The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

/ own iueas Oh "hat was proper ana Hnat
was modest, and l was going to carry
them out, and that did not think ii was
proper for him to put his hand into my
neck and l was not going to let him do
it; | said it didn't matter what people
thought in the best classes of society. He
then laid down and asked
me if would not
like to be married. why asked, "what
in the world put that in your head; y
well, he said | WAS an atiectionate girl
and ought to be married and | ought
to have good husband; l said that |
supposed when the time came and the
right man came along, perhaps | would
get married, but didn't think of getting
married yet, that the thought did not
I trouble me much and that was not the
! chief end ia life: if ] did get married
/ there was one thing would not have,
literary man for husband; and he
/ then asked me If | didn't think some
/ people had atfnitics for each other; |
asked him what he meant by that; what
/ he meant by affinities and he said when
Il man saw woman that he loved, she
would be his affinity and they should 1--we
/ together as man and wife, and that was
what he meant by an affinity for each
! other; he said that it was perfectly right
| and proper for him 10 caress me- and that
no harm should come to me; he SAID |
WAS very strange child, and had some
singular ideas; he then kissed me good
/ night and left the room; on another oc-
casion, in 1868, ! went to bed and WAS
frightened by seeing a man in my room;
| jumped up and asked who was there,
and he said hush, il is only
me, Mr.. Tilton; | then found that he had
carried me into his room;
asked why he hnd done this, and h. said
! he felt lonely; told him would not
permit such liberties to BE- taken with me.
and then | got up and left the room; the
/ next morning at breakfast Ti!tOn did not
saw ANYTHING about it, but after he went
away took boat for Newport, where
| stayed for some time; Mrs. Tilton WAS
away from home; returned when |
found that Mrs. Tilton was i'll town; |
did not, at that time, tell Mrs. Tiiton
what had transpired between her hus-
band and me; | went to Marietta in the
spring OF 1870. and remained there on II
visit to Mrs. Putnam's about eight or
nine months; ! returned on the 9th Of
December, 1870; Mrs. Tilton came there,
in think, in October, and remained Il
month or six weeks; lreturned with Mrs.
Tilton because she was feeble and | did
not like to trust her alone; TiIton met Us
at the depot with II carriage, and We
Miss Ellen Dennis was at the breakfast
table next morning; she appeared to oc-
eupv the position of housrkeeper and
mistress: Miss Anthony was there ut
dinner; Mrs. Tilton took her seat beside
Titon, snd burst out crying She went into
the next room, and Miss Dennis said:
I We'll this is strange conduct IN Eliza
| beth" Tilton said to me- Bessie, don
YOU think Elizabeth is demeuted?' and
| | replied: "NO, | do not, but your con-
duct is enough to have driven her into II
lunatic asylum long ago. TIL
ton followed her into the other
/ room; followed and stood at the folding
doors, and saw him shaking his clenchcd
hand in her face; he said her, you have
brought this girl back to testify against
me" stepped forward and intertered
in her behalf, and he said to me,
.Leayet the House D--n You"
| said | would not, and he struck me
with his clenched fist and knocked me
down; then he stepped up to me, and SAID
in bland manner, Bessie, dear, you
have tripped and hurt yoursclt; he said
to me- pointing to sofa, that time and
time and again he had seen Mr.. Beecher
and Mrs. Tilton having sexual inter
course, and Mrs. Tilton said how can
YOU tell such things to the child; he then
took me to the other room and repeated
the story to me; he said he did not clam
ANY of his children except Florence; he
also said Beecher was in the habit OF
preaching to ten or dozen OF his ms
tresses every Sunday, and he named two
ladies of his congregation; | told nm |
did not believe word of the story
against Mrs Tilton, and he said | would
live to see the day ] should believe it;
when ! was coming out OF the room Mrs.
Tilton was coming out of her bed room,
and told her | was almost stunned, and
also what Tilton had been saying to ne;
we then went into the sitting room,
and we both left the house the next
morning and went to Mrs MorSc'si Til
ton came therethat night and Mrs. TiIton
went down to see him; | was on the
stairs: he had conversation with her,
talking very earnestly; l saw Theodore
Tilton in the net OF getting up oil his
knees: Mrs. Tilton went away with him.
her mother demonstrated and lIltoii
said good evening grandmother, ana
Mrs. Morse said:
"I'II grandmother You. You Intern
al SeOuudrei.
I'll publish YOU from Dan to Bccrsheba;
Mrs. Tilton and | returned; TiIton adj
viSed his wife to go to bed, which she
did; Tilton told me the whole story about
Beecher over again, and | told Mrs.
Tiiton in her bed room; she dressed ana
went to her mothers that night, sard
the children and myself followed the next
morning; | remember the occasion oi
Tiltons sending for the baby; Mrs. M
ton was not in; he sent a note with Ne'-
lie, the nurse girl; Tilton on that occasion
got the baby; In December Mr.. Iiitoh
went to New Brunswick, and on her re-
turn came to Mrs Morse's; on tEat sam
evening ! went to Mrs. Morses with
her; Tlton met her and kissed her. sac
returned 10 TiltOns house that night ana
SO did |; | had conversation with III
ton that night; l told him Mrs. Tilton
WAS very sick while at Mrs. Morse :,