The Portland daily press., 1874-07-23
Conclusion Of Tilton's Statement.

| Beeeher began, unlnportant except as showing
that she bore him deep affection at that time,
proceeds with bis statement as follows:
MRS. Triton DENIES THAT SHE SOUGHT FOR
DIVORCE.
Eighteeuth-That the story purporting to ex-
| plain Mr.. Beechers apollo as having been
| written because he offended Mr.. milton by en-
| ga9ing his wife in the project of separation
from her husband, is false. as will be seen by
| the following letter WI item only three days at
ter the date of the apology.
''174 Livingstone Street,
Brooklyn, January 4, 1871.
| Mr.. Francis ID. Mouton, My Dear Freud
| In regard TO your question whether have ever
| sought separation from my husband, l indig-
| naDtly deny that such was ever the fact, as L
| have denied 1t hundred times before. The
story that wanted separation was deliber-
ate falsehood carried by my poor mother who
| said she would bear the respons bihty of this
| and other statements she might make, and
| committed to my husband. enemy, ii. w Beech
| er, and by her communicated to Mr.. Bowen. I
| feel outraged by the wnoe proceeding, and
| now suffering in consequence more than am
| able TO bear. L am, yours very truly,
| ELIZABETH e. TILToN.
THE ATTEMPT TO SEND TILToN TO EUROPE.
Nineteeuth-That during the first week in
| January 1871, few DAYS after the apology
| was written, Mr. Beecher communicated to Mr..
| TIton through Mr.. Moulton an earnest wish
| that he MIR. Tilton) would take his family to
| EuroDe and reside there for term of years at
| Mr. Beecher expense Similar offers have
| been since repeated by Mr.. Beecher to Mr. Til
| ton through the same channel. A message of
| kindred tenor was brought from Mr. Beecher o
| Mr. Tilton last summer by Mr. +. B. Carpen
ter, as will appear from the following affidavit:
Homer, N. Y, July Is, 1874.
| On Sunday, June l. 1873. two DAYS afteI the
| surrepttious publication of the 'Trpartite Cow
| enant' between Ii. W. Beecher H. G. Bowen
| and Theodore Tilton, walked with Mr.. Beech
| er from Plymouth Chu Gu to the residence of
| Mr.. +. D. Moulton, in Remsen street. On the
| way to Mr. Moulton's house Mr.. Beecher said
| to me that if Mr.. Tilton would stand by him
| he would share fame, his fortune and every
| thing he possessed with him (rilton).
(Signed) FRANCIS B. CAPENTER
| Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th
| day of July, 1874.
| (Signed) WILLIAM T. HIcKoK,
| Notary Public
Mr.. Carpenter in communicating to Mr.. Til
ton the above affidavit, says in IA letter accom-
| panying it:
81 have no hesitation in giving you the staet-
| ment, as understood at the tine that 1T was
| for me TO repeat in substance to you, and did so
| repeat it. 1t was at this interview. Mr.. Beech
er spoke to me of his apology to you."
| The charge that Mr. Eilton ever attempted to
| levy backmail on Mr. Beecher is false; on the
| contrary Mr.. Tilton has always resented every
| attempt by Mr. Beecher 10 put him under pc
| cuniary obligation.
| MIR. TILToN ACCUSES HIS WIFE OF ATTEMPT
ING TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION.
Twenteth-Not long after the scandal be-
| came public, Mrs Triton wrote slip of pa
| per and left on her husbands writing desk the
| following words
"Now that the exposure has come. nay whole
| nature revolts to join with you or stand with
| YOU
Through the influence of Mr. Beecher's
| friends the opinion has long been diligently
propagated that the scandal was due 70 Mr..
rilton, and that the alleged facts were mali
cious inventions by him to revenge himself for
supposed and imaginary wrongs done to him
| by Mr.. Beecher Many words were spoken
| from time to time by Mrs. Tlton to the praise
| and eulo2y of Mr. Beecber, which being extern
| sively quoted through his congregation, height
| ened the impression that Mr. Titon was Mr..
