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Show GENERAL. T!i:: i;::i:(UK:t trial. (c jntintcd n:oM niLvr page.) ! .iiur i.. re i c-a u;e :ui.ei:u:"icu w.is y,r, .it'y iucrcas- d, the impression prevail:!.; that lit-nry C. Bo wen, uh caned by pnscciit ion, would be called, at' l ti.at f.,eiith'nian came into c n ft with his son and Frank Car- pi Hi r, the artist, was with the Tiltun party, nijo Frm cifl I'. Moulton. Mrs. Martha A Bradshaw was recalled re-called and tutiUt.d. lain aequainlid with Le.-.-ie Turner. 1 paw her in December' 1S70, at .Mr. '1 llton's. 1 renminbi r two visiti she made me at myewn house; the fust was on the Oui vt December, 1670. I made a record of the d iy she visited me in my d ary. I had a conversation with her in which she told me Til ton charged liis wife with adultery. Evurtd objected, and Fullerton read from Bessie Turner's testimony to show that she denied telling Mrs. Liradshaw that Mr. Tilton charged his wife witlu adultery with Beccher. Tne court decided to admit the testi mony. Witness continued. This conversation lasted at least two hours and Bessie Turner during it told me that Tilton charged his wife with with committing adultery with Henry Ward Beccher. I made a request ot : Bessie nt the time. Witness was asked what request she made. Evarts objected, and another argument ensued. en-sued. Judge NeilsiMi allowed the question, and witness said in substance, sub-stance, I told her not to tell any person per-son ubuut it. This finished wiunss' testimony, and she was not cross-examined. cross-examined. The next witness was John Wood, the printer ol" the K' tl .till and C''iJ-lin C''iJ-lin tt'eddy, which wax begun in May, 1370, and ended in February, 1372. When the publication was resumed in the fall of 1372 the types were set up in his wlfice; this was iu the last week ot October, 1372. Was positive as to the date. The lorms were taken from his ollieo on Saturday, October 27th. J'rior to this no part of that article had been put iu typo to witness' wit-ness' knowledge. Cross examined: The paper containing con-taining the articlo was set up from Monday till Saturday of that week. Witness set up the Bceeher article The hist speech delivered at Boston' by Wood ha. II was set up in witness' j ollice about two months before. Henry 0. Bowen was then called by Fulieiton. He testified : I bavoi lived m Brooklyn for thirty years; am! publisher and proprietor of the pendent; have been acquainted with Theodore Tilton about eighteen or twenty years; have known Beeeher twenty-eight or thirty years; remember remem-ber a note I took from Tdton to Beeeher on Monday, December 20th, 1S70. I deliver d this note at the house of Jas. freeland. Tne counsel called wit in Si' attention to Beecher's testimony that it was, at Beecher's house the letter was de.ivered. Yit- ness continued : 1 met Beeeher at Freeland's by appointment and am ! positive I delivered the note there about 4 or 5 o'clock in the afterroon. I did not tell Beeeher 1 was ignorant of the contents ol the note. Witness iv a nHkfd if Repi-her puva him miv advice about the retention of Tilton on the Independent which caused a long argument, the judge ruling that witness might answer, if Beeeher gave him any advice. Witness said Beeeher did not say anything about discharging Tilton from the Independent, Indepen-dent, i ti0 n0 remember that anything any-thing was said about his retention on the Brooklyn I'ni n ; nothing about h:s timers as editor or contributor contribu-tor to either paper was said. Then witness was a-kt d if anything Beeeher said to him had iuti tenced him in removing L'dion from the Indeendent. Evarts objected. Witness said: At Freeland's that night I presented the letter to Bencher. He read it and put! it in his pocket. I asked him wuatj reply, if any, there was, and he said! something like, "The man is crazy." j He asked my feeling toward Tilton. I said I was not uulriendly toward him. I said I had cancelled the engagement en-gagement w.lh Tilton, mid tie said he could tell me something about Til-: ton's family which 1 ought to know. He asked me to call at his house next day and see Mrs. Beeeher. He said he had letters Irom Mrs. Tilton Iromj Ohio which he desired me to see, as they contained statements of a dam--fgiug character. I did know the cou-! tents ol the note delivered that night, but Beeeher did not ask me if I did. I did not say I brought the letter Irom lilt hi and did not know what was in it. He did not hand me the letter, nor did I read it. I stated to him that Tilton and I iTail had souiejdifTereuccs; told him that I bad cancelled his appointment as editor of the Independent ; dou't remember that he spoke of tne charges of Bessie Turner against Tilton. I received a letter from Beeeher early in June, 1S71, and have it with me. Witursa title produced the letter and handed it to Fulierton. Tne draft of this letter wasstatid to bo already in evidence, I remember the tripaitite agreement and the payment of the $7,000. I'lmre was no connection between these two matter.-. I was always willing to arbitrate with Tilton. I did not know Beeeher had any connection con-nection wi h the arbitration. I drew a cheek on April o l, 1372. It was dated the following day. The arbitrators arbi-trators sat at Mouitun's house. I was present the whole time. I do not recol ect that anything was said about Beecher's affairs there. There I were written submissions of r.Ilairs between Tilton and me. I have got tnem with me now. Tney arej signed by Tilton and mc. Fulierton) obta.ned this document and ollered it' in evidence. He read the paper, a'reeitii: to submit tho matter to Freeland, Storrs and Clafliti. Witness Wit-ness continued : The awjrd was made the same evening. When I was present there was nothing said about burniiii; tlie papers between be-tween Beccher and Ti.ton. I1 rlrew the check that night! and gave it to liltnn. I wei.tl nway with Storrs that nignt. I dou't' recollect who were the other arbitra- j tors when tho tripartite- .agreement i was executed in 1 ST'.i. I w;s waiud on by by Clafjin with it, who wishe 1 j me to read and sign it I told hmi l' could not and should not doit. He j urytd me to siun it and I still refused. I He asked me it I made some altera lion in it would I sign it. He left it' and I made tome changts iu the agreement and under the circum-s.tanceM circum-s.tanceM I signal the paper. Bowen was naked what v.- uwrsation there was between CI iflin and himself on that occasion. Evarts objected, and an argument ensued which had not closed when the court adjourned. I |