The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-10
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TO THE
WHEELING REGISTER.
Associated Press Report. by Western
Union Line, Office Northwest cor.
of Main and 18th SITS.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Beecher Scandal.

this morning. When Judge Nelson
took his seat Bccchcr and his wife were
absent, but Mrs. Tilton was present, the
first time since the defense opened. Mr..
Jetireys, the sick juror, was early in his
place.
Mr. Hill, of the counsel called Geo.
W. Lincoln as witness.
He testifed-I lived in Fulton, New
York, in 1869; was proprietor of the
Bcardsley House, at Winstcd, COnnec-
ticut; remember Of Tilton coming there
and asked me for two rooms adjoining,
which was given him; | went to Tiltons
room, raped, and was turning away,
when the door opened, and | saw Tilton
with his coat, hat and boots oil, the
young lady was lying on the bed, and
appeared to be about % years of age;
when at dinner the conduct of Tilton and
the lady appeared to be very familiar.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Fullerton
There was no effort at conceslment on
the part of either when the door WAS
thrown open.
The next witness was Albert +. Nor
ton, who testified as follows: Live in
New Britain, Connecticut; was in Win
.ted, Connecticut and lived at the
Beurdslev House; in December, go, in
passing Tilton's room i saw lady partly
dressed in it; did not see any book in the
room.
The next witness was Samuel h.
Beccher, who testified as follows: Have
lived in Brooklyn twenty three years;
have known Tilton about twenty years;
lived in adjoining houses or 3 years;
Tilton asked me to act as arbitrator IN
the Bowen difficulty, but l declined; l
spoke to lilton about the Woodhull
scandal, and he said there was nothing
in it: he asked me to accompany HIM to
his house. which | did. and he produced
4 roll of papers which he showed me- he
said that unless a settlement was made
/ tor his broken contracts this would be
published; he read portion to me, but l
don't remember 1T he read to
me what purported to be
retraction from Mr.. Bowen, but | don't
| remember the substance; l recollect
| something about Mr.. Bowen retracting
his charges against Mr.. Beecher; Tilton
| showed me writings which set forth that
Beecher had solicited his CTilton's wife
to become to him all that wife should
be; / asked him if that was his wiies
writing and he said no it WAS a copy; |
asked him how his wife treated Beecher's
propositions. and he said she repelled
them; he said he charged Beecher with
this net and Beecher said it was false and
that the woman must be crazy; he said
Beechcr had slipped out and when he
tTiltonl got home he found that Beecher
had obtained retraction of the story;
these papers were not in my hands nor
was | allowed to examine them; Mr..
Tilton read To- me what appeared to be
Mrs. TiltOn's retraction given to Beecher;
he stated that notwithstanding the CIV
ing of the rctraCtion to Beecher, his wife
retracted the rctraction, and that
Beecher had Confessed aud Apollo
gized.
understood that Moulton was to retain
possession of the letters of retraction and
apology; | rccollect of hearing Tilton
say that Moulton and himself thought
Bcccher had acted very mcanly in this
letter Of retraction; asked what sort of
women the Woodruff and Clatfiin were,
and Tilton spoke well Of them; | asked
Titon if Beechcr ever had sexual
intercourse with his wife,
he replied with upliftcd hand, "No! no!
my wife is as pure as Vii angel from
heaven
Cross.examined by Mr.. Fullerton
This was about three weeks after the pub
lication OF the Woodruff scandal. Mr..
Fullerton read portion of the printed
copy of the true stCry,' but the witness
could not remember any portion Of it
could not mind. | made no mcmoran-
dunn of what Tilton said to me; he read
me letter from Mrs. Tilton to her .hus-
band telling him that Bcecher proposed
to her to become wife to HIM with all
that name implied; he read copy of the
retraction that Mrs. Tilton had given
to Beecher, but | do not re-
member any part of it; !
do not remember the letter of Mrs.
t Titoms to Moulton being read that
night, nor did he read copy OF the
letter of Becchcr's to Moulton. when he
said his wife was rs pure as an angel
from heaven; We were standing in the
parlor, and put hoqucstion which drew
from him this answer ut the close of the
conversation; | was prompted to put the
question. by what | heard that night;
do not remember Of hs cndcavsring to
impress upon me that his wife was guilt
less of the charge OF adultery; | never
said that would stand by Bcecher
guilty or not, and never told Tilton SO;
| do not know that | ever told this story
as fully as tell it now; | told the story
ofTitOn' denials ofthe charge ofadultery
of his wife to various parties;
WAS Nota Church officer Then, but
aDehcon Afterwards:
| have talked about and told different
sections of the story to persons | met
but never told them the whole OF it; |
have repeated il substantially | think;
first rs | told it here to Mr.. Hill about
week ago; told the first part of it few
DAYS after il occurred, but to whom |
cannot remember; told Deacon Hodges
that Tilton told me that there was moth
ing in the story; think | was IN Brook
lyn when the Committee of lnvestl@a-
ton of Plymouth Church was appointed;
| gave evidence before it, but do not re-
member what night it was; all the con-
mttec were there and also a short hand
reporter; cannot tell if he took testi-
mony; it took me about FIVE minutes TO
testify; Mr.. Hill on that evening came
to my house for | had conversation
with him before went before the
committee and told him parts of the
story; | did not relate the story to
the committee as l told it to him;
| was requested to state in brief my in
terview with Tilton; do not remember
if [ WAS asked to state all that | knew
of the scandal: was not sworn before
the committee. and omitted all parts OF
nv story in relation to printed matter;
do not think they asked me all that
I knew. because | WAS there but short
time; ! WAS not going TO volunteer in
formation for which l WAS not asked; |
did not know my pastor was on trial, al
though the committee were investigating