River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-03-26

and remained there on visit to Mrs. Put.
nam eight or nine months. returned
the 9TH of December, 1870. Mrs. Tilton
came there in October, think. and re-.
manned month or six weeks. | return.
ed with Mrs. Tilton because she was fee.
bic and ! did not like to trust her alone.
Hilton met US at the depot
with carriage, and we reached
home about or s o'clock. Miss
Ellen Dennis was at the breakfast table
next morning. She appeared to occupy
the position of house keeper and mistress.
Miss Anthony was there at dinner. Mrs
Tilton took her seat beside Mr.. Tilton
and burst out crying. She went into the
next room. and Miss Dennis said, "Well
this is strange conduct in Elizabeth"
MIR. Tilton said TO me, Bessie, DOM you
think Elizabeth is demented ?" and / re.
piled, mo, do not, but your conduct is
enough to have driven her to a lul tic
asylum long ago." MIR. Tilton followed
her to the other room. | followed, and
stood at the folding DOORS. and saw him
shaking his cenched hand in her face.
He said to her, "YOu have brought this
girl back to testify against me" | step.
ped forward and intcrfered in her behalf
and he said to me, Leave the house,
damn YOU. said would not, and he
struck me with his clenched fist and
knocked me down, and then stepping up
to me he said, in bland manner, 'Bes-
sic, dear, you have tripped and hurt
yourselfr' He said to me, pointing to
the sofa, that time and time again he had
seen Baecher and Mrs. IiltOn having SEX
ual intercourse, and Mrs. Tilton said,
How can you tell such things to the
child He then ,ok me to the other
room and repeated the story to me. He
said he did not claim any Of her children
except Florence. lie also said Beecher
was in the habit of preaching to ten or
dozen Of his mistresses every Sunday, and
he named two ladies Of the congregation.
| told him | did not believe word of the
story against Mrs. rton, and he said |
would live to see the day should believe
1t. When | was coming out of the
room Mrs. Tilton was coming out
of her bedroom, and | told her
| was almost stunned, and also
what Tilton had been saying to me, Mrs.
Titon and then went into the sitting
room. We both left the house next
morning, and went to Mrs. Morse's. Til.
ton came there that night. Mrs. TiIton
went down to see him. was on the
stairs. He had conversation with her,
talking very earnestly. saw Theodore
Tllton in the act of getting up off his
knees. Mrs. Tilton went away with him.
Her mother demonstrated, and TIlton said
GOOD evening, grandmother, and Mrs.
Morse said "I'll grandmother you, you
internal scoundrel; Ill publish you from
Dan to Beersheba!" Mrs. Tilton and |
returned, and Tilton advised his wife to 90
to bed, which she did. Tilton told me the
whole story about Beecher over again, and
| told Mrs. Tilton in the bed room. She
then dressed and went to her mothers
that night, and the children and myself
followed next morning.
Remember the occasion Of Tilton send.
ing for his baby. Mrs. lilton was not
in. He sent note with Nellie, the nurse
girl, TO Mrs. Tilton on that occasion, and
got the baby. In December Mrs. Tilton
went to New Brunswick, and OH his re-
turn came to Mrs. Morse. That same
evening went to Mrs. Morse's with her.
filton met her and kissed her. She re-
turned TO Tilten's house that night, and
so did |. Tilton and had conversation
that night. | told him Mrs. Tilton was
very sick while at Mrs. Morse's, and
asked him to be kind to her. and told
him that the doctor had been alarmed at
Marietta on account of her having a weep
ing fit. Tilton said she was always weep
ing; it was a habit of hers, and that she
was weeping for her sins with Beecher.
l left him in the room and went
out. lie was in the habit of
changing his study from room to room,
and he did so twice in one week. Mrs.
Tilton was taken i'll on Christmas Eve.
The doctor was in attendance, and also
the nurse, Mrs. Mitchell. Mr.. johnson
called on the Monday after Christ mas
Day, and Tilton went out with him. On
his return he came into the room and
said he was ruined man, and think he
was discharged from the Brooklyn Union.
He was excited all that week. Tilton
came into her room on one occasion with
pens and paper, but the nurse remon-
strated with him and said his wife should
be kept quiet. Remember seeing Beecher
there on one occasion. | did not know he
was in the house until ! saw him there.
Remember Mrs. Tilton was very sick or
these occasions.
To juror-lt was in December, 1870.
after Mrs. Tilton's return from Marietta,
that these conversations on the part of
Tilton about the lounge took place.
Court adjourned until Monday.