New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-13
MR. TILToN DIspLEAsED WITH THE COVENANT

MR. TIITON DISPLEASED WITH THE COVENANT.
O. Let ME ask you, Sir whether you had had an
interview with Theodore Ton prior 10 the receipt OF TINS
paper from Mr. Can upon the morning OF the Sd OF APRIL
after your interview Of the night OF the M' A. had o'
O Where did it occurf A. In my office
O stao what occurred there? A. Mr.. Tlton came in about
II o'clock in the forenoon the next day after the rpare
had been accepted BY him. and he had promised TO
execute it in Frank Moutons study
Mr. BeachWe that repetition Sir Of past agreements and
prorjses when they are referred to by the question
think should be omitted by the witness because we have
TO call for the conversations and the language
The Waes-I will omit them hereafter Mr. Beach that was
an error Beach, ask your forgiveness shall not 90 ha'
again
Judge Neilson-tTo Mr. Hill: Keep your witness upon the
line OF examination. Go on
The Witness-It was eleven o'clock in tho forenoon OF
April g. and he came into my office He angry He said
want copy Of my portion OF the tripartite agree
ment': l not going TO sign it. IL has got 70 DC
altered before | sign it," l asked him what happened
Well he said enough happened to induce him to come to
that determination that he should not execute it. asked
him what happened change his purpose He said MT
Bowen had been well taken care OF by Dir.
Clann in this affair." and that Mr. Beecher had been
well taken care of by me IN this affair, but no one
had taken care Of him, and he 10 be left out
in the cold and his money unpaid, and he said Z" L
won't sign that agreement He said "Let me have my por-
ton Of to took the agreement ont OF my safe and
made copy OF his portion Of it and handed 1t to him. He
sat down at table my and commenced to scratch 1t
and ato it, with him for going back on his
agreement.
Mr. Beach--Please tell what you said, Mr.. Wikeson
The WnessI said that he ought not to change the arrange
ment that made that he ought to adhere to ike
man said would sign that agreement nor never
sign any agreement that prohibited him from pursuing
Henry Ward Beccher and he kept at his work OF scratch
ing and erasng the manuscript copy that gave him Of
his share of the "trpartite agreement but without
concluding he grabbed the work in his hand put it in his
pocket and stalked out of the room, and went away
O. Now Sir when the "tripartite agreement as 1t now
appears evidence to be executedcame to be submit
ted to you for draft-Or engrOsng were Mr. Iion amend
ments attached submitted to that you engrossed
them altogether A. Yes, Sir.
O. And this paper which you have in evidence as the par
lite covenant drawnwas engossed by you from that
paper and from amendments which Mr. Triton had thus
made' A. Yes that is understand that he had made
them because Mr. Horace b. Cahn brought them TO me.
DO you know whether they in his handwriting any
norton of them A. | don't recolect.
O. mean his part of the tripartite covenant A. don't
recollect that, Sir.
Mr. Uil-Let me ask YOU Mr.. Wilkeson il anything was
said upon evening of the I'd Of April at the study in Mr.
Mouto house. Of OF the Informans
whom you named A. YES Sir.