The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-03
MoULTON vs.. BEEClIEl..
The PLAINTIFFS Explanation Of
His New Suit.

His Now Suit.
(Moulton) was advised 10 commence
This suit Immediately after the entering
b tho nolle prosequi Of the indictment
against me for perjury by District Attor-
hey Britton, but was reluctant. and, in
iact, refused TO do so, being willing to
have to time the settlement Of the issues
Between Mr.. Beecher and myself. Brit
lon, when l wrote to him, last summer, to
remand speedy trial, replied, with an
insolent taunt, that he would be happy
TO give me one as soon rs the weather
rss cool enough to have the case called
up; but, instead OF granting mo the trial,
he entered into correspondence with me
aud Mr.. Beecher for the purpose OF its
discontinuahce. | protested earnestly
seainst the entering OF 4 nolle, rciterat-
Ing my charges against Mr.. Beecher, and
fefusing to be party in allowing him to
cJcape the penalties Of his perjui cd pros
sutton. Notwithstanding my protest, l
was denied a trial. The facts in this case
ne plain, 1t seems to me, and hardly
need recital.
The truth is this: came to know Mr..
Beecher first in the last month OF 1870.
! sought him at his house. lie. went with
ne to see Mr.. Tilton at my house. His
orime against Tilton and his wife caused
Lin to 60 with me. He saw him, and
Hilton told him what she had told Til
tod. | went with him to the house OF
III. Tilton. lie got his wife to write a
lid. He gave the lie-her so.called re-
traction-which she wrote from his lips,
to me. He told me, in words | remember
low Us I heard them at the time, Of his
erief for his adultery with her. l thought
bat his grief was sincere; that his con-
lrition was heartfelt. From that time
until his charge Of black.mail and per-
lidy against me, | thought that he was a
repentant man. He caused me 10 believe
hat his sin was one which he had been
lsmpted to commit through love. He
moved me his excuses and his temp
tations. He told me that, II his
home and life had been such as was his
need, he should have done no sin, and
nth such particularly Of his misery
here that my ouly hesitation in reciting
Il ia that it would cast the shadow Of his
nelGshness over the character OF a woman
Tho by her fidelity 10 him during the
trial has raised her name as a memorial
ofwifely faithfnlness. Believing in his
rood intentions, believing in his grief and
sincere contrition, pitiful Of his sorrow,
md aware Of his temptation, God knows,
md he knows, tho faithfulneSs with which
] tried to shield and serve him. did not
do it for his sake alone, but that the bur-
don Of the sins Of the parent might not be
lid upon the children, who were inno-
cont. One Of his victims warned me, and
sa'd that he was cowardly, not repentant,
lenring only the personal consequences OF
the crime, and would with opportunity
save himself, as he had first attempted, by
troachery. I would not believe him, but
no was right and was wrong. Mr..
Fischer charged me with black-mail and
conspiracy, falsely, in his own defense,
and through perjury produced IN indict.
mont against me. He swore on the stand
that he did not believe the first accusation
Wien he made II. Perhaps, when brought
10 trial again, he will swear that, in
procuring the indictment against me, he
Wss driven by his lawyers to an infamy
uiich his own soul abhorred. He is a
dfshonorcd man, and the treachery OF
Tracy, the mockery OF Shearman, and the
Weakness and wickedness ofhis inyestigat-
tnk committee have not saved him. |
have had too much experience Of his base
ness to expect that he will ever renounce
bIlsphemy and hypocrisy for piety and
confession. He knew that perjury was
his only hope in the trial OF the indict-
nent against me, and his acquiescence
IN the nolle prosequi was cowardly eva
aion on his part to escape the Just penal.
y Of his false swearing and adultery.
sinee the entering ofthe nolle proseQui,
i have borne, with patience, continued
Attacks, but at last the shameless course
Of Weymouth Church and It's pastor to.
ungdm wife, which ia a matter Of too
recent record 10 need re-statement from
nc, forces me, by all that man is bound
10 honor to do for the protection Of him.
ueli and family, to drag this great crimi-
nal before tribunal where the questions
lnrolved can be thoroughly investigated,
md where justice cannot DO envaded.
TIE action which I have brought has been
der advice OF counsel well.known and
tF''nent, and there will be no delay on
n,I part in bringing tito trial.