Show x c 7 FAMOUS TRIAL IS RECALLED IS-RECALLED rEGA LED Participation of Brilliant Southerner r Roger doper A. A Pryor In Tilton- Tilton B Beecher ec Suit T l In no no country save our own could f uch such a career a as aj that of Roger A. A c Pryor have been p possible A fi fiery ry adof ad- ad advocate of f states states' rights rights' whose eloquence elov doc elo- elo cc c v quence had much to do with the se SL secession secession cession of his native state of Virginia he be enlisted In the Confederate army served with brilliant distinction and because of his humane treatment of of a. a 1 federal prisoners and wounded was saved land from the gallows gallons by President n a Lincoln At the close of the war he heeke eke came to New York and after a n period of hard penury resumed his practice r L-r of ot the law i r General Pryor tried many famous cases in his time but never nefer one that brought him such widespread renown as s his advocacy acy of Theodore Tilton Inthe in inthe the latter's suit against Henry Ward Beecher for the alienation of Mrs Tilton Tilton Til- Til ton from the affection of her husband observes the New York Herald The 1 younger lounger generation of today can form no Idea of the excitement caused by bythe the Beecher scandal from the moment of ot its inception in 11 the columns of r Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly until r long after the disagreement of the of-the the Jury p put t an end to the legal proceedings but not to the discussion of the case Like a 8 foul miasma the scandal spread pread to the uttermost parts of the land dl di- Tiding public opinion Into two hostile t camps Railroad travel In remote t parts of country was robbed of much of its tedium by drummers marching through the trains and asks ask ask- s Ins the passengers to vote guilty or not guilty Nor were women pre pre- rented from casting their ballots In these contests Once happy happ Brooklyn t boarding houses bouses were rent asunder by bythe bythe bythe the protracted arguments and drinks were ere named after the principal court witnesses and contestants The names of Beecher Tilton Frank Frank Moulton Roger Roer A. A Pryor and Bessie Turner became became be be- c came me household words In an Incredibly short space of time More than r one ne newspaper writer of later reno renown U von won his spurs through his reports of Die Ise Beecher trial It Is a pity that the tl e e evil n men do attract more attention than good deeds but its as the wise Fa Father Fa- Fa ther tier Kell Kelly says to his friend frien r Sin Is news news and andeews news 1 f |