The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-09-18
TEMPEST-T0SSED 7. TILTON.
GETTING INTO THE WRONG BERTH
IN the SLEEPING CAR,
And Unconscious of his Error until Awakened
by mn Outraged Husband some Incredu-
lous Persons Thinking What they Please.

ny M outraged Husband some fnrredu-
Ious Persons Thinking What they Please
The burden OF conversation among the
employees at the Grand Central Depot yester-
day was Theodore Tton's escapade on the
sleeping car on Friday night last. The ticket
agent OF the Wagner Sleeping Car Company said
that on Thursday night last tall, hand some
man with clean face and long flowing locks
stepped up TO the window Of the company's
Office and asked for berth In a sleeping car to
Moore's Junction, near Plattsburg, in this
State. lie asked the man what name he should
Insert on the ticket, and he told him Theodore
Titon. lie thought no more OF the ticket un-
I'll he was told that Mr.. Tilton had returned 10
the city with swollen face, tho result Of a fight
between him and a Mr.. Wood concerning the
latter's wife.
The car Plattsburgh left 81. Albans, VT, at
sos p. NJ. on Friday last, and reached New
York at 6:45 the following morning on Friday
morning a Mr.. Wood bought a ticket for Fast
Albany. Then he waited for the st. Albans
train, and on It's arrival entered tho sleeping
coach ind inquired for his wife. lie entered
the north end Of the car and there encou ntered
the colored porter, Charlie DELL and from him
he learned the whereabouts OF Mrs. Wood. She
occupied the lower berth on tho extreme south
ern tier, and Mr.. W ood started to nnd her. The
upper and lower borths OF each tier are hidden
by two long curtains suspended side by side
from heavy bar near the top Of the car. On
reschng berth No. Mr. Wood pushed the cur
tains aside, but did not see Mrs. Wood. man
lay In the lower berth, and the upper one was
empty. The Anx iOua husband returned to the
porter. and the conversation and scene, a. re-
ported In Yesterdays sun, took place.
The bsggemen about the depot maintained
an ominous silence aud pretended entire igno-
rance OF the affair. when asked whether thoy
bad been requested TO say nothing, they grlnned
Detective MacMahon thought that tho whole
would start on as MIR. Wood did to meet his
VILE unless be knew What MAS going on" One
bottom OF IL, or some OF hts gang. Another said
that Wood pounded Tton very severely. Tho
ticket agent thought that II was pretty thin to
pretend that II was mistake on the art OF Tilton
Some thought that the porter, Bell, had a hand
In II. The clerk said that no man could get
down from the upper berth very well without
bunching the curtains so that person standing
where the porter did could see him. And II the
mistake was made when 1ilton objected to the
porters backing boots at the end OF the berth
the porter must certainly have seen It, All
agree that IL was no mistake.
"Wny," said one man, do you suppose that
N TtltOn had fOrgot himself for minute and
climbed into the wrong berth that he wouldn't
darn soon have found out that there was a wo-
he knew what he was about and 30 did Mrs.
Wood"
And then LOOK" interrupted another, "at
the position Wood found them In. lie ought to
have shot Tilton. would"
Thus the conversation went on until tho whole
scene. from the catching OF Tilton In the berth
with Mrs. Wood to the final carrying OF his
clothes into the smoking car was rehearsed.
The clerk thinks that Bell, the porter, will not
sly anything more about the apade unless no
is compelled to under oath. No one seemed to
Is. Mr.. 1ilton refused to talk. ana requested
that the reporter would not bother him.