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Show TELEGRAPHIC THE lilCEOIIEH TRIAL. Now York, 1. Tracy continued his speech. He suid that nftor the Wood-hull Wood-hull publication, Bcochcr, by the advice ad-vice oi' Moulton, adopted tlio policy oi silence, unil tliat the only criticism that could be made of the defendant wua that, having accepted this policy, he endeavored faithfully to carry it out. Tracy again referred to Bowen'a part in the afliiir, and said that at the time Til ton got liowen to carry tho letter to Bcecher he (Bowen) promised to support Til ton in nis charge) againat Bcecher, but two days afterwards after-wards he became Tilton's enemy and deserted him. Again referring to tho conduct of the conspiracy against Beeoher, the counsel said that Tilton'i manner of conducting the aflair was to make statements and publish them, while Moul ton's way was to keep silencj and allow other parties to make statements. Tracy said he would show that the friends of Tilton applied in December, 1S72, to the friends of Beocher and advised I hem to buy tho New York Express, which was thc-n for salo, and for Beecher to tako charge of it, while Tilton should go abroad for some months and when he returned take staff. Meetings in furtherance of tii is plan were held in Brooklyn and New York, and twioe at the union league club. This, said Tracy, was nothing but a scheme to blackmail Beecher, as he would show by a witness wit-ness almost aa well known throughout through-out the country as tho defendant himself. Iu support of this view Tracy quoted a letter from a complaining com-plaining friond, which he said was a liction, invented by Tilton, and the answer to it was simply a blackmailing blackmail-ing threat. Counsol then went back to Tilton' threatened publication in the Golden Age against Bowen and Beecher, and said he would show that Tilton endeavored en-deavored to have this atatenientof his published secretly and in such a manner man-ner that it would appear that ho had nothing to do with it. Ho would show that Tilton had an interview on tho subject with McKelvey, of the Brooklyn Eagle, iu which he told him that his charges against Beecher were of improper proposals to bis wife, but that she resisted them, Tilton did not like to give tho paper to Mclveivey, but suggested that it should come to him tnrough another party. They went to Harman's house. He was not iu, and a letter with the article enclosed was left at Harman's, but the article was not then published and did not appear until the following April in the Brooklyn Brook-lyn Sunday Press. At the time of this publication, Tilton's account with Woodruff & Robinson was close. Tiio day after it appeared in print he drew his last cent. They had also heard from Moulton of the offer made by another party of money for the Golden Age, and when it was not takeD, why did they exhibit ex-hibit to Beecher ? Moulton did not act as highwayman or robber who CrjfiH: ','Rta.Dfl mirt flnllj.'J bnf. I- held this money in his hand and said to Beecher. "My God! is no! this friendship ?" That iB what I call the act of a friend, and Moulton knew I uiieiwiiius tutiii lie wua nut insiug loose money of Beecher, but he mortgaged his house to receive it. He gave it to Moulton. Then came a letter from Tilton containing tho words, "Grace, mercy and peace," and then Tilton went on for a year drawing $5,000 from Moulton, as had been shown. Moulton told us he never was in the habit of lending Tilton Til-ton money; that he lent him altogether alto-gether about 1,000 of his own money. Counsel would show that in May, 1874, this friend oi Tilton's goes to a friend of Beecher's and demands another $5,000, but it must not be iorgotten that the original demand was for 10,000, but was compromised ultimately for $5,000. The Golden Age was still in Tilton's hands. |