New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-05


connection.
Secretary Belknap returned to Washing
ton this morning.
NEW YORK.
Convicted of Conspiracy.
NEW YORK, August 4.-Two lawyers con-
sentenced to two years imprisonment and
a fine Of $500.
The Beecher Investigation.
1t is stated that the Beecher investlgat-
ing committee yesterday received tele-
gram from +. B. Carpenter, saying that he
should not appear before the committee,
and that an explanation of his reasons
would be found in letter which he had
sent to the committee.
A letter was presented to the committee
last night from the Rev. DR.. StOrrs, in
which he stated that he had no personal
knowledge of the matters which came be-
fore the committee; that he had seen
statement signed by Mr.. Tilton and re-
ferred to in Mr.. Carpenters statement and
in Mrs. Tilton's testimony of Friday eve
n.ng, which contained grave charge,
expressed in these words.
ION a certain occasion Mr.. Beecher solicit
ed me to become a wife to him with all
that is implied in this relation. This pro-
position l communicated to my husband"
On account of the lack of personal
knowledge, DR.. Storrs expressed the Opin-
ion that it would not be necessary for him
to appear before the committee.
The Beecher investigation committee con-
tinued their session this evening. The
session is still conducted in private. Six
nvuminp0-fOUr ppntlpmQn
and two ladies'.
Two of the witnesses were understood to
be Mr.. and Mrs. Beach, friends of Mr..
Beecher, whose residence adjOins his farm
at Peekskill. The other lady was closely
yelled and could not be identified.
Tilton wrote to Mr.. Sage, chairman Of
the Beecher investigating committee, in
response to letter from Sage calling for
certain papers. Tilton declares he has al
mittee, but was prevented from reading
them. He now. by advice OF his counsel,
declines to give them up.
He says the committee is composed of
Beecher's friends and expect to act in his
behalf; also, that the daily papers have
been artfully fed each day with crumbs of
fictitious evidence against his own char
acter, as if he, and not Mr.. Beecher, was
on trial.
I1c COuCluuOo Uy cay Aus, thoo hC WILL "iCu-
draw from the Jurisdiction of the commit
tee to court of law the case now pending,
as by that means alone can justice be OBJ
tanned.
Mrs. Tiiton Before the Committee.
Mrs. Tilton's testimony before the Ply
mouth Church investigating committee will
be published tomorrow. The following is
a synopsis embracing all that is of interest,
and not heretofore published. The exam
ination began with an apparent purpose to
show that Tilton neglected his wife from
very early period of their married life. Mrs.
Tilton stated she was frequently sick and
her physician said it was care and trouble
on her mind which he could not cure by
medicine.
Question--What was the trouble in point
of fact!
Answer-Well, any one of you gentlemen
would have cared for my family as much
as Theodore did. was left entirely with
my servants, and they were very poor ser.
wants. could not have my mother with
me because it was impossible for her to live
with us on account of disagreement with
Mr. Tilton, and Tilton was dissatisfied
with his home and his wife's management
and was harsh in his criticism.
Question-When did he begin to talk to
you, if at all, In regard to your association
and friendship for Mr.. Beecher!
Answer think had no visits from Mr..
Beecher before 1866; that is the first that l
remember seeing him very much.
Question-What was the criticism in re-
gard to Beecher and yourself that Tilton
made!
Answer-As early as 1865 Mr.. Tilton's<
mind was tainted with suspicious of Mr..
tinually about his wrong doings with Ia
dies, stories of which were told him by Mr.
- name not given). When Mr.. Beecher
came to see me Mr.. Tilton began to be sus-
picious, and that l might be perfectly
transparent to my husband with respect to
my interviews with Mr.. Beecher alone, l
used to charge my mind with our conversa-
tions and repeat them to Mr.. TiltOn.
Mrs. Tilton continues: She was cOntin-
conversations in the most jealous manner.
She was often told, with anger, that she
concealed something; that che lied for three
years. She tried to repeat everything that
was said, but found Mr.. TIltOn more sus-
p1ciOus than ever; he had no confidence in
her, and she suffered great deal.
This state of things lasted to the present
day, alth Ough she had not felt 80 badly in
the last two years. Tilton's criticisms to
her took the form of accusations in the win
ter of 1869, when he began to assume that
She met the charges sometimes with anger,
sometimes with calmness or silence, but in
variably denied criminal intimacy. She had
denied it in letters to Tilt0n, but they were
lost. He seemed to use all his influence
to make her acknowledge wrong, and
talked so much of it she thought he
was morbid. He told her once he saw her
sitting on Beecher's lap in our parlor, and
she replied you didn't; this morbid jealousy
had a wearing and sickening effect on her;
he never named any definite time or place
of any criminal act with Beecher; never
pretended she was guilty Of any impro-
priety at Beecher's house: she went there
twice or thrice to consult with Beecher
about a sick person; never met him at any
other place by appointment; TiltOn never
accused her of criminalty based upon any
admission by her; it was not true she con.
fessed in July, 1870, any act of impropriety
with Beecher.
On the subject of the alleged confession,
by comparison with the character of Cath
crime Gaunt, Mrs. Tilton said the confes-
sion was made in the summer of 1870, but
not at any one time. Mr.. Tilton gathered
from all their talks that summer that she
really found in Mr.. Beecher wnat she did
not find in her husband. She gave him that
impression, but she told him if he would
give to her what he gave to others she
weuld probably find in him what she found
in Mr.. Beecher. When she spoke of her
sin in the Schorarie letter she meant that
she had done Tilton . wrong by taking any
ono else in his place in any way, though she
dld not know but she would do the same