The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-04-08

WIS the SUGGESTION as 10 IdKlQ2 part III OF at
tending it,? A. II was the expression OF the
statement that there was TO be such an affair,
ted ana hoped that would go II was, Q. He
was known TO you, was he? A. never met him
except to shake hands with him after public
church that he stopped and shook hands
with me, but beside that i had never
and 18th OF October are known to have been
Saturc avs; of course, the 10th was; we have now
fixed 1t as the Saturday after your Friday lee
! a. haze no recollection about 1t; presume
was q You were at that season, that month.
family was there stil, and spent, usu-
ally a portion, at any rate r OF the
ternoon ION to my Friday night conference meet s
SABBATH? A. Only in the very busy seasons
did go back again Saturday. Q. And tilen you
returned again, IL you went? a. Yes, IL did !
/ but there was seldom busy season in the fall.
| q So that SO far as you have any recollection of
these days, the 10Th and l7th you were in Brook.
is the binary mode in which you spent your
saturdays? A. Well, II is my day
for rambling in New York, usually !;
greenhouse or some hing OF that Kind. / al
ways make II the vacation day OF the week. q.
o2 1 b tbSt day OF
said in New York book stores, print shops,
ALL UP AND DOWN THE STREET,
in matters of curiosity; If rot that. then very
frequently at the park or Flushing, or at some
where where there were greenhouses. Q. Was
Saturday a day in which you made these usual
or ordinary calls among your circle Of
friends here, or was IL otherwise. A. Well, as a
general hing not O. Now. sir, have you any
recollection of seeing Mrs. Tlton at your own
house or at her house, on either of these days?
A. don't remember Ii. q Did anything occur
between you and her on either OF those da es or
pressed itself on your mind at all? 4. Nothing
2. During your entire acquaintance with
Mrs. Titon, up TO this moment in December,
| 1870, had there ever been any undue personal
familiarity between your elfand her? A. Never
| 2. Had you at any time solicited improper
| favors from her as a woman? A. Never. @.
Had you received improper favors from her. A.
1t was thing impossible from her; never.
| Loud appla1sel Judge Neison-This must not
occur again Mr.. Rogers, you will see TO this that
peace of the house you will have your men re-
move him, no matter who he is. Evarts-Q.
Did you ever, during this period. have carnal
intercourse or
SEXUAL CONNECTION WITH MRS. TILToN?
A. No, sir. Q. Did you remember on or about
Christmas day, or the day celebrated as Christ
mas day, on the 25th of December, a call from
Mr.. Bowen, and the presentation of a letter to
you? 4. 40. Evarts-Where's exhibit No.z?
Mr.. Morris produced letter, and Evarts
handed it to Beecherl 1t is as follows:
BROOKLYN, Dec. 20, 1879.
To Henry Ward Beecher:
sIR.l demand that for reasons which you
explicitly understand, you Immediately cease
from the ministry or Plymouth Church, and
that you quit the city of Brooklyn as a resi-
q. Did you receive that letter. Mr..
Beecher? a. 1 received such a
letter. / can not say that this is the very
one. received a letter in Tilton's handwriting.
Q. This is all in Mr.. Tilton's writing? a. Yes,
not. O. This is understood TO be the original9
oei7sd letter q this PgTPOTf. Beaeh-No; this
ton has spoken OF Ireading from the
terday you spoke of letter of cember 26. 1870,
written by Tilton TO Mr.. Reecher, which Bowen
carried. Look at that paper l now show you
letter to winch you then referred? A Yes, sr.
Fullerton-I propose to read il. (he reads and
think the indorsement on the back Of it
is BY MOqlton Shows that; it is the original
ton the envelope land showing it
had been sealedl @; Now, Mr.. Beecher,
was this letter brought 10 you? A. By Henry c.
Bowen. @. Where were you? A. At my pres
ent residence on Brooklyn Heights. Q. Please
letter? A. He said he had a letter for me from
Tllton, he was not aware of its contents, but as
h he s9%f 9 o Sem or iot
he sit while you opened it? A. He did. q. You
opened il and read it? A. II
reading iS? a. said substantially, this is sheer
insanity,
THE MAN Is CRAZY.
@. What did Bowen say to that? 4. BE said he
Il
it 10 him. He took it and read it. Q. He read
it? A. l have no doubt he did. Q. Well,
then, what passed between you? A. made
some expression, but can not recall even the
of Indignant surprise that Tilton should write
me such letter, anc Bowen fell in at once with
me, and we commenced talking about
TiltOD, and not unfavorably, but it
gave rise to q conversation In which he said
he had, as 1 was aware, dismissed Tlton from
the editorship ofthe Independent he had become
a
made up his mind to do that 1t was on account
of business reasons; that Tilton's ideas were not
in consequence of it, or was liable
to suffer, 1 don't remember which; that, |
subordinate position on the paper that man |
after nan, multitudes, came in with stories af- |
fecting Tiltons moral character, like clouds,and
astonished in his life, and in making in
quiry of one and another, they seemed to |
come thicker He gave me an account, or rather |
made reference, to the case OF q woman and /
Tilton at Winsted. He gave no particulars, and |
there was another in the Northwest. Ihave for
gotten If ne mentioned the place, but he said |
That in his own Office. and in reference to lady
thai by him %n t6e o me 6 bsd
informed him that Tilton turned the key and /
said, now, this opportunity has come that have
toward her of an Improper nature. ] was as
tonished, as you well might think, but not so
much so as 1 would have been il /
had not seen and heard testimony and told him
so. He wanted to know what th9t was. then
related to Kim what Bessie turner Ioid me.
also said there was another lady about whose
name in connection with him rumor had been
busy, and some other incidental conversation |
took place. said TO Bowen, wish you wou |
talk with my wife. she knows more about
things of this matter and more matters about
this thing than do. alluded to interviews he
had with Mrs. T1lton and he expressed some
r. pugnance. thinking my wife would not like to
talk with him. can't say whether there was an
interview, although have strong i'm preston
Il at he went into the paTlor and stayed some
moments talking to her. Daring the course of
this conversation Mr.. Bowen said that he had
made up his mind that Tilton could not stay on
the Independent in any relat on, and he was in
grave doubt whether he could have him on the
Brooklyn Union; / said TO Bowen that the Inde-
pendent was dear to me, no matter what had
come and gone between us; Ii was paper with
which begun my life here in Brooklyn, and l
felt warmly toward IL, and 1t was my Judgment
that man that was
rA1NrEn AS TIITnN WAS