The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-11

of Minister'S" and ending "affectionatsiy.
Elizabeth?''
A. Yes. sir; but that is not my letter.
q. How was it written?
A In the same way as those which have
already explained. have no other expla-
nation for any of them. That was written
in bed. Mr.. Tilton wrote it first and sat
mp in my sick bed and copied it.
@. Is that true of all the letters that have
that significance?
A. Yes sir, so far as my authorship of
them is concerned.
| @. Was this letter written when you were
sick from miscarriage?
A. Yes.
q. DO you recollect Mr.. .Beecher's calling
that evening?
4. Yes.
| @. When?
A. But few hours before / wrote that
letter.
@. Can Won remember that interview with
Mr.. Beecher?
| A. 1t was very similar one 10 the other
/ was half unconscious and was very i'll pre-
pared TO see either of them. Ny room was
i all darkened and he nurse had gone to hers.
She opened the door and said that Mr.. Beech
or wanted to see me. L certainly do not
know what to tell You about that either.
| O. Do you remember writing some paper
for Mr.. Beechcr?
A. Yes.
@. Can you recall the contents of that
paper?
4. DO, 1 can not. / think it was to do
something for him because Theodore had
done something against him.
@. Is it true that he said anything TO you
| about "A council of ministers?
| A. / do not remember anything about it.
/ have tried very hard, dear friends, to get
into my mind these scenes, but they are
utterly gone out of my brain Witness
never told Miss Anthony that she had COM
United adultery, or done wrong with Mr..
Beecher or anything to that effect.
! @. Did you ever tell any human being
that you had been guilty of wrong doing
with Mr.. Beecher?
A. never voluntarily did SO. Once my
| husband took me In a carriage TO the
house of lady to whom he had been
| telling stories about me and Mr. Beecher
1 went against my will, and when
we got there he said 81 have brought Eliza
| beth to speak for herself, whether / have
slsDdered her," and did not deny him. 1t
was the same thing as when j copied and
signed the letters which Theodore had pre-
pared, and l am reminded of this.
| [ do not know whether it was
treachary, but many times he has
| said, You have gone to DIR. Storrs, and
now he knows that you are guilty." He
found out that had been to DIR. Storrs, and
he was very angry. The witness here re-
counted the scene at her house when Susan
| b. Anthsny was present much as heretofore
presented. except that she told Miss Anthony
that Tilton accused her of adultery with
| Beecber, not tbst she had committed IL. She
told Miss Anthony that Tilton had
charged her with infiGelity With one and an
other, and that when he sat at bis table
many times be had said that he did not
know who his children belonged to. She
had spoken OF it TO another person besides
Miss Anthony. She was aroused by Mrs.
WoOdhull's presence at her house
and by visit from two of
Mrs. Woodhull's sisters, whom she
called the police to take away. But she
| had told the persons nothing more than
what unjust accusations had been put upon
her by her husband.
Q. Did you in each instance with her and
| Miss Anthony take the trouble to say that
| the accusations were false?
A. No; it never occurred to me to do it..
| took them TO be reasonable persons and j
never thought of them ever wondering if it
was so. Mrs. TiltOn was asked If sne had
written out a confession of guilt with Nj
! Beecher and had intended to send it through
| her step-father to the church, and said
that she never heard of it before In refer
| ence to Mr.. Beecher's calls on her, she said
| that she did not think be called more than
once in two or-three weeks. Before she
| went West in the fail of 1870
husband in regard to another
woman. He said that on one or two oc
casions when he solicited her she utterly re-
fused him, and he said that he had not
found it SO with other women. Mrs. Tilton
saw this woman whsn she was West, and
she said she had tried to think that
|. Tilton was father to hen
and did not mean anything wrong, and con-
cluded not TO tell me. When the witnes.
returned from the West her husband had
taken into the house middie-aged maiden
lady. who had entire possession and minis
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as well as otherwise. The testimony con-
: tains good deal of this matter, but it is not
particularly pertinenG to the issue. AS tc
the character of her private discussions with
, Tilton, the witness said that he would take
her into room and lock the door. He had
. kept her locked up all day long innumerable
, times. He always bore down upon hei
heavily in the way of accusations, and she
! sometimes felt that his mind was unsettled
, Being asked about an interview with Mr.
Beecher during the latter part of 1870, about
the time of Tilton's valedictory In
the Independent, Mrs. Tilton said that she
told him she wanted to rallx with him about
difficulties at home. He almost instantly
said, 81 will send Mrs. Beecher to your She
will be mother To you. Tell her all YOU
prefer that Mrs. Beecher should be- the adj
visor so he brought Mrs. Beecher to bel
! mothers house, introduced the witness tc
her and left. Mrs. Beecher asked for the
| story of the witness troubles
and injured why she thought
of separation. The witness
, told Mrs Beecher a good deal OF her troubles
and Mrs. Beecher said that, did she know bel
husband had been faulty in that manner, she
would not live with him day. The witnes:
al ways felt uncomfortable talking to Mrs
! Beecher, because she was much prejudiceC
| against Theodore and was not greatly
helped in mind by that interview. She o ly
+, saw her twice. and thought she had bette
make up mind for herself, and finally con
e cluded 70 live with her husband, thinking
i it was a morbid state be was in and would
r soon get out of. Her talks
{ with Mrs. Beecher were long anC
painful, and she could not recall al
s that was said. AS to the woman who wa
q before noticed as occupvng her house. Mrs