The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-02-04
The Beeoher Case.

been thus far examined. Friday and Sat
urday were consumed in arguments con
corning the admissability Of the testimony
of Tilton, it being resisted by the defence
with determination which shows thai
they consider it very telling point in the
case. On Moaday, however, Judge Neil
son decided Tilton's evidence to be admis
sible, excepting that portion derived from
Mrs. Tilton's statements. The following
are extracts from his testimony, in re-
gard to what passed between himself and
Beechcr-
Mr.. Moulton brought MI Beecher ano
retired | did not salute Mr.. Beecher, mol
he me. Icrossed the room and locked the
door. Went back and sat down opposite
Nh Beecher | began in this way !
think | said: Il presume you have re-
ceived from Mr.. Bowen a letter demand
ing your retirement from your pulpit and
from Brooklyn" He answered: Il did
sir" | told him he need not fear that let
ter lie thanked me and | told him he
need not do so Elizabeth deserved his
thanks and not l. He said he understood
the object of this interview only in gen
eral terms and asked me to tell him what
Mr.. Bowen had said, and | told him it
would be better for him to 90 to Mr. Bowen
himself told him Mr.. Bowen had said
gregation for the pest % years; that he
was not Il safe man and had ruined tami y
households that he was a wolf in the fold
and should he eNtripated and that Mr..
Bowen had said that he had it in his power
to drive Mr. Beecher out Of Brookly n in
II hours. | told him that after | had this
interview with Mr. Bowen, | told it to my
wife, who was distressed and reminded
me that said in the previous summer that
would not break my promise to hurt Mr..
Beechcr for if he was driven from Brook
lyn it would be her shame and that of her
Children Mr. Beecher asked me what
meant by her shame. ! read to him Eliza
beths letter of confession. This confess
sion was destroyed by her two years after
and the copy of it was destroyed on that
evening. | then told him the story Mrs.
Tilton told me, saying to him that in the
early part of July Mrs. T. had come home
Unexpectedly from the country and told
me she had ii burden on her mind which
she wished to throw off; that she had sew
eral times tried to do it, but failed Before
telling me she eXacted promise that no
harm should come to the person on a dis
closure of the story She said it was Il
secret between her and the Rev II. w.
Beecher; that friendship had developed
into love and their sexual intercourse be
ginning after the death of her son Paul
and that visiting Mr., Beecher on the 10th
of October, 1868. she had surrendered her
body to him, and the following Saturday
evening at her residence the act had been
repeated and that this had continued from
the fall OF 1868 to the spring of 1870, but
in the tall Of 1870 she had communicated
these facts to me; that she had protested
to me that Mr.. Beecher had for her Il warm
er love than for any other woman; that
his home was not happy; that his solcita-
lions had been frequent and in many cases
almost violent; that she felt she could
never look me in the face until she had
made a full and open confession, and that
she had come from the country to make
this confession.
would not say this was entirely as this
interview happened, but it is as near as l
can recollect, and taken from a small mem
orandum- book | possessed | then told
Nh Beecher that Mrs Tilton had gone to
the country broken hearted woman, and
had returned few weeks previous to this
interview | told him that my wife had
insisted on my being the bearer of the
letter to him, which | refused, and she
begged me to have a friendly interview
with him, and said that, if she agreed,
would request Mr. Moulton to begin about
an interview between Mr.. Beechcr and
myself to which she agreed.
felt great reluctance that Mr. Moulton
should know the facts. | pledged Mr.
Beeehcr my word that | would not assist
Mr.. Bowen in any attempts he might
make on him (Beecher) At the conclu-
sion of the narrative Mr. Beecher's head
and neck We're nushed with blood, and [
feared an accident lie said: Theodore,
I am in dream; this is like Dantes lu-
terno" He rose up, and | opened the
door and said he was free to 90. He
asked me il | would allow him to sec
Elizabeth, which | granted, as he prom
ised not to upbraid her, for, il he did so
threatened to strike him tenfold He
stood q moment on the threshold, and,
putting his hands on his head, he said
This is all wild whirl" Mr. Moulton
met Mr. Beecher on the stairway, and
heard Mr.. Beecher say to him, "IlaNl
you seen Elizabeth's confession, and he
answered that he had, and MI Beecher
said This will kill me- Mr. Mouton
and Mr. Beecher then entered the parlOr,
and the door was closed.
"a.
poet, who died last week at the age of eighty
four. was never inside steam car in his life
For eighteen wears the kennphec river ha>
been unebStructed by ice from IFS mouth Il
Bath, but now the river is frozen oyer below
the city.
An earthquake has been playing among The
Sandwich Islands in the Kings absence.
Amos Campbell, stage driver between
Skowhegan and Bingham, left for California
with 5000, which had been entrusted with hin
to leave for other parties. 1t Is supposed he
has taken other sums OF money entrusted to
his care.
A prominent lawyer in New York has beer
charged with appropriatin@ from estates which
he held in trust some two hundred thouSanC
dollars
The fastest railroad time on record is said tC
have been made not long since on the New lorl
Central Railroad by special train. which ear
| RED II party of officials from Rochester to syria
cusc 81 miles in 81 minutes.
In the Circuit Court at Exeter, n. H., Asheli
f. Thurston of Portsmouth received a verde
of ST. damages for bite by John ). Treat
bulldog.
The managing editor OF the Detroit Free
Press is Mr.. VIM. f. Qulmbv. u native o
Brewer, Me. Mr.. A. C. Boynton, tile politica
editor, is native of Bangor.
| The island which Robinson Crusoe once pranc
ed over, hunting footprints in the sand, Is now
| inhabited by colony of Dutchmen
| Muscle Ridge channel is HlIed with floains
| ice and Tenants Harbor is frozen solid TO South
/ ern island
| During the past year there have been ~
commttals to the several jails in lie State ID
of whom were females.
A Few Words to Feeble and Delicate
| Women.
BY r. V. PIERCE, NJ. D., Of the WORLD
| DISPENSARY. Buffalo, ~ Y.