The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-10
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
Bythe Western Union Line.
omeo Northwest cor. Of Main and Monroe stS.
BEECHER- R-TILTON.
No veIy Startling Develop
ments Yesterday.
Interview With Various Interested
Parties.
TIlIon will not "HumlIiate Bceeher
NeCdIessly,"
But Will Bring Suit for Heavy
Damages In the ~.
preme Court.


tions only arc made public to-day about
the great Brooklyn scandal. Mr.. Beecher
has gone to Peekskili, and the committee
and counsel are out OF town. r. 4
GEN. BUTLER
has arrived in the city, and to reporter
who called on him he said he did not de.
sire 10 talk about the case at all, and
didn't
A SLIGHT INTERVIEW WITH MoULToN.
Mr.. Moulton has concluded his state
ment. 1t Is said TO be very long, and 10
contain illusions TO the difficulty between
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Mr.. Henry
Y. Bowen. Mr.. Moulton was caught in
his house by an interviewer, and asked !:
WAS your reference 10 Mrs. Hooker in
your letter to Mr.. Beecher intended to
create presumption OF guilt Of the lat
ter, or designed simply TO indicate the
character Of some OF the documents in
your possession ask this because some
OF Mr.. BeechGr's friends charge the ior.
mer object"
Mr.. Moulton said in reply: "The let
ter referred TO in your inquiry was regard.
ed by me at the time 1t was written as q
private note, which l never supposed
would be published. 1t has been pub
lished through no instrumentalitY Of mine,
and such being the case, decline to Say
anything further about 1t than that the
reference alluded to was not intended TO
create the presumption OF Mr.. Beecher's
guilt, nor was 1t designed to indicate the
nature Of documents In my possession"
WHAT A GENTLEMAN" SAYS.
A gentleman connected with the case
being asked what the committee proposed
TO do il Mr.. Moulton should offer state
ment but should decline 10 submit to
cross examination. The committee would
then decline TO receive Moulton's state
ment al all, and II Moulton should then
decline to make public his statement, they
would simply have to go before the coun.
try on such state Of facts, and let the peo
pie decide the question. Il IS certain the
committee would receive from Moulton
the documents if he should elect to turn
them over without any statement; but
should he weave those documents into q
statement in which he should character
ize those papers and draw conclusions
from them, and then decline to submit 10
cross examination, the committee, would
certainly refuse to accept such statement
WHAT Mr.. TILToN SAYS.
Mr.. Tilton was captured twice by re-
porters while on the way from his resi-
dence TO his lawyers office, and stopped
long enough 10 say, In answer 10 the
question, WAS not the fact OF Moulton
making his statement In advance o
Beecher an advantage to the latter ?"
that VI (TiltoD) neither desire nor need
an advantage. l do not wish to humiliOte
Mr.. BeeCher necdlessly. II the abatement
Of my case first will save Mr.. Beecher
one needless word which he might wish
to recall, | am very glad to render this
service. He needs all the charity which
It Is In my power to bestow. ! am re.
ceiving vlndication every time that any
real TACT in this matter comes out, and l
am so near my full and final -Ejndication
that can afford to wait q litt.e longer"
To the question, "Did you ever sec the
letter which Mr.. Beecher wrote 10 your
wife after the Woodruff disclosures the
letter that alluded 10 Theodore still low
ing herr" Mr.. Tilton answered: "Why,
l carried Ito Elizabeth; 1t was written
Tor her that she might show 1t 10 her
friends and satisfy herself"
THR COMING SUIT AGAINST DREcHER.
Ex.Judge Morris, counsel for Mr.. Til
ton, says tho suit which Mr.. Tilton pro-
poses to bring against Mr.. Beecher has no
reference to the action Of the committee
whatever. When Mr.. Tilton announced
his intention not to appear before the
committee again, and his instructions
were given to bis counsel to begin suit
against Mr. Beecher, he meant exactly
what he said. The action Of the commit.
tee will neither hasten nor delay the
commencement Of the suit, which will be
brought in the Supreme Court II will
be an action against Mr.. Beecher for
CRIMINAL CONNECTION WITH MRS. TILToN.
The amount Of damages claimed will
be In accordance with the magnitude Of
the suit, but Mr.. Tilton's purpose in bring
ing the action is not TO receive any pecu.
MARY benefit but simply to vindicate bis
good name against the atrocious ISLANDERS
to which he has been subjected. So far
as Mr.. Tilton Is concerned the case will
be pressed Tor trial at the earliest posi-
BILE day.
HENRY o. BOWEN
telegraphs that he had NO interview with
any person on the Beecher scandal, and
characterizes the alleged interview with
him published in the Brooklyn papers
yesterday as stupendous fraud from be-
ginning to end.
Tho Wisconsin Railway Injunction