Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-07-06
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NEW YORK, July 3d. The point
most frequently discussed by the jury
was Mrs. Tilton's alleged confession.
The majority held that it only covered
the charge of improper solicitation
and the charge was untrue. The prin-
cipal difficulty all through grew out of
differences as to the credihility of wit
nesses. Tilton's juror, McMnrn, says
| fatty, 1--WE didn't consider He Moul-
ton testimony worth muct, attention.
Being questioned on what 2rou ld the
majority discredited TiltOn, lie replied,
"On the ground that Tilton was not a
man to be trusted. His life, as shown
in the evidence, proved that question"
| AS to the jury's estimate of MoultOn,
he said, 1--WE threw aside his evidence
as not worth considering In regard
to the argument of the Tilton jurors
on this point, he said they didn't seem
| to have any. Anotherpoint considered
of great importance by the jury was
Mrs. Moulton's account of the inter-
view between herself and Beecher,
where, according to her testimony,
fense advanced an dlibi to show that
Beecher was at Peekskill that after
noon, and could not have held the
alleged interview at the time and the
place sworn to-. The decision at which
the jury arrived was singular. All
agreed that Beecher was at Peekskill
on the afternoon of the day on which
Mrs. Moulton testified he was at her
house. A majority thought Beecher
could not have been at Moulton's after
II o'clock in the day, but the minority
considered that the alibi was not
proven and no unanimous verdict was
arrived at.
BESSIE TURNER.
The testimony of Bessie Turner was
OH the whole, received favorably. The
only fault found with it was that 1t
was little too highly colored; but
the substance of it was accepted as
true. Nor was there a unanimous
agreement as to the true meaning of
the dragged edge" letter. The jurors
generally denounced Beach's improper
influences, and approved juror Halls
public resentment of them; and Flake
says Hall spoke on his own response
bility, but that the jury were indig-
nant at Beach's implied charge that
they had been approached by Beech
er's friends. Flake knew Of no such
approach. i.
NEW TRIAL.
The general impression is that Tilton
will not press for new trial, but that
the defense will renew the fight in
different form at the August session of
the court. ~
WHAT BEECHER SAYS.
NEW YORK, July Sd. .--Beecher says:
~ do not hesitate to regard the result
as a complete triumph of truth. A
few days will show that the dissent is
but the emphasis of the real verdict
1 hurry off to Windsor to be back next
week."
OPINION OF THE TRIBUNE AND WORLD
The Tribune says: "Tilton risked
everything-family, fortune, reputa-
ton and peace of mind to crush his
adversary, and the discharge of the
jury was the announcement of his
failure. Yet he has good cause for
satisfaction that the result was no
worse. He has broken up his home
and discarded his wife-fOr, whether
she is innocent or guilty, he clung to her
until it became necessary to throw her
off In order to strike Beecher. He has
sacrificed the good opinion of the
world and spent his last dollar all for
nothing. IT Beecher had been trium-
phantly acquitted, Tilton would have
gone down into an abyss Of ruin and
infamy, without q gleam of hope.
That fate he has, perhaps, escaped,
and it Is only to save him from tnat
fate that his counsel have recently
been fighting"
The World says: "The great scandal
has ended as it begau, in a moral
quagmire, out of which no man can
hope to find his way and live un-
smirched, save along the solid, unmis-
taxable path of an honest, masculine
contempt for Beecher's accusers. Such
was the character of Beecher's accus-
ers that even to listen to them any,
where outside of court of justice was
to put in peril the value of public
opinion itself. How can an honorable
and high-spirited man be expected to
prize and seek the good opinion of the
community If, after having won it, he
finds it of so little solidity that it may
be blown about him in sitting vapors
by the foul breath of pair of rascals
who own themselves to be uncontroll-
ed by conventional laws of honor or
by the national instincts of man
hood.n