The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-12

20 sfad n cour0 reconcile the two thinQsn Here
she 1roke down again and said she had secret
Wncn sne would tell me before her death. / said,
Very well u do not ask you to tell me.D Then
she SAID, oh Mr.. Carpenter, l have committed
for mel ! said, There il mercy Tor All. j sns
then said, Mr.. Carpenter that written statemeur
tnat made 20 yon and to Mr.. Storrs was
A DELIBERATE LIE.n
| looked upon ner with inexpressible surpri1-.
there cam0 TO my recollection the repeated az
sertons or Cleveland that MRS. Tutou was the vie
tim OF hallucnatioD. For an Instant IL seemed a
clue 70 the mystery. said ''ars. hilton, n thls
terrible thing Is the result OF hauciation tell me
So son for one WI gSdy accept an sxpane
hallueination; IL was a lle.p She told me she had
been 10 Or. Storrs and told him what she had just
told me- | went TO Moultcn and told him what 1
mad heard. He expressed no surprise, but would
give me no satisfaction. told Moulton would be
no party 10 any further covering up, conceaiment
or wrong let the wronged man be Beecher or
Iilton. lett Moutons, went to Clevelands
house ana got him out OF ped. told Cleveland
what had occurred. | stated 10 him, as did 10
Monlion, that | would no longer be party 70
sent for, and Mrs. Titon told me that all she
meant TO say were the written words OF her state
ment to DR.. storrs-that Mr. Beecher had never
addressed 10 her any such words as she wrote
down; that was all she meant TO deny; she
didn't mean to deny the facts concealed by the
words.
Tnat Mr.. Bowen had secret revelation lnvolv-
years ago, have had from his own lips. Thaos
Mr. Beeeher made a confession 10 MN also had
talk upon the subject and TO deny thu,
statements attributed 20 him by Mr.. Titon
i a. very significant and well known
iact. Whatever the facts are, II. u. Cianip,,
Mt beeehers committeeman, knows them, ana
this - unqaestionably the reason Mr.. Bowen was
not summoned before the Plymouth Investigating,
committee. once said TO Mr.. Bowen that Mr..
Sanln told mo that he knew the bottom facts or
Bowen's case.n Mr. Bowen did not deny this
TACT. l have mad business relations with Mr..
Bowen bringing us In close contact for several
years. have always found him man faithful ro'
his word and promise. To respond TO the demand
OF the public that he shall reveal all facts In his
possession bearing on the scandal would mvolvel
the betrayal OF a secret conhded to him, az such
secrets are confided TO priests and lawyers. That
Mr.. Beecher Is afraid OF Mr.. Bowen Is apparently
have 10 on the authority OF Mr.. Beecher's COM
mltteeman, Cantn Mr. Bowen has been heroic in
THIS matter. Let any man OF honor with q secret.
involving innocent children, put himself In Mr..
Bowen's place. am afraid few would have stood
the pressure as he has stood 1t without striking
back with his heaviest weapon.
why BOWEN SIGNED THE COVENANT.
Mr.. Bowen told me that III. b. Claim brought
him sam Wilkeson's original draft OF the covenant
aud wanted him TO sign it, In the crisis OF Mr..
BoWen's business career Mr.. Claim had loaned
him $4,000, which he has always felt tided him
over bankruptcy. The appeal OF Clann therefore,
was irresistible, and, after altering Wllkeson's
draft in important respects, Mr. Bowen consented
70 sign ~, win the pledge that IL should never
see the light. But he added in telling me this
II ought not TO have signed it; nothing but Caf-
hn's personal appeal could have induced me 10
do it.3