The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-29


Of StuligT0uS intercourse and By the birth
maintenance and acknowledgement OF q
child. A married man going into q
known brothel raises & suspicion Of sdul
terry TO be rebutVed only BY the very bes;
evidence. His going there and remaining
slone Tor some time In room With com,
mon prostitute is sufficient proof Of the
crime. The circumstance offs woman 20
ing 10 such place with nan iurniIbe.
similar proof Of adultery. These citations
are pointed but useful.
Under the guidance Of these prece-
dents and principles, II is essential TO OBJ
serve thSt there is nothing Whatever dis
closed by the evidence that proves that
the accused parties hsye ever been found
together under any Suspicious ciFcum-
stances, such 81 in some unusual house or
place, or consulting together In the same
secret way TO avoid observation and ex-
po.ure. There is no proof Of q clSndes-
tine correspondence, nor attempts in that
direction.
Mr. Bsecher's letters were, as rule,
opened, arranged and read by his vile.
she testified that she has read and an
sTeTe6 IS many IS one thousand in three
months. Such IS reached the Chril:ldn
UHt0H office were opened by others, and
those that went 70 the church were
opened by direction Of Beecher BY the
clerk before being placed on the desk
No sort Of restrictions were imposed as
10 bis letters. The usual facts and cir.
cumstances suggestive Of wrong doing
are utterly wanting in this case. What
then does the case, % put by the accuSer
rest upon: We answer, upon mere
words and assertions, supported by no
circumstances whatever that are the
usual indications Of adultery.
Mr.. Tilton Gays he knows the isct from
his wite's confession Of July Sd, 1870, and
from her subsequent confessions 10 Moul-
ton and 10 her mother, Mrs. Morse
This Is thus answered:
LIST. Thst Mrs. Tilion says in effect that
this confession, whatever 1t was, was ex.
trscted from her BY an imperious, mali.
cious husband, and by means that, in q
moral sense, were fraudulent. Pretenses
were made that she must say something
TO e1tricste Theodore out Of his business
perplexity. She was made 10 believe thai
there WAS a conspiracy against her hus-
band. The fact that MTs. Tilton with
drew the charge when Mr.. Beecher first
confronted her alter he had heard Of il, on
the evening Of December 30, is in order
in this connection. The truth Of the
charge, when free from the dominating
Influence Of her husband, she implicitly
denies. That charge was adultery. She
now comes before the Committee With
expressions Of Joy that al last she car
come and speak the truth, and in The
most solemn manner she absolutely de-
MES the charge, and proceeds TO set forth
facts and circumstances which demon
straie that this unhsppy woman has fol
years been the plastic victim OF extorted
ialsehoods.
Mr. Tilton's allegation that she confess
ed TO her mother, Mrs. Morse, is pro
nOunced false by the mother, who testi.
fed before the Committee. The source
Of the scandal then, is the alleged words
oil Mrs Ti!ton, which she explains in such
a manner as 10 deprive the allegation Of
all force and credit. Then comes Nj
Beecher, who solennly declares thai
whsteveAEords by Whatever means have
been drawn from Mrs. Tilton by hel
husbsnd, he is innocen! Of any and all
improperly towards her, whether relAt
ing 10 improper advances or 10 adultery
It is not Tor the Committee 10 deIens
the course Of Mrs. Tilton. Her conduct
on any theory oil human responsibility, Il
indetensible. Our hope is that ii may be
made clear as the testimony affords much
reason to believe it may. That this dis
tressed woman was so beset by her de
signing husband, when in states Of mind
differing but little, II at all, from ments
alteration brought on by illness and do
nestle sorrow and gloom, as 10 induce bel
at least, 10 make q charge Of improper sd
vances BY Beecher. But when her Atten
ton was pointedly called 70 the grea
wrong she had done, she quickly took il
back IN SORROW and penitence as follows
DECEMBER, 30, 1870.
Wesried with importantly and weaken
ed by sickness gave letter duplicating
my friend Henry Ward Beecher, under
the assurances that that would remove all
difficulties between me and my husband
That letter l now revoke. was per.
susded 10 it-almost forced when I was
in weakened state Of mind. | regret
and recall all its statements.
[5ignedl Err. Triton.
| desire 10 say explicitly that Mr.
Beecher has never offered me any i'm
proper so licitati0n, but has always treat
ed me in manner becoming Christian
and gentleman.
Signed E. R. Triton.
There is medical testimony before the
committee given by eminent physicians
Drs. Mention and Carey, 10 the effect tina
such cases Of mental power and DONNA
ton by husband OF strong will over
wife, weakened by disease and domestic
trouble are not intrequent.
Dr.. Corey, who is eminent and has hat
large experience in mental diseases anC
phenomens, says such conduct on the psr
0! Mrs. Tilton when subjected TO the ia
tluence referred 10 Is even consistent will
an honest mind. We observe that Moul.
ton parsdes q letter purporting to havl
been written by Mrs. Tilton 10 him, il
which che is "perIect coward in Tilton'
presence, and it Is aphysical impossibility
10 tell the truth" In another letter Of thl
same TO the same she says with all nj
woman's soul l am innocent OF the GRIM
Of impure conduct alleged against me.
10 her statement procured under the di
rection oil Tilton and Carpenter Of Dec
l6, 1872, and which was taken by them u
DR.. Storrs, Mrs. Tilton shows that sh,
was made 10 believe that a conspiracy ha(
been formed against her husband.
Her words are: "Six months after
ward Chat is, after July 3D., 1S7O) MI
husband felt inpelled by the circum.
stances Of a conspiracy against him, il
which Mr.. Beecher had part, TO hsve 81
interview with Mr.. Beecher." This re-
fers TO the interview Of Tilton Will
Beecher procured by Moulton on The
evening OF December 80, 1870, when Til
ton produced q written charge in two