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Show THE BEtXHEK TRIAL. i New York, 10. Tilton resumed :he stand and Evarts produced a let- ' ter dated January Sth, lbo9, which I Iilton identified and corrected a date which should have been January 1670. Kvaris read the letter, wnich ! was from Tilton to a friend in Con- ; uectieut. explaining the charge of stopping at a hotel in Wins tad with a liwly, slating that the lady was ft protege; his wiie was slaying at tue same hoiel, and their being no fire in tier room i.e had invited her to come to his whe e there w.ts a atovii, where she sat by the tire mid read to him while he lay on bed. The letter was written to Hu.;h Ha-tingj in reply to an u.quiiy. Witnesi was then questioned at length in regard to the number and duration of his visits lo Mm. Wixxlhull. He spent he night at her house in September, 1 1S71. Did not stay there on the 0d land 5th of July, though he might i ! have been theru tha- day.j. Could j not remember an thing noteworthy i occurring on those days; couid not 1 ,say whether Mrs. Tiiton wjh then inj the country, but thought she was at ! Sclioharie; nevi r heard Wood null I speak of tlieaeand.il story she pub- lished in pretence o( any person but Moulton; witness ndopted ttie fac-i fac-i simile form in publishing the letters which appealed in the Graphic, be- I I cause he had been accused by Beech- er's friends of forging some of the letters and wanted to give the public opportunity to judge of the matter. Witness wits questioned us to his acquaintance ac-quaintance with Rev. Gilbert Haven, now bishop of the Metuodist Episcopal Episco-pal church, and testified to an intimacy. inti-macy. with him and that Haven had beeu" ;it his house probably a hundred times, though he co Id not remember any particular dates. Tilton was then questioned in reference to his wife's leaving bis house and going to her mother's, where boo stayed about a week. Ho sent for her one time j from the office of the Brooklyn Uniun ! and she came to him. Sue had their jiufant child with her when she left the heuse; did not remember sending i for the child; during her absence the ! child was brought to his house, how-lever, how-lever, but who brought it thence he j did not know, nor did he know that the child was taken in her absence. She then returned to his house, but ho don't know whether she considered it her home. A letter was shown to witness and identified as the one sent by him. Evarts read the lotter as follows: "Ellen wrap baby up carefully, care-fully, bring him to my house imme-didately. imme-didately. Theodore Tilton." Witness Wit-ness explained that Ellen was Ellen Dennis, his housekeeper. The child was then nearly eighteen months' old. Witness then read the questions asked him and the answers given before be-fore the investigating committee. Some answers he recollected, others were incorrectly reported. itness was then asked in regard ;to his knowledge of phonography, and replied that he had studied it at school, but never practiced it professionally profes-sionally and declined to say that he j was an expert. He testified to having hav-ing taken copies of numerous letters I involved in the case. He declared he : never destroyed any of Beecher's let-'ters let-'ters from December, 2(ith, 1S70 to the present time, nor any of Moul-ton's Moul-ton's during the same period, neit ier had he destroyed any of his own nor any papers relating to the Bubject. After recess, Til ton's cross-examination was resumed by Evarts, who questioned him about the charge 1 against him in the interview with jBowen and Oliver Johnson about something that eccurred at North Port, Minn., where ji lectured. He ! remembered nothing of such a charge. Being asked in regard to a kits given jhirn by Beecher at Moulton's when j the latter was sick, he said niter any I period of AiiatrantjomoD t keand Bteoh-; Bteoh-; er occasionaly saluted each oilier with ft kiss; it was a notable event when it1 i happened. Did not know how or ,when Beecher's so-called letter of i contrition received that name. In ! jhis (witness') letter to Dr. Bacon he 'called the letter one of apology. Witness Wit-ness was shown and identified a letter from Beecher to Mrs. Tiltcn, which as near as be could tell was written in I the spring of 1873. Evarts read the letter, telling Mrs. Tilton he (Beech-, (Beech-, er) was glad Theodore had seen the ! dangerous pit which opened before them, and expressed his (Beecher's) sorrow for the great wrong done her. Witness resumed: "This letter referred re-ferred to the Wocdhull scandal." Witness was then asked in regard to certain statements he should have made to certain persons, none of which he could remember; didn't remember saying his wife was "as pure as light," but said "you woula not believe me; go to Beecher. He win tell you she is as pure as gold. Witness said the ' true story" was in existence in December, 1S72, having . been written by him about the last of" i that month. The tripartite covenant was not published in the "true story." "This paper to the best of my knowledge, was destroyed I think by Mrs. Tilton, but not by me or my desire. It was a long time since I last saw this paper in existence, I think about the spring of 1873. I took Ihii paper to several persons and lett it with them for perusal. 1 showed it to Geo. A. Bell, Wm. C. Dewitt and I think to Mr. Dunkley. .He also showed it to several other .persons; did not show it to Dr. Slorrs, I but showed the sum and substance of j it to him." Evarts obiected to the latter part of the answer, while Beach contended (that it should stand as it was given, , as an explanation, The court ordered order-ed it struck out. "Didn't show it to James B. Mix, ; but showed him some few loose Bheets of the draft; showed F. B. Carpenter Carpen-ter the original manuscript; didn't show it to Redpath; neither showed it to nor left it with Thos. Kinsella, nor do I remember of showing it to Thomas C. Clarke; didn't show it to Alderman Whitney, but did abnw I him Beecher's letter of contrition. Showed an earlier draft of tne paper, . the matter of which was the same as ; contained in the pamphlet, to Dr. Storrs, and read to him the whole of it. He read the paper to Tracy in 'Moulton's study, between Chrismas aad New Year's, or a little latter, and Moulton wasn't present." I The object of the defence in introducing intro-ducing the letter written by Tilton directing that his child be brought from Mrs. Morse's to his house, was to show that Mrs. Tilton had left her borne and gone to reside with her mother, and thai Tilton during dur-ing the absence of his wile from the heuse of Mrs. Morse, sent lor andl' procured the child to induce Mrs. Tilton to return w her home. |
