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Show I T1IC lifcHt HKK IUIAL. New York, 22. Bessie Turner's tc.-tiiuony ou Friday iu the Beecher trial t-tirred up lh idle, curious and prurient to such a degree that tills uiorr.ing the greatest crowd yet be-bii-.u tne doors of the Brooklyn city court room, clamoring lor admittance. Tiicre was llie usual complement of women. The place in the courtroom court-room a-siuncd fur the audience was ; packed and the part reserved since tiie fickucss ot a juror, for the counsel and reporters, was trenched upon. Bessie Turner's direct examination i was continued by ex-Judge Porter. of Friday by staling that Tillon's first vis-it to tier room w;is in lSo8, and when he carried her to his room was in lSh9. Witness then continued: Sim Jirsi visited Beecher December 1-lth, lcr0, when ene loid him of Til-ton's Til-ton's visiL to her room. Before going to Sieubeuvilie shedid not tell any one lot the charges im.de by Tillou against Beecher. Witness was here shown and identified oeveial letters from Tiltou to her, and signed ' yours as ever, Tucodore '1 ikon." One writ ted to her while she was iu Ohio says, "The house looks lonely since your absence." Witness then continued: Mr. and Mrs. Tiltonsent me to boarding board-ing school. Tiiton first told me of his wife's and his intention lo send me to boarding school one Sunday afternoon in his study. .Mrs. Tiltou also spoke to me at ut going away, ! hut nothing was cer said about my going away in coiuieeuuu im uiu stories against Beecher. On Til.on's first visit lo my room he did not lie down, us lam slated to have eaid, hut wa1 reclining over the bed when lie ki-si-d me guud i.ight. Witness was namied a letter dated J.muaiy iui.ii . loll, i'his letter is in my liind-wiiling and was dictated to me by Tiltan. I t'.iink Mrs. Tilt n j was then al home. lie was talking about Mrs. Morse, and I told him she had endeavored to hire me to go rotwid to Beecher and tell tiim of this story, which I refused to do. Tiltou then asked me to copy this oil and put my name to it, which I did. Porter ti.en read the letter written tn Mrs. Ti lon, dated January 10th, 1S71, which informed her that Mrs, .Morse had endeavored to procure her to circulate injurious stories about her husband. Another letter, duled January 12th, was read, stating that the story of Xi.tou carrying her lrom the bed was a wicked lie. Witness then couiinued I wrote a I second note at Llie urgent solicitation . m . in. ... r .i ;.i ...n persons tnat I'd ion had attempted to vioii'.to my person. Tillou was aware I tpid this matter. I did not tell this story to these porijus as fully as I have toid it here. The direct examination here closed and the witness was surrendeied to the counsel lor the prosecution. The hum and buzz that passed through the court room as Judge Porter took his seat, was promptly hushed as Judge Fuller ton rose to begin the cross - examination. As the first sound of the first question was heard every body was bent forward, every eye directed upon witness, and every ear stood erect that not a word or tone oi the answer or expression of countenance should be lust. Witness Wit-ness testified that she first went to live with Tiltou in the summer of 1S54, and lived there oil' and on lor ten years, leaving and returning several sev-eral times. Tiie first time she went to Springfield, Mass., where she lived with Mrs. Vinniug. Had no trouble there. Do not know where she went when she left there. Went either to the Elizabeth sireet home, -or to lilton's. if it was to the home did not remember how long she staid, nor in what year it was. Was in the home two or three times, but do not remember where she went on leaving it. Was only at tne home after she went to Tillon's. Once after leaving the home she went to live at David Dows' in 2 2d street. Went with them to Tarrytown early in the spring and remained until fall, when she went to Tillon's. The first time Tiiton came to her bedside was iu the spring of 1808; the second lime in the summer of lSijy. Witness was here handed a letter which she first said was not in her handwriting, but a Iter wards admitted ad-mitted it was hers. Fullerton then read the letter, which was written from Tarrytown to Mrs. Tiiton, dated May 2-Alh, louj. It was eimply a friendly letter. Witness continued: Sue lelt Lows in the summer of lSti'J, and it was alter her return that Tiiton Tii-ton came to her bedside. Horace Greeley was at Tilton's at the time. Thinks Dow3f lamily went to California Califor-nia about May 1800. Witness after staying aiTiltuu's two or three weeks went to Key port to Tilton's father's. Xobody went with her. Annie Til-ton Til-ton and her servant, Kate McDonald, weie there. Thinks this was iu the early fail when she left Tilton's to go to Key port. Tiiton, Greeley and Kate Burke were ail the persons in the house. Do not remember seeing Kate McDonald there when she left. After leaving Keyport she went to Mrs. Putnam's m Marietta. Stayed nine or ten mouths and returned with Mrs. Tiiton; had no trouble at Bows'; made no trouble in the family; fami-ly; never was reproved for falsehood lucre; Mrs. Dows allowed her to go and see Mrs. Tiiton once, but do not know whether she returned or not. Fullerton asked if witness had not staled iu the cross-examination that Mis. Don's had gone to California alter she (witness) was there a month. Counsel for defense objected, but the court allowed the question, and witness wit-ness replied she did not think she had. The record of the testimony was read, and soo.ved that witness said:! "Sue went there in the beginning of May and they left for California al- ; Hie end of the mouUi." Witness continued: