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Show THE BEECHEB TRIAL. New York, 15. After recess Tilton resumed the stand and testified that his youngest child was born June 2L, 1869; his son Pane died Jan. 26, 1868. Shearman then read a Jetter o f Tilton to his wife, dated Hudson river depot, Jan. 26th, 1868, declaring declar-ing Bhe was all to him that ft wife could be, denouncing himself for his conduct and suspicions of her; saying he thought he had the sweetest family fam-ily God ever gave a man. Another letter was dated Pittsburg, Jan. 30th, 1868, referring to a letter from ;Mrs. Tilton received that day, and explaining explain-ing that he was more cheerful and that the knowledge of her love was moro to him than the world could give or than he deserved, etc. Evarts announced that this finished the cross examination of witness, and Fullerton then began the redirect examination. Witness was questioned ques-tioned in reference to his wife leaving his house finally, and said it was the 11th of July, and that up to the moment mo-ment ef her leaving he had no intimation inti-mation Bhe was going. It was on the 6th or Sth of July that Mrs. T. appeared befere the committee, of whose existence hedid not then know. Elizabeth was a very sympathetic woman, easily influenced. Fullerton asked witness the foundation founda-tion for the belief he had avowed to Evarts during the cross-examination that his wife was a good woman in view of the charge of adultery now brought against her; in other words, how could he reconcile such a statement state-ment with the charge against her. Witness replied that he could only answer for his own judgment of her behavior; that he knew Elizabeth when he was ten years old, was her confessed lover at siitesn nd married mar-ried her when twenty, and that for filteen years of their married life he held her in reverence almost to the point of making her an idol, and when she came to her downfall it was almost a necessity of his heart that he must find an excuse for her. Others might blame her, but he must pardon. He found that excuse in a fact. She had been wrapped up in her religious teacher; Bhe had surrendered sur-rendered her convictions to him; followed fol-lowed his lead trustingly, and like one blinded, he thought she sinned as one in a trace. Sbo did not think she was a free agent, but would have done bis bidding if, like a Hindoo priest, he had bade her throw her child into the Ganges, or cat herself before the car of Juggernaut. While this testimony was being given Mr. and Mrs. Beecher, Halhday and Shearman laughed heartily. Witness explained the political diflerence between him aud Beecher at the time of the Cleveland meeting, which was briefly that Beecher wanted want-ed the south to come back without conditions, while Tiiton demanded the iranchise for the negro. This difference did not break up their friendly relations. Witness then gave his views in relation re-lation to marriage and divorce; Baid he held marriage to be a union of one man to one woman for life, for better or worse, in calm or etorm, not only for life but perhaps after. 'He thought the divorce laws of New York should be changed to the New England Eng-land code; he repudiated free love doctrine, declared he never advocated advocat-ed the doctrine that if a man found he had an affinity for another woman that was a sufficient cause of divorce. Beecher 's portrait was removed from witness' hauae because Mrs. Morse threatened to plunge her scissors into it, and he sent it to Moulton's to prevent pre-vent her destroying it. Witness found some of his wife's correspondence with Belcher in a small closet after she left, together with some half dozen photographs of Beecher and some books he gave her. The photographs were taken at different differ-ent times as they were in different attitudes. at-titudes. The pictures were shown the jury and offered in evidence, to the last of which Evarts objected, but the court ruled that the finding and description of them Bhould go on the record. Another small portrait of Beecher, found in the same closet, was also put in evidence. Witness explained that the despondency mentioned men-tioned in the letters to Elizabeth arose from the pain experienced by him in the transition from extreme Calvanistio religions views of his youth to more liberal views. One of these changes was & modification of his viewB respecting the divinity of Christ; he believed in this divinity in one sense of the word, but did not rank Christ as equal to God. Adjourned. |