The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-20

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another letter from him in which be says
he had beeen reading Catherine Gaunt,n
and that it turned on jealousy; he cx.
pressed the thought that any man was 4
fool who was victim Of jealousy, aud in
q few sentences afterwards says "Oh
frailty, thy name is woman In all these
letters to this poor little woman there
was nothing but glorifcation and adora.
ton Of Theodore TiltOn. Counsel then
read a letter dated March $, 1867, in
which Tilton wrote to his wife OF his grey
hairs and, said the counsel, Bessie Turner
said he spoke OF them in 1870, and yet this
man comes here and in the prcsGnce OF
the everything God swears that he had
no grey hairs then. Why, you cannot
open letter Of this poor little womans
but there is something about Bowen, and
you cannot have u midnight meeting be.
tween Bcechcr and MoultOn without
snow storm resonant with exClamations
OF Bowcn's treachGry. BceCher in the
course Of his life has written few letters
TO Mrs, Tilton, and these are taken Us ev-
idence Of adultery, though written at the
instance Of Mr. TiltOn. The letter Of
Mrs, Tilton OF January l3, 1870, to her
husband was also read in which she men.
toned the visit OF Mr.. Bcecher to her
house that day. Why, said the counsel,
should she write to her husband in re.
mote State needlessly, and mention the
name Of her paramount This was after
October 10, 1868, when they alleged that
Henry Ward BeeCher debauched Eliza.
beth r. Tilton at his house, and after
October II, 1858, when they said he repeat
ed the offcnsc. Another letter was quoted
Of Mrs. Tilton's, referring to the troubles
of her own making, and yet Titon cane
on the stand and swore they were Of
Henry Ward Beecher's making.
The Court here adjourned.
The Tribune has the following in refer
once to Judge Porter's speech Every
body knew what TO expect when almost
the first words uttered by Judge Porter
were these: "Men are apt to be bold Of
speech when two stalwart champions like
Moulton and Tilton make a joint assault
upon n clergyman and woman, the one
forbidden By his profession to return evil
for evil, the other weak and powerless-
held rs II in the hollow Of his hand by
man who has but to look upon her to
subdue her to his will" The last clause
referring to Mrs. Tilton was delivered In
Il deep deliberate voice, with scathing
force, and as the words were uttered the
speaker turned towards TiltOn, who sat
behind him, and shook his clenched hand
In his faCe with look Of scOrn.
TiltOn'S face turned very red, but he
looked the lawyer straight in the eyes,
while his lips became pressed tight to-
gethcr as II with suppressed passion.
Judge Porter continued at intervals to
turn and denOuncc Tilton to his face, and
more than once the latter, who was busy
making notes, dropped his pen nervously
and half turning in his chair faced the
speaker with an angry expression. Judge
Porter, after contrasting the lives and
characters Of the plaintiff aud defendant,
hastily sketChcd the more salient events
in the life Of lIceChcr, and pronounced
TiltOn to be an adulterer and perjurcr,
the discussion Of the paternity
OF the boy Ralph, Mr.. Porter exclaimed
with electric force and facing Tilton, "ll
there be beast upon earth capable Of
holding such conversation over his own
boy with the paramour Of bis adultGrous
wife, he has lived too long upon earth; II
Is time for him to die. What are such
men for unless they have n mission in
hunting down clergymcn, crucifying wo.
men and committing perjury in courts Of
Justice" Nothing that was said during
the day caused deeper feeling in the an.
hience than this sentence, delivered with
all the whitening force that the orator
could condensc into his words. Tilton
faced it all with nm iron will, but his
checks glowed and the lines about his
mouth were deep and hard. The denun.
Citations of Moulton aud other persons
were only less severe than those against
'rilton, but a. the persons who we're dc.
nounced were not present the effect was
less marked. The chief aim OF Judge
Portcr's argument yesterday was TO prove |
from the character OF both Beecher and
'rilton and from the tone and nature Of
Mrs. TiltOn's letters to her husband the
great improbability that any Ndulterous
had taken place between Mrs.
rilton and BCccher. Judge Porter will
probably speak until Friday night II his
strength holds out Mr.. Evarts has dc.
sired him to occupy the whole Of the re.
maindcr OF this week with his argument.