The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1875-02-27 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE BEECHER-TILTON TRIAL thlle i'Vezo York Herald, of the 10th inst., referring to int.neecher trial, says :—Mrs Woodhull entered again o goe the proceedings of yesterday. She comes and tales like an appatition, affrighting all concerned in ana legal drama. She is distinctly visible in the warp ,c.v,uef of the court fabric, running through both, v,"uie the old Persian strand of gold, but as a _uread of evil omen. Like Balzac's story of the lu_aurclered lady who was quoted in every fireside rrative a the community of La Salle, to colour and intensify the interest, Mrs. 'Woodhull drops into the e2lP'ent of testimony as in ominous beacon to avoid fulher than to seek. To the common mind which has ;10t investigated this story this woman reveals the and the quicksands which even the legal pilots yet failed to fathom and locate. Which side will Ving her forward as a witness? Both repudiate her, At',t.lt her constant cropping up from day to day indicates _u if not desirable as a witness, she must be invataluable as a reference. Mrs. Morse, the mother-inof the plaintiff, has achieved a notoriety second ft).44' to Mrs. Woodhull. The mother-in-law, from alre immemorial, has been reckoned in the prejudices *l, the male sex next in malignity of mischief to z_Lie devil himself. Tilton did not say so yesterday; Omit the altered tone of his voice, the bitter emphasis his words, showed that to him at least the traditional mother-in-law was no fancy of the brain, but a lettlg and tormentint, reality. The euphony of his tilbset notes in reply 'to Everts, turned to discord at e Mention of her name. "The open gates of her said he "told the scandal to the world." Everts Etlu aside that these, indeed, must have been "the Rates ajar." Tilton did not sustain the strain of t'esterday's cross-examination. The counsel, Mr. „varts, was more than usually in earnest. He seemed ",he the sentient conduit through which the whole a'lrus of Plymouth church, fashioned into a deep canal of exhaustless interrogatory, flowed over IP the witness. He was unequal to the assault. lost the splended self-possession that made rill remarkable before: His retorts on counsel b°Bt dignity, aud his replies were weak and emtit:trussed. He played with words rather than with 'Ought, and aimed rather to be brilliant than direct. i'llthout forgetting the facts, he may have trusted st,°r.,e to imagination than usual, and yet when one at'Lles the peculiar nature of the man as heretofore iljn7,bed, and the msthetic and poetic character foi,".lsted by the printed evidence which has been lee:eu upon the public by the defence, it does not BCI to be unnatural that the testimony of Tilton 84,41(1 abound in vagaries, sometimes resting on .and as often taking the common-place shape of `" is known as Bohemianistic fancies. He is not e a diamond whose several facets flash a different according to the glare upon them. Tilton is aid to be in the toils. He admitted he told Mrs. °rse Bowen's story of Beecher's adulteries, and that e knew her character as a loud-mouthed gossip. It Would seem that he might as well have communicated big story to the town crier. It was bound te travel WOodhull be heard of far and near. He did not tell Mrs. but he told one whose garrulity was equal O Publicity. He testified, too, that he walked in the Communistic procession, that passed through the streets of New York, arm in arm with his friend John SWinton, and then his prudence forsook him, and he qflitted the track of a witness to enter the field of a eulogist of the memory of Rossell. Everts saw his Point instantly. There are two Roman Catholics on the jury, and the temptation to the counsel was irresistible. "And this was the man," exclaimed the Wily lawyer, "that ordered the execution, the murder, of the Archbishop of Paris." This being repeated several times, it would be strange if these two Catholic jurymen should forget it. The usual number of ladies were present during the proceedings. Mrs. Tilton irked cheerful and unembarrassed. Thelundeviating lusions of her husband to her in terms of unbroken confidence in her moral worth and purity seem to have worked a change in her appearance, and there are those who believe the end of the trial will witness a mostanl , dramatic scene in the reunion of the plaintiff Wife in open court.