Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-07-06

A HORRIBLE SERENE TO OBTAIN $4,000 ON A
LIFE ISssueANcR POLICY.
Some time ago four young men engaged in
business in Bridgeport, Conn. eptere. into an
arrangement among themselves TO get tser
nYes insured for the sum of s20, 900 each, each
of the four, direct Understanding being made
tost IN case OF the death Of either the sum of
1900 was to be divided equally among the
were effected and payments regularly made,
aaa .ne .our rested in satisfactn AZ to me uros-
peee, Meantime. il - alleged, two of the par
y sonereo I'm embarrassment in business,
should be pursued to raise themselves to point
OF self-sustenance again. week since boy,
supposed to be of German parentage, hastily
entered store on Main street with box of iue
strawberries In his hand, and inquired for q
man who was emp 'oyed there, saying that q
person had met him on the street, and requested
Dim to carry the berries to him. He was
the person was that had sent the package
The man thought the circumstance a little
strange, but accepted the berries and took them
obtaining them of some kind friend unknown
to him, and his mother and family tasted of one
or two OF the berries. The flavor being disa-
greeable they elected them from their mouths.
closer Inspection of the berries showed that
they were sprinkled with a strange substance,
M WI was found to be phosphorus. Some of
the particles were large peas. A chemist
was Immediately applied TO, who, after trying
one or TWO experiments in analyEing the sub
sihbSc, sdiu tntfc Wae enough In the straw berry
basket 70 Kill dozen men IL IL had been swal-
lowed. No special effort to find the author of
this attempt at a terrible crime was made till
SATURDAY morning, june 9th, when the aid OF
CHIEF Of Police Marsh was called in Il was
ascertaned that former business partner of
the man referred to had Gayor two previously
inquired at drug store for phosphorus. but a
they happened to be out of the article, obtained
1t at another place. No connecting link be.
tween the purchasing of the phosphorus and
the receipt Of the strawberries by the Intended
hpen diSc0vQrad has ha l>ax-
who brought them to him been found.
TIE BExoHER-TILToN AFFArR.-The New
York Golden Age of this week contains the val
edictory Of MIR. Theodore Tilton, its former ed
ltor. The same paper contains an article in
relation to the great scandal in which Mr.. Til
ton and Rev. IL. w. Beecher are the principals
The article referred to may be viewed as an
oficial explanation from Mr.. Tilton. OF the
assailed directly and in the most explicit terms
by DR.. Bacon-a kind man and just one, too
VINO undoubtedly supposed from what he had
that Mr.. Tilton was a knave and q deg, the
creature Of collaborating pastors magnani-
nifty, scandal monger and falsiner, who had
aspersons from pen of one of the leading and
most eminent divines in America, published
IN religious paper OF large circulation and
country. were Of too serious a character
to be borne in silence or passed by Mr.
Tilton's character and standing as q man
part was a tacit acknowledgment of the Justice
OF DR.. Bacon's aspersons and the correctness of
the erroneous statements BY which they were
supported. One sentence from Mr.. Beecher's
lips or pen would have drawn the poisoned
arrow and healed the smart. Mr.. Tilton called
Mr.. Beecher's attention to the offensive state
ments, and in the presence eff two witnesses fold
him that unless he corrected the misrepresenta-
tons In his way 1t would be necessary for him
self to correct them in his own wsy, which
would be severe. Weeks passed and no correc-
tion was made. Longer silence on his part was
impossible. In replying to DIR. Bacon he did
what any other innocent and honorable man
who cared for his reputation and had the
courage to defend ii would have done under the
circumstances. And the reply was not printed
failed to suggest any other method for rightine
the wrong that had been done, though he was
asked TO do go. All that Mr.. Tilton asks for
hims If, and all his friends demand tor him, is
JUSTICE"