The Star

The Beecher-Tilton Trial

BROOKLYN, May 3.-Before the opening of the Court this morning, Mrs. Tilton, who had entered accompanied by Mrs. Fields, rose and addressed Judge Neilson, saying she had a communication which she begged he would read: She then gave a note to Mr. Evarts who passed it to the Judge. After reading it Judge Neilson said the matter would be attended to.

The first witness called in rebuttal was Albert Burgdorf, an artist, who made a picture of the Rossa procession for one of the illustrated papers. He testified that he saw the entire procession, and did not see Tilton in it. Saw Mrs. Woodhull, Col. Blood, Miss Claflin, and Andrews.

H. O. Fox, a compositor on the Independent, next testified that he saw Tilton walking arm in arm with Mr. Swinton but not with any woman. William Force, auctioneer, who had known Theodore Tilton from a boy, saw Tilton in the procession, but a considerable distance from Mrs. Woodhull. Lawrence S. Kane, a journalist who wrote the report of the Rossa procession for the New York Sun, saw all the women in the procession, and Tilton was not with any of them.

J. H. Banks testified that he acted as Grand Marshal of the procession. He saw Tilton and Mr. Swinton together at the end of the route. Tilton was not in a carriage, nor in the company of any woman. Witness drove off the ground in the carriage with Mrs. Woodhull, Miss Claflin and Colonel Blood.

J. W. Stillwell, a lawyer, testified that he saw Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claflin near the head of the procession. Tilton was not near either of those women.

Recess.