The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-22
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The Beecher Trial.

ne court room was more denscly peO-
pied this morning than it has been since
the early days of the trial, and many ladies
were among the spectators. Mrs. Beecher
was attended into court by DR.. Edward
Beocher. 1'ilton was carly in his scat.
When the jury was called, Mr.. Beach
arose and continued his address He said
Moulion had been charged with faithless-
ness in refusing Beecher copies of docu-
mcnts from time to time placed in his hands.
On July Goth, 1874, Beecher applied for
copies of these letters, and Mouton replied
10 his letter on August 4th. The jury
would remember that, shortly after this,
Moulton obtained the mutual consent of
both parties TO bring the papers in question
before the Investigating committee. 1t was
not for Tracy, the advocate of Beechcr. to
condemn Moulton, who was far below him
(Beecbe) in intellectual qualities, and
when Beecher entered into policy Of 81.
lence and operated with Moulton for that
end, the defendant should not therefore
blame Moulton for his action in this respect.
Counsel then quoted from Gen. Tracy's
opening in respect to the part taken by
Moulton in the matter. TO represent Moul-
ton as n special friend of Beecher, said
COUNSEL in this matter, was preposterous,
for during these years there was not
a day or hour when the honor and
safety of the defendant did not de-
pend upon this faithful friend Tracy says
of Moulon, that TO promote christianity,
in which he did not believe he had been
leading life of lies, and divided his wifes
kisses with prostitute. An attack of this
kind, said Beach, could not be tolerated,
and no man who made such an attack as
this could belong to the courteous profess
sion to which they belonged, and the worst
Of this attack was that it was not his own
production, (which he was reading in the
tone of schoolboy, who had but imper-
fectly learned his lessons. This came from
man who had given his oath of honor not
to appear against the plaintiff, and was
caused by Moultpn's refusal to surrender
these papers, placed with him under mu-
tual consent, that they should not be given
to one party without the consent of the
other. There was one other witness who
had borne testimony to the confessions Of
the defendant woman who had been
euloglzed by Deecher in his letters, and the
question is, was she TO believed. This
woman had been charged by the pas
tor in his defense as a conspiratress and
conserving with prostitutes, making her
house rendezvous, and exposing her son
to their influence. 1t was not bad enough
to include Tilton and Moulton in this cate
CORY, but they could hot stop until they had
included the mother also. His friend
Porter charged that Mrs. Moulton was a
perjurer, and not to he believed, and
had not the other side endeavored to
show by witness that Mrs. Moulton's
stories were not To be credited A very
serious charge WIS brought in the outset
against Mrs. Moulton, and raised by Sher-
man, that when on the stand she did not
once look in the face OF Evarts, and Eyarts
himself said her glancca were furtive But
she had not that gift of dramatic effect
possessed in an eminent degree by Bessie
Turner, and also b. Beceher himself,
which was so dear 10 the hearts of Ply
mouth church anil their gallant ushprs.
Perhaps Mrs. Moulton saw nothing very
attractive in the face Of lvaIts TO look A..
Laughter, which Mas rcbuhed by Judge
Nelson. MIR. Beech then cited passages
from letters of Beechcr, in which he spoke
in the highest terms of her counsel, also
quoted from Mrs Mouto,s testimony in
respect to the advice she gave Beecher
when he came to her and confessed his
sins. She favored Il confession, not in
secret but in public and TO his church
This advice appealed To the judgment OF
Beecher in Ills cooler moments, as is shown
by some of his letters. Beach quoted fnr
ther from Mrs. Moulton's testimony in re
gard to BE, chcr's opinion Of her when lit
said she always seemed to him like Il sec
ton Of the judgment when she commended
that he would b. forgiven by full
and free confession made to his church
Counsel quoted from the opinion OF Chic
Justice Shaw, in the Webster case, as t.
the proving of an abb, and also from al
article in one Of the morning papers, Apri
| 8, 1915, which counsel pronounced to b,
sound and sagacious. Beecher swears tina
on the morning of the "a of June, between
8 and 10 o'clock, lie was in consultation
with Kineella as to the form of car,
which was published that day But TN
drawing up Of a card of fifteen or twent,
lines would not occupy very much time Oh
the part of two such learned minds. Thel
Beecher says he crossed over to the Christ
ian Union office, and the question is, wher
was Beecher between this interview an
leaving for the office of the Christian
| Union in New York? An interview o
two hours under such circumstances as ha
occurred, might well have led Mrs. Mou
ton to believe it had lasted three or fou
| w hSlC was DClWttll " III
Il and IL o'clock ? One hour he says wa
spent in conversation with Knsella Mr..
Moulton says she was in her house unde
circumstances she details Kinsella was i
this city, the editor of paper. He was
reliable witness, and was accessible, but b
was not produced as a witness to sustai
the alibi, and the jury would remembe
that the presumption of law in regard I
this against Beccher. Evarts, instead {
producing Kinsella read an editorial artc
from the Eagle in support of his prof.
osition, and tried TO blind the jur
with this cloak which he threw over the
heads. Now the evidence of James in r.
gard TO this was conclusive. He sa
Beecher that day coming from Columb
Heights and going towards 40 Remse