The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-15
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gratitude LOT your HeRoiS hieh ~
with since affection, even though you
love me not, am yours though un-
known to you.
d. W. BREcHER.
Odd you ever know anybody who
took hold of it seriously who was not
ruined by it? A.-No, sir, proyidedthey
were susceptible of ruin. / have had
women write me that if
Didn't Send them Ten Dollars They
were Ruined,
and wrote in reply that they were ruihed
before.
O.-You speak about having sent Mrs.
Tilton q copv of books. Was that an
act of courtesy specially to her. Q.-Noi
I cave them out to friends. When one
book would come out l would give
COPY to friend, andso. l have not been
a great distributor of my own books,
only in cases where it would be a real
pleasure, and from an intimation that 1t
would be so.
Q.-Are you clear in your recollection
that YOU never met the WoodhullS more
than three times? Al am perfectly
clear that is, to speak to them.
Q.-State the times and places.
A.-On one occasion / was walk
ing with Moulton in the general
direction of Titons house, when
he said that Mrs. Woodruff
was going to be there, l at first heSi-
tated and he said:
.sCOme In and Just See Her.
l said very well; went in, and after
some conversation in the parlor, l went
up stairs into the famous '.boudOr" room
where she sat waiting, and like spider
toa fy she rushed TO me on my entrance
and reached out both hands with earn
estness and said how Tjoiced she was to
see me. | talked with her abeut five
minutes and then went down stairs. My
second interview with her was on one
occasion when | had been with some
twenty or thirty gentlemen to look ut
warehouse establishment of Woodruff "
Robinsons; we were on the steamer that
had been chartered for the occasion, and
when [ came up Moulton said, come with
me to town; he never told me there was
TO be any company with him. When L
came there | learned that there was to be
something in New York in the even
ing and that there were to be there II
number of literary ladies, among whom
WAS Mrs. Woodruff. ! was placed ut the
head of the table near Mrs. Moulton,
think to the left, Mrs. Woodruff was
next to me or else she was first and | was
next At that table she scarcely deigned
10 speak to me, | addressed
few words TO her for
politeness sake during dinner, but there
was no sort of enthusiasm between us.
Nv third and last interview WAS at Moul-
tons house. She had addressed tome
threatening Letter,
saving that she would open all the scan
Dial if did not preside at Stcinway Hall,
and in reply to that MOutDn advised
that, instead of answering her by letter,
| should sec her and say, without wit
nesses, what had to say. She brought
with her her great subject. 1t was i'll
type, and my policy was to let her talk
and for me to say little, which | did, and
she went ON saying, You know you be-
lieve so and So" and said nothing; and
SO on from point to point until | said at
last, Mrs. Woodruff, | do not under
stand your views; have never read
them thoroughly. As far as | do under
stand them, | do not believe in them,
and though am in favor of free discus
sion, yet presiding at meetings is thing
| seldom do for anybody, and | shall not
do it for YOU because | am not Ill SYM
pathy with yonr movement.
Q-Has Mrs. Woodruff any letters of
yours in her possession? A.-Two, l
suppose, unless she has sold them.
Q-Upon what subject?
Mrs. Hooker Whines.
A-She encloSed'a letter to Inc with
one from my sister Mrs. Isabella Hooker,
inviting me to be present at Il Suffrage
Convention Mt Washington. To that
letter l replied briefly in the negative,
but made few statements III respect 10
my idea of wOmans voting. The other
letter'was Just before her scandalouS pub
lication. She wrote to me whining
letter, saying that her rcformatory move
ments had brought upon her such odium
that she could not procure lodgings in
New York, and that she had been turned !
out of the Gilscy House, think, and ask |
ing me, in very significant way, to in |
terpose my influence or some other relief |
for her. To that letter | replied very
briefly, saying that regretted when any |
lady suffered persecution for the advocacy |
of their sincere views, but that | must |
decline to interfere
BY Mr. Clahin-ThcSc are the two let |
tiers. the signatures of which she showed |
to Bowen and myself. 1t was reported !
that by these letters you were to be
Sunk Forty Thousand FathOms Deep /
Al told Bowen before went there that /
| knew of the existence of the letters, and |.
that was all they contained. Bowen .
made the journey clear down from Con
necticut for the purpose to 90 up there.
BY Mr.. Winslow-Q. Did You ever
meet her at Tltons? A.-The first time
ever saw her was at Tiltons.
Odd your ever meet there any
other time? A.-Not that rccollrct.
If | saw her | am perfectly sure she
would know it. | remember her well ON
account of the tranScrndant description
had heard of her, and because of Mrs.
Hooker'S feelings toward her. Mrs.
Hooker regarded her Us Joan of Are
would vision of the Virgin Mary, and
when | went to see her | went with great
expectations, saying to myself Here is
woman who has gauded everywhere,
and must be power to rise to the head"
Q.-Can YOU tell us what became of
Mrs. Waodhulrs threatening letter?
AIR. Moulton opened it.
Q.-Now rs to what occurred in your
library and in
TiIton's Bed Chamber.
/ refer to the occasions IN which
he said YOU touched his wife's
ankle, and We're found with
flushed face in the bed chamber of his
house? Al do emphatically deny that
either of these scenes ever occurred.
BY Mr.. Whitc-Q. In one part Of your
statement you say that in December, 1870,
you heard of many immoralites of Mr..
Il.