New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-21
THE CHARGE OF IMPROPER ADVANCES


to-day With this audience. on some termA
THE CHARGE OF IMPROPER ADVANCES
Mr.. Fullerton-Mr. Beecher. after nights
reflection are you enabled to state now whether you re-
rarded Theodore Tlton as charging you with improper
advances toward his wife the night OF the 30th OF
December. 1870, A regard hun a. making-af com
o No: one moment Cov Mr.. Beecher 4. No, Sir.
O. You did not regard him having made that chaI ge
sgatnst youS 4. No, eir, not in the strict sense
o. Did You regard him having made that charge
against you in any sense. whether strict OF oser"se
A. Yea in general way regarding the interview as
oenerN narrative and interview, shOuld use that Ian
guage again
O. Test A. But q scrutinized and made exact In
terms should say notthat he charged me with those
things which personally knew and repeated the charge
that bis wife had made.
O. Did not he make the charge In hif o~n ptha' l.
don't think that he did. Cir.
O. bid be profess 10 be the representative OF LIE WIG
A. He made NO profession whatever.
O. You regarded this charge q charge made by him,
did you mott A. didn't think Of II in that hgt. En- II
was narrative
O. Well the charge in TIE narrative. was 1t not
A. Her statement was
O he repeated 1t to you before he read the narrative
of his wife did he not or the confession Of his wife
BE mentioned that she had made charges against me
@ Did he not charge you with the ohense before ne
referred to his vifes statement A He did not charge
me in that sense he said that his wife had made such
statements and then read them
@ Now read this to you agnin Mr. Beeeher and
see whether "a right or wrong tReadingE
He charged me In substance that, acting for long
time in an un friendly spirit that had sought his down
my place and influence to undermine him, had advised
Nj Bowen dismiss him. ara much more that cannot
hs family relations had joined with his mOtherin-iaw
in producing disoord in bis house had advised separa
her to love more than any living being had cor
rupted moral nature and taught her TO be
bad i.df made sse WICKED proposals to her.
Il that narrative true. OF that interview VIII yon
allow me TO see that eirf
O. Yes Sir. Handing witness the book A The term
declare and charge" USE as equivalent IN the nara
tive hero
O. Is that narrative true, A. As II is hcre'
O. Yes as read it, A. In the general ii s but If you
give specific sense TO charge" not
O. One moment; don't give anything want to know
whether that narrative Of yours truei A. Subject To
correction, Sir.
Mr. Evarts-He has a right 70 answer Sir
Mr. Fullerton-He has o night TO answer, Sir ana
mean he shall answer
Mr. Evats-He may state how far he regards 4. o. true
and how far untrue
Mr.. Funerton-Dm you regard it as true. giving the
ordinary significance to the terms you employed that
statement A. regarded the word charge" az used In
@ Very well; you regarded yourself as being charged
! with improper advances, did you mott A. I did.
O. called your attention to the correspondence be-
tween yourself and Mr. Perkins last night wish to call
your attention still further to it The letter tn reply 70
Mr. Perkins Ia Feb 49, 1871 and opens with this express
| don:
whatever Mr. T1lton formerly said against me-and
know the substance OF 1.-THE has withdrawn and
confessed he had been mised by the statements OF
| one who. when confronted, backed down from Ills
4 charges.
Did you mean chat communication to convey to your
nephew the idea that Mr. Tton had Withdrawn what he
had sad AGAINST youi A. understood by that commun
cation Nj TtOn had withdrawn the charges mace
| by Mr. Bowen and repeated by him.
O. why didn't you refer the charges that Mr. Tlton
had made or Mrs Tlton had made against youf A. II
the special object Of such letter as that not to
| mat brought out into public We were al engaged III
keeping that still.
O. One moment That il enough. Your object was MOI
20 sude to III A. will not say that the specifc object
of the letter but that part Of the advice, and
| what
| O am talking about your obectf A Yes, know
but IL was joint letter; the letter was written In con
| snltation with Mr.. Moulton
| O. And your object not 20 embrace within the
meaning OF the terms used here what MI Ton or Mrs
T,on had charged you With A. certainly did not In
tend TO 20 into that, a. understood II VIII you ALLOW
| me to see that letter again, please
O. Undoubtedly, Sir Handing witness the letter. A.
| AFTER looking at the letter. Yes
O. Have you any further explanation in regard TO ~
A. No, Sir.
O. cali your attention now, Mr.. Beecher 70 another
and zee whether you did not at one time con
sider the charge having been made by MI Tilton
read:
Moreover from the anger and fury Of Mr. Tlton. ap
nrehended that thfs charge was made by him and sup
ported by accusation Of his wife wac to be at once
publicly pressed against me.
A.. n.x.U