The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-07
THE BEECHER.TILTON CASE.

| New YORK, Aug. 6.-Frank Moulton requires
until Saturday night to arrange and copy the
llton-Beecher papers. He will give the COM
mittee copies if they desire If subjected to per.
sonal examination and cross-questioning he will
demand the presence Of his own stenographer
The general tone of Mouton's letter In not kindly
toward Beecher. Moulton calls it q miserable
| business
New YORK, Aug. 6.-Tlton sent the following
note to his wife yesterday
My Dear EiizabeOl--I send YOU this note, In
closing letter from our daughter Florence.
| Yours, atfecti"nately. THEODORE"
| An indorsed Chicago lady quotes Susan Stan
ton: 'Thsn l went on to tell Beecher what
knew of his practices; he made no denial of these
arges, but come down at once and said: Su-
san, what do you want ME to do From that
moment he has never squeaked."
| NEW York, Aug. "a Chicago dispatch SAYS
| the Tribune prints letter concerning the con-
nectOn Of Miss Anthony with the Beecher-
Elton case. The writer is lady residing here,
| and Is well known Ill .philanthropc and reformed
circles. Her name is withheld at her request.
g. Three years the past winter in January, saw
Miss Susan Anthony for the first time in my life.
On that occasion she urged me very strongly to
be identified with the suffrage movement in this
city.
replied that as long as the then almost scan
dalous divisions between the New York and New
England factions existed 1.-THE divisions nov hap
PLY healed) l felt no attraction toward eitht r
party. She then proceeded to say that the blame
faction; that they had falsely accused her of
holding free love crimes, wh3e some of their
own numbers were guilty of not only holding but
practicing them; for instance, Mr.. Beecher, the
first President OF the Boston society was crimi-
naliy guilty concerning certain married woman
al Brooklyn, whose name / did not ask nor she
give,
She continued Mr.. Beecher will never attack
us, the New York wing, again. Tnls was the
reason, she said, that when the Boston wing
haD IN hns Nri Sh1 N,,San An.
thOny, knowing facts about Beecher, went to
him, and asked him if he proposed to stand by
a party that SO accused woman he knew to be
pure Mrs. Stanton.
of his practices. He made no denial of these
charges, but came down at once and said !:
Susan, what do you want me to dO?" You
know, she said to me, he was Henry Ward
Beecher, and l could not tell him he should
resign at once, but did say that he should not
suffer himself to be elected, and that he should
utterly withdraw his support from That faction,
and, said Susan, rom that moment he has never
squeaked.
New YORK, Aug. 6.-Judge Norris counsel for
Tilton says to-day, he has never seen case 80
strongly fortified at all points, his clients. He
exhibited to the reporters a variety Of letters
which show that down to May, 1870, there was no
Wndicativeness ON part Of Titon toward Be+cher.
Morris also showed the receipt of VIM. Page,
dated February 25, 1869, for the portrait of
Beecher, purchased by 1ilton and now hanging
in Moultnns house, saying tn the following
year, 1870, after Mrs. Tiltpn Informed her mother
Of her guilty relations with Beecher, her IN ,ther
threatened to cut the canvass INTO Sits, and Ill
ton unwilling to see work of art destroyed. re-
moved it to Moulton's house, where it sill re-
mains. Norris also said that Mrs. HIton's state
ments concerning her husbands cruelty and his
locking her IN room like prisoner, his frerz-
ing and starving her, will be shown to be tictiti-
GUS, and if there be any insanity in the family at
all, the charge will Lot lie at the door of Iiton
but Of his Wife,
The Beecher Committee Of Investigation will
not mold any meeting this evening, but will be in
session tomorrow evening.
Frank Moulton is usy preparing his statement,
to be laid before the committee Saturday evening
1t is stated that he denie his having engaged
Gen. B. F. Butler for counsel, and announces his
Of conducting his own case before the