New-York tribune., 1875-02-12
TILE FRAGMENTS READ.

O. Mr. Tilton please listen to what shall now
read YOU and say you recognize it as the commencement OF
this True Sory" "On, day last month when was in the
north Of Neg Hampshire scandaoas publication burst ike
cloud over my home in Brooklyn and she'd sudden shadow on
my we GOOD name Do you remember that tn first sen
tence OF your True Story \ don't remember that dis
tinc uhra-eoo,y Ny recollection is that it was something
like that positively that that the accurate
sentence.
O "A week afterwards when returned and first the
Ie wrote card denouncns Outrage but acting the
advice" Chcre il blank in this and that cannot hll)
withheld it from the press and maintained conempuouS
silence" Do you remember that: A. No. Sir; could not
swear that that a sentence Of it.
O. Well DO you recognize that As in substance what Was'
A. Well perhaps might say in substance.
O. Moreover no form card that could devise though
drafted two three seemed adequate answer 10 the ccu
stantial OF the calumnou Indictment Do you reco;
nize thaty a. That may have been correct SIT
O. Instead q card then proposed an explanatory MARIA
tive meeting the false heads point by point but this also was
advised against particularly by Mrs Tlton who from the be-
ginning begged me to publish yndcon of her whatever
A. Something OF that soft.
O. THE ingenious and plausible statement put forth against
her could be thoroughly rcuted only By plain recital Of the
te story 10 contradict the false and the true story in
wolves disacrecable reference names Of which
have not hitherto mentioned in the She prefers to
suffer obloquy herself rather than fling OIL to fall as stain
upon others and withhod, from me her permission to unye
the whole facts" A. 10 the accuracy Of that
Sir 1t something in that vein
O But even against her will am going to put them in
writing not however the Of the public but only Of
f personal friends do this for two distinct pGrposes first
for her sake because constrained silence VIII permanently
nre her repuaon and next for ny sake because owe to
these friends explanation Of what they have deemed
erc in my public FOR the last TWO years or since my
retirement from The HdpsisH and TIE Brookyn tnon
Do YOU recognize that a part Of your statements A No.
Sir don't remember it; but il you sayit is, is.
O Oh | don't; don't say A 1t was something in
that spirit.
O. Ia that spirit A. Yes, Sir.
O. About ten or eleven years ago Henry C. Bowen for
whom was then working subordinate in Ti1 LDpHd>n'
office told me one evening hc crossing the Fulton Ferry that
Henry Ward Beecher guty Of adultery practice begun
in Indianapolis and continued in Brooklyn" DO remem-
her tbat A. don't remember that part OF the statement
remember Mr. Bowen telling me that
You recognize this IN accordance with the fact If you
had stated il? a. Yes, Sir
O Retveen the years 1850 and 1870 M Bowen repeated the
accusation not less than hundred times frequently exhibiting
the deep sense personal injury and sometimes saying that
If he were so minded he could drive Mr. Beecher from his pull
pit! A. guess thar is correct, Sir.
O Do you recognize that? \. do not remember the phrase
oocy but that is in substance correct
O. During part Of this time:' am only asking you
whether constituted par, Of your you know A.
Well Sir simply say in answer TO that that canno; emom-
ber--
O The words A. The words the phrascoogy Of state
men written long ago. should not Ike 10 swear that that
Identical expression was the statement s you read IT,
| the narration reyyes with some distincness
q Durng part u this time Mr. Beecher editor in charge
Of T1s Lld,pendent aud his lieutenant Af,erward
he retired and succeeded TO the chair. Both before Mr.
Bechers retirement and afterwards Mr. was in the habit
OF saving that pastor Of Plymouth Church dangerous
visitor among the females Of his congregation DO
member that as part Of your statement A. do not die
tuc,y remember part Of my statement livery distinctly
rerember il az a part Of Mr.. BOwen's statements.
O This gossip always heard with unwilling cars having
no more taste for scandal than aud would
II here except that it OF the pyo which the ensuing
history turns" Do you recognize that A. No Sir
do not remember that sentence
a How A. l do not remember that sentence. do not
remember accurately enough to it, Mr. Eyarts.
q put does strike you \. IL You will put that entire
doument into my possession and let read from beginning
10 end think could tell you whether 1t accurate
transcript, Of ths; paper not but cannot by
sentence 10 paper which written long While ago and
which have not for year or two.
@ You have right Of course, 10 qualify your statements
| concerning III
Jrdge Neilson-It being understood all the time Ms Tton,
that the counsel hardly expects you ocooct the wos
Mr. Eyarts-No.
Iud, Neson- the Substance sentiment rather than
| the very words
NJ, Yyarts-You are qnte al liberty qualify your
m.ns OF recollection recollection eading "As fur
her statement, st unwingy opened yet necessary TO
an exclamation OF the subsequent complication Of circumstances
Imus say that in the Of 1870 few months after had
undertaken In addition editing The IadSps1de TO edit also
The Bnokyn Union Mrs Elizabeth r. Tion my wife, made
to me communication concerning Mr. Deeche which, to use
her words. lest should woas him By asn. ulne size