Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-11
New YORK Sun. Jan. q
PROF. TYLRf AND BREOHKR.
From the PrOfe1sOr.s L,p..


1t was ascertained yesterday that
Prof. Moses Colt Tyler made known
the Beecher scandal facts in his pos
session TO three persons in this city
two gentlemen and a lady-who re-
affirm that the facts as printed in the
San are correct, the only point in
dispute being whether Prof. Tyler
said that he had read the confession
of guilt prepared for the church by
Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton and given to
Oliver johnson, with the request
that it should be presented to Mr..
Beecher for his signature. A letter
written by one of the persons who
heard the story from Prof. Tyler
was yesterday shown to reporter.
1t contains the following
The facts as stated by Prof. Tyler
in the presence of myself and another
gentleman on the I'd of January 1876,
were these That on the I4th day
of December, 1870, while visiting in
New York, Mr.. Tyler called upon
Mr.. TiIton, with whom he was on in
innate terms, at the Office of the In
dependent He found Mr.. Tilton in
great sorrow. Mr.. Tyler asked Mr..
Tilton to disclose to him the cause
of his depression. Mr.. Tilton repli-
ed that he could not do so. Tilton
added !; "0liver EOliver Johnson, his
assistant editor knows all about it
and he may tell YOU" Tyler said
Oliver johnson invited HIM Tyler
to lunch with him. They went to a
restaurant on Broadway, near the
Astor House. During the lunch
Tyler said that Oliver Johnson told
him that "Mr. Beecher had seduced
Mrs. Tilton." Mr.. Tyler used these
very words.
He said, moreover, that the dis
closure made such an impression
upon him, that, although he did not
keep a diary regularly, he noted this
disclosure down, at that time, and
tnat it was on the 14th day of De-
cember, 1870.
Mr.. Tyler said that directly after
the publication by Mr.. Tilton of his
letter to DR.. Bacon, two or three
days afterward, he (Tyler9 was ~
ing upon couch in one of the edi-
torial rooms of the Christian I'm.
ion, when card was brought in by
a boy, land laid upon Oliver Johnson's
table, Mr.. johnson being out. Pres
entity, he said, Mr.. Johnson came
in, and went into his own room. Mr..
TYLER heard Mr.. johnson say, ''I
guess / will go and see her." He
came out and told Mr.. Tyler that
Mrs. Tilton had sent for him to come
to her brothers Office in Broadway,
and / think Mr.. Tyler said johnson
showed him Mrs. Tilton's card and
message. Mr. johnson went out,
and was gone some time When he
returned he told Mr.. Tyler that
Mrs. ilton had come to fined out
from him what Mr.. Beecher wished
her to doin view Of the publication
of the Bacon letter that she said
she was ready to do anything Mr..
Beeeher wished her to do. But
Mr.. johnson said Mrs. Tilton had
drawn up a statement or confession
of their mutual sin, which stated
that they believed they had received
the forgiveness offs God, and they
now. asked the forgiveness of all man
kind, which statement or letter sh,
proposed to submit to Mr.. Beecher
for him to sign and submit to Ply
mouth Church.
The futher details of the conver-
sation now remembered are, that
Mr.. Tyler said that after he was
taken into the Christian Union to
help to guide It's affairs for Mr..
Beecher's safety, there was con
tinued dread in the Office among
those who knew of his guilt lest
some message should reach them Of
his suicide. Mr.. Tyler also said that
he had told these facts to the Rev.
DIR. Eddy, of Detroit, to one Of the
editors of a Baffalo paper, and to
other persons. In every case IN
which his hearer was in doubt as to
Mr.. Beecher's guilt his facts car
red conviction.