The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-26
THE TRIAL.
Judge Porter to Close To-Day
Mr.. Evarts Will Follow.
The Castigation Continued.

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The Castigation Continued.
NEW YORK. May 20.-Ex-JudGe Por
ter before rcsuming his argument said
he could close to-day and Mr.. Evur:s
would Immediately follow. he then
continued and said: Ii .Bcecher had
debauched Tilton's wife, doyon think he
! (Tilton) could ask Il committee of Chris
tian men to acquit Beechcr. lie makes
and utters recantation of thi, charge Of
adultery and then comes into court @!
| justice and asks for q verdict. This pa
per could not have been prepared to pro-
tect bis wifc's honor because she had
thea left his roof, three days before the
paper was prepared, and was living at
i Mrs. OvingtOns. This accusation OF
Sunday was false, and Tuesday he re-
tracted it, because he knew it was false.
+Mr. Porter spoke of the lady who had
been Indignantly traduced, but by the
man who had not hcsitatcd to falsely ac-
cuse his own wife and pastor; Mrs. Morse
had no advocate, and she WAS Il tit victim
of this leader of free love- but this lady
commanded respect which would never
have been obtained by Tilton. This Is
the man who was cndeayorin@ 10 keep
his wifc's disgrace from becoming known,
and all he had to do was to keep his lips
closed, those lips which Elizabeth X.
TIltoh loved TO this day. Was it for
such men rs these that the law intclpos-
ed and sustained in court? +. ID. Moul-
ton was one of
"a a Class Of Dangerous Men.
| Two years ago he was leading mem
Der of firm in this city. To-day,
through some cause, that house has met
with the disaster threatened Plymouth
Church. Moulton was early brought
into relation with Butler from suits in
which his firm was engaged. The pros
cCution in that case WAS pushed by In
former Jayne, and oddly enough the pros
ecution's counsel was Benjamin +. But
Ter When the litigation ended firm
friendship sprang up between these par
ties, Moulton, the intormcr, and the in.
formers counsel The plaintiff, party
had endeavored, by fraud and -tratagcm,
to secure Tracy's services. Counsel for
Beecher, and Thos. j. Sherman, another
of defendants counsel, kept them all at
bay. When Butler was rejected as one
counsel for Beecher be- drew up one of
the most adrolt and able papers ever
published, which was iHtendcd To kill
Beecher at one blow, and which was put
forth at the time as Moultons own pro-
duction.
la the middle of January Moulton
swore that on the first Of that month
there was a partial separation of their
firm, and he was in the firm with Robin
son. That was either true or false
Wien Robinson was on the stand he WAS
asked when Moulton ceased to be a MEM
Der of that firm, and ans swcrcd, our part
nership ceased the lst of January in pur-
suance of an agreement made year ago.
Which of these two were lies? No man
could doubt but that it was Mculton, and
Tilton and Moulton had conveyed 70 the
jury the impression in their testimony,
that the claim of $1,000 against Bowen
was claim which Bowen never denied
There'was good reason tor this. for right
behind it lay the clue t. the charge OF
backmailng.
Counsel spoke of the letter Of re,igna.
ton, and read from it the expression: II
tender my resignation Of Plymouth
Church This was like standing
on the brink Of moral
Niagara, or accomplishing rape
by means ofa paroxysmal kiss. During
all this time when these parties were
writing letters, there were no expressions
used in them like adultery, but Bccchrl's
were those of Christian gentleman, and
yet whch they met it is stated that these
terms were used in consultation. This
man Mouton, who PROCESSES to believe
that Henry Ward Bcechcr was an adul-
terer, licr and dcbaucher, takes him into
his own house and tells his wife of his
(Beecher'sJ Offence and commits this
man to the charge of his wife, when he
leaves them together. He permits this
adultercr to visit his bed chamber,
snd permitted him To- kiss his
Moulton's) wife. Counsel argucj
incompatibility Of this conduit Of Moulton
of the cnarge of adultry were true. Mr..
Porter then referred to Moulton's anger
when he learned from Tracy that the
latter knew of BeecherS payment oil
$1,000, and when Trucy asked MouIton
if the charges of adultry became known,
the public would wish to know why that
payment of 50, 900 was made.
The court here took the usual recess.
After Recess
Mr.. Porter continued his address to the
jury. He spoke Of the extraordinary fact
that a man like Moulton, according to
his own statement, delivered over his
wife to the companionshiP Of man
whom h. claimed to bc hypocrltIcal
debauchcc, and that he had Il portrait Of
this aduiterer hanging in hs drawing
room. But whenever Frank Mouton
needed an explanation, it was forthrom-
ing, and if no other was possible he had
ready forged he He testified that this
portrait was hanging in his house for
only little while, after the adultcrcr
had repentcd. He swore that It never
was in his house until be moved in Rem
sen street, in 1872 When he did 50 he
forgot that Tilton, for another purpose,
had sworn that he gave the portrait into
his custody in the tall ot 1870 Two
witnesses had since testified that they
had seen it in that honsc. The point
Itself was of small importance but 1t
, illustrated the fasehood Of Frank Moui
ton. Moulton swore thathe assumed no
attitude of hostility to Beechcr until the
latter accused him of blackmaiIinG in q
statement published on the 18th Of
August, 1874. Yet the fact was develop
ed that before this. Frank Moulton re
fused to let Beccher see the original doc
uments in his possession when General.
Tracy looked for them, in order that the
copits might be rectified. Moulton denied
that he had permitted Tiiton to copy
them, although copies had already been
published and scattered, broadcast.
Mouton refused to even permit hi, own
clerk to copy these papers, on the plea
that he was going to NarraSanSett, but
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