New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-08

ing date the 9TH day of February and thereafter MT
Tton says that he invited Mr. Bcecher to come 70 MS
for interview house at which he shouiu nnu
Mr. Tt0n and the wife, and this is the first invitation Oh
Mr. Beecer his house. and the first visit To the mousse
that had occurred. He tells you that the opec' Oh '
was to relieve his mind concerning the genuneness OF
spurousness of the offspring Ralph, the baby OF the
family then, think something like year anu nan
old nearly two years old perhaps. Now eeniiemeh' Il
this interview ia not In the conception suggestion ana
description of by Mr. Tilton absurd, 1t Is not IN the
mower of any imagination addition to make IL 3d. IL
proceeds upon nothing, To nothing ana mas no
possible existence In the nature OF things Ihe ooec. vi
ii s to furnish what regarded az necessary anu IL
not unimpOrant link In evidence, To give time ana p
to these amours which nobody had detected or
and which no evidence could ever approach even Win
the eye of jealous suspicion, and furnish single
witness or single hint about it. And that
Is the whole object Of this need of the interview
but not this evidence that is produced by MI Ioh'
He says after they have gone up stairs
have called you hitler in order that yon may remove,
II YOU can. shadow from the future LIE Oh the niue
Ralph His mother has assigned TO me dite az "ien
your criminal intimacy with her began Ihs Astie poy
was born few months after that
Well, he born about eight months and man,
wasn't III ITO Mr. Abbott He was born eight months
and half after that-caed few months here, 10 make
il satisfying result to him, 10 find out that the inter-
course occurred date that he suggested and concern
ing which seems, he thinks, to have received the
doubling assent of Mr. Beecher Now that was the date
he had IN his mind according to his story where he
got it nobody nows)-he 10th 0ct 1863, and the child
was born the Goth OF June following and he wanted to
he sre that this intercourse Mr. Beecher and
his wife was on the 10th October in order to relieve
him Of all uncertainty whether this offspring OF MS
was genuine not. Now he states IL in his evidence,
few months AFTER in order to carry at least while he Is
tIkngl some degree Of probability or possibility In what
he Is going to say.
II the date which his mother has given IS corr ect II
will save a dishonOr attaching 20 his name want you
tell me. before God whether or nor tnat qac IL
right. l want If possible, to shield him put want
more than that, TO know the truth Tel me tne uutH
And ne told me on his word OF honor, IA before Cod
that the date which Mrs. Titon had assigned was me
correct At that moment Mrs. Iliton herself VINO
had followed me up stairs, into the room ana
when stated to her the point OF conversation sue ous
O. Well now Mr.. Tton, state whether IN that CONVEX
saon that morning in your study the date was hauied
Mr. Fullerton asks him. Now. the witness having had
his attention called TO the fact that he hadn't named
any date after ALL left it few months before the Drth OF
the child which would have carried somewhere -FOUR OF
five months lin any proper Of the words " few
months'D later than the assigned date-Mr Fullerton IL
allowed 10 call his attention to whether the date was
named.
A. 1 told him Elizabeth had named az the date az
which their criminal intimacy began oct 10, ioos. nc
replied that he had no faculty for dates and had made no
record but he believed IN his soul that she had tou me
the truth.
Now gentlemen that is the way we dispense with evil
dencc OF any act proximate act and get OUT OF TINS
defendants mouth confederation. or support OK the
and place that they aege for the first prostitution
OF the wife Well gentlemen, II you can conceive OF any
such interview and II the circumstances OF the dates
made possible that there could be any reassurng n-
ence on the mind from it, and therefore the whole thing
is not overthrow by this proposition Of the plaintiff OF
the object interview it would be overthroUn by
the exquisite absurdity of the form and manner in which
.l,a adr iacion IA from Mr..
Beecher. For, you must take 1t as he says 1t, II
YOU take it at alias Mr. TtOn gives 1t, that Mr.
Beecher in the presence OF this husband ana WITH
the wife in the house. and with the wife aI-
parently coming in afterwards, should say this, that
he hadn't good memory for dates and that he had
made record Of this transaction and with all gravity
and decoru, but that he could upon his honor before
God he mus; think that the view that Mrs. TlOn had
communicated to her husband must be the correct one
Now gentlemen, you must compare Mr. Beechers state
ment OF this interview and see which COMFORTS the best
with the relations established between the parties,
with views that yOu take Of the preceding evidence
running through the months OF December and January
the final settlement friendly relations in the begin
ming of February which never broken as Tilton
SAYS until Plymouth Church began to put it, hand On
his throat Now, af,er Mr. Beccher has given this mar
rative, Mr. TOn Is brought back "a the stand ana he
denies only single passage ia IT, ana his attention.
therefore was called by the counsel To tits interview,
and what he could deny he did deny and what he could
not deny he didn't for it is IN vain to say that this
narrative that he gives In the bald terms
that have read 70 you s sub
sttuton or a previous placing of the Interview
Mr. Beechers interview is Affirmative independent,
wholly uncOnnected interview with any such nara
tive topic subject that Of the paternity Of the child
Mr. Beecher denies "a you remember and with ndigna-
tOn the very suggestion that any such topic or any such
convcrsaton-any such Mr. Tiltons part, any such
hat AZ D.aah nor
says, which. say, remains wholly unc0ntradcted by
Mr.. TitOn. lie found them at breakfast
Mr. Tilton met If he had expected me- and intro
duced hs conversation by the recognition 81 the act at
we 10 act tremendously together and that II was
necessary therefore, Tor more perfect eicctat1n 9
that. that should have conversation N regard bOth
to himself and myself. There was renewal. some re
ncva the conversation in respect Ia the manner IN
which Mr.. Bowen had treated him IN business point OF
view cannot recall that very distinctly me OtAer
part impressed Itself more IirOn my nin ne passcu Oh
from statement of Mr. BOwens having slandered me
to the statement that he himself had experienced IKE
treatment at the hands OF Mr. Bowen lie projected u
instance the stories that had been told by Mr. Bowen II
recollect Alright. ono by one. ,, ,. ,...o.
O. About your A. No. about himself. IL was an ihteT
view far more clearing himself than clearing me ne
SAID that the story of his having made improper adj
&c, in the back office OF he brooklyn mon was
absolute falsehOOd. tie said tie story or his going
with To Winsted In Connecticut, was absolutely
false and had no foundation i'll fact and that he could not
understand how should have started except that there
was another TltOn bearing nearly the same pitias as
his who dissolute man, and an Incorporate man,
and that he had been about the country and that TINS
story probably was true OF MN, ana nad Deen trais
ferred by those who did not know the difference OF
personality to him.
Now, this last about the namesake Of Mr.. Ton, Is the
only part this OF Mr. Beechers which Mr.
Tltons attention called by the counsel and the only
part Denies and he denies that las he seeks occ
sion always deny whatever he must deny by intro
ducing the support Of fact and 30 relieving himself
from the absolute and inventive falsehood. He says
did not say this about Mr. Tilton, because did not
know then about his immortality" But he says that this
Mr.. Tilton was divorced from his wife in the
beginning OF June, 1871; that is in his tes-
nOnyhe knew the day and he gave 1t To you that he
was divorced June 8, ISL, and Mr. Morris asks him
O. And about the Spring OF 1871 did you hear any
thing concerning Theodore ii. TitOnf A. Not at the
time Mr.. Beecher mentions