The New York herald., 1874-08-14
pate my Western TIP where may alone with him.

pate my Western trip. whore may be alone With him,
exceedingly.
rHR TRrPARrITE AGREEMENT.
now come In my narrative TO give an account
OF the origin OF the somewhat famous triparttte
agreement. Shortly after the foregoing letter was
discouraged with the result OF his iectnrsnS tour
The Golden AGE, which had then been established
for about twelve months. mad not succeeded and
was understood to be losing money. HIS pecuniary
claim against Bowen ior the vioation or his two
the exclusive control OF Moulton, with q view or
settlement had not as yet been efYected.
THE BOWEN cHARGEs.
About this time Mr.. MOulton, who was sick. sent
for me and showed me galley proof OF an article
prepared by Mr.. luton for the G0ldsn Age (and
which has since been published In the Brooklyn
papers), IN which he embodied copy OF q letter
written by him " Mr.. Bowen, dated January !.
1871, IN which ne charged Mr. Bowen with making
scandalous accusations against my moral char
acter. This was the first time that had ever seen
these charges. and had never heard of them ex-
any time said . word to me on the subject. was
amazed at this proposed publication. I did not
Jhsn understand the real object Of giving olrcu.
that Mr. Tllt0n designed, under cover OF an attack
upon me In the name OF another, to open the way
grievances M protested against i the % publication 10
the stronges. terms, but was inlormed tnat 1t was
not intended as hostile act TO myself but to MIR.
Bowen. did not any the less insist upon my
protest against this publication. On its being
showed TO Bowen, he was thoroughly alarmed,
arbltrators to bring aoout an amioabia settlement.
The iesalt OF this proceeding was tnat Mr.. Bowen
paid Mr. Tilton over $1,000. and that written
agreement was entered into by Bowen, Tiiton aud
was agreed that the offensive article the publica-
Mr. Bowen and secured happy settlement should
be destroyed without seeing light. II was an aot Of
that ts WAS
It's publication, and tnat 1t was published. was
assured that every vestige OF 1t had heen de-
did understand how Mr.. IiltOn secured Its pub
licatlOn without seeming to be himself responsible
Tor the deed.
Finally alter vanly attempting to obtain money
both from myself aud my wife a. the pr,ce or
llshed their version Of the Tilton scandal In
November of1S72. The details given by them were
80 minute, though 50 distorted, that suspicion was
author OF this which he 80 Justly calls "a wicked
and horrible scandal, though it IS not q whit
fathered. and not half so wicked, because those
abandoned women did not have personal knOw-
edge OF the faslty OF their story, as Mr. TitOn has
r1LroN's TRUE STATEMENT
To rid himself OF this incubus, Mr.. Tilt0n drew
but which was famIliarly called "rilton's CASE"
mad some knowledge OF Its composition, having
heard much .; II read, put some @ documents are are
not yer been manufactured. Tiitons lever for
compiling statements was one Of my familiar
way TO manage Theodore was to let hum work Off his
periodical passion on some such document and then
psrticuar true statementn was q special plea in
abatement OF the prejudices excited by bis Wood.
hull partnership: It was muddie OF garoled
right ialseho0ds. In this paper-which ! know
he read to many, ana am told that he read It TO
charge crmnality upon his wpe; on the contrary,
he explicitly denied 1t and asserted her purity, but
charged me with improper overtures TO ner. It
vvo m MOI WI no n md
poisoned there With his MIND thus leading to the
attempt to prosecute Ttlton In Plymouth church,
calling OF the Congregational Council. Alter the
Woodruff story was published and while Mr. I'll.
ton seemed really desirors ior short time Of pro-
letter TO her, A lats "a ig
MY DEAR MRS. rILroN.-I hoped that you would DO
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the side q ana
so.yeS ]. may seem nov: .Ssy , ,Ss restrain and
DO al this sorrowul harm By those Ths have deserved
my mother God my friend May smiles bring
s Ts1y ,1ss ;d sis SIsS
TILroN AFTER THE wooDHULL OUTBREAK.
The whole senes OF events, beginning with the
outbreak Of the Woodruff story, repeatedly brought
me o terrible accumulation OF anX1etieS and pers-
Every thing that had threatened before now
started up again with new violence. rlron's be-
HIS card to "a complaining friend" did not pro-
duce the enect he pretended to expect from IT. OF
convincing the puplio Of Of his great magnan,mity
ss' "a been 1:asss:ssa g.s
would have a good eject in couateracting the
slanderous stories about Mrs. Tilt0n and myself,
which Theodore proIessed to disregard, but which
his foolish card and the publication OF that article
had done so much 70 revive and render miscniev-
Gus. Mr.. Mouton urged me to get from the gentle
for u.s. when suddenly Mr.. Wnkeson came out with
It on his own responsibility. It's publication in
this manner made strenuous but unavsiling
efforts to prevent He had originally kept copy
OF It. Everybody In this business seems 70
have copies OF everything except my
Theodore went into q rage. It put him, he
said, In "lalse position" before the public and he
SAID he would publish another card giving state
ment something ike what he afterwards wrote to
DR.. Bacon--fhat is, as recOllect the matter, de-
claring that had committed an offence and that
he had been the magnanimous party In the bust-
ness. 1t was necessary TO decide what to DO with
him. Moulton strangely urged O card from me ex-
onerating Theodore las could honestly DOL from
the authorship OF the particular scandals detailed
in his article to Mr.. Bowen, and alrded to In the
covenant.
THE ALARM BOUNDED.
said ! would think It over and perhaps write
something. This was Friday or Saturday. The
covenant appeared ON Friday morning, and the
alarm was sounded on me Immediately that Tneo-
dore would do something dreadful II not re-
strained. On Sunday had made up my mind to
write to Mr.. Mouiton the following letter, garbled
extracts OF which are given In Mr., Tilton's
statement
DRRCHRR TO MOULr0N
SUNDAY MORNING, June l. 1873.
MI DyAR FRASK:-The whole earth Is tranquil and The
heaven serene as ben one who has about finished has
world lie.
! could do nothing on Saturday. NY head was con-
fused. But O good sleep has made II like crystal
have determined 70 make no more resistance