Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-25
A Second Statement by Mr.. Tilton.

| THE second statement of Theodore Tilton
was published in the New York Graphic and
| in Chicago Tribune, ertra, on the 18th. The
following is brief summary of this very
| lengthy document, which extends over tWen-
| ty-eight columns in the Tribune:
| Mr. Titon commences by answering the two
statements of Mrs Tilton that he had been for ten
| years jealous of Mr.. Beechers reputation, and
| was determined to ruin him, and that ne mad
been maltreating her for the same period of time.
various 1i friendly and affectionate letters that
passed between himself f7o and +,o Mr. BeeeheT
which he says he first became aware of
the criminal intimacy between Mr.. Beeeher and
Mrs m and BY yn fon Sdwn 3o
same period of time He supplements TINS with
| the emphatic statement that never until that
date, July 3, 1S7o did he entertain an unkind In
| Beecher or his wife.
| He then gives succinct narrative of the time,
place, and manner of Mrs T1lton,s confession on OF
| the date of its cOnsummation, Oct. 10, 1868, by
an entry in Mrs. Tiltons diary, A Day Mem
| orable,'' which words she said she had used TO
| mark it in her own recollection.
Then follows letter from Susan H. Anthony
to Mrs. isabella Beecher Hooker, full OF ind1gna-
ton against Mr.. Beecher, both for his crime rim and
for his want of veraCity concerning 1t. The sup
posed significance of this letter is that Mrs Til
ton had confessed the crime to Miss Anthony, and
| that Miss Anthony and Mrs. Hooker were in cor
respondence concerning 1t as a thing ABOUT Whlcn
| there could be no dispute.
He next seeks to defend Mrs. Tilton against the
charge made against her by Mr.. Beecher that she
made the first advances. For this charge, says
Mr.. Tilton, g brand him as coward of uncom-
mon baseness." Elsewhere Mr.. TiltOn sarcastic
| cally descants on the groveling character of one
who will accept the last extreme favor of q
woman, and then appoint committee of six to
publicly investigate her conduct.
/ series of letters of Mrs. Morse (Mrs. Tilton's
,fph tOfr
sons to the relations existing between Mr..
Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. Mr.. Tilton accuses
| Mrs. Morse of at one time seizing her own has
band by the cravat and choking him till he was
black in the face, after which he (Mr Morse(
| summoned the family together and legally and
| formally separated from her-the separation con-
| tinuing to this day.
| A Letter not previously published is given from
Mrs. Titon to her mother Enclosing one to Mr..
| Tilton), written at Marietta, Ohio a few months
after her , alleged confession 1t contains re, re-
| her, and speaks of confession she had made to
| her mother, known to her daughter Florence,
which was likely to be death-bl0w to the latter.
| After giving statement of Henry G. Bowen's
accusations against Beecher substantially as given
| by Mouton. Mr.. Tilton gives an account of his
interview with Beecher at Moulton,s house, where
| Mrs. Tlton's confession was disclosed to him,
| and attempts to show by comparison OF dates
that at that time he had not lost his position on
the Independent and the Brooklyn Union and
/ was not in an impoverished condition, but was
| In the receipt of an income of $4,000 per year.
i Consequently. he asserts that Mr.. Beecher's
! statement that he Tilton was exasperated
with him for having caused him to lose his situa-
| tion. and salary is an afterthought and false
| hood.
| Mr., Tilton next labors to show that Mr.. Beech
ers allegation that his despair of mind, SO poign-
| antly expressed in his letters to Moulton, was
| caused by his having advised Mrs. Tilton to sep
| arate from her husband is likewise an after
| thought and falsehood, because he never did
| so advise her, but, on the contrary, when Mrs.
Morse was trying to bring about such separa-
ton; advised the contrary. He points out that
MI Beecher's second and long statement before
| the Brooklyn Committee admits that he never
gave such advice in person. although his first
statement makes that the sole ground of his diff
/ hculty with the Tilton family. The second
statement OF MIR. Beecher reduces this supposed
ohense to few words written on scrap of paper
| to Mrs. Beecher. Moreover, says Mr.. Tilton,
| supposing that he wrote those words to his own
wife, he knew that they had done no harm; no
| be sorry for.
:, An extract from the records of Plymouth
i Church, the original of which Mr. Tilton says he
has IN his possession. is introduced to convict the
| Plymouth Church Committee of prevareation.
The committee alleged that Tilton's sole and
only charge against Mr.. Beecher down to a
late period was for improper advances to his
wife, from which they argued that his latest charge
| was new thing trumped up for the OCCASION
whereas the church record shows that he was