The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-07-31
BEECHER AND TILT0N.
CARD FROM TILToN.
What Elizabeth Cady Stanton Says.
TILToN SUED FOR LIBEL.

l respectfully call public attention 10
the fact that though the Plymouth
church Committee have this morning
published eight or ten columns of ire
leNant and desultOry conversation be-
tween Mr.. Beechers counsel and myself
I'D the Committee room. Vet the vo- 1
luminous report strangely omits the most /
important part of my testimony. namely. /
that the criminality which INV sworn |
statement charged upon Rev. Henry |
Ward Beecher and his religious victim
was confessed TO me, not only by herself |
but by Mr.. Beecher; furthermore. that |
it was confessed by her and him to Mr..
MOultOn, as friend and counsellor for
both: and still further that Mr.. Moul-
tons Office aS mediator for four wears
between Mr.. Beecher and me was based
on the one sole fact Of this pre-existing
criminality between SIR. Beecher and
Mrs. Tilton. This statement | made to
the committee with my utmost plainneSs
of speech. | furthermore stated TO the
committee that Mr. Beecher's apology to
lie, instead of growing out of anv cir
cumstances with which Mrs Woodruff
was connected, was communicated to he
by Mr.. Beecher nearly six months before
/ ever met, knew, or saw Mrs. Woodruff.
The omission of these facts from the
committees report forces me TO lay them
before tile public as necessary part of
my case. THEODORE TILTON.
An Argus reporter called on Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Cady Stanton, at her residence in
Tenafiy, n. j., this morning.
Il am perfectly willing to be inter
viewed" remarked the lady, with a
smile.
WHEN SHE FIRST HFARD THE SCANDAL.
q. Can you tell me when you first
learned of this affair, Mrs. Stanton?
Al think it was year before Mrs.
Woodruff published her statement that
| knew of the matter-not all the details.
you understand, which have since come
to light-bIJ the story i'll substance.
Q.-And are you willing to tell in what
manner you became possessed of this
knowledge!
A.-Certainly. Some time, l think,
in the fall of the year, Though | won't
be pOsitive), while Mrs Bullard was still
connected with the Revolution. Susan
B. Anthony, Mr.. and Mrs. TiltOn, Mrs.
Bullard and myself were in Brooklyn
together. 1t was in the afternoon and
after calling at the Office of the RecOIu-
ton. Mr.. TiltOn and myself accompanied
Mrs. Billiard to her residence and re
manned to dinner. Through some mis-
understanding. Miss Anthony went with
Mrs. Tilton and dined with her instead
of us. There was some feeling on the
part of Mrs. TiltOn i'll regard to this, al
though it was quite unintentiOnal on my
part. Well, at the table, no one was
present but Mrs. Bul!ard, Mrs. Tilton
and myself Theodore told the whole
story of his wife's faithlessnesS. As |
before observed, he did not go into de-
tails, but the sum and substance of the
whole matter he related i'll the hearing
of Mrs. BulIard and myself We We're
reformerS. He gave us the story as a
phrase of social life"
Q.-This was the first you had heard
of it!
A.-This was the first.
MRS. STANTON TELLS THE STORY To HER
FRIENDS.
The next evening" hearing that Mrs
Anthony WIS a little piqued at me for
leaving her on the day before, | re
turned to my home here in Tenafly. 70
| my surprise, | found Susan waiting my
| arrival. That evening, when we were
alone, / said to her, Theodore related
very strange story to Mrs. Bullard and
ne last evening" Then recounted to
her all he had told us. Miss Anthony
listened attentively to the end. Then
she said, Il have heard the same story
from Mrs. Tilton." We compared notes
and found that by both man and wife
the same story had indeed been told
A DOMESTIC QUARREL LEADS To DIS
CLOSCRE
Q.-What were the particulars of Mrs.
| Tilton's confesSion.
Al will tell you how it was made.
| When Mr.. Tilton returned home that
evening, some angry words growing out
| of the separation in the afternoon
| passed between him and his wife. Both
became intensely excited. In the heat
! of passion and in the presence of Miss
Anthony each confessed to the other of
| having broken the marriage vow. In
! the midst of these startling disclosures,
] Miss Anthony withdrew TO her room.
| Shortly after she heard Mrs. TiltOn come
dashing up stairs and Mr.. Tilton follow
ing close after She flung open her bed
room door and Elizabeth rushed III.
The door was then closed and bOlted.
| Theodore pounded on the outside and
| demanded admittance, but Miss An
thony refused to give him the key. So
intense was his passion at that moment,
| that she feared he might kill his wife if
he gained access TO the room. Several
| times he returned to the door and angri-
| " demanded that it be opened ''NO
woman shall stand between me and my
| wife" lie said But Susan, who is "a
| courageous as she is noble, answered
| him with the words, IF you enter this
room it will be over my dead body" and
so the infuriated man ceased his de
| mands and withdrew. Mrs. Tilton re
manned withSusan throughout the night.
| In the excitement of the hour, amid sObs
| and tears. she told all to Miss Anthony.
! The whole story of her own faithless-
ness, of Mr.. Beecher's course, of her
deception, and of her anguish, fell upon
! the ears of Susan b. Anthony, and We're
| spoken by the lips of Mrs. TiltOn-
Q.-By Mr.. Tilton's cross examination
! it appears that Mrs. TilJon was far from
friendly TO Miss Anthony. How could
she have made this confession to her.
A.-On the contrary, Mrs. Tilton
| thought a great deal of Miss Anthony,
of Mrs. Bullard, and all those ladies. |
was very intimate with her before Mrs.
| Woodhul's thunderbolt.
TILTON SUED FOR LIBEL.
Theodore Tilton was arrested on two
charges of libelling Henry Ward Beech