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Show The Piulor'n Interrlcw with T'llou -Theodore's IHsclo-sureM IHsclo-sureM Bpfchcranil Cllzabetli Alone Tli LcUt-rot Itelruc-tioii Itelruc-tioii Beecher AllVcted The Audleuce Applaud. New York, 2. The crowd at the Brooklyn city court-room was larger than ever this morning, and included more women and a larger delegation from Plymouth church. At 11.10 the examination of Beecher waa resumed. re-sumed. Witness first related the circumstances cir-cumstances of Bessie Turner's visit to him in Decemher, 1S70, when Bhe came at Mrs. Morse's request. Ho could only give the substance of what passed. She said she was told to ask liim to go down and see Mrs. Tilton at her mother's house, as she had left her husbana-rra nooovmt of uu ;u treatment, never to return. She said she was cognizant of hist violence, that he had struck her (Bessie) once or twice, and that he had sought her company in ber bed, and told her that such expressions of love were as uatural as kissing and caressing; he never herd from any other source of this relation between Tilton and Miss 1 Turner. Witness was questioned in refer ! ence to his religious experience. He , said bo joined the Hanover Btreet I Congregational church, Boston, in j 1S28, when he was about 15, and had always maintained a relation with the Congregational and Presbyterian churches. He never got any instruction instruc-tion in religion as the atmosphere in his home was full of it, and as pure as crystal. He was next questioned in regard to his visits to Tilton'g house. He reuiBUiwroi ntiio iiiui 9 ueaiu. Wituess was suffering from -ague at the time, but he went down and saw Mr. and Mrs. Tilton. At the time of Ralph's birth he did not remember making any particular visits or making mak-ing any gills ol flowers; During the summer be used to bring little baskets of flowers from his farm and distribute them right and lett. He coutinued : "I don'l remember any viiii to Mrs. Tilton whiie Mrs. Carey was there, 'or any scene when Mrs, Tilton sat on my knee or lap. I do not even remember re-member that she ever addressed me as 'My Father' or 'Dear Father.' She always called me Mr. Beecher or my friend, or sir, when she was addressing address-ing me. I don't remember an interview inter-view with Mrs. Tilton when Mr, Richards was present. I have no recollection re-collection of making any visit at S o'clock in the morning, when Mr. Brazier was present, but I may have been; I cannot remember. During their residence at 174 Livingston Liv-ingston street, from lSti6 to 1870, my visits on an average were from once in ten days to once in three weeks. My visits there were not ottener than thirteen times in a year. During these vi-its my manner was much the same as in my own home. They kept an open houso and allowed al-lowed their friends the utmost freedom. The children wero almost always present at these visits; they occupied no inconsiderable part ot my visits, and sometimes they secured se-cured the visita altogether. Our con versations were of different kinds of books, literature, and above all of Theooore Tilton. (Sensation). Mrs. Til ton's manner of speaking of her hu&band was kind and culogisti'j, and when she disclosed the religious Differences Dif-ferences between them I was much surprised. She consulted me inregard to ber duly to hor husband and that ol her children. She aaked my counsel coun-sel on this matter. She asited me if it was right to bring up children under a parent who seemed to have a doubt of the truth of the bible, and disbelieved in the divinity of Christ. Witness thought this was about 1S67, when he first became acquainted with Mrs. Tilton. He was chiefly struck by her simplicity of manner, and during her domestic trials was impressed by her religious nature. She wits always talking of her husband, and appeared devoted to him. Her feelings towards wit-1 ness were as her pastor and friend. He never thought she displayed any sympathy or closer aflections. He had a lifelong respect and ejjteem lor her. He had the utmost respect and affection for her as a christian woman, wife ami mother, but do affection in auy other connection ' He remembered remem-bered the 10th of Octclser, 1SSS, by the fact that the 9th was prayer meet-1 meet-1 ing night, and after it he went to the Academy of Music. He saw Mrs. Tilton at the meeting, and hai a conversation with her. The conversation was in reference to being at a dinner. Ho had no recollection re-collection ot being in town on the 17th I of October, but might have been. ' Nothing occurred on either the 10th or the 17th ol October between Mrs. Tilton and witness to impress ildell on his mind. , Up to December, 1S70, there bad never been any undue familiarity be-1 be-1 twoen them. He never directly or i indirectly made improper proposi-( proposi-( lions to her. "I never h'id any favor from her. It would be impossible- with such a woman. I never had carnal intercourse or connection during dur-ing that time with Mrs. Tilton." This caused a burst of applause from tho audience, which was suppressed sup-pressed by the officers under the direction of the court. Wituess wiu handed the letter sent to him by TiTton through Bowen, dated December 26th, 1870. Ho said: I remember seeing such a letter. let-ter. Bowen brought me the letter and 6aid it was from Tilton. I opened it and read it and said: This is sheer insanity. This man is orazv. Bowen Haid he did not read it, and J handed it to uim to read. 1 made the samo expression of surprise tliat Tilton should havw written such a letter to mo. Buwen said he and Tilton had some ditlereuce between them, and he proceeded to talk about Tilion; said i he had dismissed Tilton frum the editorship of the Independent to that of a contributor on account of business reasons, as Tilton's views did not agree with those of the paper; that when he had dismissed him ttories were told him about Tilton. Til-ton. One waa in regard to a woman at Winsted, Connecticut, and about another in the northwest. One was a woman in the office, to wliom he had made improper ad-vnnppfl ad-vnnppfl r tnA i,; t 5... . "ilu a nna uui surprised, sur-prised, and told bim what Bessie Xuruei told me, and also said there was another woman with whom rumor ru-mor connected him. I asked him to see my wife aud talk with her about