Beecher's slanderer, Mrs. III ton being herself
| the authority for the statement.
| In this waV Mrs. Tilton and one of her rela-
tlves have been the chief causes of the great
| difficulty OF suppressing the scandal. They
| have had habit of saying that Mr.. Tilton be-
eves such and such things, and their nam ng
| of these things, by way of denial, has been a
| mschi-vous way of circulating them broad
| cast In this way Mr.. Tilten has been made
| TO appear defamer wreB, as he has made ev-
| cry efforG in his power to suppress the injuri-
| Gus tales which he has been charged with prop
| agating on all occasions, he has Systematically
referred to his wife in terms favorable to Der
| coaracter. Further, Mr.. Tilton would no have
| W Tue COtD Illttee lDe IdCUS con-
| tanned in these statements except for the per-
| sistent course of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecber
and Mrs Elizabeth r. Tlton to degrade and
| destroy hin in the public estimation.
| Twenty-FirsI-That evening about two
weeks after the publication of Mr. Tilton's let
| ter to DIR. Bacon, Mrs. Tilton on coming home
| at a late hour, informed her husband that she
| had been visited at friends house by Com
| mittee of investigation, aud had given sweep
| lug evidence acquttiug Mr.. Beech-r of every
| charge This was The first intimation which
| Mr.. Tlton received that any such committee
| was then in existence, Furthermore, Mrs. Til
| ton stated THAI she had done this by advice Of
| lawyer, whom Mr.. Beecher had sent to her,
| The COMMITTEE arranged with her the questions
| aud answers which We're to constitute her testi
| mony 10 Mr.. Beecher's behalf
| Gu the next day ter giving this untrue tes-
| tmony before the committee she spent May
| hours of extreme suffering from the pangs of
| conscience at having testified falsely. She ex-
| pressed to her husband the hope that God
| would forgive her perjury, but that the motive
| also to remove all rep zach from the cause of
| religion. She also expressed similar contri-
| ton to one OF her intimate friends.
REcAPTULATIoN.
| Twenty Second-Finally, that in addition to
| the foregoing facts and evidences other coufir
nations could be addnced if needed, to prove
| the following recapItulated statement, namely:
| That the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, as pastor
| and fri md of Mr.. Tilton and his family, tres
passed on the sanctity of friendship and hospi-
| tally in long endeayor to.seduce Mrs. Eliza
beth X. Tilton, and by the artful use Of his
| prestly authority with her, she being his pupil
| in religion, he accomplished this seduction
| that for period of year and half or there
about he maintained criminal intercourse with
her, overcoming her previous modest scruples
| against such conduct, by investing it with
false Ju LITIGATION as sanctioned by love and re-
| liglon; that he tten participated in conspira
cy % degrade Theodore Tilton before the public
| by loss of place of business and repute; that be
abused Mr.. Titou's forgiveness and pied of
protection by thereafter authorizing series of
measures by Plymouth church, having for their
object the putting of a stigma on Mr.. Titon
before The church and also before N ecclesas-
Iical council, insomuch that the moderator of
that council, interpreting these acts by Mr..
Beecher and his church, declared publicly that
they showed Mr. Beecher to be the most mag
unanimous of men, and Mr. Titon to be a knave
and dog; that when Mr.. Tilton thereafter,
not in malice but for self protection, wrote
letter to DIR. Bacon abiding therein to an
offence and an apology by tine Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher he (Mr. Beecher) defantly APP
pointed committee of his church members to
inquire into the injury done him by Mr. Tilton
by the aforesaid action and implying that he
| (Air. Beecher) had never been the author of
such offence and apology, and that Mr.. Titon
was a sanderer; that TO make this inquiry
bear grevOusly against Mr.. Tilton he (Mr.
Beccher) previously connived with Mrs. E. r.
Tilton to give false testimony in his (Mr Beech
er's) behalf; that Mr. Beechers course toward
Mr. Tilton and family has at last resulted in
the open destruction of MIR. Tilton's house,
hold aud home and in the desolation of his
house and life.
(Sgned) THEODORE Triton.
Sworn before me this Goth day of July, 1874.
(Sgned) THEo. BURGMYER,
Notary Public.
Mr.. Tilton supplements his sworn statement
with an explanation of the paragraph in the
Golden Age. in which it was claimed that Til
ton should have the privilege of selecting six
members of the Plymouth church commit
tee. He says that that proposal was made
without this knowledge and that he would new
er have consented to such plan. He wanted
no investigation and was only led to make this
statement at the public demand of Mr.. Beech
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