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Show TELEGRAPHIC j Xlio Becchcr Triiil. Now York, 19. Tlio tiniija-oxftiui-ii:.lion of Monlton by t'X-Judgo Porter wiw continued, but jiothi ul: of P'ir-ticulur P'ir-ticulur interest elicited. Witness wiw very nlnHoly questinnod in relation lo hi? acqiiainlance with anil interview , with Victorin Woodhull, which ao- quaintanCG appeaiH heun in tlie spring of 1871 and continued until Lne sprint? of 187. He did not hearof t Woodhull's card in tho World from Til ton beforojit appcurtKl and djd not , approve of it. Witness toatitied lie wua at Wood-hull'a Wood-hull'a houso a number of Umea, uau-ally uau-ally in the evening; uevnr passed a night in the house where she was staying. stay-ing. Did not remember even travel-1 travel-1 ing with her. Some of their interviews inter-views lasted one, some' two hours. 1 Jin J made statements to her residing resid-ing alorios against IJeechur,' also in regard toTilton; never mentioned the name of any lady in connection with Tilton; never told her he took a pintol to Heectier 'and demanded Mrs. Til-, Til-, ton's lcttors un pain of instant death; I remembered rending that part of Woodhull's statement in regard to the pistol scone, lieecher asked him if he remomhered that part oft ie scene roforred to in the statement. Told him he didn't. Bcecher answered, neither did he; did not know where Woodhull got tho pistol story, but knew it never occurred, Haw Wood-hull Wood-hull twice at Tiltou's house; never found Tilton at her house when he did not come with witupss. Ho generally left with witness. Witness disapproved the Beech er letter and its publication; advised against Tilton's second statement, state-ment, generally called his sworn statement;- suggested none of the charges in the curd published by Beecher in the Brooklyn Eagle in 1873. Tlie charges wore made by Kinsella. In accord.mco with the counsel of his (witness's) (wit-ness's) legal advisor, General Batler, witness1 refused to give Beecher copies ' of letter- and documents docu-ments in his hands. Witness explained ex-plained that Butler was a friend and adviser, but was novor paid a feo by witness or his Aientls. Butler was counsel for them in a custom house case. 1 His advise to witness began when this controversy began. The linn had ft controversy with tho government gov-ernment at this time, but Butler was instrumental in arranging mutters. Jayue and witness never conferred about Beecber's affairs. They conversed con-versed about them. Counsel for de-ienso de-ienso here proposed to show that witness wit-ness had been indicted and was pur-Bued pur-Bued under ft civil suit for the state- , ments made by him. The court ruled agaiust the proposition. Evarts argued be was an interested party, implicated in all theeauiU, and hostile hos-tile to the defendant. Tho court assumed as-sumed that wituess had already shown he was hostile when he said their friendly relations ceased at a certain date, and ruled all these statements oliered and suits growing out of them were inadmissible. The counsel then offered them separately, and they were ruled out, and a seriatim exception excep-tion taken on each ruling. Recess. - j .lfrji;LTnN's CBOSS-KXAMlS'ATIOK. j Moulton's cross-examination in the Bcecher caso sensibly damages him on the direct examination. Hia answers an-swers were prompt, clear, unconditional uncondi-tional and emphatic. Now he hesitates hesi-tates and repeats nearly every inquiry in-quiry as if to gain time, prevaricates when not sure aa to counsel's purpose and ends. It was masterly Bkill with which Porter led him to an unforseen climax by numerousapparently harmless harm-less inquiries whereby Moulton answered affirmatively tho following: ' The inception of your friendship ior the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was on that Btormy night when you heard that lie debauched your friend's wife, and its termination was at the time when you refused him access to the letters by which he wished tn defend himself againat foul charges?" The efleot of this answer aroused in full vigor all the doubts of his trustworthiness trust-worthiness excited at the time of the newspaper controversy. Again the counsel, referring to last August, asked: " Were you the mutual friend of both these men at this timo V "As friendly to one as the other, "he rejoined. "Had he ever wronged you V "Except when he asked mo to lie for him," Moulton Moul-ton replied. "You did lie for him." "Yes, we have your word tor it," said ex-Judge Potter, with freezing sarcasm. Mrs. Tilton'B presence in court daily- is claimed by tho defence to be a necessity, as she is able to frequently frequent-ly give information valuable, for instance; in-stance; regarding the documents introduced. in-troduced. She is escorted by Oving-ton Oving-ton and and accompanied by the wife of Rossiter W. Raymond and other ladies. Her face expresses weariness and she clearly and sensitively shrinks from the ordeal of attendance which she considers her duty. |