The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-06


treated himself-not me- in regard to
his relations with me. I forgive him heart
lily all his intended harm, now that the
efense are making use of those relations
to crush him IN this case, and do what I
can IN this way to relieve him from the
enect OF this testimony upon the public,
not having the pleasure of denying it in
better way upon the stand. Most of
"hat have said can be established or
Verlhed by the testimony of competent
witnesses.
Another servant. Lucy Ann Giles, also
testified that Dir. Tilton remained at tho
mousse the nights of July and 4, 1872:
that on the night of the Sd she made a
bed Tor him in the front parlor on a sofa
lounge, on which she put mattress and
bed clothes. and that he was there at
breakfast the next morning: that the
next night, that of the 9TH. he silent in
my room on the third floor, she (the ser.
| vant) being called to the room to get re-
freshments late at night, and seeing me
in my night clothes, and him WITH h,s
coat, vest and boots off.
The evident intention for which this
evidence is introduced is to leave the
effect upon the jury and the public that
Mr.. Tilton and occupied the same he'd
those two nights. They 1.-THE defense|
knew very we'll just how much truth
there is in the story, and could settle it
beyond doubt if they desired to do so;
but it is their policy to 60 just far
enough not to prove the truth, so that
the supposition that they wish to
enforce may remain. For instance,
why did they not ask this Lucy if she
knew that I remained in the
parlor the first night, and in the third
story room the second night, or if she
knew that did not? No! They didn't
want to go quite that far. They wanted
to stop just short of the truth or the fact
and leave the rest to be inferred. I am
sure there is one thing for which the pub
Tic will give me credit. 1t is well enough
known that l am my own mistress and
that l always remain in control of my
own person, and that I would not lie
either for myself or for anybody else in
matter such as is represented in this tes-
timony-that is, if Mr.. Tilton and I had
occupied the same bed those two nights
| would never deny it. Imay be called
| "~A'~O ~ AAA"y PASooV nA1y OuC W Gall Ill.,
but it can never be said that I contract
any alliances of this kind of which ] am
ashamed or for which would blush when
confronted with the publicly.
But, now mark again; the sofa lounge
which this Miss Lucy says she drew out
and put mattress and bedclothes upon,
is creation Of her fertile Imagination.
There never was such piece of furniture
either in the front parlor at No. Is East
Third street or in any other part Of the
house. She never made bed in that
room that night or any other night for
Mr.. Tilton or anybody else. The furni-
ture Of that room consisted Of single
set, parlor sofas and chairs, upholstered
in blue req silk, made BY we!l.known
city maker, and there was nothing siimla-
ting to a sofa'lounge that could be used
for bed. Nor was there any thing of the
kind anywhere in the house. Miss Lucy
never made up the bed, as she testified,
and Mr.. Tilton did not sleep in the house
that mig hit, although he was there late in
the evening; nor did he cat breakfast there
the next morning, or any other morning
save the one to which haverefcrred above.
The second night she changes the scene
to the third story. Of course, it would
not have done very we'll to put us all to-
gether IN my own room-the second floor
back-because it was there that Col.
Blood had to sleep hence she takes us
another fight upward, and deposits US,
with cake and wine, in the room which
was occupied by my father and mother !;
or, perhaps, into the front room which
was occupied by my sister and her chill
dren. 1t seems to me, Lucy, that you
had better have left us down in the par
lor, where you had us SO nicely the first
night; or did you happen to remember,
after keeping us there the first night, that
the sofa lounge had been removed, or that
it had changed its form into common
sofa, upon which mattresses and bedclothes
were impossible? The night of the 18th
of July, 1872, slept in the second story
back room, as always did in that house,
with Col. Blood. and not with Theodore
rilton. We had no spare room
il the house; every one was
occupied by members of my own and
sisters family, and were so used every
night. Mr.. Tilton was never in the
rooms above the second floor but once.
and that was in the daytime, almost the
first time he was ever there, when took
him all through the house to satisfy him
that the stories in circulation that kept
a gorgeous, improper house were false.
But he frequently went up the stairs with
me to the roof of the honse to enjoy the
starlight and cool breeze of pleasant sum
mer evenings.
Furthermore, 1 wish to say that Mr..
Tilton never conversed with me about the
scandal in the presence of any third par.
ties, nor did any third parties ever con.