Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-31
EVENING STAR.
THE TILrON.BEE,lER TRI,I
OF Horace u Crantu. Gen
Il. Williams. and Oehrr.

| or s.Iiis, 4 called on her some weeks OI
| months after, did not subscribe To her papeT,
she sesIt u 10 me, / am not certain II 1 paid
! Tor IL, l. did not advertise I'm IL, but 1 saw A.,
advertisement OF mine in il, went 60 her
| house nrCe with Mr.. Bowen. but DO not re-
| member the date; l know IL WAS the week
thai Louis TapIan died, rs Bowen came
| down To attend his funeral; we went there %
| see some documentary evidence she had in
| her possession;
| GOOD SUGGESTION
| thtnk IL was SuggtHsei at all the meetings
| burned.
Redirect .xamination:-I went to Mn.
| MoRhulls - the request OF her lawyers "A IS
| Bowen That was the only time 1 was eyer
| IN her house. L think il was AZ tFs. las
| meeting when ne paper was rinalIy settled
and agreed upon, and that the proposition
| was made To leave the covenant with Nroul-
| ton. IL was said NJ these meetings that the
! difficulties were 10 be settled by arbitration
| Hilton said he woud not settle until he got
| some satisfaction DOT of Bowen I was the
difficulties set forth in personal staten s-r-
which were 10 he settled by arhitratlop
| Tllton stated in one of these conversations
Bowen
This concluded the redirect examination.
No further questions were pat by tn prose-
cutton, ard the witness left the stand, after
| which recess followed
MIR. Beecher was absent during the entir,,
morning session, hut Mrs. Beecher ard her
dauEhter-lr-laW came IN shortly amer tn.
opening and occupied their usual places Mr.
ENarts remained about hall an hour i'm court
ana tlen teIt The the hands a. Tho
other counsel for the defense.
AFTER RECESS
the private telegraph operators testified a
| 10 the transmission and receipt of TIE P.cES-
| XIII dispatch on the Pa OF June.
George +. Williams. the law editor of the
New York Herald, was called to prove that
newspaper men were intimate with the
Woodruff story before il was publ shell Ui>
testimony was ruled out.
MIR. CHARLES SToRR~
WaN TIE next witness. He testified: Ihave
known for
had friendly relations with him during that
period. In 1Sb1, iSts and IS,y he RENTED
moneys 10 ne when he was on lecturing
tours L have lunched at DelmonIcOS for
sixteen or seventeen years. and SO did Tilton
! sometimes saw Tilton two or three times a
week, and some times oftener. We were i'm
the habit of talking often on general affairs. |
learned on January ,. 1871. that he was dis
charged from the Independent. 1 saw Tilton
That day i'm his house. / asked him ii he had
been discharged from the Independent and
Jnion, and he said he had. He seemed de-
pressed and detected. He said he wanted me
TO GO to Frank MOultOn with him. / went,
ana on the way he said Mrs. Beecher and
Mrs. Morse had been talking TO Bowen
against him, and thar a lady had made some
statements TO Bowen against him, and that
II was a case of
JOSEPH AND POTIP HAIRS WIFE
over again; that he put his case in Moulion's
hands, and Moulton did not wiSl him to take
any steps IN The matter; when we got there
There was conversation I'm which TiltDn
complained OF Mrs. Beecher and Mrs MORSE
tulnlhg BESSIE turner against him; he said
Beecher had said he humbled himself before
him (TiltOn) as before his God, and he would
make him do so; expressed my sympathies
Tor him; L met him on another occasion.
when hls said his wife had charged Beecher
with having made improper proposals to
her, that he had told This TO Beecher. and
The latter hal procured retractiOn from
her. and that MoultOn
HAD GONE To BEECHFR WITH PISTOL
TO make him surrender il. In March, IS12
Iilton called and said he hal been west on a
| 10. rrig h.. l.. Il.
