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Show ( TBIE BmilER TRIAL. I Now York, 28. The Brooklyn i court room was crowded this morn-i morn-i ing. Judge Meiisou requested silence l on the part ol the people, and Evarto 1 continued his address, saying he was 1 J asking the jury's attention to what the law required as a certainty on 3 1 questions of this criminality, having i i influence on the happiness of others. j In regard to any visim which Mrs. T. ) ' made there was no evidence- at all. i Counsel's friends never asked Beccher ; i if he saw Mrs. 'J iltou at his house and i i there was no evidence that he saw her, and to say that the presence of a married woman at a clergyman's house is evidence of criminality would i shock not only the senaL-of decency, i but uleo of fairness. Tha counsel , called the jury's attention to the absence of the aifirmative fact of the want of direct evidence bearing on criminality. It is for the jury and counsel to protect the man in the lower walks of life from trumped-up charges like this. The traits of character displayed by Tilton and Moultou were not new. They were the same as distinguished the friends of Catahuo about two thousand years ago. Counsel did not propose to enter into the characters of these men. This trait was envy, which was the counter passion of love in every sense. It inflamed itself because be-cause of the success of others and found its occupation in the debase ment of that prosperity. The an cients had a stern maxim, 'Envy keeps no holiday," and Tilton spent Christmas day in preparing tho letter i which he said was to Btrike Beecher to the heart. How manliest and bow nierciless was the fold of the serpent, i when it entwined its victim. Having Hav-ing cautioned Judeon never to epeak , to him again, or be a friend to him any longer, Tilton wrote a letter to Beecher speaking of the lriendship of theirs since, their boyhood, and declaring de-claring that the debt he (Tilton) owed him he could never pay, dwelling dwel-ling on the hours they had spent together to-gether aud the interminglings of laughter and tears, and asking that wnatever he (Tilton) had done to oli'eiid him (Beecher) he wished him to blot altogether lrom his mind, aud that it he (lilton) were taken away.exhortiug him to love Elizabeth. From this letter, said Evarts, the jury could understand what the words were that were spoken three days before, be-fore, and would understand what led TilUm to say lie had lost his faith in man when prtssed as to what were the stories about Betcher's immorality. immoral-ity. Evarts then took up the cross-examination cross-examination and dwelt at some length upon Til ton's denial of having grey hairs in his head at a certain time, forgetting that he had written a letter bel.re that period about his grey hairs being brought down in sorrow to the grave. Evarts next touched upon Martin's testimony iclative to me piazza of M.. Oviug-ton's Oviug-ton's house, where he testified to the existence ot a wail where there was none. He here quoted the old Latin motto, "Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus," and asked the jury to satisfy themselves that this man was false iu nnd -U4ng,- nnd tbev CO a Id then satisfy themselves that he was taUe in all. In this case, however, the old maxim could he reversed. Tilton bad shown hiuiaelf false in everything, in written and oral falsehoods, false-hoods, yet the jury were asked to believe be-lieve that in this web of falsehood there wus one shred of truth. Evarts then read from Tihou's testimony in reference to Buwen's telling him in June, 1S&2, that Beecher had been guilty of acts of adultery begau in Indianapolis and continued since, and said it Tilton believed Bowen the jury would see that Beecher and Mrs. Tilton were under pttty sharp obser-! obser-! valiou. Iu the winter of 1870, the second year alter the alleged offeuse was committed, Beecher drove Mrs. Tilton out riding and calling for her again, Tilton urged her to go with him. Tilton claims that he knew lor years that Beecher was a dangerous danger-ous man to visit families of pure women, yet he encouraged him to visit his family and his wile, invited, nay, almost forced him to do so. Counsel referred to the contompt felt by all people lor the husband of an adulleresj.andj-poke of the old Roman law which jiumahed such a man when he condoned the wile's offence. Recess. |