The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-12
THE BEECHER-TILTON CASE.


| night containing he following:
Mr.. Frances ID. Moulton appeared before tn,
Pl mouth Investigating Committee tins evening"
lie read to tnem very short statement, which Ii
70 be Kept private un IL tomorrow morning
The EuJ.e, however, ascertalned that 1t Ii
favorable t. AIR. BE, cher that Mr.. Moulton dis
claims having any testimony in his possession
contirmatory of liton's character. Says he wal
prepared to submit TO the com nltce originals o
letters cited BY MIR Titon III his statement, bu
tDart from doing that he had no statement Il
make.
ais part in this business he added. had beer
that of peace maker, and that role lie proposes,
80 adhere to. OF 6 ssip that had come to his
ars i'll any way he had resolved to say nothing
1t Mr.. Beecher aud Mr.. luton were determined
to fight he could not prevent them; but he was
resolved t.I add no fuel to the flame
The Eagle adds tine following editorial com
ment ''Moulton has made his statement to the
investigating committee. He has made 1t just
as the Edgte, just as every man who knows Frank
Aloulton expected he would make it, as from the
beginning We knew he would.
He refused To take any side or any part what
ever Ill the s4uabble IN which the re s,utaton OF
4 woman and The future good name of her child
rem are at stake.
Moul.on WAS called upon by the committee to
produce documents entrusted to him in conf
dence and it was lntimated or insiuuated by one
uf the parties to tine case Of Mr.. Beecher til It he
should unburtlen his und of all verbal commune
MoultOn, even that request, very properly re-
fuses to be- q pa ty to any snch action Certain
documents, or extracts from Documents fell into
tAe possession OF Mr.. Tllton they fell there with
he know edge and consent of Beecher. TlltOn III
his statement published them In JUS lie to
Iilton, Moulton was bound to confirm theil
authenticity. He does SO by producing the
originals thereof In justice to Glton, Mr.. ,loul.
ton could do no less. In justice to Frank MOul-
ton, Mr.. M,nltOn could do no more
Rut here ho stO and loo tho Qr<iaa oy.
actly in the position In which he found them
Carpenters or Bowen's may take this or that
side, bat men Of honor like Frank MouitOn could
afford to take no side in such q question. He
simply leaves it where he found It, No man and
no woman the worse for having trusted his
honor.
As it was said and believed b. Moult,n from
the beginning, the offense OF Mr.. Beerher, what
ever it may be, was wrong. man oou d forgive
and 1t wac forgiven. 1t was wrong which
could lie co 1doned, and it was condoned. This
in it itself, If does not indicate what the wrong
was indicates what it was not.
From all other indications that Tllton has
given, even since he submitted his statement to
the committee it would appear that Tllton is in
position himself to re-establsh his divided home.
At most Beecher cannot have more than eight or
ten yeas Of useful labor before him. The
women, the children are deserving OF the chief
consideration, and now the door can be safely
closed IN the face Of the morbid curiosity Of the
world as soon as Beecher shall have told his
story.
The word, even moro thpn Tilton, can forgive
the otfense, whatever it be, into which Beecher
fell. There has been enough ofdestruction done
ion, of Beecher and of Tiiton will be now IN
cllned 10 build up, for there have been attempts
enough to tear down, and though in the manly
course Moulton has seen fit to adopt, scandal
alonSers and bathrooms may find disappointment,
every Une else, men Of religion, of honor and Of
the world, will lind satisfaction.
NEW YORK, Aug. ll.-Mouton W at his resi-
drnce all day. He refused to say ii his state
ment would be made puoic to-day, and would
answer no ques; ions Oh the subject. District
tou's stenographer were III attendance on Moul-
ton rom an ea,ly hour and remained closeted
with him for an indefinite period.
The house was besieged by newspaper re-
porters by nothing definite could be learned,
District Attorney Winslow in conversation said
will not be ready for publication for day or two
as the committee had to compare documents
contained in it with those already liz their pos
sos on. More than this he was unable to say.
1t appears fror, hurried comparison made by
the committee that IiltOn, in quoting documents,
arranged them to suit himself. In some cases,
only pat of the document is quoted and various
81 ,niticant passages are omitted; IN one case the
letter is divided by Tiiton and made to seem as
If there two letters, apparently for the pur-
look on these changes as very significant AMI al
bearing hardly against NltOa.
Mo was cioss-ex .mined. He reiterated
what appeared i'll his statement, that il any al
tempt was made to assai his position, as u friend
OF both parties, he might have to make further
statement. For the present he coatente hlE:
SO with furnishing the committee with exact
copi of the documents quoted by Titon.
New YORK, Au,. u.-Moul on's testimony liz
very. brief, lie refused to give up any documents
IN th1. aNpNIft r.,rNk bad
alluded IT,, and OF which extracts had been
handed to the committee by Tilton. These show
that Iilton had CARRIED Letters for his own ad-
vantage, and in some cases, had divided docu-
ments to hand i'll Gu nulatlve testimony
New YORK, Aug. ll.-fhs afternoons Brook
lyn Eagle says Moulton's statement is unex-
pectedly brief, IN king not over five or six
foolscap pages, not closely written. Moull0ll
says, i'll substance, that all he knows about the
difficulty between BE, cher and 1ilton was in
he has been furnished relating directly or indi-
rectly to the case, and that these documents
were intrusted TO him in confidence.
He says he has known Tilton since 1857 anil
that he became acquainted with fletcher i'll 1861
and main through TINS case. Notwithstanding. :;
the fact that he has consent OF It'll Beecher and
Tilton, to ted all he knows about the case, and to
furnish documents he has in relation to 1t, and
additional facts, that he has been twice sum
m med before the committee, he says he canuot,
i'll conscience, and AZ man OF honor, disclose
any cOnid ,nCos placed IN hun.
He came INTO this case peacemaker 10 Get
tie 1t, and he has done has been III that direc-
II n. Without his knowledge and against his
wishes, certain documents have been published.
mainly through 1ilton, and In n statement made
before the committee, 50 many Of the orig maj
documents as he has copies OF, aud which hav
been m de public, he feels under obliga atoms to
place in the MAIDS Of the committee il necessai "
Mouiton has hal Copies of AL these docum BATS
made and ho handle these to tn, committee,
holding himself ready to produce the originals
when called for Beyoad this Moulton was not
wiling to make any statement, nor did he feel
himself justified, III honor cOuscIence, III pro-
ducing any documents save those quoted by il
ton In his statement MUuiton handed his state
III. Mt 10 the committee and Copies of documents
quoted.
THE INDIANS.
CHICAGO, Aug. ll.-Gon Pope telegraphs t.
Lieu Gen Sh .rilan tn 1t the Indians VINO has
been maraudlng in ,utnwostern Kansas hav.
gone to tine borders Of Liza 40 Estacad, a c uutry
fill d with game, and t.iat they have abundance
OF ammunition. Thee columns of troops are
now opel atlng to c, nverge on the section named