The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-04-17
BY TELEGRAPH.
BEECHER-TILTON.
Henry Says Elizabeth's Con.
fession is the Price of
Reconciliation.
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What Elizabeth Says.
What Elizabeth Says.
AMI What the Leading Press Have
to Say.

| Beecner SAID: 1T VIII do you no good ~
Reporter then showed the morning
papers, and Beecher said: 81 don't
think you have any more news than 1
have already received
Pond, his agent, stated, "The edito-
rial that the absence of Tilton showed
that he had nothing to do with prepar-
ing Mrs. Tilton's confession, is absurd.
The charges of the Chicago Tribune of
April I'd, in an editorial, foreshadowed
the confession, and warned Tilton
that any such attempt would not be
welcomed by the public. 1t may be
true that Tilton has not acted directly,
but that he acts through his son, Car
roll, no one acquainted with the affair
! will deny. At st. Louis and in Fort
Wayne, l was told that Tilton had
threatened that he would crush Beecher
yet. 1 believe Beecher is convinced
that Mrs. Tilton is now under the ab-
solute control of her husband; that she
loves him, and that this letter of con-
fession is the price she pays for a recon-
ciliation, and you will see they will be
living together before three months
rolls round"
Mr.. Beecher then stated that for
more than four years Mrs. Tilton had
been denying the truth of what was
called her original confession, in court,
before the church, and before the COM
mittees. She had asserted her inno-
cence. This would more than offset
anything she would say now. Her latest
statement was instigated by desire for
reunion with her husband, and was the
price she paid for asserting the same.
He said he would continue his course
just the same, Notwithstanding the re-
newal of the scandal.
Chicago, April 16.-The Tribune's
New York special says: Beecher, being
interviewed at Waverly, says it is i'm
possible to conceive, if her present
confession is true, of such an elaborate,
prolonged and extraordina ry caleer of
falsehood, as she must have practiced
upon her husbands statements of his
| accusations before a committee of the
| church. She broke away from her
husbands house and refused to live
with him. She took refuge in the
| house of dear friend, to whom she
gave an unvarying testimony of her
own innocence, and the baseness of her
husband. She went before the inves-
tigating committee of Plymouth church,
and with wonderful pathos cleared her.
self of every charge of domestic infidel-
ity, and underwent the closest ques-
tioning. She broke friendship with her
former friends for doubling her state
ment in this matter, when the case was
| in the courts. After her husbands testi-
mony, to the surprise of my counsel
and her friends, she rose in court and
demanded of the judge that she be per-
mitted to testify to her innocence. She
was examined repeatedly by counsel,
and piled with most searching ques-
tions, and by her consistent and explicit
testimony, satisfied them all of her in
nocence, and won their esteem. When
the council of 1876 was called, several
interviews were arranged between her
and eminent gentlemen, both of the
clergy and of the law. In every case
she satisfied them of her absolute inno-
cence.
Mrs. Tilton, on being interviewed,
only said: SIT is all right, sir.'' She
has become plump, pleasant little
woman. She has been earning not
more than thirty dollars month by
dressmaking. Tilton, under pretense
of supporting the children, has given
her generous allowances, and lately
gave her for herself an elegant India
shawl. Tilton was interviewed at
Richland Center, Iowa, but would say
nothing
Beecher's old counsel were generally
not much surprised at the confession.
New York, April 16.-The Evening
Post noting the case of Mrs. Tilton and
the threatened revival of the great
scandal, says: If this hideous story shall
prompt return to more wholesome
and more old-fashioned notions on the
subject Of woman's place in society; if
it shall check the influence of the mis-
chievous sophistry which has crept into
our laws and our morals on the subject
of marriage and divorce, some return
will be made for the harm done by the
publication of so much infected news
and infected literature.
Chicago, April 16.-The Tribune.
editorially, sees no reason to change its
/ opinions of the pro or anti. Beecher par
, tisans. Its own convictions of Beech.
: er's guilt are strengthened, but the eel.
ebrated case is as far from definite
settlement as ever.
The Inter Ocean recalls her previous
contradictory and more solemn con
fessions, and sees in the last one only 8