Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
Beecher.TiltOn.

| New YORK, Aug. 7.-Several of the men,
bers of the committee having intimated their
| intention to leave the city tomorrow after
noon for the country, requested their chair
man. Mr.. Sage, to make arrangements with
MIR. Moulton to postpone his statement until
| Monday Accordingly Mr.. Sage wrote a note
| to Mr.. Moulton asking him to postpone his
appearance before the committee till Monday
afternoon at O'Clock. Moulton replied con-
| senting to the change and will be examined
on Monday at the hour named.
| The Brooklyn Eagle publishes an interview
with Henry @. Bowen, who is represented as
saying of the Beecher-Tilton case: This en-
tire business has caused me much pain.
have had no hand in it, and do not wish to
have. The public will yet learn that the at
tacks on me were brutal and uniustifable.
only keep quiet under them in difference to
my family Although my name has been
mixed up in this scandal. l have not made any
| charges against ybody yet. and therefore
have not been invited by the committee to
appear. If subpGnaed into court, shall have
| to appear"
Bowen alluded to the agitation shown by
| Mrs. Hooker in the Plymouth Church. caused
by her belief in Beecher's immortality, and but
| for the fact that she was restrained. she
would have announced it to the congregation.
Being asked if Beecher ever did him an in
| jury, Bowen said, Il could construe his
| course unkindly. considered it all along my
duty. nevertheless, to restrain my position
and pew in the church, because intended 10
be there after him, as / was there before him"
AS to Tilton, Bowen said he did not care which
way it went with him; '' the end must neces-
sarily justify me before the public, and will
never go dowI to my grave without
saying something concerning my relations
with this scandal. Moulton is placed in an
awkward position, but 1 believe he will tell
the truth. The statement of Woodruff, of
fered the committee, should have been re-
ceived We're l member of the committee
would accept testimony from any source"
In the evening the Committee of Investiga-
ton met and held a consultation, lasting
about two hours, and at its conclusion visited
the residence Of Beecher, where they re-
manned closeted until a late hour There will
be no session of the committee tomorrow
evening.
NEW YORK. Aug. 9.-No events of inpor-
lance in the scandal have occurred to-day.
Moulton has finished his statement. 1t is
very long. A full history is given of the
Bowen-Beecher difficulties as the origin of the
scandal. Had Beecher and Bowen not quar-
Relied the scandal would never have been agi-
tated- Moulton attributes to Bowen constant
agitation. which has made 1t necessary for
Tilton to reply. Among the papers which
Tilton has in reserve, there are letters of the
existence of which Beecher and his lawyers
have no knowledge whatever. They are said
to be more compromising than those OF
Beecher himself. They contain frequent
plain admissions of guilt on the part of Mrs.
Tilton. and Mrs. Morse seems to have known
of her guilt.
Ex-Jndge Morris, counsel for Mr.. Tilton.
says: 1.-The suit which Mr.. Tlton proposes
to bring against Mr.. Beecher has no reference
to the action of the Committee whatever
When Mr.. Tilton announced his intention not
to appear before the committee again, and
his instructions were given to his council to
bring suit against Mr.. Beecher, he meant ex-
actly what he said. The action of the Com
mittee will neither hasten nor delay the COM
mencement of the suit, which will be brought
in the Supreme Court. 1t will be an action
against Mr.. Beecher for criminal connection
with Mrs. Tilton- The amount of damages
claimed will be in accordance with the magni-
tude of the suit.
NEW York, August ia feeling of dis
appointment prevails in the community grow
ing out of the unsatisfactory end toward which
the Beecher-Tilton scandal is drifting. The
Withholding from the public of Moulton's
statement is the subject of much unfavorable
comment. There is q general belief that
compromise Of the whole affair is on foot.
The Argus says :. It is even stated that Mrs.
Tilton IL prepared to state that che has been
laboring under an halluciDation that Mr..
Beecher is willing to resign his passionate. that
the Society will refuse to accept his resigna-
ton, and that Mr.. Tilton will. upon these con-
ditions again open the door Of his house to his
WIFE"
Gen. Tracy said to-day that the Committee
had not decided whether twill keep Moulton's |
statement back until all the proceedings are |
printed, or keep it back altogether, Gen. |
Butler had long interview with Moulton this |
morning, at the conclusion of which he was |
driven to the house of Gen. Tracy. The lat |
ter had just returned from Mr.. Beecher's resi- |
dence, and both gentlemen went into the