New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-15
THE RETRACTION NOT DICTATED.

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O. Are You upon that subjecti A. According 10
my best recollection she did not.
O. How certain you of that, Mr. Beecher A SUI
centy certain to say rat according to my best reco
lection she did not. remember-I remember nothing
OF the kind and remember things that are neon
sissnt with it..
O. Do you remember that you made aware Of the
OF that before the supplementary part OF
written either by reading yourself or by hearing
her read it to you A. No, do not, Sir.
O. Will you positively and directly that you did
not dictate any part of that letterf A | will.
c. I show you Exhibit No. /, and ask you when the
of paper first made known to youf A.
Looking at the paper suppose that this letter was
read to me by Mr.. Mouton the 3ls-the evening OF
the 31st.
O. On the evening OF the 31sti A. Yes, Sir.
@ That is toe evening next foowngf A. Next fol-
lowing
O. Next following the interview between You and Mrs.
Tiltonl A. Yes, Sir.
O. will read it, because want TO ask you some ques-
tons in regard 10 ID.
[Readingl Saturday morning Ny dear friend.
Frsnk"-referring 10 MI Moulton, supposed
The witness-That is not for me to say. Sir
Mr. FullertOn-It is for you to say what You think
about it.
The Wtness-I presume il did, Sir
Mr. Fullerton-That is enough.
The Wtness-Yes, Sir.
Mr.. Fullerton again readingl:
want you To do the greatest possible favor. My
letter which you have, and the gave MI Beecher
Please bring both to me-, and will burn them. show
this Theodore and Mr.. Beecher. They will see the
propriety of this request. Yours truly, L. H. TILroN
Now, after reading that letter, ask you whether 1t
refeshos your recollection upon the subject az to whether
you did dictate the letter a. therein declared by Mrs
TltOn A. IL does not refresh my recollection at all
know that did not dictate it
n d al,a oOv IN
he read that letter you, in regard TO that aegationi
A. do not recoueet making any statement to him about
that at all.
@. Well, didn't You regard that an imputation upon
you'll mean the charge that you had dictated the letter.
as contained in this from Mrs. TOni A. Yes Sir;
/ considered the word a very suspicious word
q. But you did not defend yourself TO Mr. MOulton at
that timei A. did not, Sir.
@. Now Mr.. Beecher, understand you TO say that
Mrs TIton expressed willingness retract the charge
IL you did not use the injury OF her husbands A.
understood 1t so. Sir
@. And you promised not to so use it A. I did.
O. Did you, in consequence of that PROMISE conclude
that you would show il to her husbandf A cannot
say that
O. Well, did yOu when you obtained 1t to show it
10 hmf A. do recall that did that Is a line
OF thought that is first suggested 10 me-
O. Well you did show it 10 him that night A. Oh,
no.
O. You did not make known the fact TO him, in any
way that you had tf A. No did not Interchange any
further conversation with him that night nor do recol
lect To have seen him, even.
O. Nor did you the next day, did yOui A. No, Sir.
O. When You left Theodore TiltOn however, to go TO
Mrs Tton you underline impression that he might
believe the charged A. That his wife had made such
statements to him really he might believe the charge
O. Well, you informed by her that she had made
such satementsl A. was.
O. And yet you did not TO the husband TO disabuse
his mind in regard to those chargesi A. No, did not
O. You were willing, then, TO put that retraction OF
Mrs T1tOn in your pocket and keep it, and leave the
husband ignorance of the fact that you had been vim
dcated against that charged A. Not at all, Sir was
perfectly willing 10 put that retraction in my pocket and
leave the husband TO find out the retracon where ne
found ont the charge. [MurmIrs OF applause
o. Yes. You willing. then, that he should rest
under the idea or in the belief that you had committed
this nse were youi A. No; not willing that he
should do so nor did think that he would do it.
O. Then you did not think after you left Mrs Tilton
that the charge was made in good faith, did yOui A.
thought that whatever might have been the crcum-
stances OF the making OF the charge all that had tran
spired in my interview with Mrs Tlton would be known
to him, and that need not
O. That is not an answer to my question: Mr. Beecher
When y0u left the presence OF Mrs TltOn with the
traction in your hands, did you then believe that Theo
dore Tilton had made the charge against you in good
faith A. l don't suppose, Sir, that had that thought
in my mind in any form.
O. Did you believe that she was wcaried with importu-
nifty to make the charge A did not know WHAT 10 De-
lieve.
O. She told you so : A. Yes, Sir.
O. Didn't you believe her 7 A. didn't know what n
believe, Sir. woman that had made the charge, and
taken il back both, lay before me- and didn't know
what to believe.
O. She was Ill, was she not! A. She was ILL.,
O. Didn't she tell you the circumstances attending the
signing Of that paper which she had given 10 her hus
,and duplicating youi A. She said she had given It
result OF persistent persuasion, and that she had given
t. and thai it true; and she then retracted it,
md lay before me a person capable Of saying st the
Ine thing and then the other.
O. And you did not regard then, the importantly TO
which she had been subjected a. an excuse for writing
-his paper, although untrue' A. No: IL Mr.. Tilton
had reason suppose that there something wrong,
light object the mode OF the importantly but he had
he right question nis wife until he ascertaned what
Inc facts were.
o. Then you stll thought that, probably he believed in
tn charge, did youl A. do not think that Mr. Titons
state u mind and his special belief this and that and
the other sugyeshon came into my mind at all
O. And you had desire tn indicate yourself, far
As he concelnedt A Not then.
@. Nor the next dayi A. Well can't say what
thoughts passed through my mind the next day.
q. You did not act upon any such desire, did youf A
No. Sir; did not have any interview with him, seek
any.
u understand you to say that you expressed desire
10 Mrs. Tton That she should give you retraction in
xritin: inasIIuc the charge made in writingi
A. Yes understood Will not be perfectly certain
N that point understood that the charge had been
made in writing. but was-I was un-
q. am asking what You said ~ Mrs. Titonl A. Yes;
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gave her that as the reason or making IL in writing.
q Did you not say moment ago, that you said 10
Mrs. Tlton that you wanted that retraeton in writing
nasnuch as the charge was in writing A. Yes Sir;
aid that made that general statement that state
nent in substance now correct Ii 40 far as to say that