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Show : TELEGRAPHIC THE IIKECIIER TRIAL. Jsow York, 24. The cross cxnini-nmion cxnini-nmion otliesaioTurnerwiis continued: When Tilton took her up stairs to repeat re-peat the story about Beecher untl liis wile, they remained until nearly dark. Tlie counsel attempted vainly to induce in-duce her to fix tho number of hours they were- up stairs. She would only reply, "two or three hours." She continued: lie did not tell her that Mrs, Tilton had confessed to him her adultery with Beecher; if she said eo befcro the committee she must havo got the idea from reading the papers, and must have been mistaken. She had talked about tho case since yesterday, yes-terday, but no person suggested to her how to explain her misstatement mado to the committee. She bad taled with Mrs. Ovington, Mr. Shearman, Shear-man, Mrs. Shearman and Mrs. Tilton Til-ton about it. Was stopping at Mrs. Ovington's now. When Tilton camo to Mrs. Morse's for Mrs. Tilton, witness wit-ness was on the slaira and saw him kneeling on one knee with the other one raised. If she was a man she could show them bis position. She could not distinguish any words he was saying. She might have heard if he had spoken louder. Witness was asked if sho told the committee that Tilton, when kneeling to his wife, vowed that he loved her and asked her to come back to his home, she replied, Sho might have," but did not remember; sho talked so fast before the committee she got things mixed up. She could not tell from her memory all sho said to them. She could only say she was trying to tell the truth to them. Witness then repeated almost verbatim the story told in the direct-examination of the passage between "Grandma" Morse and Tilton. Their return home, Mrs. Til ton's retiring, and witness sitting up with Tilton, and hearing the repetition of his charges against his wk'eand Beecher. She remembered seeing Beecher in Mrs. Tilton's room talking to her. tone was nan reaming on tne pmows; did not remember what was said. In January she went to school. Mrs. Tilton spoke to her about going. This was after the retraction was signed. Tilton also told her that he' and Elizabeth were going to do something some-thing nice for her, they were going to send her to Stubenville to school. He said he knew the principal of the school. The a'tentionof witness was drawn to her testimony on these points before the committee and the record was read to her, but 3he could recollect nothing about it; She was questioned about a Miss Yance, a schoolmate at Stubenville, who told her once that she was about to visit Brooklyn and said she witness may have told her that she must visit Mr. and Mrs. Tilton, they were such nice people, .mat sue was muca aiia'jiieu to tnem, that she knew she would be delighted with Tilton, he was 6uch a perfect gentleman. Witness was further questioned in regard to her antecedents and where she had lived since she was old enough to remember, remem-ber, and from her answers it appeared ap-peared that she had lived with various va-rious parties in Xew York, that some time before going toliitou'a she was in a dollar store on Broadway, from which she was discharged, but she was not accused of anything. She had no recollection of how she got the position; went to Tilton's in 1SG4 ; was there of! and on for ten vears. Witness was then questioned in regard re-gard to the letter she wrote at Tilton's Til-ton's dictation. She did not remember remem-ber if he made any mistakes. I do not remember any mistakes or errors ! that he made in the repetition of it. ' If he had made any error or told a falsehood I do not think I would put it down. He dictated so fast that I did not take time to observe. It seems to me he dictated taster than I could write, and be had to stop two or three times. 1 IU1U U1U1 liO tating troo fast. I wrote all that he dictated. Mr. Fullerton read a sentence sen-tence from her letter of January 10th, 1S71, stating that ira. Morse had repeatedly re-peatedly offered Bessie presents to tell the story about Tilton, and that the writer had been persuaded that the kindaitentions shown by Tilton to her were untrue. Witness stated that this was not true. Fullerton read that the writer did not wish to be used by Mrs. Morse to bring trouble on her two best friends, Mrs. Tilton and her husband, hus-band, and she was asked if that was true. iVitness replied, "That was Tilton's dictation, and her writing." Witness testified she wrote another, letter for Mrs. Tilton; wrote it from copy prepared by Tilton. 'Mrs. Tilton handed her the copy in her (Mrs. T.'s) handwriting. Witness here identified identi-fied the letter dated January 12th, 1S71. It was read, and stated that the the story Jthat Tilton had carried her in hiaarms-to his bed screaming was a wicked lie. It was signet!, " Bessie T." Witness continued: This was the first time she ever saw the story in this form. He never carried her to his bed screaming; he had attempted to violate her person, because Mrs. Tilton told herso. Witness Wit-ness did not think she could truthfully truth-fully say of her own view that Tilton I attempted to violate her person. She i was asleep when he took her from her bed, and did not wake until she : was in his room and he standing over her. She Bigned the letter becauso she loved Mrs. Tilton, and it would get Tilton out of all his troubles with I Bowen. Hecess. |