The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-08-21
Nnr. EHOuItOn Comes Down
Hard ON NHr. Beecher.
Plymouth Church ~ Club
s.a - House. -rG az

"Gath," of the Chicago Tribune,
sends by telegraph a four column
letter to his paper, consisting of
facts gathered from a two days So
journ with Triton and Moulton.
We append several Of the most in
teresting extracts:
New YORK, Aug. 81 left Sara
toga Friday night, took breakfast in
New York, and Immediately pro-
ceeded to Brooklyn and the cottage
of Theodore TiltOn. L sent in my
card. and, being received with
courtesy, expressed my desire to
obtain at once whatever he might
be willing to give the Chicago
Tribune. He seemed puzzled at
first, but after awhile proceeded to
speak of the mental rack he was GO
ing through, and assured me that.
if l would return in an hour,
| should have the day and night in
his company. i went Immediately
TO the house of Frank Moulton,
whom / well knew. Moulton was
very busy revising his statement.
Thence 1 went TO the Office of Judge
Morris.
TILToN'S TREATMENT OF HIS WIFE.
The topic which had been latest
under discussion with certain gen.
tlemen was Mrs. Tilton's alleged
statement that her husband had neg
lected his home, locked his wife in
room, lived sparingly, etc. This
affected TiltOn's pride and made his
friends feel indignant. To refute
the statement, L was shown by Mr..
Tilton's counsel the correspondence
between the wife and husband from
1866 down nearly to the date of tn e
! discovery of the adultery. l read
it with sensibility, admiration and
wonder. That home was truly
ideal. The insidious entry of Beech
er into il, the husbands apprehen-
sion, the wife's infatuation, their
correspondence as to this intruder,
and, finally, the struggle in a hys-
teriR nasNre between her pastor,
who had put her in leading strings,
and the groom of her youth, was
perfectly visible.
Said 1 to Judge Morris: ''Give
me these letters. They are needful
that the world may understand you
both. l will print them in distant
city, so that they may slowly find
their way back here with such de-
lay as not to effect the main issue on
the spot"
Judge Morris, Mr.. Tiiton's coun-
sci, favored the request. l secured
the whole of that remarkable cor
respondence. Not Abelard or He
loise ever wrote such letters. They
are the qniintescence Oflove. AS lit
crary compositions they are no less
valuable than as perfect opponents
OF the two sad actors in this damua-
BILE play.
WITH MIR. TILToN AND HIS COUNSEL.
Mr.. TiltOn, Judge Morris, and
mys-lf then took a carriage and
drove to the sea-shore, six miles dis
tant. We were gone all that after
noon. put lawyer and man under
as close an examination as was COM
patible with onr relations and my
knowledge of TiltOn's nature. Mr.
Tilton never flinched. Mr.. Morris
heart was in his defense. Such q
story, SO related, it would be impos-
sible for me to repeat. The SUBJ
ject of it / shall give to you. We
returned to Brooklyn, and Mr.. Til
1 NOu dAANA SUI SAt w I'LL AhAtAhAA nAp
still laboring over the same theme,
and finally were the only two ten
auts of the cottage, except Katie,
the old servant maid. We retired
about l O'Clock, and arose and break.
tasted together. Though in this
darkened house of woe, desolate OF
wife or children, never felt under
more peaceful protection; for the
/, | NNurffxr hsa aud 10 hro
of the man who slept ia the very
= chamber where he had listened tC
, the dread confession OF guilt perme
all day had been of sweet and lofty
. sort scarcely like anything worldly
' 1 had ever heard. That part of TIT
public which measures him by thu
false orbit of Beecher is not aware
of the mans height. t4
MR.. MoULTON SAID TO NE
q another day: "Gath, cannot speal
n of anything material as to what
h shall have to say, but this tell vol
q as between Beecher aud Tilton il
= their behavior under fire. Tilton j
= infinitely the larger, more self-reli
L ant, more reliable man. Inever hear
st him lie, and Beecher has been lyin
IL during the whole of this controversy
. He began it with an act of treacherS
confessing his adultery with Eliza
10 beth TO me, asked me to walk wit
!, him roard TO Tilton's house, ant
n. getting in there, the husband bein
a absent, he extorted from Elizabet
a retraction of her confession.
> With this in his pocket, he wall
n ed back 10 my house and then aske
d. me to walk to his, and while tall
w ing despair and contrition all Il
way, he still held that piece of p
~ per in his pocket"
d. Said 1 10 Mr.. Moulton: ais
q true that you got that paper back
IN presenting a pistol at his head 2" ;
He said: "No; but as soon
Theodore told me that Elizabe
" had acknowledged writing that y
h traction, / went round to Mr.. Beec
El- er.s and insisted on seeing him, al
IL said: You arc affecting to be ma
ing o covenant to keep perpetu
- truce. and vet. Mr.. Reechar Won a