Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-04-07
NEW YORK.
Beecher.TiIt0n.

New York, April 6.
Mr.. Evarts read Beecher's letter speaking of
the dresry winter he had just gone through and
saying it would be great comfort to send him oc-
casionally letter.
The letter of June 20, was written shortly after
the death of Tiltons brother had taken place at
| their house; within a week fortnight that
letter was written as near as l recollect in fur
therance of the same line Of conduct have re-
ferred to again and again; to keep up heart in
Mrs. Tllton.
Q-Was there any occasion for your writing
that your wife was going to Havana
Objected to.
Mr.. Evarts-There is an imputation that this
be safe for her to come to his home as his wife
was going away. When it is implied that in q
letter from gentleman to q lady the statement of
fact is brought in for imputation that it was to
cover designation, and when the party is on the
stand, he is allowed by every rule Of evidence to
explain.
MIR. Beech-That is for the jury. He wrote
| asking her to come, as it would be safe in his
wife's absence. Could he explain:
Question allowed.
There was in that expression nothing referring
to Mrs T. coming to my house; she did not visit
| there.
small note was handed to witness, it saying
he would see Mrs. Tilton tomorrow night or next
| Friday night.
| The note was written ON Thursday, as Mrs.
Tllton wanted to see him about her mother; there
was such an occurrence the note stated he would
see her at the Friday night prayer meeting or the
following weeks prayer meeting; all these inter-
views with his parishioners take place publicly,
in the room before all who are there.
| The letter of Mrs Morse to witness dated Oct
2l, 1871, was next take up.
Witness was asked about the passage, "DO YOU
know think it strange you should ask me to call
You SON."
Witness said he recalled what was referred to;
| she told him one occasion when he met her at
1 trnI nf kn. trn.. rt hat
she had no one to take counsel of, could not even
take counsel of her daughter, and he said, take
counsel of me son" courteous expression,
which she laid hold OF.
| Witness was next aSkad about the Woodruff
| card of May, 1871.
Witness saw it a few days after, and some days
after had this conversation with Tilton, IN which
the latter gave an account of his visits to Mrs.
Woodruff he said that soon as he saw that card
he was satisfied 1t had reference to him and his
household, and he went right down to see her and
stop it, and that he prepared himself and went
"At his best; that he went to ask If the card re-
ferred to him and his family and she aid it did he
said he never brought much personal influence to
bear on any human being that he deter
mined to carry her by influence, and succeeded in
getting promise of its discontinuance; he men,
toned that he told her not to make war on him or
his, for he liked her, and was suffering for advo-
eating substantially the same theories of free love
and divorce
| Witness continued: -
| don't recall any other interview about that
card with Ms. w oodhull; he didn't tell me that
when he visited her about that card she told him
she referred him to Beecher; he didn't say she
! added 81 see by the expression of your face my
charge is true; he did not tell me that she fol-
lowed with several extravagant particulars which
she gathered in her card of Nov, ~.
The witness was taken through the whole of
Tiltons testimony as to what he told Beecher Of
his visit to Woodruff, and he denied every pas
sage He denied that Tilton repeated to him as
a portion of his interview with Woodruff, that
she told him his wife had confessed her adultery,
tina. in consequence he had used violence on his
wife, had become drunk, and that Moulton went
with pistol and got back the retraction from
Beecher, &c, &C.
Mr.. Fullerton here raised the point that Tilton
did not testify; he had related all this to Beecher
and that therefore questions were inadmissable.
The Judge said it was certainly the understand
ing that what took place between Tilton and Mrs.
| Woodruff was not admissible.
| The evidence was received, subject to correc-
ton.
Arrested.
Edw ard II. Bennett has been arrested in this
city, charged with fraudulent bankruptcy in Bos-
ton. He will be sent back to Boston in custody
of deputy U. S. marshal.
Pacific Mail.
1t is rumored that the Pacific Mail Co. has dis
Il covered discrepancies in the accounts ct Hong
Kong and San Francisco, which reduce the f.
nances some $37S, 900 below the estimates. This
report was the occasion of to-day's decline in the