New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-21
BESSIE TURNER INTERCEDES FOR MRS.
TILTON,

There is one more singular incident to which
ask your attention. Now, you remember that TINS gi
In all her testimony showed that she cared no more TOT
Henry Ward Beecher than she did Cor you or Tor me- no
more for him than she did for Theodore Titon Hers
was tho loyalty Of the child to the mother II was tue
LOYALTY of love and gratitude Elizabeth r. TiltOn She
would not turn her hand to Henry Ward Beecher
from destruction She would not turn her hand even 10
destroy Theodore Triton but that poor. grateful giri
would 20 TO the stake. would encounter penalties
such as you and / would shrink FROM IN The splr-
it OF lioness, In defense OF the woman
whom she knows to DO innocent, ana Knows 10
be her benefactres 1t is not Of such stuff false wit
nesses arc made Now another part of her mar
ration Mrs. Tilton had come home faint, sick. heart
broken almost hopeless. While she went to her usual
refuge the cOmpan0nship OF her Children ana the ell
treaties which uttered from her Blended knees to her
Father in Heaven this girl goes down to make one appeal
in her behalf to the man whose heart she thought could
be touched
He came asked him II could sec him little While
He cane into his room in second story back ROOM ia
his room. and smut the uoor anu 'o' n' '""t .4' -
ton very sick
You remember that this after Mira Tllton had been
around to her mother had been speaking Of her condition
and OF hopccssncss not but her
hone that through the troubles wn!ch she was pencra
ing then she WAS be restored to the compromising OF
this little Paul whom he proicssed 10 love, Dnt Od'au
lied after he buried lin
around wien she was around TO Mrs. Iorsc's that she
was going die, ana that her mother must not lee
troubled that she was going 10 her h0me she Id OAy
one home and that was III Heaven; she would s'e lef
must not SORROW for her, and l asked him please
TO DC very kind to her, and not scod her any more
and make her cry and l then tOid MN "Hit
the doctor In Marietta had sad, that these swO,nlg NJ
lacks that Mrs TltOu hal bad lbs was aifddLe ieafei
that she would die in Of thcm and he didn't tllhh
she would possibly survive her confinement and fc
very badly felt as il Mira Triton w;s gong To de am
plead with him, with tears in my eyes ana asked Nh
il he would not b. kind her lie said there was nOih-
jng The matter with Elizabeth that she was as wei! rs
perfec tly natur. 10 her SAID | didn't th.G II Vas
natural Tor people 10 cry al the tlme unless they MAJ
something to cry about. He SAID Ezibeth was ~ wen
ms ever she WAS and that she not wccpnS Decdls"
she felt badbeo ause OF her D0dly he" u 'IV VIZ
weeping for her sin with Mr. Becchcr. that that was
what made hcrcry. Al.
O. Did Won mention anything In thai conversation
about an occurrence connected WIN letter U! MS "io
Won were in Marietta \. letter ~
O. letter that snc received from Mr. ilton f's,
a letter of his Mrs rOn-npt Alrs IHtoh III MARIETTA
and she opened the letter ana read iteclrI u htf
REID through and she turned perfectly white ANA II
very heavily 10 the floor, with tno letter Ba,pcu III h
o. Did Won tell him what followed then /. told aim
that she fell to the for and fantcd ana went am
called irs, Putnam and she came . men sne el
phnIp the 6o,orei man, and 10 lifted Mrs Tilton lii bed
Gentlemen don't TO further with this nara
ton 1t is not good for There certain depths OF
dshonOr and degradation the very contemplation o!
which sinks and demorazes us ALL The further you go
in the vesgation OF this mans life the Sinner The
trail that you recognize with every f0ot,ep oil your al
vance leave this branch OF the case