The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-22

how his wife come to make confession in
July, nor did at that time, or ever after,
ask. Indeed may state here, once for
all, that l refrained from asking confes-
sions of the acts of all parties, further
than they chose to make them voluuta-
rily, for the. purpose for which Twas
acting.
Tilton wanted me to go down and ask
Beecher to come up and see him at my
house, which did. said to Beecher,
"Mr. TiIion wants You 10 come and
See Him '
at nv house immediately He asked.
"What for?" l replied, "He wants to
make some statement to you in reference
to your relations with his family" He
then called to some one in the back room
to 90 down and say he should not be at
PRAYER meeting, and we went out to-
gether. 1t was storming at the time,
when he remarked, There is an appro-
priateness in this storm, and | said,
HMr. Beecher, l am not a Christian, but
if you wish I will show you how we'll IA
heather can serve you.' We then went
to my house and showed him into the
chamber over the parlOr, where Tilton
was, and left them together. In about
an hour Beecher came down and asked
me if / had seen the
Confession of Elizabeth.
| said l had. Said he "This will kill
me-" and asked me to walk out with him.
| did so, and we walked to Mr.. Tilton'
house together, and he went in. On the
way he said, "This is terrible catastro-
phe. 1t comes upon me rs if | was
struck by lightning He went into
Tilron's house, and | returned home.
Within an hour he returned to my house
and we left my house again together,
and | walked with him to his house.
Titon remained at my house while
Beccher was absent at Tilton house. and
when he returned there was no CONVERSE
tion between them. When we arrived
at Beecher's house he wanted
me to stand by him in this
emergency, and procure reconciliation
ifpossible. | told him would, because
the Interests of women, children and fam
lies were involved, if for no other reason.
That ended the interview that night.
During the evening nothing was said by
Bcechcr as to the trnth or ialSlty of Mrs.
Tilton's confession, nor did he inform me
that he had obtained from her any re-
cantation of the confession which | after
wards learned he had done. | returned
to nv house and had some conversation
with Tilton, in which he told me he had
rccitpd to Bowen the details of the con-
fession of his wite'S adultcrics, and the
only remark which Bowen made was
.This IL All n Dream
and that was all the answer Bowen made
to MIN. | then advised Tilton that for
the sake of his wife and family, and for
the sake of Beechcrs family, the matter
should be kept quiet and huSh"d up. The
next morning, aS | was leaving home for
Business, Tilton came to my house and
with great anger said that Bccchcr mad
done n mean act; that he had gone from
that interview of last night to hi, house
and procured from Elizabeth II rrcanta-
tion and rctraction o. her confession. lie
said for that act he would slnltc him;
that there could be no peace. He said
YOU see that what ] have told YOU of the
meannesS of that man is now evident.
TiltOn said that Beccher ut the interview
oflast night had asked his permission to
90 and sec Elizabeth and he told him he
might. which statement was confirmed by
Beccher himself, and Beecher left him for
that purpose. said, "Tilton, now
Don't Get Angry.
Let us see if even this cannot he ar
ranged. / will 90 down and get that re-
traction from him. | was then going to
nv business. so that | was unable to go
that morning, but went that evening,
SAW Bcechcr, told him that | thought he
had been doing very mean and trcaCh-
crous act, trcachcrouS first toward me,
from whom he wanted help, in that he
didn't tell me on our way t" his hou>r
last night what he had procured from
MrS. Tilton. and that he couldn' expect
my friendship in thi, matter unless he
acted truthfullv and honorably towards
me. | further said. Mr.. Br"chrr. you
have had criminal intercourse with Mr..
Tilton. You have done great injury
to Mr.. Tilton otherwise. Now,
when You are confronted with H.
YOU ask permission of the man to again
visit bis house and get from that woman
who has confessed YOU have ruined her,
rccantation and rctraction of the truth
for your mcr" personal safety. That
won't I save YOU.
naachar lnufoSsaS IN MauIfon
At this interview he admitted with
grief and sorrow the fact of his sexual
relations with Mrs.. Tilton; expressed
some indignation that she had not told
him she had told her husband, and that
in consequence of being in ignorance Of
that fact he had been walking upon
volcano. Referring 10 what he had don"
in connection with Bowen. and with ref
rrence to TiltOn, he said that he had
symputhized with Bowen, and had taken
sides with him aS against TiltUm. in r"n-
sequence of stories which were i'm circlI-
lation in regard to him. and especially of
one specific case, where he had been in
formed Tilton had had improper rela-
tiOns with a woman, whom h" named.
and To whom II letter from his wifi" will
make part of this statement, and had :"
stated to Bowen, and he told me that he
would write to Bowen and withdraw
these charges, and gave me the rough
draft of letter which he wrote and sent
to Bowen, which letter u here produced.
Beechcr to Bowen.
BROOKLYN. June >, ISL.
Nix DEAR BowEN-Since l last saw
YOU last Wednesday, ! have reason to
think that the only cases Of which | spoke
To YOU in regard to Mr.. Tilton. were rr-
asgcrated in being reported tome, and !
should be unwilling to have anything /
said, though it was but little
weight on your mind in a
matter so important to hi> welfare. am
informed by one on whose Judgment and
integrity | greatly rely, and who has
the means of forming an opinion better
than any Of us, that he knows the whole
matter about Mrs. Bullard, and that the