The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-06
MouIton 10 Reccher.

My Dear Sir: In all our acquaintance and
friendship L have never received from you a
letter of the tone of yours of August 4th. 1t
seems unlike yourself aud to have been inspir-
ed by the same i'll adviser who had so lainenta-
bly, carried your private affairs before COM
mittee of your church and thence before the
public.
Ia reply let me remind you that during the
whole of the past four years all the documents,
notes Ond memoranda which you aud Mr.. Til
ton have entrusted to me have been so entrust-
ed because they had reference to your mutual
defence. l hold no papers either OF yours or of
his except such as bear in this case. You speak
of memoranda of affairs not Immediately
connected with the Titon matter. You proba-
bly, allude here to the memoranda of your diff
culties with Mr.. Bowen, but these have di-
rect bearing on your present case with Mr..
Titon and were deposited with me because of
their reference to this affair.
You speak also of letter or two from your
sister and am sure you have not gotten tn g
apprehension we ielt least Mrs. Hooper should
affect design which she foreshadowed to take
yonr pulpit and read to your cons regation the
confession of your intimacy with Mrs Tilton.
You speak OF other papers which / hold sub
ject to yOur wishes. l hold none such, nor do
hold any subject to Mr.. Tilton's wishes. The
papers which | hold, both yours and his, were
not given to be subject to either of the parties,
but the very object of my holding them was
and still is to the present. the wish of one party
from being injurlousy exercised against the
other.
You are Incorrect in saying that Mr. Tilton
has had access to my depository Of material
On the contrary refuse to give him access
During the preparation of his sworn statement,
h came to me and said his case would be in
complete unless gave him access to all the
documents but [ refused and all he could rely
upon were such notes as he had made from
time TO time from writings of your which you
had written to me to be read to him, and pasSa-
pas of 1,l pa RI M in sh nrt
hand.
Mr.. Tilton has seen only list of the papers
in my possession and would be more surprised
to learn the entire facts of the case than you
can possibly be- What idle rumors may have
existed in newspaper offices L know not, but
they haze not come from me.
The Rest.
Following the above are d number Of letters
between Messrs. Moulton, Titon and Beecher,
the result of which is that Mr.. Mouton APP
peared before the committee tonight. but his
statement is not yet known, aud was not
known to the New York papers at o'clock this
| morning
The Gayuor Suit Dismissed.
The suit brought by Gaynor against L heodore
| Tiitou for libel was up this morning before
| Justice Riley in the Court of Brooklyn Gay
nor was present very early, but neither Iilton
nor Judge Morris (his counseD were present.
| On the opening OF the court the case was
| called, when Gaynor stated that, as the case
was to be taken to a higher court, he Withdrew
| the complaint, whereupon Judge Riley CURLY
| d smissed the case ard the few spectators DIS
persed.
| Refuses
Mr. Ovington says that Theodore Titon re-
| fuses to sign tapers of separation, although
| Mrs. Tilton is willing to sign them, and he
/ also will remain at his house i'll Livingstone
| street, Brooklyn until the whole case is settled
Rumors and Gossip,
| Il is announced ostensibly on his own author
fly that Frank Moulton goes before the Beechei
| Investigating Committee tonight.
Tilton has collected all the papers in support
l of his coming suit against Beecher, and they
are now under review by his counsel. 1t may