Year: 1875

JUNE 9, 1875.


1874, to give in 1875 al account Of thai
interview. No such interview took
place on June 3D. 1872, certainly not Of
the dimensions and.:limits she gives, from
nine in the morning until lunch time.


The evidence shows that Beecher went
on the two clock train, and therefore he
wasn't here ut two o'clock. He was in
I New York at ten o'clock, as Cleveland


testiGcs. and he swears he was all the rest
/ of the time in his own house III conyersa-
ton with Kinsella; and that telegram


was sent of at $50 o'clock, and there
being no servant in the house Beecher
took the telegram, all this occupying hls
/ time and making out an abb, but on her
own showing even, it is impossible that
that narrative could be correct. Against
| that alibi the evidence was produced OF


Mrs. Eddy, the spcctable daughter OF
Judge Sutherland of New York, but 1t
is hard on Mrs. Moulton that this wit
ness makes her point with
three hours of interview, for she
saws she saw Beecher coming
out of the house at II o'clock. Another


witness, Mr.. Jayne, remembers that
about nine o'clock, rs he was going to
business in New York, he passed Beecher
and turning around, he saw around the
corner or through the walls, that Beecher


was going to Rewscr street, but counsel
did not see how there was Il chance for
JAYNE, at the bottom of those steps, to
tarn around and give wary look, such
Us woodchuck gives before


Popping into its Hole.


However. the counsel really believed
Javnes object in coming to testify, was
to advertise the Health Lift. Mrs. Eddy
has no means of fixing the date so that
the external alibi is unshaken. Beecher
did 90 to Moulton's on Saturday at in
the morning, and for aught that we know
that may be the day to which Jayne and
Mrs. Eddy refer. The counsel then
went on and interviewed the character
of that interview between Bcecher and
Mrs. Motion in these random cOnversa-
tions: said Mr.. Evaits, this lady tells US
that Beecher never told her the facts of
the case. she was talking about the facts
in her mind, Beecher naturally thought
thev were facts in his mind. In all this
there is but


O,c word Indicating Guilt


and that comes out of the
!ndv.s mouth and not Beeche's.
She saws. u don't see how you can preach
to Young men against adultery when you
are SO deeply implicated in il yourself


She either meant when you have won
another man wlfc's affection and caused
such misery, or she had no doubt heard
of the charge in the letter OF
accusation that he had endeavor, to
get woman to commit adultery with him,
but in this u in the case all along there Is
nothing 20 give definite weight and force,
and she does not say that he committed
adultery with Mrs. Tilton; she says that
in the fall Of 1873 when there was talk
Of an investigation by the church, she
had an interview with Mrs. TitOn; she
al! but admits that MoultOn and Iilton
were going to betray Becchcr and she
wanted to know if the accusation was
made whether this woman was going to
stand by Beechcr and tell the truth, or


whether Tilton and Moulton could make


her take the position she was in
before. Mrs. Moulton was in tears


and she went to entreat Mrs. TiIton
/ to support the truth and not take the po-


sition of II wife opposing her husband.
1t was four o'clock ut this point, but
Mr.. Evarts continued without remark
about adjournment. lie continued: 1T
she did not know that standing by the
truth and telling the whole truth would
uphold BceChcr, why was she so anxious
to find out whether this wife was going
to support her husbUnd? lnfdclity 10
his wishes to support truth in the inter-
est of Bccnher and religion, and AS con
oluSion to this Interview, she says Mrs.
TiLon told her she should uphold Beech
rr and tell II lie What, going to uphold
Brcchcr and tell the truth
against her husband and yet giving
evidence in advance; that it was all 81
lie. The law is opposed to placing the
wife and husband in the delimma OF
swearing against each other, and when
in this particular marriage the wife ls
proved 10 be an errand girl at night to
bring Mrs. Woodruff to conferences with
her husband from which she is excluded,
and when her husband threatens TO make
it hotter than hell for any one who tes-
titles against him, the wisdom OF the
law is apparent.


In concluding he said,


Aycrdict for the Plaintiff
strikes into the heart of his wife, and
break, the heart of this noble wife of
Beccher, destroys his own COED name,
dishonors our community, and strikes Il
blow at the dignity Of human nature
but the jury would find that this suit
was in the nature Of a conspiracy, having
not much in it at first out growing and
growing until the poverty of the plain
tiff and the straits he was in, brought him
to make an accusation against the honor
of his wife. The character Is an object of
most solicilous interest to every
Judge and juror. What they
wanted to know is whether
thi, case matches Bccchcr's character,
and when vou have his life from boy
hood to the present day, open and public,
generous. kind elevated, noble and true,
YOU do not need much time in finding
out that the course of the selfish acts of
seduction do not match with the kind. .
loving, generous heart of Henry Ward .
Beechcr TApplau,e.l a good man is
always a school boy to the arts Of fraud,
and Becchcr will be a school boy to the
arts Of fraud hereafter as heretofore.
II does rot match with his char /
actrr, and with the testimony OF
one witness here that he is great boy .
Now this morbid sef.worship with which F.
Tilton has elevated himself above the
restraint of religion, of morality, Of duty
to wife and children and to society;
wherever there was put in competition
even the inhicton of pang to his self
applause, is the final and conclusive eX-
p,icalion Of now what seems so strange in
his career finds in it the natural