She was there when they . left, but did not recollect that she . was there on their return. Burinf their absence the family was com" posed of Mary, Annie, Susie and : Baby Dows. 1'tiere was also a house-ktcper, house-ktcper, Mrs. Rogers. Mrs. Dows paid me my wages before I left, P.nally Witn, s was aked if this was alter Mrs. Duwa return from California, Cali-fornia, and alter a long pause she said: " Mrs. Dows paid me some money before i vi.ite-d Mrs. Tiiton. Mrs. Dows must hav giv.n me this 'money before siie wenrto California, or alter she returned. This is all the answer I can give at present." "Weil," said Fullerton, We will riive yon ur.til alter recess to refresh1 vo'ir recuhecli on about the matter." Recess. j Atler recess tiie crowd in the court, loom was larger tnan before. The witness resumed the etand and stated1 that she was now posive that she was at Mrs. Dow'a when she returned from California. Her memory was :vt res bed by Mrs. Tiiton during re-:ss; re-:ss; thought she went to Tillon's troui Mrs. Dow's. She was then questioned as to a bedroom scene, and repeated verbatim what she testified beiore. Sue was then about 17; she was not shocked, but did not understand under-stand his talk: was angry when he placed his hand upon her neck; tWi think she told Mrs, Tiiton then. Witness testified before the church committee in 1S74 and told the coni-uii coni-uii uee about Tilton's visit to her room. Sae was asked by the committee if he ever attempted to ruin her, and replied re-plied that be did on two occasions; ihiuks she told the committee Mis. Tiiton was in Monticelio; don't remember re-member saying uhe was iu Schoharie; now knows she was at Monticelio and mu t have been mistaken; committee was at Schoharie. This was in '00, aso in telling the committee that on the first occasion when she was carried into Tilton's room she aoke in his arms, also a mistake wnen she said the two events occurred n2T together; thought Mrs. Tiiton was at Schoharie cu these occasions; was in Steubenville, O., returned to Brooklyn in '74; only knew of going before the committee about ten minutes min-utes before going; talked with Gen. lracy neiore going; went oeiuro i"t committee on the second night after she arrived in the city; her father left her at Halliday's, and he took her to Mrs. Ovington's in the morning, and that evening she appeared before the committee; saw Mrs. Tiiton there and I during the day; the object of the witness wit-ness appearing before the committee was mentioned; don't think it was mentioned till Tracy called; didn t talk of the occurrence at Mrs. Ovington's Oving-ton's or Halliday's till Tracy called; the committee met at six o'clock; Tracy called between seven and eight; is sure she didn't talk with Tracy two hours; don't remember . who was with her before the committee; com-mittee; afterwards talked the subject over with Mrs. Tiiton, Shearman and others ; found afterwards on looking over the evidence that she had made some mistakes; was stopping at Mrs. Pardy's when she made this discevery. Mrs. Morse was also there, but did not talk with her; discovered dis-covered the mistake by caslmg over the testimony in her own mind. Shearman gave her a book of the testimony, tes-timony, but she never looked at it; discovered some discrepancies through talking with Mrs. Mitchell, at Mr. Hill's. Dr. Carey, Mr. Hill atd Mrs. Mitchell were all present, but witness had already discovered the mistakes; they were not the subject ; of conversation then. While talking with Mrs. Mitchell several little tilings were called to btr mind which she had not recollected before; did not taink she told the committee about Tiiton stroking her hair and forehead, and putting his handonher-neck; handonher-neck; had forgotten it at the time; had not thought oi the matter ten minutes before being before the court; told the story to Mrs. Tiiton at Marietta in Oct. '70; told it to Joseph Richards, Miss Oakley, Sirs. Bradshaw and Judge Morse; she thought, in Dec. '70; tcld it to let the people know he was a bad man; tofd her story for Mrs. Tiiton 6 sake, as she was blamed for being bad to hiia; witness wanted to correct this impression; told Mrs. Bradshaw that Tiiton tried to ruin her, but did not tell her the details; did not tell any of these parties the story substantially up to the time Bhe came on the stand; bad told the story substantially to a stenographer, Shearman Shear-man and Judge Porter; this was last week, but before that thought she had inlrl somn particulars to Mrs. Ovington; told her all the details; never said to Mrs. Bradshaw or any person anything about the charges by Tiiton against his wife and Beecher; do not remember whether she said anything before the court about it; may have thought she said, Tiiton said his wife had committed adultery with Beecher; thinks she told them that Tiiton told her the very day alter her return from Marietta; Mari-etta; do not remember when talking with Mrs. Bradshaw that Bhe made an entry of it in her diary; never told Mrs. Bradshaw that Tiiton bad charged his wile with committing adultery with Beeeher; told the committee com-mittee that on two occasions Tiiton bad attempted her ruin; did not happen hap-pen to think of the details of the second attempt whej before them; : told the commitlee that when he came the second time she went to her room and locked the door. Fullerton read a statement in regard re-gard to the second visit of Tiiton to witness' room as told by her on the direct examination. She then read her testimony before the committee about awakening and finding herself in Tilton's room, etc. Continuing, she said she could not say if this was on the first occasion. Court adjourned. |