Omaha daily bee., 1874-08-05
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BROOKLYN, August 4.

: r. l. BROOKLYN, August 4.
I III. w. Sage, Chairman of the
Plymouth Church Investigating
Committee, has published a card, re-
9uesting the attendance of all per-
sons who have been invited to testi-
fy before them, in matters now un-
der examination, before 8 o'clock
this evening, as that will probably
be the last meeting Of the Commit
tee for the reception of testimony.
Moulton, who Is reported to be qui
city %rusticating in the neighborh0od
of Narragansett, is said to have ex-
pressed himself, in q private CONVEX
sation, as follows: "From my Pc
culiar position In this affair I cannot
tell what know until the interested
parties have been heard from. Let
Tflton tell his story, let Mrs. Tilton
make her statement, let Beecher
follow, and if they all agree, it will
not be necessary for me to say any,
thing, but should their statements
conflict, I may then tell what I
know about. the case"
The Argus this afternoon publishes
an interview with James Howard,
Jr., of the New York Star, in which
the latter expresses his opinion of
the scandal. He says that Moulton
and Tilton were great friends, $50
cial FOUNDERS - used to call on
! Woodruff & Claflin together, and
were delighted in visiting the off
colored specimens of society and all
that sort of thing. Moulton don't
want 10 testify because he knows he
will vindicate Beecher straight
enough; he is doing the "nesthid-
ing" instead of Beecher. In regard
to the letters, the words referred to
Beecher's great amount Of corre- |
spondence and said it was impossi-
BILE for him to remember whether
he had written them. Moulton
had taken to Tilton certain let
tiers Of Beecher's, and lead to him
such extracts as he saw f.. Til
ton took down the substance in
short hand, and when he made his
statement made prescriptions of
these stenOgraph copies, which were
only partial and inaccurate tran.
scriptions. Howard tLen read a
letter he had just received from
Mrs. Tilton's mother, in which she
stated that Mr.. Tilton had often
spent his months earnings on the
Woodhull's in a single night, while
his wife was at home making over
one of her old dresses for her daugh-
ter. Howard expressed his convic-
ton that Beecher would come out
all right.
20 The Union publishes a lengthy
interview between Rev. Matthew
Hall Smith of Boston, and Tilton,
in which the latter says that when
he appeared first before thecommit-
tee he expressed his desire to tell
the story of his wrongs in private
and in confidence to MI. Sage, and
leave it to his sense of honor and
justice to say what should be done.
They were opposed by Tracy and
several members Of the committee,
who Insisted on q full 9ivulgence Of
Tilton's cause of grievance against
Beecher. The Interview ended
leaving the impression on Tilton's
mind that the whole affair would be
made public. He was much sur
prised at the publication of his
and says that Maverick, !
having offered to copy it, had sur {
;TSSrr.titiously made a second copy, j
from which the tire were set. The
affair had now gone too fAf for ,
compromise, and the story of :,
his wrongs was out, by no instru-
mentality of his. His wife had
been induced to leave him, and his I
relations and home had been
Added to this, Beecher's
friends had produced the impress
sion that Tilton had slandered
his pastor out of a mere personal t
or a jealousy ofhis fame. My ]
now, said Tilton, is that 7
Beecher shall resign his charge; that I
is the e~xpiation of his fault that ! c
ask Tifton further said that if the +
did not do him justice, e
that he would pursue the case fur t
Their by such means as his legal adj c
visers should recommend. After c
heinterview Mr.. Smith was asked p
whathe thought of the case. Hesaid !
he would not give his own opinion v
as to Beecher's guilt or innocence, b
but what he regarded as the popular e
relative to tbs STATUE Of the
case. He said the only two things T.
he public now want to have Beech
.r say, unequivocally, whether Z,
.hese letters or quotations from let I,
.ers, reproduced in Tilton's state Is
nent are genuine, and if SO, what Is
hey mean and the circumstances
which they were written. q
Let him explain these letters and h
10 other testimony will be asked for, d
md the verdict will be almost uni z
Yersal one way or the other and as n
,Orrect as it will be unanimous. A
Another gentleman interviewed on x
he subject of inquiry said the pub Q,
ic have lost sight of the great fact f.
hat the letters alleged to have been K
by Beeeher to Mrs. TAton OF
nay either not be genuine or mis-
ira / fo
Beecher neither afirms or denies r
hat he wrote the letters, and il he rs
id write them, 1t is conceded that g
le keptno duplicates. Should Mr.. e,
'ilton produce them, then 1t be- te
a question if they are really r
Reechpr's handwriting-a ques- 3.
Jon which Gan only be settled by a Ii
omparison made by experts, 1t
oes not seem that the letters have
cen mislaid or destroyed, and now
he great question Is, car Tilton pro.
uce the letters which he embodied Sc
q bis statement He has not done 70
and if they are not in his pos al
ession at this time, OF if he =,
as not furnished correct copies al
o far as they relate to certain x a!
ressions alleged to have been used ~
Y Beecher, he cannot prove that e;
be accusations he has made are =
IT -
The members of the committee =,
ny the work will probably end to- -
night, when all Of the testi- y
PONY, except Of minor Importance, VI
I'LL be published. 80 =,
Beecher's statement goes into -.
ress as soon Is he makes it, proba- "
ly in q day or two. ="
by
NEW YORK, August 4. be
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