The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-22
TILTON.
HIS SECOND STATEMENT.
THE PLYMOUTH CHURCH SCAN
DIAL REVIVED.
Tnton Reviews the Whole Case.
He MAKES 1T READ LIKE A NOVEL
The Links Of Evidence Fastened
Round Beecher Once More.
A CLOSING JUDGMENT.

n
sxs-rArEMENrs CORRECTED AND FALsITIEs
RxPosED-A CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF
tbs WHOLE FIELD.
The null text of Mr.. Tiltons supplementary
statement app ared in the Chicago Tribune OF
the 18th inst, occupying nearly twenty-four
columns OF that paper. Below are given the
more important portions of the document, espe-
eially those relating to matters OF which there
been great divert ity OF statement by diiIer.
edt parties. The in reduction OF the statement
is az follows: Throughout the country, II
rightly Interpret the public press, majority OF
candid minds admit the truth of ny pyr iha1ctment
many fair-minded persons, animated by char
table doubt, have asked me fsr some some
aIIIgaiisn IILsnsd in % this controversy. Ny
sworn statement, published In the BROOKLYN
A5gu Of July ~ u %s nHs bsve cited Ia G IL greasr
number OF facts and proofs. The only use which
| designed for that state ment wa simply to read
IL 10 the investigating committee, before whom
expec ed TO confirm its charges by such addi-
tional testimony as the investigators Sif such
consisting Of six trusted friends OF the
accused, appointed by him for the sole pur-
pose, not OF discovering his guilt, bat of pro-
1ounciag his acQuittaI, resented my accusation
aaains, their popular favorite, and, 10 pun
ish me for making 1t, converted their tribunal
The auestions which they asked me were
mostly Irrelevant 10 the case and the only part
of my testimony that bore d rectly on MI.
Reecher's adultery they canceled from their
report OF my examination. One of The commit
lees sttorns " saId to me, "If Mr.. Beecher is
.-uiity' i prefer not to know It" The whole
committee. acted this predetermined plan.
The chief witnesses who could testify yGgin agsinSt
Joseph IL. Richards, Martha B. Bradshaw
susan B. Anthony, Francis B; Car
Bv BoWtn, Thsmas KInseiia, ard others
we're either not wilin TO testify, or their teS;i-
mony was set aside as not being officially before
eO-dingly, ny indictment against Mr. Beecher
was let by the committee 10 stand without
July % afforded, unsssisted by other witnesses
When the committee asked me IL the sta ement
contained my whole case, answered no; for II
eient To- the cOmmitgeeis private inquiry,
and Vet more than SUFFICIENT to put
impartial committee on the right
t pao nn 20 ,cai she segersI Counter
apps afed, moulding Mr. BeFcheT's denial, close
ly followed by Mrs. Tilton's-both of which ere
ficafions OF one Ssded testimony, aud last of
all by verd ct based so ell, on these untruthtul
denial to the reg ect Oh al tne Pisltlve aile-
accepted the Silly fictions of Bessie Turner, but
rejected the serious facts OF Mr.. Moulton,
nor did they even tlvite Mr.. Bowen 10
appear before them; all of which unfair pro-
eeedings and uncandId publications require OF
me, for the sake OF some heSitRnt minds, re-
pIy which the larger portion of the community
have already made for themselves. therefore
submit the following
PACT6 AND EVIDENCES,
arranged as far as convenient in chronological
order, and making q narrative which, as IL pro-
crosses step by step, will aim to correct and
eountesact, one by one. the untrue den ais of
Hr. Beecher an6 Mrs. TiIton, and the unjust de-
duction Of the committee.
Here follows q full statement of the evidence
going 10 show the warm friendship existing be-
tween nr. Beecher and Tilton previous to the
date of Mrs. Tilton's confession of criminal inti-
macy between them. The second division is de-
ment existing between Mr.. and Mrs. Til
ION to July J. l%s In ~ proof % brief. pref ex, x,
Ar. and Mrs. TiIton he etofore published.
MRS TILToS's CONFESSION
III Having thus I'm section IL disposed of my
alleged vindicuveness toward Mr.. Beecher, and
lin section III OF my imaginary brutality
toward Mrs. TiltOR. now come to Mrs. TiIton s
son nfession July 3, 1870, wherein she narrated the
story OF her seduction by her pastor. the Rev.
truth that 1 should state explicitly The circum-
stances out of which this confession sprang
and the substance of the confession itself. Dur.
Ing several weeks previous TO July 3. 1870 Mrs.
Fone hSa in spirit of sie1Ston had re
Gently detected In her, to nv grief tendency
TO deceit and falsehood foreign TO her normal
her spirit at porting. ButI neither knew nor
suspected that her depression had its root In her
wrote TO her that she would forfeit my respect
the moment she ceased TO tell the truths
letter VIII ch she afterwards reminded me OF,
saying that "it hsd pierced her very
soul" After her absence had been pro-
ionged for several weeks, duiog
passed besxeen us. she came uneS.
psctedly TO Brooklyn, reaching home about 8
o'clock on the evening OF July 3. l expressed
my surprise at seeing her, greeted her with cor
dialtty, and marked her improved health and
sitting in her favorite chamber where n her in
fant son Paul had died two years befo e, she
fhafa ha had n fp1 m a n fQI,
she had long kept in her heart in connection
with that event-asecret which she had several
tell me. but cked The courage. since then the
tone of her mind, she said, had improved with
tell me the truth. Without fear. She had
now come on purpose to clear her
mind Of ,.,t bUrdsn 1IdsId Which, II longer ger
great for her to bear. What the secret was she
was about 70 disclose, ! could not conjecture.
emn pledge that would not injuTe the person OF
whom she was about TO speak nor communi-
cate TO him the fact OF her making such reve-
lation, for she wanted to inform him In her own
way that sne had divuiged 70 me the facts in the
pledged myself, she narrated, with modesty
and difhdence, yet without shamefaeedness or
ss senSs be- ,or1 OF guilt. a detailed hiistoFy iy
sr-of growing friendship bttween
tnem-d q passionate. fondness which
hoe sn0h life nd his
Suent need mat some other woman than Mrs
1eecnef snonld act The part Of a wife TO him-of
the great treasure which he found fn Mrs. TIL
Ton sweet and tender affecton-oI his protesta-
ton Of grealer homage fot her than for any
otner woman-of her duty 10 minister to his
Dlnd and Dody-and of the many specious argii-
rnentS d which he commended these views 10
ner. IN order TO overcome her puritan repug-
nance 10 tnem; and she said thai finally I'm an
interview between herself and Mr.. Beecher at
nis mouse, not long after her little Paul's
oeatn, and as r compense for the sym pathy
which her pastor had shown her during mai fe-
re&ve ment, she then and there gielded ner per
son 70 nissexual embrace. This event, she stated,
oc urred October 10, lS6S during my. abse nce i,,
rev England and she showed me a memoran-
uum In her diary marked at that date win the