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Show TELEGRAPHIC rut: in in it thiai.. New Yotk, 9. Tlio Brtx.klyn court room wai j.ackii Una morniiiK Willi a pec tutors. Tlit ontmnco of ltt':tct), who was to jjivo tlio olnniiiK add reus, wan the sinul for a storm of upllmi.-u which ww checked with diilicully. Kullcrtnu ttrrivwl shortly ft I tor alid rocoivott a similar ovation. Tho pluintitl wan ourly in hiu umial placo t'ohind hid ooun?ol, cloudy anrnmnd-cU anrnmnd-cU hy tho ttirSing nuiltitudc. Tho throng waa ) groat that Jndi; Neil-on Neil-on gavo inatructum to tho 'jUicom in charge to muko boiuo arrangcniciil to prevent a similar occurrence in future. Tho judi) cantiomtl the cmwtl to prottervt, tho utnuisl silence. Beiioh rose lo address tho jury at 11 , o'clock. Ho naid thai atUatTilLnij had an opportunity of hiing heiud id j A court ol justice, alter having L'een . ovorwhi'lmcil with calumnies pnwe- cut yd with all tho power o( tlie man whom llw genuis of Wilkinson dis-CA.vorcd dis-CA.vorcd to Lhj the greatent man on earth. Ho rvlerrwl to the church investigation committee us a onesided one-sided and partisan trial, in which the tribunal was composed of friend of! the accused, in which tho latter was represented hy counsel and in which the aecustd was deprived of every adranUigo which the imlure ot hu case revjuirpd. It was hoptil m thLs way lo satiafy the pul'lic, but jmbje t clamor hits couvinccl Hcec tier's I friends of their mistake, ltcaeh sahl I that in making iiifiillin prevlictions and repeating insulting epitliets until the ear was j.aini'vl by them, he j should not attempt to vio with tho I counsel for delenao. Tho jury had a j duty to perform of tho most momen-' tons character. They were to pro- nounco uwn tho innocence or guilt' ol the greatest preacher iu christen-! dom. They have been asked to do-claio do-claio by their venlicl that Tilloii, j Moultou and Mrs. Mmlton were per- I jurvrs, and had not a place in a court of justice. He said that Kvarts had personally appeak-d to the foreman ot the ury, and had ss-iunud lo kimw the verxhet tliey would render, i Beach said ho knew ttie intluenco j which had surnnindil tlio jury dur- tug the trial, and knev the inimonso intluenco of the powerful organization behind the JcfLie. and knew how it had been exerted. Kvarts had wih-l wih-l tor tho hundred eyes of Arijus and the huudred arms ot Bnareus, but tie had had thcui and moro loo. He had also gold, and it had been placed whore it would do tho moat good. Beach said that if tlie cour.-il on the other s;do up ike with authority; it tho jury h ul been control. ul by tho influence of l'lymouth church; if they allowed their opinions to ho governed hy invective in-vective and assertion., then be had nothing lo hope from their venlicl. He was no orator, and had but a plain, simple, logical argiitnont lo present, ll the jury would be governed gov-erned by tho logic of the tacts; if they wmild hear the case of the plainlill' before they consigned him, Moullon! and Mrs. Moultou, to infamy, then ' no demanded a venlicl at their hands. I Ho aked for no venlut iinmst BitArJiMT, HtliuUt Ml Tyo b.Mirr. tip.'!! Uie truth, lloarh aid that the extraordinary ex-traordinary aaorlion of tiio oilier side, that tho plaintif) never had any case was con trad ic tod by tho time and labor they had spent in trying to overthrow it. The witness for tlie defense, upon whom 'ail tho arguments argu-ments of counsel rasied, was Beeeher hinmolf. Porter made tho astonishing astonish-ing declaration that Til ton had boen coutradicted by thirty-four witnesses an assertion which could only be met by a plain denial. On no material ma-terial point had Tilton been contradicted contra-dicted except by Beeeher. Beach here referred to his association with Porter in tho courts for moro than thirty years, and to tho high character charac-ter which Porter had always maintained main-tained as a lawyer and aa a man. Ho had been greatly pained that a gentleman so distinguished should have conducted himself as he had in this case. Porter had always before appeared as the leader of his side, but in this case he had acted in a subordinate capacity. There was no disgrace in thai, for no ouo could be humiliated by following the lead of a counsel so eminent as Kvarts. The humiliation was in the character ot the service which .Porter performed, in his virulent attacks upon the plaintif! plain-tif! and