The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-05
THE EVERLASTING SCANDAL,


LETTER FROM DR.. STORRS.
New YORK, August AT the meet
ing of the Plymouth Church Investiga-
ting Committee last evening letter was
presented from Dr. Storrs, in which he
stated that he had no personal knowledge
of the matters which came before the
Committee; that he had seen the state
ment signed by Mr.. Tiltoh, and referred
to in Mr.. Carpenters statement, and in
Mrs. Tilton's testimony of Friday even
ing which contained grave charge-eI-
pressed in these words: "On certain
occasion Mr.. Beecher solicited me to be-
come wife to him with all that it i'm
piled in this relation. This proposition |
communicated to my husband But on
account of lack of personal knowledge
DR.. StorrS expressed an opinion that 1t
would not be necessary for him to appear
before the Committee.
Interchange OF Letters.
The Brooklyn 4rg,s SAYS: The follow
ing interchange of letters took place, yes
terday between Mr.. Sage, Chairman of
the Bcecher Investigating Committee,
and Theodore Tilton:
Brooklyn. July 81.
THsOdore 7Fiton:
DEAR SIR am instructed by the
committee to state that the letters and
documents referred to in your statement
presented to us have not been delivered,
notwithstanding your several promises to
furnish them. As your statement, in the
absence of these documents, is deprived
of its greatest force, We think you should
desire to place them in our possession
and / desire to impress on the impor-
tancc of delivering them 10 Us at
YOUR earliest convenience.
Very truly yours,
II. w. SAGE,
Chairman.
No. ia LIVINGSTON, ST. BROOKLYN, !
August Sd, 1874. !
To .M. Henry ". Sage, Choirmom Conn
mittee:
My DEAR SIR have just received
YOUR note of July 3lSt, four days after
date. Unless you accidentally msdatrd
it, the communication should have come
to me several days ago This leads me
to recall similar dilatOriness in the dcliv-
crv of your original note, first summon
ing me to your committee, which, re-
ccivrd only four hours before ! was to
appear, and yet the summons
bore the date of the day
previous; but let these trilcS
pass. Your note just received surprises
me By its contents, for YOU seem to have
forgotten that on the last day of my ap-
pearance before your committee, car
ried to your meeting, not only all the
documents which 1 quoted in my sworn
statements, save those in Moulton's pos
session, but many more besides, making
a double handful of interesting and I'M
portant papers vital to my case and de-
structiyc to yO,rS. All these papers |
purposed to lay before You, but no sooner
had begun to read aloud In your pres
cnCc. than one of your Attorneys stop
ped me in reading and proposed that ]
should save the committee the time by
referring these papers to one OF your mem
bcrs, Hon. John Winslow. ! acquic-crd
in this suggestion and retired from your
cornmitteec wirh the expectation of Il
speedy conference with Mr.. Winslow-
perhaps it was my proper duty to have
called upon Mr.. Winslow, but rs the
whole committee had set the example of
calling in body or one Ofthc other partie,
to this controversy, took it for granted
that Mr.. Winslow would
repeat this precedent by
doing me the honor to call Mt my
house at which he would have been
welcome guest, but while waiting for his
comsng was called upon instead by
policeman who arrested Inc and carried
me at thirty minutes notice before
Squire Reilly's Police Court, To answer
the charge of libcllng Rev. Henry
Ward Bccchcr. against whom | had
spoken not libel but truth. Up to tn"
time of this arrest | had employed no
LAWYER, not needing any. but on finding
myself before Il Police Court and not UNI
dcrstanding the nature of my arrest, nor
the methods ofthc courts. ! requested my
friend, Judge ). d. Moore to answer for
me in technical proceeding in which !
knew not how to answer properly for
myself Twice already, l have been be-
fore this unexpected tribunal and may
be called before it the third time on
"Wednesday next.
No Further Communication with the
Committee.
In the meanwhile my counsel, to whom
| have just shown your note, instructed
me to lay no documents, papers or re-
manning testimony before your commit
tee nor to hold any further communica-
tion with YOU in any form. except to
send You this present and final letter
containing the reasons for this step.
These reasons are the following:
First, That You are
A Committee of Mr.. Beecher's
Friends.
appointed by himself. and expected to
act in his behalf; assisted by the attor-
ncys employed exclusively for his yindi-
cation; holding secret sessions inaccessi-
bic to the public; having no power to
compel witnesses; giving no opportunity
for the opposite side to crass-examine
such as voluntarily appear; publishing
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