The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-20
you cannot mean that you have stated
all tina the has charged ?"

She opened her eyes, and began in q
slow and feeble way to explain how sick
she had been. how Wearied out with i'm
portunity that he had confessed his own
alien loves, and said that he could not
bear to think that she was better than
he, and she might win him to reformation
If she.would confess that she loved me
more than him. and that they would re-
pent and COON with future concord an /
cannot give her language, but only the
tenorof Misrepresentation. | IEreceived
them impatiently. I spoke to her in the
strongest language Of her course. I said
to her; A a. 5&4 H.. a. @SS
f"Haye I ever made any improper
advances to your rs ~ - &
She said, s"No. y" - ft
"Then," | asked, ."why did you say 50
to your husband p Z "- @
ShGseemed deeply distressed.
'My friend, (by that designation she
almost always called me,) 81 am sorry,
bst.I could not help it what canI do?".
told her she could state in writing
what she had now told me. She beckon-
ed for her writing materials, which [
handed her from her secretary standing
near by, and she sat ur in bed and wrote
brief r-statement
wRAT SHE DENIED.
In sort of postscript she denied
Explicitly that I had, ever offered any
Improper solicitation to her, that being
the only charge made against me by MI !.
Tilton, or sustained by the Statement.
abolt the confession which he had read
I osme. | dreamed of no worse charge at
the time That was horrible enough.
The mere tnoug that he could make It,
and could have extorted any evidence on
which to base it, twas enough to take
my senses. Neither my consciousness of
| itr utter falsehood nor Mrs. Tilt rs
lretraction of her part il it, would remove
the shock from my heart land head.
Indeed, her admission to me that she
had stated, under any circumstances, to
her husband so wicked falshood,was the
Growing blow of all. Itseemed to me as
If she was going to die, that her mind
was overthrown, and that was IN some
dreadful way mixed up in it, and might
be left, by her DEATH with this terrible accusation
hanging over me-. Ireturned like one in dream
to Mr.. Moulton's house, where I said very little,
and soon went home. 1t has been said that 1
confessed guilt and expressed remorse. This is
utterly false. Is it likely, that with Mrs Tilton's
retract.on in my pocket, should have thus
stultifed myself2 "a
1goULroN DECLARES THE nErEAcTIoN SHOULD DE
A GIVEN UP. ~ 4
On the next day, at evening" Mr. Moulton called
at my house and came up into my bedroom. He
said that Mrs. Tilton, her husbands return to
her after our Interview, had informed him what
she had done, and that had her retraction.
Moulton expostulated with esaid that the retrac-
ticn, under the circumstances, would not mend
matters but only awaken, fresh discord between
huaband and wife, and do great injury to Mrs
Tilton without helping me. Mrs. Ttlton, he said,
had already iecanted in writing The retraction
made to me, and of course there might be no end
to such contradictions. Meanwhile, Tilton had
destroyed his wifes first letter, acknowledging the
confession, and Mr.. Moulton claimed that had
taken mean advantage and made dtshoneraDle
use of Theodore's request that should visit her,
in obtaining from her written contradiction to a
document not in existence. He said that all
difficulties fcould be settled without any such
papers, and thatI ought to give it up.
MR. MoULroN SHOWS HIS PISTOL. i
He was under great excitement. He made no
verbal threats, but ne opened his overcoat and
with some emphatic remark, showed pistol which
afterward he took out and laid the bureau near
which he stood. gave theIpaper to him and after
few moments talk. he left. vi
A THIRD VISIT FROM MR.. MoULToN-MRs.
TILToN.
Within day or two after this Mr.. MouI-
ton made me the third visit, and this time
we repaired to my study in the .hird story
of my house. Before speaking ofthis inter-
view it is right thatI should allude to the
suffering through which had gone during
the previous days, the core of which was the
etIahSo cnnnSo III palcs 1ACOh" NotulnS
had seemed to nae more certain during all
my acquaintance with her than that she was
singulary staple, trathfnl, and honorable.
Deceit seemed Absolutely foreignto her ma.
ture, and yet,She had stated to her husband
those strange and awful falsehoods. She
had not, when daily I called and prayed
with her, given ne the slightest hint, will
notsay ofsuch accusations, but even that
there was any serious family difficulty.
She had suddenly, In December, called me
and my wife to consultation, to possible
separation from her husband, still leaving
meignorant that she hs d put into his har DIS
suehla weapon against me. Twas bewild~
cred with q double consciousness of saint
~ woman communicating very needless