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Show TELEGRAPHIC THE BEKtHF.lt TRIAL. New York, 14. The attoudance in the Beecher case was very great this morning Rod hundreds of persons who had tickets were unable to secure admission. ad-mission. Judge Howe, of Wisconsin, art 4 PhoW T1 T r lU- late President Lincoln, occupied seats on the bench with Judge NeiUon. Beech was absent. Fullerton resumed the cross-examination of Beecher. At the time witness went to Moulton's to see Til ton, on the 30th of December, 1870, he was not surprised after entering en-tering the house that Moulton locked the door and took the key out. Witness Wit-ness asked him to bo present at the interview with Tilton, supposing that they (witness and Tilton) were going to discuss business matters. Aloulton said he had better see Tilton alone. Witness had no business relatione with Tilton then nor since 1S64 or 1SG5. He supposed Tilton's letter of Dec. 27th, would be brought up, and so wanted Aloulton preient. This interview with Tilton lasted from hall an hour to an hour. I said in this conversation, " This is a dream; I can't believe Elizabeth would tell , such an untruthiul story." The chargci made by Tilton were those of improper advances to his wife, and this wm all I said in reply. I was indignant at that charge, and all its concomitants. When be charged me with alienating the aflections of his wife it caused me regret and sorrow, and it was when he charged me with giving rise to stories about him that I said I felt nothing but contempt for him, as he was attempting to bully me. I do not recollect that be gave me any reaiion for seeking that interview. in-terview. He did not tell me tbat the letter to Bowen of the 26th would cause the revelation of the stories about his wife. He did recall his letter, let-ter, but gave mo no distinct reason other than a general statement. The reason I did not ask him for one was that I thought he was going to give it to me. He tore up tbe paper and threw the pieces away. He said he tore up bis wife's 1 paper, so that there should be no record of it. Tilton made nodemand j for money nor asked me to see Bowen. I did not know that I ever j gave any reason for seeking this interview, in-terview, nor did I ask him for any. After he made the charge I weut away. When he made the charges against me I kept silent, because he was talking, and indicated to me tbat he did not want to be interrupted interrup-ted by hia whole manner and kind of repressant geelures. I was silent under the intimation of Tilton that be wished to tell the whole story. Before leaving tho house that night I did nt believe he thought any of the charges of improper soliciation or asking Mrs. Tilton to become a wife to me were false, and I thought he believed them true, but I did not think his wife had told him so. I left that room in an undecided and perplexed state of mind. After leaving leav-ing Tilton I went to Moulton's. I did not ask him if he had seen Elizabeth's Eliza-beth's confession, nor do I think he spoke to me of the nature of the in terview with Tilton. On my way to Moulton's it was evident to me that Tilton and Moulton had conferred about the matter, but it was not my way to ask bim about it. I did not ask Moulton to go with me there; thought it was a simple act of courte-sey. courte-sey. Witness related his interview with Mrs. Tilton in substantially the same language as in the direcLex-aminatiou. direcLex-aminatiou. He said be did not dictate dic-tate any part of Mrs. Tilton's letter of retraction. He would swear to this. He did not remember that he promised to show tbis letter of retraction retrac-tion to Tilton, nor did he show it to him that night or the next day. He was willing to put the letter in his pocket aud leave Tilton to find it out. He had no desire then to vindicate bimBelf to Tilton from these charges. Tilton admitted that the eharges were untrue. Up to the time ol the interview inter-view with Tilton at Moulton's, witness wit-ness was never aware of any undue affection on the part of Mrs. Tilton toward him. Tilton was the only person he could recall who made this charge, and Mrs. Tilton denied it orally and in writing. Witness was asked if he believed that Mrs. T. had any undue affection for him. He was in a state of perplexity and not of belief. be-lief. Fullerton pressed the question two or three times, but received only this answer, with the addition, "I fluctuated between belief and unbelief." unbe-lief." When he got the retraction he went to Moulton's and then went home. Witness continued: I had come to no final decision as to what my opinion of these charges .were, and why they were made by Tilton. I can only auswer yea and no when I am asked if her statement that she had been importuned to make these charges did not conviuco me that the charges were falso. I did not know Moulton was made aware of these chargos. So far as Moulton's knowledge about it was concerned, it was as if be never bad been created. I did not promise Mrs. Tilton wlien I got the letter that I would not show it to her husband, but I promised not to uie it against him. She did not explain id what way the paper could be used against her husband. She said something about it, but I did not enter into any prolonged discussion on the subject. I don't remember what it was I told her. It was for my own self defence, to be used in case that a contingency should arise in the church that should require it. Witness Wit-ness here related the interview with Moulton when the latter secured the return of the retraction paper, and said ho gave up the paper bocause bo thought it would secure peace and ond the difficulty. Moulton waa a friend of Tilton and pledged hia word to keep both the retraction and Mrs. Tilton's request for its return, or burn both. Witness considered him a man of honor, and that the paper would be as safe in his possession as in his own. He chose to give tho paper to ono of the members of tho best firm in New York, a man of, honor, whose wife was a member of his church. He presented himself to me for that document and seemed as fit to be its custodian as any person I knew. I did not know then what his knowledge of the case was, nor did I ask bim what he knew about the charges. I don't know the rea-! rea-! son why I did not ask; I preferred his good opinions certainly to his bad ones, but don'trecollect why I did not ask for his opinion. Fullerton here pressed the question further. Wit-ni-a was proceeding to dilate on tho m vttor, but was stopped by Fullerton, who said this was extraneous to the question. Evarts objected, and said when counsel asked a question he should take all the answer. Fuller-ton Fuller-ton said ho would take as much as he wished. The matter waa then dropped drop-ped and a recess taken. |