The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-23
The @ailg Argns.
ROCK ISLAND, ......... ILLINOIS.
From the N Y. San. 18th.
TEMPEST-ToSSED 7. TILT0N.
GETTING INTO THE WRONG
BERTH IN THE SLEEPINGC CAR
And Unconscious of his Error until
Awakened by an Outraged Husband
Some Incredulous Persons
Thinking What they Please.

The burden of conversation among the
employees at the Grand Central Depot
yesterday was Theodore Tilton's escapade
on the sleeping car on Friday night last.
The ticket agent of the Wagner Sleeping
Car Company said that on Thursday tight
last tall, handsome man with clean face
and long flowing locks stepped up to the
window of the company's office and asked
Tor berth in a sleeping car to MooIes
Junction near Plattsburg, in this state.
He asked the man what nameIhe should
insert Oh the ticket, and he told him
Theodore Tilton. He thought no more of
the ticket until be was told that Mr.. Tilton
had returned to the city with swollen
face, the result or a fight between him and
Mr.. Wood concerning the latter wife.
The car 'Plattsburgh left t.Albans, Vt,
aI6:O5 P. NJ. on Friday last, and reached
New York at 645 the following morning.
On Friday morning Mr. Wood bought a
ticket for East Albany. Then he waited
tor the st. Adams train, and on its arrival
entered the sleeping coach and inquired
for his wife. He entered the north end OF
the car, and there encountered the colored
porter, Charlie Bell, and from him he
learned the whereabouts of Mrs. Wood.
She occupied the lower berth on the eX-
treme southern tier, and MIR. Wood
started to find her. The upper and lever
berths of each tier are hidden by two long
curtains suspended side by side from a
heavy bar near the top of the car. On
reaching berth No g Mr.. Wood pushed
the curtains aside, but did not see Mrs,
Wood A man lay in the lower berth, and
the upper one was empty. The anxious
husband returned to the porter, and the
conversation and scene, as reported in
yesterdays Sun, took place.
The baggagemen about the depot main
tanned an ominous silence and pretended
entire ignorance of the affair. When ask
| ed whether they had been requested t
say nothing, they grinned and said they
wouldn't tell If they had been. Detec
tive MacMahon thought that "the whole
thing was a put up job. No man,
said he, would start off as Mr.. Wood die
to meet his wife unless he knew wha
was going on" One man said that Henri,
| Ward Beecher was at the bottom of it
or some Of his gang. Another said tina
Wood pounded Tilton very severely. TIL
ticket agent thought that it was rrett,
thin to pretend that it was mistake Oh
the part of Titon. Some thought tina
the porter, Bell, had hand in it. Tn
clerk said that no man could get dow
from the upper berth very we'll withou
punching the curtains so that perso
standing where the porter did could Sc
him. And if the mistake was made whel
Tilton objected TO the porter's bIackin
boots at the end of the berth the porte
must certainly have seen it. All agre
that 1t was no mistake.
Why" said one man, do you sup
pose that if Tilton had forgot himself TO
minute and climbed into the wrong bert
that he wouldn't darn soon have foun
out that there was a woman there. n
sir. You can bet your life that he kne,
what he was about and 50 did Mrs
Wood"
"And then look" interrupted another
at the position Wood found them il
He ought to have shot Tilton [ would.
Thus the conversation went on until til
whole scene, from the catching of Tito
in the berth with Mrs. Wood to the fin
carrying of his clothes into the smokin
car was rehearsed.
The clerk thinks that Bell, the porte
will not say anything more about the e
capade unless he is compelled to updt
oath, No one seemed to know who NJ
Wood is or what his business is. Nj
Tilton refused to talk, and requested TIL
} the reporter would not bother him.