Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-05

stating that Mr.. Beeoher male improper ap-
breaches, witness said that the paper she wrote
Was but a couple Of lines. FAR ~ she could re-
member. 10 WAS written ~ = time when she
vas nearly out Of her mind. But what rheo-
day was conscious OF writing many things un-
Ger his dletSiion, or copying them oh and giving
Q.-Things that we're false Ayes.
Q-Did Mr. Beecher make any improper sag-
gesuons or request 20 youc A--why, no, SIR.
IL Was utterly false. had done many things
rover Theodore has over me, especially n I am
sick, and he hardly ever came 90 me when 4
was In any other condition 20 do any thinR OF
that sort. ore or tao letters sent west viii
bear witness 20 that I wrote q letter . Mrs.
- In ten minutes, and In the next ten minutes
wrote another letter % her with a statement
contrary to thst Of the nrst The first Was writ
ten under Nj. TiltOn's tut aence. After having
written il said 10 myself why. have stsbbed
MIR. BeecheT, !" and wrote = second letter foT
Gods sake don't listen To what I said an the
frst.
Mrs. Triton Was ssked IL she ever say the lea
ter, apparently from Mr.. Beecher 90 herself.
dated February Z. is,l. She replied never until
she saw IL printed IN Tlton's statement
q. DO YOU recOllect the letter beginning "My
Dear HUSBAND desiTe 90 leave with you be-
fore going 20 bed q statement that Mr.. Henry
Ward Beecher called upon me tins evening and
asked me " I would de'end him against any
accusation in q council OF ministers" and al
fectiOnately, Euzahetb"' A. Nes, sir; bat thar
is not my letter. .. How Wa it written? A.
In the s..me way AZ those I have already en-
planned. 1 have no other explanation for any
Of them. That WAS written in bed. Mr.. TtltOn
wrote IL first, and ! sat up in my siok bed and
O. lie that true Of sn letters that have that
significance? A. Yes, sir; ~ Ear n my author
ity Of them u concerned.
q. Dad YOU ever tell any human being that
you had been guilty OF wrong doing WITH Mr..
Beecher? A. l never voluntarily Gid 80. Oncs
my husband took me m Mu --'s carriage 60
the house " lady 10 whom he had been telling
stories about me and Mr.. Beecher I went
against nv viii, and when we got there be said.
II have brought Elizabeth 90 speak for herself
whether 1 have slandered her, and did not
deny him. IL Was the same thing when copied
and signed letters which Theodore had pre-
pared, snd 1 am reminded OF IL. I DO not know
whether IL was treashery, but many times he
knows that you are guilty. lie found out that
/ had been TO Dr. Storr's, and he was very
her house, when Susan b. Anthony WAS
present, much a. published except that she told
Miss Anthony that Tilton had accused her OF
adultery with Mr. Beecher. Not that she hal
"NuTuAL" MouITos
Francis ID. MOulton reached Brooklyn yester-
day morning. la an interview MOultOn said
ID At although he had heard an Invitation hAs
been sent him 10 appear before the invesngst-
ing committee, he had not yet received any m
vitation. He declared he Wa ready and willing
O.
quested t. He said he had not received a letter
from Mr.. Beecher asking him 20 40 before the
committee and testify.
MoULTor's ABsESCB ACQUITTED ron.
The New York Herald OF yesterday gives the
probable explanation OF MOultOn's unwilling
ness 10 testify, a. follows "MoultOn il a mem
Der of the nrIn OF woodruff, Robinson & o.,
which come time back was involved in sons
little difficulty with the United States internal
revenue bureau. MOultou is said % have been
considered by Jayne the offending party, and
NlnWH HHFaWa
applied 10 Beecher, and the latter went %
Washington, where, after some exercise OF in
huence, be succeeded I'm arranging matters %
the satisfaction OF the authorities. In view Of
these alleged circumstances the Herald thinks
Beecher's invitation to MoulJOn "a testify NAV
have been extended and received solely IN a
Pickwickian sense"
FIRsT BLOOD FoR THE BEKCHER stnK
The Herald Of yesterday has the following:
"As Joseph How ard, ir,, editor OF the Star, en-
tered the ferry house at the foot OF FaitOn
street, on his way To Brooklyn, last night, the
ferry master called out and asked how iSeecher
was coming cut of his troubles. Sir. Howard
answered that Beecher would be acquitted and
that be was good and pure man. sc. Just ~
this moment a Sir. Hull, a Broadway tailor,
stepped up and told Dir. Howard thRt he was
"a liar" and that Beecher was = yayabOnd;
that Beecher had done more 70 corrupt society
than any other man In Brooklyn. Howard told
him that he ought not 10 talk that WAY. Hail
said that he knew very well what he was talk
ing about; that he could prove all thSt he had
-
fore the committee; that they were looking tor
some men that knew something about Beecher's
corruption. Hull then few 10 a rage aud said
that Mr. Howard was gentleman, aud that
when he called him (H0ward) gentleman he
told lie. Then Joe" Knocked Hull down.
Hull cIied for an officer. MIR. Howard took HuB
by the collar and pulled him into Fulton street,
called a Policeman aud told him tia that man
wanted TO make a charge against him. They
were taken 20 the BeekmRn street station house,
each making charge against The other. Hull
Wss taken down stairs few moments later
MIR. Smith, Napoleon" and ether friends OF
Mr.. Howard arrived at the station house. TIL.
matter was talked over aud settled, - that
each withdrew his charge, and they were both
discharged. Hull says that he viii Lave How
ard arrested this morning again"
WHAT MR.. TILTOE DEMANDS OF MR. BERCHRR.
The Sun or yesterday says: In an interview
with the Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, the Bar
leigh" OF the Boston Journal. MIR. Tilton IL re-
ported as saying that the affair Las gone too far
for compromise. The story OF hts wrongs was
out, and by 10 fundamentally OF his. His wife
had been induced 10 leave HIN, and has family
relation and his home had been destroyed. Al
ded TO all this, Mr.. BeecheT's friends had pro-
duced tie impression that Mr.. TiltOn lad SLAM
dered his pastor out OF mere personal pique or
a jealousy OF his fame.
"Ay ultmatum now, ;" said Mr.. Titon 10 Mr..
smith, sis that Mr.. Beecher shall resign his
chsTge-that is the eHpiation Of his fault that I
ask"
Mr.. Smith also saws that Mr.. Tilton further
added that IL the committee does not DO hum
justice lie VIII pursue the case further by such
means as his legal advisors shall recommend.