The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-07-25
The Great Scandal.
TILToN's EXAMINATION.

Tilton was first questioned regarding his re-
lations with Mrs. Woodruff. He manifested
the greatest Indignation at the implication that
he had been guilty of the same offenses with
Woodruff that he charges against Beecher and
Mrs. TiIton. He was also questioned with re-
gard to his relations with several other women,
and at each question gave an indignant de-
NAL, threatening that if this kind of warfare
was to be kept up on himself. he would have
some names to mentiOnl and would expose
other parties. Tracy then put the direct ques-
ton to Tilton, as to whether be had ever been
unfaithful to his wife, Tilton declined to be
questioned IN that way. 1t is also stated that
during Tilton's examination he stated facts
which proved ncontestably that he was him
self the sole inspiration of the Woodruff scan
dial, and that he gave Mrs. Woodruff all the
alleged facts on which the exposure was
founded. He had also endeavored to persuade
Beecher to preside over the Woodruff woman's
meet ng, using as an inducement the neces-
sty of Beechers conciliatng Mrs. Woodruff
who, he said, was in possession of damaging
rumors against him. In answer to q question
by Tracy, as to whether he had any evidence
of Beecher's alleged wrong-doing except what
his wife told him, Tilton replied 81 have none,
whatever" 1t also appears that one of
Beechers letters from which TIton in his
statement extracts few lines of doubtful
meaning, is over a column long. Tilton has
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BEECHER's LOVE LETTERS
Gas to Mr. Beecher's love letters" says
gentleman, whose official business has led him
to receive and open much of Mr.. Beechers
correspondence, "you would be surprised to
know how foolishly some women write to him.
Every once in while woman gets a little
crazy and writes to Mr.. Beecher to tell how
1 H. col
he Independent Office and Tlton, under or
ders from Mr.. Beecher, opened them, Many
of them he made copies of, and, to-day, has
ma nusciipts and names and copies OF letters,
all connected with respectable ladies who have
foOshly written to Mr.. Beecher all about their
love for him. Some time ago, a very respecta-
BILE lady of BROOKLYN wrote warm, loving let
ter to Mr.. Beecher; Mr.. John Howard, in the
Christian Upon Office under general :. i1 ,"s
tons, opened II, and seeing what 1t was, locked
| it up to give Mr.. Beecher when he should call
| for it. In day or two, another letter from the
| same woman arrived, which referred to a letter
which the writer said Mr.. Beecher had written
| to her i'll reply. Every sentence was full of
| love, and the lady said that nothing delighted
| her more than to receive a letter from man
| she loved so well. She wrote number of love-
| sick eps les, which Mr.. Howard locked up one
after another. Every letter except the first re-
| ferred to reply that had just been received
| from Beecher; whereas the fact is, that Mr..
Beecher did not know of the letters having
been received until long after the lady had
ceased writing, and then the bundle was de-
livered to him. He receives love-letters by the
rean and cord, and the joke of it is, that as his
wife lakes care of all letters that come to him,
she reads the love letters before he sees them.
Mrs. Titon's letters to Mr.. Beecher were very
affectonate and enthusiastic, and expressed
deep, pervadng love for him. Mrs Beecher
read them all before he saw them, and they
are all in her possession now. When the scan
dial was first noised about Mrs. Beecher looked
up the letters, and at Mrs. Tilton's request,
has preserved them for her. You can't con-
vince Mrs. Beecher that her husband is guilty
of anything that Tilton charges. She says that
if all the women in creation we've to swear that
Mr.. Beecher had been unfaithful, she would
not believe Them