The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-25
False Alarms-A Journal
istic Row.
THE BEARING OF Mr.. BEEcHER.
Mrs. Tilton Makes Another
Statement.

The opening or the proce edingsin the last days
business or the Beecher trial was quiet ana unex-
citing. The court room was not permitted to be-
come so full as on previous days; butt notwlth-
standing that the heat was almost insupportable,
all the lawyers with one or two exceptions. we're
present to hear the Judges charge. The princi-
pals to the action early IN court, and for the
first time the contrast In the appearance of plain.
tlr and defendant was marked enough TO excite
notice. Beecher cAuld hardly have looked more
cheerful and animated II he mad just been
acquitted by the jury and applauded by an ex-
temporized multitude OF his fellow citizens.
Triton. on the contrary, was morose and weary.
It would seem as II sleep haa long since iorsaken
his eyeIids and his soul become q prey to melan-
choly vaticinatons. He looked ike one who had
ventured his last STAKE in perlous game and
saw 1t slowly and irretrieyably passing from him.
There was much anxiety TO see what course
Judge Nelson would take IN regard to the am
davits handed III on wednesday. Ii the were
reopened II might run through the dog days and,
as Mr. Evarfs huuorously remarked 10 a HERALD
reporter, extend an "euthanasian to all the
lawyers and to half the )urymen. very great
sense OF relief was experienced by almost every
body when Judge Nelson declared himself against
REoPRNISG THE EVIDENCE.
Even Mr. Beach looked comforted when his pro-
position TO enter additional testimony set
On this the supposed last day OF long trial was
very varied. Every profession and almost every
vocation was represented on the door and
In the gallery. The astonishing interest which
this case had stirred up throughout all
Cnristendom appeared rejected In the faces
Of the audience. Eacn man and woman present
yesterday appeared 10 feel as II they were attend
ing an Inquest on character that no previous or
future age could ever parallel. This sentiment
was shown more fully wnen the jury retired. The
court room presented q most remarkable sight.
The whole ierce OF Mr.. Beecher's adherents
seemed to have come together to be IN at the
THE WAKE OF "coS, THE sHAUGHRAUNn
there is exhibited on the stage a multitude OF men
and women paying their last respects to the
corpse The audience are moved TO tears when
this scene is presented. Con is certainly q sad
sight to anybody not IN the secret-a bright and
adventurous lifo suddenly brought TO an extern
porized bier pains the feeling mind.
In the scene yesterday, where the reputa-
ton OF the great preacher OF Plymouth
churcn was being walked In the jury
room overhead, and the visitors down stairs were
eating sandwiches and cracking jokes, one was
Irresistby reminded OF con-. The ideal corpse or
Mr.. Beecher was stretched on the table upstairs,
but Mr.. Beeehor himself was walking In the gayest
" gay humors In the nesh q nght below, banter
ng caldwell here and Chanting Murray there
there never was sueA
"wATISG FOR THE VERDICT"
No Joer crowd under such circumstances as It
Was assembled ever met before within the walls OF
! court house. Betting on the verdict OF the jury
was "a common as II horse race were In
progress.
The mass or speculation lay between disagree
ment ana acquittal. The Beecher people went
around and announced observation-disclosures too
That the jury stood ten for acquittal ana Two for
conviction, with the two fast tending to ac-
Eulttal. The Tlton partisans reversed tnis figure,
and made It ten for Tilton and two for Beecher
No such degree OF excitement ever lelt In
Brooklyn as on the occasion or the announcement
that tn jury mad retired to consider their yer-
Dict The steps or the court house were crowded.
the sidewalks along fulton street aud Fulton
avenue were nlIed VITA groups Of people earn
estly discussing the probable verdict or the jury.
Chief Justice Nelson, feeling ike a man who had
travelled with the hosts Of lsra,i through the bar
rem ana painless desert, and alone was allowed TO
enter rue promised lard, sat in his ONCE. smoking
his cigar and entertaining host or visitors with
"reminiscences Of MS early youth. lie, indeed was
happy He had crossed the desert waste oil legal
SANDS And QUIcKsASDs,
and was now quietly resting ON the turf OF green
and fragrant oasis, where rest and enjoyment
awaited him.
The universal opinion out OF doors about Judge
Nelson's speech WAS thar II could no. possibly
have steered more evenly between the two sides.
Golden opinions nave been rendered 1t, and In the
words OF JunIus, inc grccnest laurels will cluster
sround it, Tor iheY nave been well and deservedly
sarned.
THE PROCEEDINGS
Of the day began by Judge Nelson referring to the
afidavits handed up to MIN the aay previous. Un-
der the circumstances ne decided to enter.
tain the proposition OF reopenng the case Mr.
Beach asked Il MS Honor intended 10 return the
afldayits, and His Honor asked II the counsel tn
tended 10 Withdraw them, and the answer was IN
Inc negatives whercupon Judge Nelson said nc
would nlo them win the Clerk. what passed
IN REFERENCE 70 THR AFFIpAyrTs
between His Honor ana counsel is given rom the
reports as loows;--
Mr.. Evarss-I have not seen the aaldavlts az