The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-21
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INTERPRETATIONS TRIAL.
Henry Ward Beecher's Testimony
CRoss-EXAMINATIoN.

cRoss-ExAMINATioN
New York, April 20.
At the opening of the trial this morning
Mr.. Beecher took his place on the witness
stand, and continued his cross-examination.
He testified: After nights reflection ]
do not regard Tilton as making charges of
improper proposals against me, except in
general way; he repeated these charges TO
me as made by bis wife, he did not charge
me with the offense before he stated that
his wife charged me; Fullerton read from
the direct testimony of witness stating that
Titon charged him with having made i'm
proper proposals to his wife, specifically;
said witness This is not true; regarded
the word "charge' as Synonymous with
the term "declarc," and it was in this
| sense | used 1t In writing 10 my nephew;
when | said the charges were withdrawn, |
| referred to the charges Tilton had told
| against me, those of Bowcn's which he
had repeated, nor did intend to go into
the other; when Titon narrated the matter
to me he changed only in the manner in
which the charges had been told him
by his wife prior to meeting Tilton in the
cars and writing of the Dragged edge" let
ter, there occurred letter of Mrs Titon
before she left for the west, speaking of
Tilton's harshness Tilton was dssatis-
| fed, and the difficulties he had got himself
into by the Woodruff publication and his
connection with the Steinway hall meet
ing, and he attributed his changed fortunes
to me and my influence he thought was
trying to crush him did not make the
charges against me known then, because
Moulton did not wish them to be made
public do not know if Moulton then
knew the charges against me were other
than those of improper proposals; he never
mentioned it to me if he did Moulton's
whole conduct was that of man who be-
lieved in my innocence of the
charges of improper proposals VIC
never bad spoken together on the subject,
nor did | ask him for his opinion about
them. Mr. Fullerton read from the letter
written by witness on the 9th of February
1879, in which the writer spoke of
keen suspicion running through his life.
Witness said this suspicion referred to the
manner in which men would regard his
moral conduct and character / expected
to clear myself by silence, and thought my
life ought to clear me thought | should
have to meet a divided church, and that
there was no better method of investigating
the matter than by the Congregational
church, and that there would be strong
feeling against me in the church the
point of sacrifice was that | was using this
church to save myself; meant by "step-
ping down and out TO resign my pastor
ate thought my crime then was in win.
ming this womans affections and destroy
ing her household and the man that was
at the head of it could not have gone to
others persons with the matter, for it
would become public there was not one
in my congregation | could trust in the
condition Of things.
1t was either in November or December,
1872, was called to hear the "truc story
read after the Woodruff publication he
stated before he read it to me that if
could stand one sentence of it could stand
the whole of it after this he read the pas
sage, and | thought, if | can stand the
whole Of it can stand that the reason
did not deny it when this charge was read
to me was because it was not my way OF
dealing in other matters Of such kind
had conversation with Mr.. Moulton when
the letter of apology was threatened to be
published; that if that card appeared in
the Brooklyn Eagle there would be an end
to all temporizing in the matter, and that
an explanation would follow my resigna-
ton letter had passed out of my hands
then | do not remember seeing it after
read it to Mr.. Moulton / saw Mrs Moul-
ton at her own house about that time, and
was in great ,rcpidation Of minA said tC
her that Tilton wanted to be a hero before
the public did not lie down on the sofa
| IL was uOt an uncommon ioi "S ~
lie down on the sofa while waiting fol
Moulton, and would cover my feet will
II newspaper or something else to proven
them becoming cold she saw this, ant
then her custom was to cover me with {
shawl or some covering ! heard but par
of Mrs. Moutons testimony, but do
not recollect hearing her say tina
she kissed me on one occasion i
may have been that | suggested TIN
asking of this question to my counsel, ant
my impression is that | did suggest it ;
never said to her that she "seemed to MI
like a section of the day of Judgment
will swear that used no expression tina
would or could be construed in that way
do say that never used that expression
on my part there was nothing passed be
tween her and me about confession +
the church nor statement to be laid be
fore it, neither was it the subject of con
versation between us l remember when
was testifying about the statement of Mrs
Moulton | used the words, mot Of her ow
accord" perhaps should not have sal
this, but what | meant was that she wa
influenced by her husband cannot al
= swcr from my present recollection,i if wa
prepared to resign when the West charge
were proposed to be pushed against me
/. the West charges brought the Who'll
church into state of excitement the
" were moved first in the winter of 1871, bu
r were made in the winter of 1872 in cor
d sequence of them, however, the
! ran on into the spring of 1873 the rcsig
3 nation referred to in my statement wa
: prepared in May of 1878, the one Ipropoi
!, ed using if the West charges were pushed
[ do not remember writing it, but remen