The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-16

pastor was on trial, although the commlttee
was investigating these charges. did not
think my pastor required any Vindlcatlon
for me. can not tell
A SINGLE QUESTION
that was put to me. think questions were
put to me, but the purport of them l can't
remember. Icould not undertake to relate
any of the questions put to me. l re-
GREETED that these stories had gone
abroad about Beecher, but got
over my indignation when Tilion
disclaimed the authorship OF the charges.
After the recess Beecher resumed his place
on The stand and his cross-examinstion was
continued by Fullerton. He testiheo; L
do not recollect whether 1 stated TO the
committee that 1ilton read me Mrs. I1lton's
letter containing the charges OF improper
solicitation. / can not recollect What L
omitted to state before the committee. Mr..
Hill came for me i'm a carriage but did not
tell me he wanted me TO make statement
or exclamation. / supposed when L was
before the committee that was to tell what
knew about the matter. The tlme OF my
examination was very short, and atterward
left them. Before l went before the COM
mittee had a general conversation with
Hill ia which may have told him some
thing about the matter of this CONVEX
Sation. don't know that L can
now repeat anything. dld not
purpo9ely omit any portion OF the charges
againt Mr.. Beecher. In my conversation
with Hill did not know OF anything against
Mr. Beecher except these charges OF Mrs.
TiIton. heard from Tilton that his vile
had ratrgcted the retrsciiOn, but IL ala not
strike me that when this was Withdrawn Jne
original charges stood. L saw Tracy there
with the committee but do not think had
any conversation with him. / could not
say positively that / had no conversation
with him. Fullerton then read portions
of the witnesses testimony before the com
mittee, but he could not recollect having
testified to anything that was read to him.
The witness then continued: L was present
on the night when the report OF
the committee was read in church,
but do not remember whether L
heard it all read on that occasion.
THE WEST CHARGES
were, 1 think, only presented at one meet
ING. While was there they were discussed
and think Mr. West read them. In my
opinion criminal intimacy would mean
more than q charge of improper proposals.
regard the charges as duplicating both
parties. The next charges were
made in the year 1873. L understand
criminal intimacy surreptitious
mountaineering between man and
another mans wife. Mr.. West made the
| L
know that he told me that he considered it
adultery. told West that did not con-
sIder the charges of criminal intimacy TO
mean adultery. / did not mean so to con-
slider it after what Tilton had read to me.
1 was one of the committee to investigate
the West charges. I went to see Mr.. TlltOu
i'm company with Capt. Duncan. We
saw him In the Golden Age ONCE.
The conversation was carried on
by Capt. Duncan, who told
him the errand on which he came; We
went there to converse with him before
making report to the church committee
and also to hear what he had to say in e1-
PLANTATION of these charges. He said that be
was not member of the church and would
not appear before any committee in the mat
ter. He considered himself as not being
amenable to the church. l do not remem-
Der why the West charges were dropped
other than on the ground that Tilton urged
his non-membership in the church.
The action taken by the commit
tse was to accept this stat cement and
to drop Tilton's name from the rolls.
Mr.. Fullerton read the report Of the COM
mittee to the church, but the witness said
| that he could not remember whether that
was the one which was submitted by the
committee, as he was not present when the
action was taken. The witness then Ie-
sume6: The examining committee read this
report, prepared by the subcommittee
before it was submitted to the church TOR Its
| action. Tilton appeared at church that
night, and no charges were made against
him. One evening in long in
| terview with TIlIon, 1 suggested that
| he should consult with DIR. StOrrs.
Redirect examination by Mr.. Hill: On
the morning before the report of the com
mittee was submitted, letter was read by
them from Mr.. Tilton, but the decision OF
the committee had then been arrived at. L
do not remember he'sub-committee's stat
| ing the result of their interview with Mr..
Tilton to the examining committee.
ST. CLAIR M'KELvEY
was next called. He testified: 1 have re-
sided in Brooklyn since April, 1865. am g
journalist and associate editor on the Brook
Ign Eagle. have been on the paper for
about FIVE years. have known the Theo.
Tilton since about the time he took
hold of the Brooklyn Union. L knew
of the Woodruff publication and had
| an interview about it with TiltOn
| the day after the fire in
the store Of Woodruff & Robinson. Novem-
Der Is or 10. The scandal had then been
published about three weeks. called on
Tilton in pursuance Of an arrangement with
Jno. w. Harmon. ! said to him that had
called in pursuance of a conversation with
Harmon on the previous day, and in my
capacity as journalist, l called 10 talk with
1 DlIu Oh LDlS w q talked In q general
way about the subject, and 1 told
him of the fact of a conversation
/ had with Mr.. Beecher. Before that told
him of a conversation had with Harmon
on the previous day. / told him in sub
stance that Beedher denied the truth of the
! Woodruff story and other parts of it. He
refused TO say anything about it. L
spoke more of the results at
tnis time than the details.
| Tilton asked me what was my opinion
with regard to the publication, and L told
him il was considered as a plan to destroy
his wife and pull down Beecher. He said
that this was a very unjust conclusion. He
said that there was story that would put an
other face on the matter, but in my capacity
as Journalist he could not speak of it to
me. He said he would tell me something in
my capacity OF q friend, but moi for publica-
ton, and would tell me the story in the
form of an allegory. He said Once
on a time there was a man and
| o. moi 4in