The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-24

and more than once reiterated, however guardedly,
by leaaing member of his church, and rest con.
tent untii ms innocence was fully and clearly es-
taDnsneu, II IN no other way, in a court of JUS
tice p Mr.. Moulton said that in his former
statement nc endeavOred to state the facts of that
brutal ohense with as much dclicacy as their
eence had been made tho ground Of accusation
that he had mistaken the purport Of what Mr..
Beecher had said. or that if he were telling the
truth ne would give his exact words
He Was therefore compelled. in relating the cir.
cnmstantcs attending tile affair, to overstep the
pounds Within which he had set himself in hs
lished which ought not to be published, it was
not his fai'lt, hit necessity made bv Beccher
and and his friends tor his iMoritchs, own vindica
follows: He showed to Mr. Bccchcr the letter Of
Triton to Bowen, bearing date Jan. l. 1871, con
tanning the charges alleged to have been made by
Bowen IN TIC presence of Tilton and Oliver John
sGn, ana beecher deemed it necessary to tell
M, the truth concerning his adultery with
Mr.. Moulton here gives. Bccchcrs con.
IN the interest Of decency, is here sup
pressed, He suggested that unless Bcccher
obtained retraction Of the story from the
l9th IF aanua-y, 1871 hut IT was not go direct or
satisthnGtory as THO retrattion be obtained from
rape; but did not deny the fact of adultery. Mr..
Monlton also stated that that connection and in
Imucy was stlll continued, as he believed. but
declines to give either her name or copies of her
letters in his hands, because he did not wish
necdlessly to involve q reputation which had thus
lar escaped public mention by any of the parties
to the controversy. This last episode of crime
had been related to him in the presence Of wit
nesscs.
In relation to Mr.. Bcccher's proposed suicide
Mr. Mouton states that Mr., Beccher told him.
and showed to another In his presence. that he
had within reach in his own study a poison
which he would take if the story of his crime
with Mrs. TiltOn should be made public He
told him of Il visit he had made to photogra-
phcr's gallery, when he learned that one of the
employees had mistaken glass of poison for II
glass of water, and. having taken and drank it.
had fallen dead with scarcely time to drop the
glass. Mr.. BecchCr said that was what he wanted
for himself, and, Under the plea of making some
Photographic experiments, he procured some of
this same poison from the photographer. which
he told MoultOn he intended to use ii an intima-
ton of his crime should be made, and then he
said lit would be simply reported that Bcechcr
died Of apoplexy, but God and you and will
know what caused my DEATH If those
who blamed Moulton could have looked
into Mr.. Bccchers griefstricken face and listened
to the tones of his voice in great emergencies. in
which he said there was no refuge for him but in
DEATH they would have felt impcllcd to do as
generous and opcn-hcarted a service as he (Mou-
tom had practced toward him. 1t would have
taken harder heart than his, being witness OF
Mr.. Becchcr's sOrrows not to forget his sins.
The remainder of the long statement is only
interesting-not important-personal matters.