New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-12
THE PAPER READ AT THE INTERVIEW.

THE PAPER READ AT THE INTERVIEW.
Now, gentlemen. ] am not at this moment
intenlng 10 make examination, for the purpose OF
application Of this so-caed confession" Of Mrs. tn
ton presented. at the time Of this interview, to Mr.
Beecher There total misconcepon the part q
my friends IN regard to the character OF that
paper 1t not confession, though that torn has
been applied to II II written on the goth OF Dccem
ber The circumstances under which 1t was PRODUCED
the motives under which written. ali explained
TO you evidence. 1t not to DO preserved as
imminent Of this transaction it not intended, nor
did il purpose 10 be confession. The confession had
been made six months before, in full 1t had been told
10 others before by both the partiesin proof and
uncontradiccd The charge Of adultery had been made
before ths-not Mr.. Beecher, but yet under crcum
stances to which will refer hereafter, justying de-
handing the communication This not the confession
1t was a mere statement or writing or memorandum,
given by Mrs Tton Mr. Tton for the purpose OF In
ducng him. and as introduction to conversation IN
which he should scatter the peril which she felt hung
and her children through the combination which
had been made between Mr. Bowen and Mr. Tilton to
eject Mr. Beecher from his pulpit and which she knew
and felt would in the end produce revelation disastrous
TO herself and to hers Nobody disputes this. II any
tg TO believed in this that Is to be believed
If you reject all evidence, If TOn and Mouton and
Mrs Moulton, and Mrs. Bradshaw and Woodruff cannot
DO believed say and send all these people, upon the
mere declaration of Henry Ward Beecher and the breath
Of his counsel from this courtroom, dishonored by
verdict that they entitled to 10 credit, even
upon matters wherein they are not at all disputed
there anything in this matter, II II Is not all myth
and shadow, If Plymouth Church has been convulsed
with nothing If the whole world has been disturbed ana
half OF IT, you please believing in the guilt of Henry
Ward Beecher without any evidence and without any
fact aud without any reality in IL ALL why let us learn
it, and learn by bold frank declaration upon the part
of the Jury that there Is nothing OF truth in what four
witnesses swear to-
Now, you will remember that were not permitted
TO prove what this statement made the 10Th OF De-
cember by Mrs Tilton was. We offered that proof We
could have proved it by witnesses. The counsel OBJ
jected and the Court ruled 1t out We struggled as best
we could for admission Of the evidence We desired
that you should hear what these two witnesses Tlton
and Moulton, would say upon that subject; We
wished TO give you the opportunity, the privi-
lege Of judging whether they were TO be
credited or whether they were to be rejected
IL you disbeleved them, why the plaintiffs case failed
and their Of what this writing Of Mrs Tlton
contained OF would be dscedtcd and disbeheved
but my learned friends would not have it. These wit
would have told you according to their best reco
lection presume aud upon their conscienccs and oaths
Just what in that writing Why 1t was destroyed we
will talk of by and by but repeat, our friends ON the
other side would haveit And who is TO be blamed
Mr.. Tton read it TO Mr. Beecher. Mr. Beecher II there
any truth in Mr. Tton, must have understood what it
was He says that the charge improper solictar
Mr. shearman-No; he has never said So
Mr. Beach-Never said sol
Mr.. Shearman-Never.
MI. Evarts-Not In this case don't know what he
said anywhere else
Mr.. Morris-Distincty.
Mr. Shearman--You are talking about the contents Of
the paper.
Mr.. Beach, talking about Mr.. Titon's statement
Mr.. Evarts-Oh! the oral part.
Mr.. Beach-Yes, that just what am talking about.
said that Mr.. Beecher testified that the charge made
upon that occasion improper solicitations and that
Mr. Beecher swears IL sexual intimacy Well, gen
tlemen, IL Mr.. Tton and MI Moulton cOud have sworn
as to the Of the statement that Mrs Tton made
and which communicated to Mr.. Beecher at that
time then whether 1t would have enlightened not
would have depended upon the credby TO be attached
to the statements Of Moulton aud Tton In regard it's
contents.
The Court here took the usual recess until O'Clock.
MR. EVARTSS COMMENTS ON THE WIFES
CONFESSION.
After recess the argument for the plaintiff
IVES continued % follows:
Mr. BeachMr Evsrts criticised the relation given by
Mr. TOn Of the confession Of his wife account OF the
Particularly the circumsantiaty OF tho statement
that 1t too precise and formal that one speaking
under the circumstances In which wife was supposed
70 be situated making relation OF this character TO the
husband could not by any possibility have controlled
her emotions and their effect upon her mental operations