The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-17

"Why did you say so to your husband?"
She seemed deeply distressed only friend
(by that designation she almost always call
ed me- am sorry, but could not help it.
What can / do?' told she could state in
writing what she had now told me.
THE ALLEGED EXPORTED DENIAL or GRIM,
tNALIry.
She beckoned for her writing materials
which | handed her from the secretary,
standing near by, and she st up in the bed
and wrote briefcounter statement. In u
sort of postscript she denied explicitly that
| had ever offered any improper solicitation
to her, that being the only charge made
against me by Mr. Tilton, or sustained by
the statement about the confession which
she had read to me. ] dreamed of no worse
charge at that time. That was horrible
enough.
MR.. DEEcHER's MENTAL ANGUISH.
The mere thought that he could have
made it, and could haue extortcd any evil
dencc on which to base it, vas enough to
take away any mans sense. Neither my
consciousness of its utter fnlsehood, nor
Mrs. Titon's retractions of her part in it,
could remove the shock from my heart and
head. An admission to me that she had
stated, under any circumstances, to her
husband so wicked a falsehood was the
browning blow of all. 1t seemed to me as
if she was going to die; that her mind was
overthrown, and that | was in some dread
full way mixed up in it, and might be left,
by her DEATH with this terrible accusation
hanging over me. /, like one in dream,
went to Mr. Mouton's house, where / said
very little, and soon went hemc. 1t has
L., q, I 4
pressed remorse. This is utterly falsc.s Is
in my pocket, should have thus stulti1ed
myself?
BEEcHER RErRovED BY MoULToN.
On the next day ut evening, Mr. Moulton
called at my house and came up INTO my
bedroom. He said that Mrs Titon on her
husbands return to her after our interview
had Informed him what she had done, and
that had her retraction. Moulton expos
tulatod with me; he said retraciion under
the circumstances would not mend matters,
but only awaken fresh dscOrd between hus-
band and wife, and do great injury to Mrs
Tilton without helping me- Mrs Tilton,
he said, had already recantcd in writing
the retraction made to, aud of course there
might be no end to these contradictions
Meanwhile Tilton had destroyed his wife's
first letter acknowledging the confession,
and Mr. Moulton claimed that | had taken
n mean advantage, and made n dishonor-
able use of Theodorc's request That should
visit her in obtaining from her a written
contradiction to document not in exist
ence. lie said that all the difficulties could
be settled without any such papers, and that
| ought to give it up He was nnder great
excitement. He made no verbal threat,
but he opened his overcoat and with some
emphatic gestures showed a pistol, which
he afterward took out and left on the bll-
reau near which he stood. gave the pa
per,tn him, and. qfteg. n ofew|U"gfet' tiny;
Mr. Moulton made me the third visit, and
this time repaired to my stu y in the third
story of my house.
MIR. BEEcuER's GRIEF AT MRS. TILToNs
CONDUCT.
Before speaking of this interview, it is
with regret that | should allude to the suf-
ferings through which | had gone during
the previous days, the cause of which was
the strange change III Mrs Tilton. Moth
ing had seemed to the more certain during
all my acquaintance with her, than that
she was singularly simple truthful and
eign to her nature, and yet she had stated
to her husband those strange and awful
falsehoods She had not, when daily l
called and prayed with her, given the slight
est hint | will not say of such accusations,
but even that there was any serious family
difficulties She had suddenly, in Deem
Der, called me and my wife to II consuta-
ton as to possible separation from her
husband, still leaving me ignorant that she
had lust put into his hands Il weapon against
me. | was bewidered with double con-
seriousness of sanity woman communicate
ing Il very needless treacherys to her friend
ard pastor.
HIS PITY AND GRIEF
Nv distress was boundless. | did not
for a moment feel, however, that she was
to blame entirely, as would ordinarily be
thought, but supposed that she had been
overbornc by sickness and shattered in
mind, until she scarcely knew what she
did. and was no longer responsible for her
acts. Ny soul went out to her in pity. |
blamed myself for want of prudence and
foresight, tor | thought that all this had
been the result of her undue affection for
me. i had profound feeling that | would
bear any blame and take any punishment
| if that poor child could only emerge from
this cloud and be put back into the happi-
ness from which had been, thought, il
not the cause, yet the occasion of withdraw
ing her. Ifmy own daughter had been in
similar case my grief at her calamity
could scarcely hive been more.
MS ALARM AT THE THREATENED DISASTER.
| apprehended that this charge made by
! p,.t 4 al, pf
his wife was TO be at once publicly pressej
against me, and if it was | had nothing but
my simple word of denial to interpeso
against it. In my then morbid condition OF
mind. | thought that this charge, although
entirely untrue, might result in a great dis
astcr, if not in absolute rule. The great
interests which were entirely dependent or
me, the church which had built up, the
book which l was writing, my own immedl'
ate family my brothers name, now engaged
I in the ministry; my sisters name, which
had hoped might live after me, and be o
some slight degree source of strength t(
those who should succeed me, and above
all the cause for which | had devoted m,
life, seemed imperiled. 1t seemed to ms
that my life-work was to end abruptly, an'
in disaster. My earnest desire to avoid {
a public accusation, and the evils whicl
must necessarily flow from it, and whicl
now have resulted from it, have been on
of the leading motives that must explain
my action during these three or four year
with reference to this matter
WHAT "ouR MUTUAL FRIEND" HAS DONE
1t was in such n sore and distressing con
dition that Mr. Mouton found me; his man
ner was kind and concliatory; he seemed
4. Int | a
; seeking Tilton's downfall. That | ha
leagucd with Mr. Bowen against him, an
that had by my advice come near destroy
ing his family. l did not need any argu
ment or persuasion to induce me to do an
say anything which would remedy the in
jury of which then believed had certain
ly been the occasion, il not the actiy
cause. But Mr. Moulton urged that tn
wrong meant his means of support sudden
ly taken away, his reputation gone, his fan
lily destroyed, and that had done it, ii