Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-13
THE BEECH.yR CASE.
Trial J~ssfN va.

| Prom the Nee YovH Ssnt.
a., w. svsrls mas an imPortanA case 70 argue
{ quence OF his absence the trial VII be adj
Journed from tonight until next Tuesday
morning: III is also understood that there
Will be no sessions on St Patriokis a ~, I'm
Difference TO the two Irish Catholics ca the
jury.
speech printed in pamphlet for grstuitoos
circulation.
Regarding the proposal TO mutual agree
ment TO put Mrs Tilton on the stand, Judge
Nelson says mo mutual agreement be-
tween counsel can change law" Ii is there
fore inferred that, should Mrs. Tilton be
called as . witness, his honor would exclude
Miss Sophia Lovejoy, now that her name
has been publicly connected with the Win
sted story may be called as a witness 20 con-
tradict IL. She is twenty-five years old, is
unmarried, and is visiting her sister who Is
posimistressin Princeton, Illinois.
~ me Juoges rulings seem almost always Go
Fullerton Is usually willing TO modify a
question 70 which objection is made and Mr.
ENarts VIII not recede from position until
compelled by an adverse decision from the
bench.
THE OBSTINATE WITNESS AGAIN.
Miss Oakley arrived while Mr.. johnson was
| I'm the chair, and upon his retirement she took
the elevated seat Mr.. Beach asked her with
| whom she had talked since leaving the stand
NJ Sbaarnoa2 NJ Til,p 80 M a. MI p h.u,
bad conversed with her. Mr.. Beach then put
| the question which She had refused To answer
before leaving the stand on the previous day
in the following form: " Are YOU able from
| your own knowledge and observation. with
| out regard TO what you have heard from
whom you observed a. visitors at Mr.. Til
toms after the year iSt6, were or were not WISH
| tors at his house prior 10 that date?''
am able To say she began, and IL was
evident that She was still determined not TO
| give straightforward reply.
Mr. Beach repeated the question several
times, and Miss Oakley would not say Yes
or NO" Mr.. Evarts said that she had an
| swered correctly 10y saying that she saw visi-
tors at Mr. TiltOn's house after a certain pc
rlod whom she had not seen there before.
| chow many times may the counsel ask the
| same question and receive the same answer
| he asked.
HE has not had an answer" replied Judge
| Nelson.
u submit he has" retorted Mr. Evarts.
81 have the right TO ask il as many times
| as think necessary TO exhibit the DISPOSE
ton and character of this Witness" asserted
| Mr.. Beach.
And you have a right to an answer" was
his Honors emphatic ruling;
| Under this pressure Miss Oakley admitted
| that she did not personally know that Mr.
| Tilton's visitors had changed in character.
SOME OTHER WITNESSES.
From The HeTdId
Mrs. Tilton and Mr.. Becker both look
sickly and depressed. Mr.. Beecher sat ia
| tently, good deal bored with his OWL wit
| nesses, as they went along so slowly and
| threw out an enormous amount of veI bal
| chat.
| Judge Fullerton was absent, sick. and Mr..
Beach examined in his place, doing tolersbIy
| well for one of his heavy temperament.
The sick juror stuck il out very well, look
ing at his watch and occasionally stroking
his beard.
| The first witness to return TO the stand
| was Oliver johnson, who wanted TO correct
1 something. His baseleSs head, the chin de-
| funct, the neck fled down the collar, the
| grizZled look OF a mystic who had wandered
| through all the social and ecclesiastical
caverns OF the world in pursuit of the great
| Haggarty diamond, and has finally gone into
| long trance at the feet of an idol he never
| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Such seemed this
| cold, positive, lonely man in the court of
| justice. He had wandered around, like
| Ethan Brand, to discover the great secret of
| human misery, and seemed to have locked
| IL up in his own bosom and to be rather
proud OF it. Believing hardly an idea
in the creed, he edited the orthodox
newspaper of the million and scissored
out the doings of a thousand clergymen, in
whose avocation he took no particle of inter
| est-an exotic in religious newspaper. Still
he had lived that life, and, like the Jews in
| one OF Browning's poems, compelled to at
tend Catholic worship, the explosives he
throat and turned TO a kind of husky nutri-
ment. He spoke his brief part and disap-
peared again, old and lonely, to resume his
devotion to a theology in which he sees no
| sap nor inspiration.
Miss Oakley next took the stand and re-
canted, saying that much she had testified
i y,
to make the discrimination between evil
dence she knew and evidence she believed.
/ though derived from others. This lady had
| sympathetic intentions, but, like Mrs. Put
/ nam and several other recent witnesses, tes-
| titled her deductions.
The principal witness was an unconscion-
able bore--Charles Cowley, apparently an
| Englshman, of New England, who had been
| moving around noisily on the ragged edge Of
| labor reform and greenback currency for the
| million. He was dull-eyed, weather-beat ten
On -hCh od hnaF, fs.Arr al
| cate in the navy; had met Tilton at Fort
| Sumter when Beecher raised the flag OF the
| Union there and had afterward met him at
| WoodhulPs house.
| WHAT SUSAN 3. ANTHONY CorLS TELL.
| From the Ntso York St0l.
| It's no secret that Miss Anthony says free
| ~ and positively to her friends that Mrs.
| T1lton has explicitly and fully confessed to
her that she and Beecher had committed
/ adultery together.
SPEECH THAT WOULD BE WORTH HEAR
| ING,
NeaC YOrk Dispdtcht 10 Chicago Times.
| An ardent partisan of Beecher says that.
| as the laws of this state allow defendant in
| a suit TO address the jury on bis own behalf
and, as defendants friends are not satisfied
| that his counsel, with the exception of
| Evarts, are a match for TiIton's, in mas been
decided that Beecher will avail of the legal
privilege, take the floor, and address the
jury. Should this be correct, the speech will
| be one of the most memorable and interest
ing on record.
| THE LEADING CONGREGATIONAL JOURNAL
ON MIR. BEECHER'S POSITION.
From the Boston COnOregGiOnaIia.
Now and then some subscriber writes us
| his dissatisfaction that we do not express
| ourselves more fully in endorsing Mr.. Beecher
| in his present position. We should surely be
| the last to forget to apply to his case the
common rule, which holds any accused man
| innocent until he be found to be guilty; and
our confidence in him has never been in the
| least degree shaken by any assaults from
| without, taken by themselves. Ii has been
disturbed by some things which he himself
| has said and done, and by more that he has
written. And we now prefer TO wait until
| the courts shall have finished their inveSti-
| cation, and shed all the light on the case
| which they may be able TO do, before reach
| ing final judgment; which we hope may
! be, and which with some confidence we anti
| cipate will be, what all Christian people de-
| sire and pray that il may be, one OF full and
| complete vindication. Meanwhile, il is not
| our fault that we have thus been put, by
| him, into this suspense.
| OUTSIDE RUMoRS.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Tiltons friends say that Beecher's gener-
| Gus allusion to the Roman Catholic church,
| in his sermon yesterday, was especially de-
signed to influence the two Catholics on the