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Show TELEGRAPHIC I Til E ItKlU IHCIt TKIAL. CONCLUSION OI'' TUKSDAY'S 1'IIOCEED- ViliiC6H tbon teflifml to the appearance ap-pearance of the "letter to t omplftia-Irieud," omplftia-Irieud," wLiich he suit! wiw written writ-ten to met: t the ilema mis o tho public pub-lic through the priw untliotlierwiso for some explanation from Homebody of the charges nguinat Becifier. Witness, Wit-ness, Moulton and Beocier were seeking some plan to dtitisfy the public without ucm t raying tteinaelvea. About the same time wilness prepared pre-pared the so-called " trit fltory," though he said ho did not niderHtaud why it should be called a "imedory." ae it was not true, us Bcuclti- uaid lie could net bear tbe pilbln-ulion of thai. Witness also tiluut that time 1 wrote a letter to a friend in the went : which hiw been re d h.cre. All l these were written with lliu tame view. Witness tlien proeti'dcd to relate an interview with Bieeher in which witness prolP.cd njii.irjnt the public being allowed to rttt in (lie belief that he (witness) had wronged Boecher, tvhea the Hot wm just the contrary, and told ttvecher that his proposition was to publish lus letter of contrition with a note to tan public from witness saying . ,thej could now see who had committed a crime. Witness told him, fcuwever, he did not want to rtttort to such ase-vere ase-vere method il it could be Avoided, and suggested ho had better', correct the impression himself in a . milder way. Beecher and Moulton tlien consulted con-sulted in regard to the matter, and on May 1st, 1S74, Moulton presented Til ton a proposition from Boe;hcr to resign tho ministry of Plymouth church. Moulton read tbe proposed resignation, ani asked Til ton what he thought of that as an expedient. Witness Wit-ness replied: "You may tell Beecher that if he resigns his ministry in tltis crisis, flinging back that shadow on my family, I will shoot him upon tbe street." Whether Moulton told Beecher this or not the witneaadid not know. Next morning Moulton showed wituessi letter Jrom Beecher to Kin-sella, Kin-sella, of the Brooklyn tiayO, stating that the publication of the tripartite agreement was made without consul" tiition with either Tilton or himself, dt their authorization, and if it should lead the public to regard Tilton as the author of the calumnies to which it alluded or any other slanders against Beecher, it would do Tilton creat in justice, etc. Tilton then related the circumstances circum-stances of W cut's charges and his refusal re-fusal to appear and testify, and told of Beecher's gratitude for his course. The court adjourned, Wednesday's proceedings. New York, 3. In the Beecher trial this morning Tilton continued hie testimony and related the particulars particu-lars of his lastinterviaw with Boecher. Witness identified the letter written by him and dent to Beecher May 2U, 1S74, which was read and placed n evidence. - it ta hi, (;- ness') refusal to accept money- from Beecher to proceed with his family to Europe and remain a number of years. Witness then rotated the circumstances cir-cumstances attendant upon the calling call-ing of the investigating committee in July, 1874, and the leaving of his houee by Mrs. Tilton. She did not leave against his will; she had a will of her own and acted upon it. At the same time he did net attempt to restrain her. Witness next gave a histary of the girl Bessie Turner, and denied positively posi-tively that he ever took her from her bed to his, or that any improper conduct con-duct was over exhibited by him to her. Beecher from the first to tin last never denied his criminal intercourse with Mrs. Tilton. Whenever he spoke of it he always said she wis not to blame. Witness identified tie reports re-ports prepared by him and pu; into Moul ton's hands. One he prtpared at the suggestion of General I'racy after Mra. Tilton had been before the committee, and Tracy had told witness wit-ness the evidence given by her. General Tracy told me I had noihing to fear from Mrs. Tilton's testimony; that when she appeared befort the committee she denied everythiig, or that there was no foundation for it. Tracy while giving this narration 1 wept and told mo that if I co-operated in this it would be a suocess. told him I would like him to explah the ; method of procedure bofore thecom- j mittee. He said they would autimon ! whom they pleased, and witiessea could give what information they J pleased, while on this the con mittee mit-tee would report. I told him I would stand by any report which did lot in- make a report which would mt injure in-jure Beecher in his standing h the pulpit. Accordingly witness preiared , two reports, a short and a long one, and presented them to Moulton. Mrs, Tilton liked the long one best. Fullerton here announced a lesiro to put in evidence at a later jeriod some correspondence between Mr. , and MrB. Tilton in 1870, and i this was agreed to his direct examination as witness was now concluded. Evarta wanted these letters ntro-duced ntro-duced now if at all. The counsl for the prosecution said they wouldhavo to go through 300 letters to fint tho doxen wanted, but finally agrcd to produce them if allowed an hoir and a half in which to find them. This was agreed to and a recess was aken. |