ceived. He did not understand why he was
discharged by Mr.. Bowen. lie showed me an
article lac was going TO publish, and said
that was not proper article 10 be pu bIiShe,t
| told him BeecheT denied all the charges,
ard he said he knew II. / told him Bowen
would do him Justice, and something was
said about arbitration. ] promised 10 see
Bowen about Tilton's claim for six months
services. He left this personal statement
with me. TO show it to Mr.. Bowen. offered
To show il to Bowen the next night but ne
said. either that he knew or il or had real it,
i talked with him about the settlement OF
Iilton's claims. saw Tilton after this. and
told him part OF the conversation between
Bowen and myself told him Bowen said ne
never received any such letter aS that Of
January /, 1871. and suggested TO Bowen IL
would be wiser and better To settle with him
and avoid the scandal, and he thought aut.
After some talk L said / thought Bowen
would settle the claims.
THE ARBITRATION.
At This Time TiltoG wanted 10 know if I
would act as arbitrator for him. 1 actel SO.
with Mr.. Clafin and Mr.. Freeland, az Mou!-
tons house. i went there with Bowen. Til
Ton and Moulton were there. Ciafiin and
treeland had not arrived. / went for them
! advised that Beecher's matters should not
be brought in, but ii was afterwards under
stood they should come in. Bowen and Fill
ton laid their cases down and withdrew. The
matter was discussed and they came in. Mr..
Claiiin stated the three parties were to sign
the agreement; all the papers were 10 b.
burnt, and Bowen was 10 pay Tilton - 600.
Tilton objected TO signing the paper. and
wished To change it. lie was finally allowed
TO amend it by the arbitrator. IL was un-
derstood that Clafiin should take The paper
10 Mr.. WilkeSOn and have il engrOSsef, and
there was an arrangement that il should be
given 10 one person. and not given up unless
with the consent OF all parties. Bowen then
drew up the check for the amount. Tilton
and Moulton
AGREED TO BURN THE LETTERS.
but Bowen said he had none. The letter OF
apology and Tilton'S of January TO Bowen
were among the papers 10 be burned. When
nc check was drawn III was given 10 Ilt1l
and we then separated. After this Tiltol
said To me he thought MoultOn was the
proper custodian of that paper. A few DAYS
after the arbitration | had q conversation
with Tilton and MouIton at the latter's
house. Moulton said. "Sam Wilkesoa thinks
l burned these papers. Oh, yes; L burned
them and he laughed. said he. If burned
them what would Theodore DO i'm case oftrou-
ble." After the publication Of the WoOihull
scandal Tllton called at my mouse. He said
il was an infamous article. and contained a
Beecher, and that he was writing n story
about IL, not that BeecheT had not made
IMPROPER PROPOSALS TO HIS WIFE.
but nothing criminal occurred. and that hi>
vile was pure as the light. He spoke OF
having written WoodhulIs life, and that il
damaged him more than $4,000. j told Til
ton Mr.. Carpenter had talked with me a bout
starting newspaper in New York foF his
Dement,, and having seen Claflin. He WAS
not favorably disposed toward the scheme.
That Beecher was to be editor, Mr.. TiltoB
foreign correspondent, and Carpenter was TO
have some office in il. They proposed TO
buy a paper which was i'm the Associated
Press, and the Express and Commercial Adj
vertiser were talked of; so was the Brooklyn
Union and the Golden Age. / told him all
these schemes were discussed. He said Car
penter had talked TO him about il. Ii we
were TO buy Brooklyn paper
TILToN WAS TO BE EDITOR
and Beecher have nothing To do with il.
Otherwise, If il was a New York morning
paper, Beecher was TO be editor. Ihad a con-
versation with Tilton at Ovington's after his
wife left him. He said he must now, his
wife having left him, smash Elizabeth and
Mr.. Beecher. In August, 1874, L was sent for
TO Moultons house by Mr.. Woodruff. L went
there and had an Interview with Moulton up
stairs. Moulton laughed, and said he did not
know / would come to see a blackmailer. He
also said Beecher had confessed his adultery
10 him, and II his advice had been followed IL