it. He expressed seme repugnance at first, but afterwards went into the parlor and spoke to her. Bowen said he had doubt as to whether he could retain him on tho Brooklyn Union, and that ho could not retain him in any position on the Independent. Indepen-dent. Bowen grew more and more friendly, and on account of this attack at-tack he said I ought to go out of town and he would stand by me as a friend. Ibis was near 5 p. m. on Dec. 26. Between the 2Gth and 30th of December he never had an interview inter-view with or heard from Bowen, Tilton Til-ton or Mrs. Tilton. On the evenintof the 2Gth of December, De-cember, Muulton came to witness' house and said Tiltou wo3 at his house and wanted an interview immediately. im-mediately. Witness said it was his prayer motting uignt. Moulton said "Get some one to Lake your place and go with me." He did so, and when part way to Mouitou's witness asked what Tilton wanted. He re-1 plii?d he would see wheu he got, there. There was some conversation about Tilton's leaving the Independent, but witness could not remember what. When Moulton and witness entered en-tered the house the former locked the door and said Tilton was in the upper up-per front parlor, waitine far witn He a,ked Mouilon to go up, hut heaaid he had bettor go alone. Tilton met witness in a mootstateiy manner, and after requesting him to beaeateddrew a small paper from his pocket, and sitting down said he had summoned him io this interview on a matter of importance. He asked if witness had received hia letter from Bowen demanding his resignation. Witness replied in the affirmative, and Tilton then said he wanted to recall it and wished him to consider it had never been written. He said it was a I grand thing to write this letter, but I a grander thing to recall it. He then ! spoke of his troubles with Bowen and i charged witness with being concerned : in them and with acting against him. He said I had not only injured him in his business prospects, but had also insinuated myself into his household house-hold and displaced him; that I had ttons from bim to me, that I had conspired with her and her mother for a separation; that I had taught her to lie, and that under my influence influ-ence she had become deceitful and untrustworthy; that I, who had tied their nuptial knot, had reached out my hand to unloose it; that I had made overtures to her of an improper character. I made some reply. Ho read to me what purported to be a letter from his wife, stating that Mr. Beecher had a-Jced her (o be a wife to him, with all that that implied; that he had burned up the original and would burn this copy, so that there would not be a line against the reputation repu-tation of hia wife. He said I want you to go down and see my wife at her house. This staggered me. I said : "This is but a dream; you could never make these charges against your wife," and he said, "go down, il is but a few blocks off." Moulton went with me to Mrs. Tilton's. I never invited him logo there when J went to Tilton's. I do not remember who opened the door there. I was asked up stairs. I went up and knocked on the door and it was opened by Mrs. Tilton. No person was there during our interview. in-terview. It was up stairs in the double rooms connected by a folding door. Mrs. Tilton was reclining in bod with her hands folded and her eyes closed. She did not accost me; she was as one dead. I sat down on a chair by her bedside and said: Beach objected to the conversation, but Judge Neilson decided to take it. Beach said he did not think the conversation would form any part of the evidence. Witness coutinued: I said, Elizabeth, Eliza-beth, I have just seen your husband and had a long interview with him. He ha sent me to you to verify what he has said; he has charged me with alienating your affections from him and with teaching you untruthfulness and deceit. He has charged me with making improper advances to you. I asked her did she say so? She8aid: "My friend, I could not help it." I said you know these things wero not so." Sne said something to the eflect that if she confessed that her affections had been alienated from him he might be induced to restore his alienated affections. She asked me what should she do, and I said Bhe could retract these charges in writing. She said she would do it if it was not to be used against her husband. I brought ber writing materials, and she raistd herself up in bed and wrote the first part of the lettt r of retraction. Evarta showed the letter to witness, wit-ness, and asked hira what portion of il was written. He aaked and re ciived permission to read it, which he did and then continued: I did not suggest these words to her, and she then wrote the additional part ot the letter, saying that I never had behaved be-haved improperly to her. When she spoke of injury to hei husband, I told her harm that might come to me in the chutch, and I wanted the letter for my defense. I said the was not doing nae an injury alone, hnt it would injure herself and her children in case the matter was ever brought out. She stated a good deal more that I cannot recollect. The interview lastedf it seemed to me, ten hours; it really last&l I think about half an hour. I put the retraction in my pocket. I spoke to Mrs. Tilton with some severity during the interview, and was sorry afterwards that I did so. I then left the house, but saw nobody no-body going out, and went to Mnulton's and saw bim there, and he asked me if I saw Mrs. Tilton. I think I informed inform-ed him that I had seen her and I said I waa going home. He sug.osted going with me, and attended mo to my house. There was some conver- cation between us on the way, I think ' nbout the Bowen letter and Boweu's I treatment of Tilton. He did all the I talking and I answered him in moco-: moco-: nylables. We reached the house ; about 9 or 10 o'clock. 1 have no method ot fixing the lime except by the length of the interview. The court here took the usual recess. re-cess. During Beecber's narration of the intjrview he seemed much affected. His voice waa husky at times, and he epoke in tremulous tones and great tears ttocd in his eves. The kiw--tors aiso seemcadeepiy moved. hen Beecher stepped down from the witness wit-ness chair he at once went to Shearman Shear-man and had a conversation with him lasting Eonie fifteen minutes. |