River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-03-26

PRINCETON, ILL, March l7.-Your cor
respondent has been fortunate enough to
obtain an interview with Miss Sophia
Lovejoy, the schoolgirl who was with
Tilton at Winsted, Conn. Miss Loveioy
is going to sue Beechers lawyers for
bringing her name into public sight and
criticism. She says that her brother.in-
law, |. Ii. Elliott, has been East and has
been successful in obtaining sufficient evi.
dence to crimnate Beecher's lawyers. He
has been consulting with Tilton and his
lawyers, and they all think that damages
can be obtained. She will begin next
week suit like the one that Edna Dean
Proctor brought against Moulton. She
lays damages at $4,000, and is confident
that she can obtain it. She has put her
case in the hands of some Of the best
lawyers in New York, the names of whom
she did not give your correspondent.
She says she has always been intimate
with Mr.. Tilton, and that she was at the
East whcn Mr.. Tilton was at Winsted.
She gives her age at "a, while most of the
evidence given at the trial shows that she
was p five years ago, while she was only
10 in fact.
Miss Lovejoy is a fine-looking young
lady, with fine figure, and is highly es-
teemed by all who know her. She is
teaching elocution here with great sue
cess. She was studying elocution that
summer, when she was at Winsted with
Tilton.
Mr.. Elliott being interviewed, said that
ne had just returned from the East, and
had collected sufficient evidence to
warrant a suit against the
attorneys who have so Indignantly
Detained his sister-in-law's character. He
says he is an old friend Of Theodore Til
ton, and has been in conference with him
in regard to this suit. He will push the
thing to the bitter end, and will not rest
till Miss Lovejoy shall have received some
justification from Beecher's attorneys.
The Cruel Attack ON Miss LOvejOy.
The most cruel thing in the horrible
Brooklyn scandal trial is the persistent at
tempt to blacken the reputation of the
daughter Of the late Hon. Owen
Lovejoy of Illinois, who was at
the Winsted Hotel with Theodore
Tilton when a school girl IL years old.
That the attempt is thus far unsuccessful
is no excuse for those who are making it.
What the suffering of this young woman
must be while her character is relentlessly
questioned in the presence of Christen.
dom may easily be imagined. Messrs.
Evarts, Tracy, Hill, Porter, ETC., should
be heartily ashamed Of themselves. There
are no fees large enough to pay for the
doing of such disgraceful work. 1t pro-
vokes Indignation instead of winning SYM
pathy. If the cause of the defense is
just one, it can stand without such
wretched props. MIR. Beecher has about
as much to fear from his indiScreet friends
as from his malicious enemies.
The Brooklyn Argus says Col. Elliott,
Of Galesburg, Illinois, brother-in-law Of
Miss Sallie Lovejoy. has been east and
collected mess of testimony to show
that the inuendoes against his kinswo-
mans character are cruelty baseless, and
intends to institute suit for malicious
libel in her behalf, when the current trial
ended. The papers, it is said, will be
served on Beecher' S lawyers at the earl-
est opportunity.