, 1874-07-12
BEECHER'S TRIAL.
Little Reliable Information Yet OBJ
tained About The Investigation,
Tilton Considers that the Jurv
Is Packed.
And Hence Declines to Testify to
All He Knows.
Precipitate Denjals OF the Unspoken
Charge.
Beecher Said to Have Ante-Dated His
First Letter.
Interviews with Tilton, Clarke, Storrs,
and Clallin.
No Decided Nor Specific Verdict
Expected.
And Hence Declines to Testify to
All He Knows.
Precipitate DeniaIs OF the Unspoken
Charge.
Beecher Said to Have Ante-Dated His
First Letter.
Interviews with Tilton, Clarke, Storrs,
and Clallin.


New YORK. July 11.-Notbing new which can
be depended on as truth has been developed in
the Beecher investigation to-day. AL that can
be learned Of its doings Was telegrapled you
last night. The Examining Committee consists
Of only six persons, and these arc particularly
circu1nspect. as my information which might be
given could easily be traced to the one giving it.
It is only known positively that six or eight
meetings in all have been held at various places.
q single member OF tho Examining Committee
only sometimes sitting; that Tilton has been
examined but..ha given little information !; that
Beecter has not yet testified. and that Mrs.
Woodruff Airs. Hooker, Mrs. Stanton, and other
active circulators OF the, scandal have not yet
appeared for examination. The inquiry may
continue for two weeks to come.
T1LTON WAS EXAMINED
by District Attorney Winslow, ue OF the Com
1ntteo. He WAS accom- panied By Ills lawyer, $.
D. Norris and acted under his advice.
with some reservation. on the ground
that the Committee WIS packed, that tho inycsti-
CATION was intended to Nhltewash Beecher, and
that the final report might counsel him to resort
to the civil courts.
The Eagle says that Tilton was asked to tell all
he knew. He said he had no desire 10 injure
Mr. Beecher /: that lie
DID NOT MEAN TO TELL ANy MORE
than was necessary for his own ViDdcatlon, aud
he supposed he had done that already; that he
could tell sone things greatly to 1r. Beechcr's
injury but Haid that for the present he must de-
cline to speak in detail.
From the same source. the Eagle, you will
probably get news that Mrs. TiIton testified also
that allo said that when Hilton became infatuated
With Woodruff she told Beecher, and he advised
her to leave her husband; that after
Thton returned to her, reformed. she told him
what Beecber had done, and Tllton in rage ac-
cused Beeche1, who wrote the famous latter OF
apology. There il no truth in this statemen
aud theory. it being mere invention OF the
Eagle. The ictions OF this paper and 1ts strong
defense OF Beecher
HAVE DONE THE LATTER GREATER INJURY
than any publications OF bis worst foes. The
editor OF the Eagle is under heavy bonds for the
oifease which Beecher has been charged with,
and his principal editorial writer has
lately bcen badly exposed The advocacy
I1lton, If anything can help Elnt.
1ilton's character il not admired, and some OF
his associates Like Woodruff are 80 dissepntable
that his 1nsinuations carry little weight whero
lie is best known. He is even
CHARGED WITH LUEACT,
and the disease is said 10 be hereditary in his
family. Tilton has been closeted all day with
Nou1ton, aud refuses to be comforted by report
crs, or to comfort them with information.
The most remarkable statements in tue Brook
1Yn papers are the unanimous demurre1s OF all
the Committee interviewed aud OF the nevs-
pers to tue general suspicion that tue Committee
WAS packed in Beecher's interest: THIS suspl-
cion is almost universal, and few believe the re-
initial as the Congregational Conference con-
clusions.
NOTHING WILL BE FOUND AGAINST BEEcHER,
and nothing viii be sad to provoke Tiltcn into
further demonstrations. Certainly the consti-
tuition Of the Committee by Beecler himself,
ana tho hasty denials Of the unapoken charge
that it is packed, have suspicious look. Dis
trlct-Atrorney Winslow on this point says:
"There is an earnest intention exhibited On
the part Of the Committee to 80 to the bottom
OF the scandal. We shall examine Mr. Beech
er'a bitterest enemies, If they will only come
there is not the least disposition on tho part OF
| tue Committee to suppress OF keep back any
| thing. The community, I am cure. may rect
satisfied, when this investigation ia over that tho
bottom Of the matter has Deon touflod."
AUGUSTUS sTORns,
| another Of the Committee, says:
'':The good Intentions Of Mr. Beecher in call
| ing for this Investigation are mislnte.p'eted by
! his enemies, who accuse him Of cowardlco IN not
allowing the church itself to appoint the Com
accusa him OF haying packed his Committee
was never approached on this question by mir.
Beecher with the ultcrior object OF placing me On
| this Committee. I Ind not the remoses'
investigation until / received the notification
that WIS appointed one Of the Committee. !
can assure YOU that this matter ID perfectly
| strai9ht, from cellar to garret. As far as an
! concerned there wa3 no packing, and think
am perfectly safe in saying the same OF the
| Others"
| H. r. cLAF11~ ALSO VOLUNTEERED STATEMENT
to tile same effect, but, momont later: being
asked what tie Investigation amounted to
showed his bias By answering: II can't Hce
anything in it"
Nothing will probably be known Of the factt
! until the Committee reports, and probably no
then, AZ the report will bo very general IN Ian
| guage. .
/ TiIton. when found this evening at Houlton'
house, was asked: ''Have YOU received notlct
to appear before Messrs. Sage, Stor1s, Cleveland
Clatiin, Winslow. apd White :"
II cannot entertain the question, = Was th'
reply Of Mr. T1lton.
"Cannot you give NC any Information
"Nonc now; by and BY the public will snor
more, d sro say."
The reporter left without obtaining any fur
ther information.
TUE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION
WAS hold this cTeainY With Clar1e, Til:ons sue
cessor Us editor Of the Golden Age:
Rcporter-What do yo1 think Of the investiga
ton in Plymouth Church?
Editor-I supposed the? we're cooking SOME
thing up over there. but did not knoT what.