Office, '
n anywhere else did he say that prior to that s
line? A. Never, sir, never anything The wit Il
less continued: read 10 Mr.. cher the same $
.aper read TO Mr.. harmon. /
me nrst sentence of DIR. Storrs
document. relating
skiing Mrs. Tflton to become a wife to him in | =
III that the name implied, was incOrpora ed IN l
he statement read 10 Mr. Beecher O. read -