Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-08-06
TIE HEECHER-TlLTON SCANDAL.

from Mr.. Btccher TO Mouiton are maue puohc
to-day:
f. D. Mou1tm:
My DEAR FRIEND The Committee Of In
yestjpation are waiting mainly for you before
closing their labors. | do carnesty wish that
Won would come aud clear your mind and mem
ory of everything that can bear on my case.
pray you also to bring all letters and papers re-
iating to it which will throw any ~ ht upon 1t
and briup to a result this prOtracted case.
7 trust that Mrs. Mouton has been renvlg-
GRATED, and that her need OF your care will not
| be So great as to detaln you,
| Truly yours, IL. W. bHEchEh.
BROOKLYN, August 4, 1874.
| F. d. Iuoulton, esq:
SIR:-Your letter bearing date August 4
1874. Is this moment received. Allow me to
EXPRESS my regret aud astoDlshment that you
refuse me permission even to see certain let
tiers and papers in your possession relating 10
the charges made against me by theodore III
ton and at the reasons given tor the refusal.
On your solemn and repeated assurances OF
friendship, aud with the unquestlonlng contI-
dence you inspired me OF your honor and hdel-
ity, | placed III your hands for sale keeping
various letters addressed to me from my broth
er, my sister, and various other parties; also
memoranda Of affairs not Immediately connect
ed with Mr.. Tilton's matters. | also, from
time to time, addressed you confidential notes
relating TO my own self, as one friend would
write to another.
These papers were never placed IN your
hands to be held for two parties, nor to De
used in any way They were to be held Tor
mc. | did not wish them to be subject to the
risk of loss or scattering from my careless hab
its 10 the matter of preserving documents.
They were to be held for me. In so far as
| these papers were concerned you were only a
friendly trustee, holding the papers subject to
my wishes.
MIR. Triton has made deadly assault upon
me, and has used letters and fragments OIL let
tiers purporting TO be copies OF these papers.
Are these extracts genuine? Are they garb-
led? What are their dates? What, if any
thing, has been left out aud what Put IN
You refuse my demand for these papers on
various pleas; that if [ speak the truth in my
statement do not need them; if make sue
cesstul use of them it will be an injury to MIR.
Tlton, and that you, as friend OF both par
ties, are bound not to aid either IN any act that
shall lnjure the other.
But do not desire to iujure any one, but to
repel au iu Jury attempted upon mc by the use
of papers committed sacrcdly to your care.
These documents have been seen and copied.
They have been hawked for sale in the New
York newspaper offices. What purport to be
my confidential notes to you are on the market,
but when demand sight Of the originals OF
papers OF which you are Only trustee that
may defend myself, you refuse, because you
are a friend Of both parties.
Mr. Tilton has access to your depository for
materials with which to strike me, but am
| Il tlnr, I.,ta ,l,p,r
SELF do not ask you to place before the com-
mittec any papers which Mr.. Tilton may have
given you, but do demand that you forthwith
place before the committee every paper which
[ have written or deposited with you.
Yours truly, II. w. BEECHER.
The following is the letter from Moulton to
which Mr.. Bcecher letter of August was
reply:
| 40 REMsEN STREET,
| BROOKLYN, August +, 1874.
My DEAR Mr.. BEEcHER | received your
note Of July "a, informing me that you are max
ing a statement, and need the letters and pa
pers 10 my hands, aud asking me to send to
you for the purpose extracts of copies made
| from them, as the case may be, that you may
use them 10 your controversy with Mr. IlltoD.
| should be very glad to do anything that may
| do consistent with my sense OF what Is due to
Justice and right to aid you, but you will re-
fleet that hold all the important papers in
trusted to me at the desire and request, and
in the confidence, of both parties to this un-
happy affair. You will see that cannot in
honor give them to either party to aid him as
against the other. | have not given or shown
to Mr.. Tilton any documents or papers relat-
ing to your affairs since the renewal OF your
controversy, which had been once adjusted
| | need not tell you how deeply l regret your
positions as foes each to the other after my
long, and as you, have no doubt, fully be-
| lieve, honest and faithful effort to have you
otherwise.
I will sacredly hold all the papers and infor-
nation [ have until both parties shall request
| me to make them public or to deliver them
into the hands of either or both, or to lay them
before the committee, or | am compelled 10 a
court of justice to produce them, if l can be so
compelled.
My regret that | am compelled to this course
| is softened by my belief that you will not be
substantially Injured by it in this regard, for all
| the facts are of course Known to you, and am
| bound to believe and assume that 10 the state
meDt you are preparing you will only set forth
| the exact facts, aud if so the documents when
produced will only coutirm and not contradict
what you may say, so that you will suffer no
| loss.
IF, on the contrary, which cannot presume,
you only desire the possession of the docu-
ments that you may form your statement in
manner not to be contravened by the facts set
forth 10 them, aiding you to the disadvantage
Of Mr. Tlton, | should be then aiding you in
| doing that which | caunot believe the strctest
and frmest friendship for you calls upon me
| to do.
With grateful recollections Of your kind con
fidence and trust in me,
am, very truly yours
L. D. MoULToN.
Mr. Mouton has sent the following reply to
Mr.. Beecher's letter OF yesterday:
46 REMsEN STREET
BROOKLYN, August 5, 1874.
Rev Henry Ward Beecher:
My DEAR SIR: In all our acquaintance and
ErionlShir harn ranaiuad from, ,,Al,