the principal witnesses. On one occasion, when Porter, shaking his fist wildly in plaintifl 's faco, exclaimed: ex-claimed: " Down, down to hell, and say I sent thee there ! " he, Beach, looked around in some alarm tor the personal safety of his client. Ho was anxious to see what had becomo of him, but found him still there, locking lock-ing calmly t Porter, and somewhat amused at this exhibition. Beach said that counsel for the defendant de-fendant had been thirteen days, not in trying to establish tho innocence of Beeeher, but lo destroy Tilton and all his supporters. Beach asked the jury to remember tho letters of Tilton to his wife, which had been read in court, and the testimony of Beeeher himself, in regard to Td ton's character, charac-ter, and asked if his character could be such oa rcprescnlea. Beach thought that before ho concluded he would be able to show the jury that , Beeeher was not quito perfect not , quite sinlesa. Tho case was one which never should have been brought into court, except under tho pressure of dire necessity. Beach said there woro numerous instances in-stances in which plain facts had boon misstated by tlie counsel for the de-fenso de-fenso in ordsr to furnish a basis Ot attack upon Tilton. Porter expressed expres-sed extreme surprise- that the complaint com-plaint in this case charged seduction and adultery at the home ol Beeeher, And also unn.-ft nf th mli-nil n.ica ivith which the 10th of October, lSoS, hat! been selected to avoid an alibi. He had drawn a moat attractive picture of tho home of Beeeher, which he surrounded by his iamily. Beach did not know where the Beduclion was accomplished, but tho place and dato of the adultery were thoso which were furnished to Tilton by his wife and Beocher, acconling to the plaiu-tilT's plaiu-tilT's testimony. U was a simple question of veracity between Tilton and Beocher. Beach referred to the allegations hy Porter of certain teti-money teti-money by Bessie. Turner and other witnesses tor defense had not been contradicted hy plaintitl"'s witness when recalled. Now he submitted to tho court whether it would have been proper for him, alter his witnesses had once given their versions ot occurrences, to interrogate them over again upon oxactly tho same points, because witnesses for the defense had given a dillirent version. Great complaint had been made of ciuelty and unkmdness on Til ton's part, because on Mrs. Til-tin's Til-tin's return from Mariettii she lound a housekeeper, Kllon Denni.-, in her place at tho head of tho table. Klleii lJunnis was Mis. Tillon's cousin, u maiden lady, nniuowhat ugrd, w ho in Mrs. Til ton's absence, acted as hou-e-keepor and took her plaeo at table. When Mrs. Tilton airivi-d Ironi her visit alio found her there. Tneio was not anything indelicate or inappropriate inappro-priate in that. Then it was ulh ged ny Itesiie Turner that Tilton had repulsed re-pulsed his wile rudely when she HM)ko to him about tlie oervanU. Suppose this bo true; many ureal men and kind-lunrbd men had In en charged with harshness had been annoyed by petty donicolie cans and had not been thoughtful about those little trivial details of domestic kindness kind-ness whiiJi some women were d is -pd to magnify. KIU n Dennis was in her grave, but granting that Tilton was unkind in his household granting grant-ing h3 walked alioul tho hoiih-o at night to tint a sle place for pielnres ! granting he had foibh a which rendered rend-ered his huliho unhappy, aid that ive , Beocher the right to viol.itu its sanctity ? Tlio very facts may have tempted the detenduut to enter upon hi work of seduction. So of all the extraneous issues which had been thrust upon the jury. Suppose Theodore Theo-dore Tillon was adored ot Victoria Woodhull, iu he had Iken her eulogist, eulo-gist, and suppling that, leos than a man or than a brute, he had sidtiei-d at Wiusted, a young girl enlrunli d to his care, how did thai ell'ecl tho plain i.-uo of this cause ? All this, if true, did not uver'hrow tho emikviion ul tins delendiint, his hlory, tho lelWrs which his rtiiitisel p;uv-id over so di li- 1 calmly, ami the narratives ol cmlu-le i witntsseit, who siihtainl tiio charge of tlie plaintilf. All tho allegations, against tho conduct of Tilton in his household and without, did not diminish dim-inish the sin of Beeeher or lessen the mjuircmcnts of the law, andjustice for its punishment. Kccvss was here taken. |