Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-08-08
Continued from Our Last-Khat the
Committee Orgaaised to Acqnit is
being, AM Whist MouItOn
is Saying.
Judge Norris and DE-. Storrs On Mrs.
Tilt9n's fess:I3s.iy-Is she Ia
ssne?-RoweR Ready and
ril"sI.
The Missing Lins--seeeher Asked Til.
tons Pardon s'f0r ths Greatest
Wrong One Man COald Of
fer TO Another"
WORK oE TIE cnMnrrr-rFE.

WORK OF THE COMMITTEE.
! New YORK, august THE Ply
mouth investigating committee will
! hold another meeting this evening,
| chiefly for consultation. Several of the
minor witnesses Summoned have de-
| clined to testify, and others have as yet
/ given no answer. It is remarked by
| counsel that a considerable number of
! witnesses have been requested to appear
before the committee who are only ex.
/ pected to furnish unimpOrtant links in
the chain of evidence, some of them to
supply details concerning the married
| life of Mr.. and Mrs. Tiiton, q class of
| evidence which the counsel for Mr.
! Beecher considers essential to the inves-
| tigati0n. The counsel also says that it
! is still uncertain whether Beecher will
present written statement to the COM
mittee, OF simply submit to an oral eX-
animation. He will be governed by the
wishes of the committee. He has not
received any summons from them to
testify, and the report that he has drawn
up a written statement, which he will
read to the cOmmittee, is declared to be
premature. The members of the COM
mittee say it is impossible to tell when
the labors of the investigation will be
over. 1t is undecided whether Beecher
will be called on Monday evening or
at a later date, as it is thought possible
that the presentation of MOulton's testi-
mOny may suggest the calling of other
witnesses forward. It is suggested by
one OF the lawyers employed ON Il
case that tine committee may conclude
it is inadvisable to present their report
for the consideration of Plymouth I
church until the return of many who
are now away for their summer rest, can
render full meeting of the church pos
sible.
MR.. MOULToN
said yesterday: "I have hitherto en-
desvOred to bring about peace between /
Beecher and TilUon, and Ishall continue 4
to do so. hope to remove all misun- /
derstandilg, and bring the parties tn an 4
intelligent realization of self-interest." /
MoultOn had long consultation with |
three criminal lawyers, as well as with |
Benjamin F. Butler. The result of all |
these talks is said to be thar Mr., Moul- /
ton will not be too much Of friend to .
TiltOn to join in his bitterness, or of Mr.. !
Beecher TO refuse to tell his story.
JUDGE MORRIS SAYS
that the evidence of which he was in |
possession, and which he was engaged |
in the collection of preparatory to the
trial, was the most convincing and con-
elusive which he had ever known in any
case of law, and, in particular, that Mrs.
TiitOn's statement concerning her hus-
bands cruelty, and his locking ber in
her room like a prisoner, his freezing
and starving her, viii be shown TO be
10,
in the family at all, the charge will be
at the door, not OF Mr.. TiltOn, but OF bis
wife.
REV. DIR. RICHARD STORRs
publishes a short letter this morning.
He says in respect TO Mrs. Elizabeth
Tilton's testimony before the Brooklyn
committee, she is represented as making
the following statement concerning the
conversation which she had solicited
with him abhis house in March last, in
which conversation she sscribed to her
husband the real authorship of a letter
written by her hand, which had been
shown to him fifteen months before:
CDR. StOrrs looked up at me and said,
Il wish | had known that week ago,
because on that letter al ne l believe
Mr.. Beecher to be a guilty man. He
was in hurry, and said that if wanted
to talk further he would like to see his
wife," or this statement, DR.. StOTs
writes: 81 made no such remark to
Mrs. Tilton concerning Mr.. Bseeher.
She must have attributed to me an i'm
preston which was resting on her mind.
Though l excused myself from general
and prolonged conversations on the
matter with which her present tesumO-
nv is largely occupied, it was not until
she, in a half-hour's conversation had
said all that she wished to say in regard
to the origin of the letter referred to, and
certainly nothing could have been fur
ther from mind than the thought of re-
ferring her to my wife for fur
ther conversation on a matter so
entangled and every way painful.
BOWEN INTERVIEWED.
The Brooklyn Eagle publishes an in
terview with Henry G. Bowen, who is
represented as saying Of the Beeoher-
Tilton case: ''rhis entire business has
caused me much pain. l have bad no
hand in it, and do not wish to have. The
public will yet learn that the attacks on
me were brutal and unjustifiable. l only
keep quiet under them in Difference TO
nav family. Although my name has
been mixed up in this scandal, have
not made any charges against any
body vet: and therefore l have not been
invited by the committee to appear. If
subpouaed in the court, Of course have
TO appear.u Mr. Bowen alluded to the
agitation shown by Mrs. Hooker in Ply
mouth church, oansed by her belief in
Beecher's immoralityi ana out Ior lne
fact that she was restrained she would
have announced it to the congregation.
Being asked if Beecher ever dld MIN
injury, Bowen said: 81 could construe
his course unkindIy. / considered it all
along my duty, nevertheless, TO retain
INV position and pew in the church, be-
cause intanded to be there after him as
I was there before him. AS TO TlltOni
Bowen said he didn't care which way IL
went with him. "rhe end must nects.
sarily Justify me before the public, and
| will never go down to my grave with
ont saVing something concerning my /
relations with this scandal. Meuiton,"
continued Bowen, sis placed in an awk-
vsfd position, but l believe be will tell
ina truth. The statement Of Woodruff, /
offered the committee, should have been
reoeiyed: and were l memcer OF the
committee / would accept testimony !
from every source"
THEoDoRE's PARENTS INTERVIEWED. |
The Tribune, tomorrow VIII puDlish
an interview with the parents OF Iheo-
dore Tilton. They refuse to believe MRS
Tilton guilty, until she eOnfesses to them.
They express undiminished faith in their
eon, and indignantly deny the story OF
hereditary insanity in the family.
MoULroN TO BE POSTPONED,
To-day Mr.. MoultoD was busily en-
gagged in preparation of his statement 10
/ he submitted TO the investigating com
/ mittee. Several Of the members of the
eommittee having expressed Their de-
sire TO leave the city tomorrow alter
noon for the country, requested their
chairman, Mr.. Sage, to make arrange
ment with Mr.. MOultcn to postpone his
statement until Monday. Accordingly
Mr.. Sage indited the following epistle
and sent it by messenger to Mr. Moul-
| ton;
NEW YORK, August 7.
+. D. Moulton, Esq
, DEAR STR-Whan Won annaafed he