Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-08-20


statement after hc had come TO this
committee, when that came out, ney.
| er heard q word from Moulton. Hs
never sent for me, or did thing. |
| waited for him to do or say some.
In the last year, things are coming
which you were gong to manage, |
haye said to him once or twice: Moul-
ton, Tilton 10 larger hearted than You
are, and have said to him the time
is coming in which / see you have got
to clear up matters between Tiiton's
statement and mine. He said there
never will be, but shall stand by you
TO the death. He said that to me in
the last conversation had with him.
or documents or knowledge OF any act OF yours
that you would not have brought to light at this
A--No. Nothing that am aware Of.
Q-Have you any doubt?
Q.-Do you now wish to make any correctione
BEEGHER's GROSS EXAMINATION.
Mr.. Beecher's cross examination, afterwards
read, ''do you have any doubt" he answered. II
Q--Do you now call upon him to produce ali tne
evidence he has and all shat he knows7
.Q-lBy Cleveland, Hare yoa reasons in the light
Il
1 tty to you during these four years.
A.--Thc impression made by him during the last
that my present surprise and indignation do not
seem to rub Il ont. I am In that kind q divided
consciousness that was in respect to Elizabeth
THt0n, that She was sinner and the chief Of sim
ners, and Moulion's hold upon my confidence was
80 great that all that has now come out seems to
Q.-In your letter OF February 5tn, 1872, you
spoke Of the possibslity Of a ruinous defense OF
yo0, but how could there be ruinous defense of
A.--A defense Of me conducted by ignorant peo-
pie full of church and personal zeal and bat
,Q.-And you are for compelling this. man TO ten
al he knows and call upon him to produce Oil the
docnments aud tell oil he knows?
Q-Would 1t then be iniur.ousa
A.-Wnen you would say injurious would
Q.--Ruincus Of fear and despair7
| AL suppose 80. When iived In Indianapolis
New England man Of large brain who stood at the
head OF the bar. He was distinguished as a
come and see me often when was . young min.
isssr ss and . would zee him great dsA Ae would
s. ssss ns nnnr one O. which
except those who attended to the complaint. Says
he: 81 hold myself responsible By having every
o ny dns S.ss ai n
I'm preaching during your life. do you take blane
cncS ssa evsry6cays Il Is yoar busness s to ss see
that your folks are right
Wen, M sank down into my heart, and became
@ does 70. ir,i g aSt S i i @ my 1ant
and e the people do not come 70 church am me
% T wrong IN nv family ind I tho > reason i in s. N.Y.
seif. have foresoen quarre;s in the church. If
had left fifth them @ alone they would burst and break
church. ''' '' "'
Q-Ari anonymous letter to tho COM
mistee from : free lover says that you
have reservation in your philosophy
which would enable Iou to say l
had NO wrong conduct or relations
with Mrs. Tilton, having in your own
mind the belief that you are charged
with doing was right. What are your
ideas on this subject?
Al am not versed in the phi!oso-
ply and casuistry of free love- l
stand on the New England doctrine
In which / was brought mp, that it is
best for man to have wife, and stay
by her, aud that he do not meddle with
his neighbors' wives. / abhor every
manifestation OF free love doctrine
that have known.
Odd you ever know OF any one
who took holi of it seriously who
was not ruined by it?
A-No sir, provided they were sus-
ceptible of ruin / have had women
write to me that ii + did nor send Them
SO they were ruined. I wrote in re-
ply they were ruined before.
Q-You speak about having sent
Mrs. Tilton copies of books. was that
act courtesy, especially to herr
A-No; l gave them out to friends;
when one book would come out
would give copy to one friend, and
90 on. have not been great dis
tribut0r of my own books, only in
cases where It would be real pleasure
and from intimation that it would be
90.
Care you clear in your recoliec-
tion that you never met the Wood
hulls more than three times!
Al am perfectly clear, that is, TO
speak to them.
Q-State the times and places.
BROTHER h. MEETS THE wooDHULL.
A-On one occasion I was walking
with Mr.. M0ulton in general direc.
tion towards Tiltons house, when he
said Mrs. Woodruff was going to be
there. ! at first hesitated, aud he said
"come in aud just see her" / said
"very we'll" I went ip, and after some
conversation down in the parlors. I
went up stairs into this famous bou-
doir room, where she sat, writing, and,
like spider to o fly, she rushed to
me on my entrance and reached out
both her hands with the utmost earn
estness, and said how reioiced she was
to see mo. talked with her about
dvo minutes and then went down
stairs. My second interview with her
was ON ono occasion when Ihad been
with some twenty or thir y gentle
men to look at the warehou estab-
lishment OF Woodruff s. Robinson
We were on steamer that had
been chartered for the occasion and
when I came up Moulton said: "Come
with me to town." He never told me
there was to DO any company, but
when came there I learned there was
to be something in New York in the
evening aud that there were to be q
number Of literary ladies, among
whom was Mrs. Woodruff. I was
placed Of the head OF the table, near
Mrs.. Moulton-I think on her right.
Mrs. Woodruff WAS next to me, or
else sho was first and i was next-I
do not remember which. At that
table she scarcely deigned to speak to
me. I addressed . few words to her
for politeness sake, during dinner, but
there was NO sort Of enthusiasm be-
tween us. Ny third and last inter-
view was ct Moulton's house.
THE woODHULL THREATENS.
She had addressed me threatening
letter, saying she would open all the
scandal il l did not preside at Stein
way Hall, and in reply TO that Moul-
ton advised that instead of answering
her letter / should see her and say
without witnesses what had to say.
fShe brought with her her great sub
ject it was in type, and my policy
was 10 let her talk and cay little my
self, which ! did, and she went ON
saying, lyon know you believe so and
So" ard said nothing. and SO on
from point to point, until I said ut last
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